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Native mobile adtech startup Avocarrot acquired by Glispa Global Group for $20M

Sep 13, 1:00PM

1 Native mobile advertising startup Avocarrot — which, interestingly, was in the first cohort of company builder Entrepreneur First — has been acquired by adtech company Glispa Global Group. Read More



Sourcery raised $5 million to help restaurants and food vendors deal with each other, and not lost receipts or invoices

Sep 13, 11:59AM

Restaurants use Sourcery to handle accounts payable without a lot of paper to Web data entry. Sourcery Technologies Inc. has raised $5 million in venture funding for software that helps restaurateurs and corporate kitchens order from vendors, keep track of their inventory and costs, and figure out the appropriate prices for different ingredients. Marker LLC led Sourcery’s new round joined by Steadfast Venture Capital and the company’s earlier backers including Palantir… Read More



GitLab secures $20 million Series B

Sep 13, 11:30AM

Programmers working on a problem. GitLab, the code collaboration platform for developers based on the open source Git tool, announced a $20 million Series B round today led by August Capital. Existing investors Khosla Ventures and Y Combinator also participated. Today’s investment brings the company’s total raised to date to over $25 million. It was just about a year ago that GitLab announced its $4 million… Read More



Ontame.io wants to be 'Google Analytics' for recruiters

Sep 13, 11:29AM

Ontame.io Ontame.io, a relatively new startup from the former CTO and CEO of Graduateland (which recently acquired Tyba), is building a product to bring better analytics to recruitment. Read More



Point raises $8.4 million to buy a stake in your home

Sep 13, 11:00AM

615 Mass Ave (8 of 19) Instead of taking on debt to buy a house, Point provides equity funding. The startup can find the capital needed to finance your home and in return they get partial ownership. And now Point is getting its own funding, $8.4 million led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Bloomberg Beta and Ribbit Capital. Inspired by the venture capital model for startups, Point aims to make it… Read More



Apple's AI if by Air

Sep 13, 10:30AM

apple_016 After only a few days with Apple’s wireless AirPod headphones, it’s clear that there will be a huge platform business based on the reliable, persistent availability of a contextual artificial intelligence that can talk to you and receive commands. That platform will benefit Apple first, but it will then expand — along with Siri — to developers and startup companies. Read More



Review: Apple tees up the future with iPhone 7

Sep 13, 10:00AM

featured With the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus, Apple is going through a splitting-atoms phase with the iPhone. The company knows that the future is a camera that can see the world in 3D. It knows that the future is one without wires because wires are awful. It knows that the iPhone may be our primary computer, but its screen won’t be the primary way we interact with that computer. Read More



Crunch Report | Tesla Upgrades AutoPilot

Sep 13, 3:00AM

It’s the first day of TechCrunch Disrupt SF. We highlight one of the compnaies from Startup Battlefield, Tesla upgrades its autopilot to Version 8, Microsoft has a major CRM win, HP is buying Samsung’s printer business and eBay launches a cell phone trade-in site quick sale. All this on Crunch Report. Read More



Email or IM? Rush's app combines them both — with productivity tools thrown in too

Sep 13, 2:31AM

screen-shot-2016-09-12-at-7-23-09-pm Email? IM? IM? Email? The rise of mobile messaging apps has challenged email as the primary communications channel for all things, including work — what happens when you blend them together? That’s the approach taken by Rush, an app that combines email and messaging, but also includes your calendar and other productivity tools. Headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, but with offices… Read More



Guess what Dog PC does

Sep 13, 2:27AM

In this world, there are dogs. And also there are PCs. But dog PCs? “Ridiculous,” you say. But ladies and gentleman, I have seen the future of dog computing, and it is Dog PC. The PC for dogs. What kind of company would produce such a PC for dogs? Tesla, naturally. Not, mind you, the Tesla that makes electric cars. The one that makes T-Pai, an intelligent doghouse built into a… Read More



$10 will get you a wire for your wireless AirPods

Sep 13, 1:13AM

AirPods Life is strange sometimes. Like, sometimes you buy a $160 pair of wireless headphones, and all you want to is find a way to add another wire to the thing. $10 might be a small price to pay, if it stands between you and losing one of those precious new fully wireless AirPods that Apple announced earlier this week – far and away the largest complaint among internet pundits that… Read More



Lucy wants to make it easier for expectant parents to find and book support services

Sep 13, 1:02AM

Lucy app Lucy, a Bay Area startup, which was founded this January and launched its beta today, reckons it’s found an underserved not-so-niche market to target: expectant parents. The team presented on stage today here at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2016, after being lifted from startup alley as the day’s wildcard battlefield company. Read More



Mobalytics is a coach for competitive gamers

Sep 13, 12:52AM

mobalytics2 If there’s one industry that’s consistently blowing past expectations, it’s competitive gaming. The e-sports market is expected to reach nearly a half-billion dollars this year, and gamers who take part in it are constantly trying to heighten their skills. Mobalytics is aiming to bring visual analytics to competitive gamers so they can discover their weaknesses and make… Read More



ZAP brings the manufacturing process to the cloud

Sep 13, 12:52AM

zap “Today it takes two to five years to get a factory to produce a car,” begins John Dogru. “A product’s timing to market is everything, and there’s a lot of latency. How do we, for the first time in history, go from the design to product instantly?” Rapid prototyping technologies like 3D printing have long dangled the promise of speeding up the lengthy… Read More



Rex Animal Health is using genomics to keep livestock healthy

Sep 13, 12:24AM

Rex Animal Health gives farmers "weather maps" showing illnesses impacting livestock in their area. A startup called Rex Animal Health wants to protect livestock from illnesses that can quickly turn into epidemics, and help farmers breed animals with the healthiest and most attractive traits. Today at Disrupt SF, Rex unveiled technology to help veterinarians provide clinical support at the point on the farm, and predict the genetic causes of problematic traits in their herds, and in the… Read More



Robin is automating lawn care with robots and putting an end to checks under the doormat

Sep 13, 12:06AM

Robin A well-kept lawn is one of the most common mixed blessings with which homeowners can treat/afflict themselves. Robin is a startup looking to take as much pain out of the process as possible, both by improving the way you hire and pay for your yard’s care, and soon, by putting a robot on the job. Read More



MedRepublic launches a platform for overseas surgeries

Sep 12, 11:35PM

medrepublic1 After scouring through almost 1,000 applications, two dozen startups were selected to launch on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco. They are presenting before an audience and a panel of judges, competing to be this year’s Battlefield winner. One of the companies presenting is MedRepublic, which believes its platform for finding overseas doctors is fulfilling an unmet need for… Read More



BlazingDB uses GPUs to manipulate huge databases in no time

Sep 12, 11:24PM

blazingdb Gathering petabytes of data about your customers is cool, but how can you take advantage of this data? BlazingDB lets you run high-performance SQL on a database using a ton of GPUs. The company is introducing a free community edition of its solution on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt SF in our Battlefield competition. If you’ve been running complicated SQL queries, chances are it took so… Read More



Lyft paid to paint pink SF's famous van on a stick

Sep 12, 11:21PM

lyft-van Lyft has creative control over that iconic van that sits on top of a pole next to the U.S. 101 freeway in San Francisco. “Notice a little more pink during your drive on the 101? The newly-painted Lyft van is just one of the ways we made ourselves at home,” Lyft wrote on a blog post that has since been deleted. Lyft has confirmed to TechCrunch that the company leased the historic… Read More



ProductBoard helps product managers figure out what to build next… and why

Sep 12, 11:10PM

productboard1 ProductBoard today is launching a service for digital product managers that helps them better organize user research and determine which features deserve priority. Making its public debut at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco, this product management platform is already being used by over 100 paying customers during its beta to establish their product roadmaps and collaborate with… Read More




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