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  • Women aren’t the only ones who feel they’re not paid fairly in tech

    Women aren’t the only ones who feel they’re not paid fairly in tech

    Comparably, the Glassdoor-like platform for self-reporting employment and compensation data, has released some data around culture at tech companies. Within a couple of weeks of launching, over 2,000 people have submitted data around what it’s like working at their respective companies in tech, if they believe they’re paid fairly and if they’re satisfied with their equity stake. Read More
  • Slice Labs raises $3.9M to insure on-demand workers when they’re on the job

    Slice Labs raises $3.9M to insure on-demand workers when they’re on the job

    Tim Attia, co-founder and CEO of Slice Labs, said there’s “a ticking time bomb” threatening the on-demand economy — namely, insurance and liability. Attia’s tackling that problem with Slice, which will offer insurance for on-demand workers and providers, starting with rideshare drivers and then homeshare hosts. The startup is announcing today that it has raised… Read More
  • Hopper raises $16 million for a travel app that tells you the best time to fly

    Hopper raises $16 million for a travel app that tells you the best time to fly

    Hopper, the makers of a handy travel application that tells you the best time to fly in order to find the best deals, has now raised additional capital to continue to grow its business. It has also scored a partnership with American Airlines which allows it to sell AA’s tickets through its app. In terms of the new investment, the company announced $16 million in a growth funding… Read More
  • Vine brings on Hannah Donovan as the new GM

    Vine brings on Hannah Donovan as the new GM

    Vine, the six-second, looping video platform from Twitter, has just hired Hannah Donovan as the new general manager. Donovan has built her career in product and design leadership. Her most recent position was product lead at Drip, which was recently acquired by Kickstarter. Some exciting news: I'm joining @vine as GM in May! Absolutely thrilled and humbled to work with this team 🐯👊… Read More
  • $100M Bitstrips acquisition makes sense now that Snapchat has stickers

    $100M Bitstrips acquisition makes sense now that Snapchat has stickers

    It didn’t quite add up when Fortune broke the news last week that Snapchat would spend a $100 million to acquire Bitstrips, the maker of personalized avatar stickers called Bitmoji. Snapchat didn’t have anywhere to put them. But today, Snapchat launched “Chat 2.0”, a huge product update that includes the ability to send over 200 stickers to friends. Now it’s… Read More
  • Tinder acquihires Humin to go beyond dating, and get an SF office too

    Tinder acquihires Humin to go beyond dating, and get an SF office too

    Dating app Tinder is acquiring Humin the San Francisco startup which took a high-wire approach to contact management, trying to merge lots of disparate information into one contact app. Terms were undisclosed by TechCrunch understands from multiple sources that this roughly equates to an acqui-hire scenario. Tinder says it is acquiring Humin’s technology and IP, while the founders… Read More
  • Snapchat seamlessly combines video, audio, GIFs, stickers in “Chat 2.0”

    Snapchat seamlessly combines video, audio, GIFs, stickers in “Chat 2.0”

    Say what you want, how you want. That’s how Snapchat’s reps say CEO Evan Spiegel describes Chat 2.0, a massive set of new features launching today. It lets private conversations morph between mediums depending on what users want to show or tell, and whether they can speak up or must stay silent. As WhatsApp focuses on simplicity and Facebook Messenger chases commerce, Snapchat… Read More
  • Stratumn is building a sort of Heroku for blockchain applications

    Stratumn is building a sort of Heroku for blockchain applications

    Meet Stratumn, a Paris-based startup that wants to create a platform-as-a-service for developers interested in the blockchain. With Stratumn, you can build, deploy and run applications on the company’s platform, and these applications can communicate with the bitcoin blockchain. It’s like Heroku, but for blockchain developers. The company just raised $670,000 (€600,000) from… Read More
  • Why I moved my startup from San Francisco to San DiegoCRUNCH NETWORK

    Why I moved my startup from San Francisco to San Diego

    San Francisco has long been hailed the home of the tech startup — the place to be for entrepreneurs looking to lay the foundation for the next big thing. As a mobile app platform with high aspirations, we joined the mix, sharing an area code for four years with the lauded engineers of Silicon Valley and inserting ourselves into the supposed center of the tech world. It seemed like the… Read More
  • Rythm raises $11M to pursue sleep-improving neurotechnology

    Rythm raises $11M to pursue sleep-improving neurotechnology

    French startup Rythm, which makes a tech-infused headset it claims improves sleep quality, announced Tuesday that it’s raised over $11 million from private investors and public grants. Read More
  • Students and recent grads, get your discounted Disrupt NY tickets now

    Students and recent grads, get your discounted Disrupt NY tickets now

    Are you an undergraduate or graduate student looking to attend the best startup show in the Big Apple? Student tickets to Disrupt NY 2016 are still available for just $300. Read More
  • Interior design startup Havenly raises $5.8 million

    Interior design startup Havenly raises $5.8 million

    Online interior design platform Havenly has raised $5.8 million, bringing its total Series A round of funding to $13.3 million. The round was led by Binary Capital with participation from Foundry Group and Chicago Ventures. Havenly plans to use the funding for growing the staff by 25%, further develop the technical operations on the back-end and marketing. Typically, hiring an interior… Read More
  • Umbo CV raises $2.8M seed to create smart security cameras that prevent crimes

    Umbo CV raises $2.8M seed to create smart security cameras that prevent crimes

    Umbo CV has raised a $2.8 million seed round for its security cameras, which use artificial intelligence to identify suspicious activity and prevent crimes before they happen. The Taipei- and San Francisco-based startup’s funding was led by AppWorks Ventures, with participation from Mesh Ventures, Wistron Corporation, and Phison Electronics. Read More
  • A new accelerator report suggests that independent work is most effective

    A new accelerator report suggests that independent work is most effective

    Today, a $2.3 million private-public partnership called the Global Accelerator Learning Initiative (GALI) is releasing its first major report, in collaboration with Village Capital, a seed-stage accelerator that operates development programs for early-stage entrepreneurs around the world. Led by the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE), the goal of GALI is to determine how… Read More
  • Turning your idea into a funded companyCRUNCH NETWORK

    Turning your idea into a funded company

    The cost of entry to the startup world has decreased dramatically in the last decade. We’re now at the point where the tools that were once only available to enterprise users have made their way into the hands of everyday users. Access to bleeding-edge innovation is no longer limited to an elite few. This transformation has been called the consumerization, or democratization, of tech. Read More
  • Pay celebs to text or video message you with TipTalk

    Pay celebs to text or video message you with TipTalk

    It has never been worth it for celebrities to respond to their endless digital fan mail — until now. TipTalk lets them set a price for a private text, photo or video response. The idea is that in their downtime, they could forge deeper relationships with their audience while earning enough to warrant at least a few seconds of their attention. Considering how the public comment reels… Read More
  • Tru Optik aims to improve ad measurement for Internet-connected TVs

    Tru Optik aims to improve ad measurement for Internet-connected TVs

    Andre Swanston, CEO of Tru Optik, argued that there’s been one big obstacle to advertising on Internet-connected TVs — measurement. Naturally, Swanston is pitching Tru Optik’s technology as the solution. The company started out by measuring how video content gets shared through peer-to-peer file sharing, but has since expanded into a broader measurement solution, with… Read More
  • Netflix Party lets long distance friends watch together

    Netflix Party lets long distance friends watch together

    Ain’t no party like a Netflix party cause a Netflix party eventually stops after a weekend of bingeing on House Of Cards and doesn’t start again until Netflix releases the new season the next year. But now there’s Netflix Party, a chrome extension that lets viewers sync their Netflix viewing session across time and space and adds a group chat sidebar for good measure. Read More
  • What marketers can learn from the economy of convenienceCRUNCH NETWORK

    What marketers can learn from the economy of convenience

    If you think about it, money is a ridiculous concept. Without going into a William Jennings Bryan gold standard history lesson, let’s just say the idea that I can hold this thing, this little cloth rectangle of varying denomination, and exchange it for tangible goods and services is, at the very least, a system of belief. How we carry our money, and how we’ve evolved to think… Read More
  • Beware the pitfalls of Silicon ValleyCRUNCH NETWORK

    Beware the pitfalls of Silicon Valley

    A recent article in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung titled “Will Facebook Enslave Us?” captures a sentiment prevalent among companies around the world: admiration for Silicon Valley — albeit, with a dash of fear. International media outlets eagerly cover disruption developing in labs up and down the San Francisco peninsula. Boards of directors are spending hours debating how… Read More
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