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Six3: A video-messaging service for mobile and desktop
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UK startup Six3 today launches a free service that allows users to send short, private video messages between smartphones and computers. The company is one of the 22 finalists from the latest London Seedcamp, the European seed investment and mentoring program which we’ve written about extensively in the past. Six3...
Tripl takes its social travel app all the way up to 2.0
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One of the finalists of the Startup Rally at this year’s The Next Web Conference is Tripl, a Swedish startup we’ve written about in the past. The company offers an eponymous social travel application that basically leverages existing online networks to make users’ trips better. It does that by connecting...
An interview with London’s video messaging startup Six3 #TNW2012
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Today, at The Next Web Conference in Amsterdam we sat down with the UK startup Six3, who recently launched a free service that allows users to send short, private video messages between smartphones and computers. The company was one of the 22 finalists from the latest London Seedcamp, the European seed investment and mentoring...
Lance Tokuda’s SchoolFeed rounds up $1.75M for fast-growing classmates network
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Lance Tokuda was looking for an old high school friend, but instead he found his second big social networking startup. The co-founder of RockYou happened to find an old acquaintance from high school on Classmates.com, which has more than 60 million users. But when he was going to email...
Another Accelerator Sprouts Up In Europe: Eleven Launches With €12m Fund, First Startup Cohort
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Wasn’t it just a few days ago that I said that Europe had gone a little incubator crazy? Well, more news on that front, this time coming out of Sofia, Bulgaria, of all places: Eleven, backed by €12 million of European taxpayers’ money, gets its official unveiling today, along with...
Ringadoc Virtually Connects You With A Doctor Anytime, Raises $750K Seed From Founders Fund’s FF Angel
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Ringadoc lets you pay a flat fee to instantly talk to a real doctor at any hour of the day, and its big vision to be “the frontline of primary care” has landed it a $750,000 seed round led by FF Angel. So if its 2am and you’ve got some weird rash, you...
Ringadoc Virtually Connects You With A Doctor Anytime, Raises $750K Seed From Founders Fund’s FF Angel
Can Minerva Build An Online Ivy? With $25M From Benchmark & Larry Summers Advising, There’s Hope.
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Well, we’ve said it before: Technology is changing education, it’s flipping the classroom, bringing instructional videos to the masses, and dragging online higher education into legitimacy. Investors have begun to hear the call, as was evidenced today when Benchmark Capital made its largest seed investment to date — $25 million...
Eduardo Saverin Backs Mobile Wallet Contender Crowdmob
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Eduardo Saverin may no longer be a U.S. citizen. But that’s not stopping him from investing in American companies. In fact, he just closed a deal. He’s backing Crowdmob, a startup that’s blending app promotion with discounts from local merchants. The startup’s long-term ambition is to play in the mobile...
Golden Gate Ventures's Vinnie Lauria on nurturing talent from Southeast Asia's startup scene
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Vinnie Lauria knows a thing or two about startups and, most importantly, exits. The American entrepreneur has brought his knowledge, skills, experience (not to mention financial backing) to Asia in the form of Golden Gate Ventures, an accelerator and seed investment firm that aims to “bridge Silicon Valley and Asia”....
Infogr.am launches so you can create your own beautiful and interactive infographics
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If you read things on the Internet, like The Next Web, you’ve probably seen an infographic. The art of the infographic depends on how what data is being presented, how cleanly, and how attractively. A well-done infographic is more interesting than a text-only post of data. The only problem with...
Why The Next Big Ideas In Education Will Come Out Of New Orleans
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With 71% of New Orleans schoolchildren attending charter schools, the atmosphere is ripe for testing new educational ideas. Enter 4.0 Schools, a nonprofit incubator that helps turn teachers into entrepreneurs. UNITED STATES OF INNOVATION New Ideas, New Markets, New Insights All around the country, Americans are dreaming big. Their boldest...
Shopify Teams Up With Tim Ferriss, Eric Ries, FUBU Founder To Help You Build A $1M eCommerce Biz
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According to the Interactive Media In Retail Group, global eCommrece sales will surpass $1.25 trillion by 2013. Naturally, everyone and their mother is eager to capitalize on the growth of online commerce, as it hurdles into a new renaissance. Shopify is one of a number of startups that want to...
Inventory Management Startup Stitch Labs Now Offers Shipping Through ShipStation
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Founded on the premise of making it easier for independent creators to interact with their customers, Stitch Labs launched to offer a cloud-based solution for small businesses that wish to manage CRM, product orders, and inventory management. Now it’s taking that a step further by helping SMBs complete the full...
Planvine Reserves You Those Tickets You Wanted — Invites For TC Readers
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In recent times we’ve seen the rise of many businesses predicated on the idea that a user subscribes to an ecommerce service instead of buying a la carte. Thus, BirchBox delivers beauty product samples every month. Stylistpick sends fashion, Shoedazzle sends shoes. The list goes on. But what if you...
Andreessen Horowitz Confirms Its Scout Program, Calls Out Lazy Angels Who Hate Competition
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It’s all coming out now. Andreessen Horowitz Partners has just confirmed that it too has been operating a stealthy scout program. In case you missed it, last week we uncovered a little-known trend of VCs secretly investing in cash-poor, network-rich entrepreneurs who in turn invest that money in other entrepreneurs...
New York State Pensions Are Funding Startups: The Limited Partners VCs Rarely Discuss
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Movable Ink cofounder Vivek Sharma and Mr. DiNapoli via Twitter @NYSComptroller When a startup raises a round of funding, the news typically includes a list of venture capital firms and angel investors that participated. But when a private equity or venture capital firm is raising money for its own fund,...
Awesome Inventory Management Startup Stitch Labs Nabs $1M From True Ventures
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Small business inventory management startup Stitch Labs is announcing a $1 million seed investment this morning led by True Ventures. In the same space as Bizelo and Ordoro, Stitch Labs allows design-focused small businesses to organize their CRM, product orders and inventory with custom tailored features like Etsy and Shopify integration....
If Startups Can Be Built In Ghana, Africa, They Can Be Built In Cleveland, Ohio
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This is a guest post by Adam Jackson is a San Francisco-based serial entrepreneur and angel investor. He issues a rallying cry to get startups happening outside the Valley, using the methods used in the developing world. You can find him on twitter at @adamjacksonsf. When you are a busy...
The Tech Accelerator Epidemic Has Hit New Jersey
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(techlaunch.com) It's fair to say that tech accelerator programs are launching, well, frequently now, all with the same basic template. Between Blueprint Health, DreamIt Ventures and Entrepreneurs Roundtable, Betabeat can barely keep up with the demo days just here in New York. It's difficult to say who started the craze;...
Instacanvas Raises $1M Round For Its Instagram Prints, Expands Its Product Offerings
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One of the cool things about Instagram is that it has spawned a whole ecosystem of companies that use the popular photography app’s APIs to develop their own services. One of these is Instacanvas, a recent graduate of the L.A.-based MuckerLab accelerator. The company, which allows Instagram users to sell...
Virtualization software firm AppSense backs yet-to-launch rich data startup Collaaj
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AppSense Labs, the research arm of virtualization software company AppSense, has made its first seed investment. This morning, it announced that it has pumped an undisclosed amount of capital into rich data startup Collaaj (no website yet). Collaaj hasn’t made it to market yet, but the company was founded by...
Seedcamp kicks off its USA tour, first stop: New York City
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Startup incubators are all the rage these days, but few can hold a candle to Europe’s Seedcamp, an early-stage micro seed investment program that we’ve written about quite a few times at The Next Web. Seedcamp first popped up on my radar last July, when it announced 4 winning teams from its Mini Seedcamp...
Mobile startup HyperBees wins seed funding in Android games contest
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London-based HyperBees won the Get Discovered Android mobile game contest on Tuesday with a quiz game that will land the startup a funding deal. The three-person team headed by Tom Mleko (pictured below, second from right) will receive a term sheet for a seed investment from Trinity Ventures. The...
Here are the finalists for the Acceleprise Enterprise Entrepreneurship Challenge
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Back in May we told you about the Acceleprise Enterprise Entrepreneurship Challenge, and the voting period has ended. We saw 22 awesome submissions gathering votes, and we’re proud to announce the finalists today. In case you forgot, the competition was set up to find great enterprise startups for one of...
88mph is hoping a $200k fuel injection will accelerate up to 15 startups
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“If you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything”, great advice but the minimum investment of $200,000 for startups at 88mph, the Kenyan accelerator program, will also go a long way to achieving a few business aspirations. By September 15th, 88mph hopes to invest those dollars in 8-15...
Could the Next Elite University Be Online and Venture-Backed?
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The Minerva Project says it’s planning to launch the first elite American University in a century. Sounds wacky, right? But the project is starting to gather some heavyweight support: Former Harvard President and U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Larry Summers will chair its advisory board, and Benchmark Capital has committed...
E-tailer package tracker AfterShip snags seed funding from Australia’s Business Switch
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AfterShip, a Hong Kong-based package monitoring service that works with online retailers, has announced it has received its first overseas funding, after Australia’s Business Switch made an undisclosed seed investment in return for a 5 percent share in the startup. The open beta tracking system is used by online merchants...
Grab Your TechCrunch Discount To Dublin Web Summit In October
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With our own Eric Eldon and Alexia Tsotsis speaking at Dublin Web Summit in October, it would be remiss of us not to mention the event, which also runs just before the so-called ‘Davos for Geeks’ event known as F.ounders. TechCrunch Readers can use the special voucher code DWS12TC here...
IP Bootstrap is the latest accelerator aiming to boost the UK startup ecosystem
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Aimed at UK businesses, the grassroots, non-profit startup accelerator program IP Bootstrap has been launched, so get your applications in quick as the program starts in just under two weeks. The course is led by entrepreneur Aamir Butt, along with Rebecca Scheel, Peter Torstensen and Peter Warren who are all veterans...
Are you an enterprise startup? Join us at Startup.Synergy
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VentureBeat has teamed up with Citrix Startup Accelerator to lead a discussion on May 9 at Startup.Synergy about the massive opportunities for startups in the enterprise sector. First, if you’re an emerging startup focused on cloud, mobile, desktop, or collaboration, this event is your opportunity to learn about the Accelerator as a...
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