Browsing Tag: Startups

 Hopper, a top-ranked travel app that helps you figure out the best time to fly to save money, is today expanding its price prediction service to hotels. The company claims its price tracking technology is able to save users $34 per night, on average, when booking a hotel room through its service, or up to $90 per night in the best cases. The Hopper application is already one of the better… Read More
Source: Tech Crunch Startups | Hopper expands its price prediction technology to hotels, initially in NYC

 Patreon wants to colonize the internet with its perks for artist crowdfunding subscribers the same way Facebook login brought your social graph and profile to other sites. Pay a monthly subscription to a content creator on Patreon and now it will earn you exclusive access to their patron-only WordPress blog, Discourse forums, Discord chatrooms and, soon, other apps like Slack. Read More
Source: Tech Crunch Startups | Patreon’s API unlocks rewards across the web for art funders

 Echo, the U.K. startup that offers an app to help you manage your medication and order repeat prescriptions for delivery, has raised $7 million in Series A funding. The round is led by White Star Capital, with participation from MMC Ventures, LocalGlobe, and Rocket Internet’s Global Founders Capital. Read More
Source: Tech Crunch Startups | Medication management app Echo raises £7M Series A led by White Star Capital

 Sex education startup O.school recently raised $800,000 to help achieve its goal of offering easy access to sex-positive, inclusive and comprehensive education around sex and sexuality. Sex is one of those things that is still heavily stigmatized in many societies. That leads to subpar education around all-things sex and sexuality. O.school aims to fix that. Read More
Source: Tech Crunch Startups | Startup O.school raises 0,000 to improve sex education

 Most young adults don’t have credit cards these days. Many of them are concerned about accruing debt. Others are finding it difficult to build credit.
A handful of startups are now focused on building alternatives. One of these is Deserve, which recently changed its name from SelfScore.
The Menlo Park-based startup had been working with international students to assess credit. Now… Read More
Source: Tech Crunch Startups | Deserve raises million for a credit card targeting college students

 ChowNow, an online food ordering service, has raised a $20 million Series B round led by Catalyst Investors. This round brings ChowNow’s total funding to nearly $40 million. “We were excited for [Catalyst] to get involved because they were behind Mindbody,” ChowNow CEO Chris Webb told TechCrunch. Mindbody, a white-label service for health and wellness businesses, went public… Read More
Source: Tech Crunch Startups | ChowNow, a GrubHub competitor, raises million Series B round

 Hiring engineers sucks and many, many companies are trying to leverage artificial intelligence to solve this issue. French startup HireSweet is focusing on finding you candidates who didn’t even think about applying to your company. The startup scans GitHub, Stack Overflow and other technical platforms to find the experts you’re looking for. HireSweet processes unstructured data,… Read More
Source: Tech Crunch Startups | HireSweet monitors Github and Stack Overflow to recommend you your next engineer

 French startup OpenIO just raised $5 million from Elaia Partners, Partech Ventures and Nord France Amorçage. The company has been focusing on object storage technology for different kinds of infrastructure. With today’s funding round, the company plans to work on getting new clients in the U.S. and Japan in addition to the EMEA region. Object storage is a different way of thinking… Read More
Source: Tech Crunch Startups | OpenIO raises million to build your own Amazon S3 on any storage device

 Exclusive dating app The League is going monochrome. Starting today, everyone’s first profile picture will be displayed in black and white.
To be clear, this isn’t a filter – everyone’s first photo will be automatically displayed to potential matches in black and white, with no option to opt out. You’ll still be able to swipe through and see the rest of a… Read More
Source: Tech Crunch Startups | The League is making everyone’s first profile picture black and white

 GIFs — or, let’s call it for what it is: short-form video — were always pretty popular, but it still seems surprising that we would embed them into our phone’s keyboards. But here we are in 2017, and there is a group of startups that are looking to bring the usage, or in the case of Gfycat the creation, of GIFs closer and closer to an everyday thing. So it’s… Read More
Source: Tech Crunch Startups | Gfycat hits 130M monthly active users as short form video heats up