Browsing Tag: Startups

 Editor’s Note: After publication, a reader pointed out on Twitter that mia Contacts will text your contacts on your behalf when tagging a contact. CEO Amit Kumar said on Twitter that this is an attempt to curb abuse. The full original story follows below. 
The idea of sorting out your contacts, and discovering new ones that are really helpful, has always been a complete nightmare. Read More
Source: Tech Crunch Startups | Mia Contacts takes another shot at a smart contacts app with M in funding

 James Comey, the former FBI director who was abruptly fired in May, has seemingly revealed himself as Twitter user Reinhold Niebuhr.
In March, the account tweeted out the famous Anchorman meme — “Actually, I’m not even mad. That’s amazing!” — alongside a link to the FBI’s jobs website.
But how did anyone know to look at such a random and seemingly… Read More
Source: Tech Crunch Startups | James Comey confirms he is Reinhold Niebuhr on Twitter

 “We want to change behavior around ownership on the planet,” says Omni co-founder Thomas McLeod. First, it built an on-demand storage business, where you can get things picked up from your place in as little as two hours, pay a monthly fee to store them depending on their size and get them temporarily returned to you for free whenever you need them. Now it wants to help you earn… Read More
Source: Tech Crunch Startups | Omni storage now earns you money by renting out your stuff

 MrOwl is a new app by Arvind and Becky Raichur that lets you store, sort, and share data. What kind of data? All of it. The app is what would happen if a social network had a baby with Evernote. Users can create public or private stores of data – this is my branch about Rolex – and put in images, text, and links. There are popular branches like this one about secret menus and you… Read More
Source: Tech Crunch Startups | MrOwl wants to be your new sharing platform

 Doctorlink, a U.K. startup that provides doctor surgeries with a clinically approved digital triage and advice tool, is disclosing that it has picked up significant backing from Eight Roads, the proprietary investment arm of Fidelity International. Read More
Source: Tech Crunch Startups | Healthtech startup Doctorlink picks up backing from Eight Roads for its digital triage and advice tool

 You couldn’t blame AppDynamics co-founder Jyoti Bansal if he took some time off after selling his company to Cisco for a cool $3.7 billion in January. But Bansal is an entrepreneur and he didn’t stop to enjoy the moment. Instead, he did what entrepreneurs do — he looked for a new problem to solve. Today, he announced two new projects . For starters, Bansal teamed up Rishi… Read More
Source: Tech Crunch Startups | AppDynamics founder Jyoti Bansal wastes little time launching a new company

 When Google was founded in 1998, its goal was to organize the world’s information. And for the most part, mission accomplished — but in 19 years the goalpost has moved forward and indexing and usefully presenting information isn’t enough. As machine learning matures, it’s becoming feasible for the first time to actually summarize and contextualize the world’s… Read More
Source: Tech Crunch Startups | Primer helps governments and corporations monitor and understand the world’s information

 Blickfeld, a Munich-based startup developing a low-cost light detection and ranging (LiDAR) system to let autonomous vehicles “see,” has raised $4.25 million in seed funding. Read More
Source: Tech Crunch Startups | Blickfeld scores .25M seed round to let autonomous vehicles ‘see’

 French startup iAdvize raised another $37.6 million (€32 million) from Idinvest, Bpifrance and Quadrille Capital. The company wants to convert casual website visitors into clients. Thanks to iAdvize, companies can track what you’re doing and engage with you to convince you that you should open a bank account, buy a coat or upgrade your subscription. With today’s funding round,… Read More
Source: Tech Crunch Startups | iAdvize raises .6 million for its customer engagement platform

 Wibbitz, which uses artificial intelligence to create short videos based on text news stories, has raised $20 million in Series C funding. The money comes from some of big names in the media world, with Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments (a subsidiary of German media conglomerate Bertelsmann) leading the round and participation from The Weather Channel, The Associated Press and TF1.… Read More
Source: Tech Crunch Startups | Automated video creation startup Wibbitz raises M