Tagged: google

September 22, 2015 @ 1:12 am By Midori Yoshimura  |  

Former UK head of Google, Dan Cobley, sees a unicorn–a $1.5 billion-turnover success story–in his co-founded startup SalaryFinance, for which he left Google last year. According to Business Insider, Cobley said that SalaryFinance would “be talked about in some of the same sentences as unicorn businesses over… Read More

September 11, 2015 @ 9:37 am By Georgia Quinn  |  

Despite a hot and rainy New York City morning, there was a great turn-out at LendTech Angels’ first LendLab event.  Hosted by Kiran Lingam, managing director of LendTech Angels, the event gave aspiring marketplace lending startups an education in the regulatory landscape they are entering…. Read More

August 13, 2015 @ 3:59 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Just two days after launching its Kickstarter campaign, Nebia has successfully surpassed over $1.3 million thanks to 3,800 backers. The Nebia Shower is a showerhead that you can install yourself.  The system claims to create a shower like you have “never experienced before.” The company explained its engineering hardware:… Read More

July 31, 2015 @ 12:47 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Fueled by $6.5M USD in Series A financing in April, TradeGecko, a cloud-based inventory and multichannel management platform for apparel and accessories, is leveraging its resources to become one of the fastest growing startups in Singapore. Since this spring, TradeGecko has increased its headcount by 25% and added… Read More

July 29, 2015 @ 12:00 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

His recent “Greece Bailout” Indiegogo campaigns quickly gained attention worldwide, but while both his campaigns were not as successful as he hoped, Thom Feeney believes that his projects (along with others) do not require a large campaign team. According to GrowthBusiness, Feeney stated while speaking… Read More

June 25, 2015 @ 3:45 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Thursday, photo-friendly smartphone app, STAND,  announced it has raised $2.25 million seed funding round, which was led by Resolute Ventures, with participation from Silicon Valley influencers including Jack Dorsey, Twitter/Square; Greylock Discovery (Josh Elman); Fresco Capital (Tytus Michalski and Stephen Forte); Meng Tan, Google; Doug… Read More

April 16, 2015 @ 12:51 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Michael Jones, former chief technology advocate of Google, has joined Silicon Valley’s Wearality Corporation as the startup’s new CEO. In this role, Jones will oversee the launch of today’s most innovative virtual reality (VR) wearable technology, including the recently launched Wearality Sky, to help users experience the true power of immersive 3D worlds…. Read More

March 12, 2015 @ 12:00 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Not just child’s play…Tangible Kids and Osmo, the breakout kids hardware tech device that was named one of the best inventions of 2014 by Time Magazine, announced its next experience, Masterpiece. With this launch, the company again seeks to revolutionize the way we learn and think about… Read More

February 15, 2015 @ 7:23 pm By JD Alois  |  

Uvest Solar, a “mission driven” solar energy crowdfunding startups, is taking pace in Google for Entrepreneurs program Startup Next.  Later this month Richmond, VA based founder Blue Crump will share his concept alongside 14 other young companies at the AT&T Palo Alto Foundry. The one… Read More

February 9, 2015 @ 2:54 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Crowdfunding analytics, optimization and promotional tool, Krowdster, recently launched an affiliate program for crowdfunding consultants and publishers. The new project reportedly capitalizes on Krowdster’s explosive growth. Since opening for business nine weeks ago, the unique Krowdster web app has racked up more than 2000 active users…. Read More

February 2, 2015 @ 3:44 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Thursday (January 29th), San Francisco-based Glow Headphones debuted its crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter. Seeking only $100,000, the new headphones quickly surpassed its initial and within four days raised nearly $270,000 from over 1,300 backers. According to its campaign’s website, Glow has been dubbed the world’s… Read More

January 20, 2015 @ 10:56 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Tuesday (January 20th), New York-based tech startup, Canary, announced former Google and Quantcast executive, Julio Pekarovic, as the new Chief Operating Officer at Canary. Julio brings over twenty years experience in leading finance organizations and business operations in hyper-growth technology companies. At Canary, he’ll… Read More

January 15, 2015 @ 9:28 am By JD Alois  |  

Tech giant Google (NASD: GOOG) and leading peer to peer lending platform Lending Club (NYSE: LC), have formed a new partnership to facilitate low-interest financing to “eligible Google partners”.  Shares in Lending Club jumped over 8% on the news. The program presently only available in the US allows… Read More

December 31, 2014 @ 10:56 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Last week, Andromium, a company that specializes in Android smartphones, hit Kickstarter to raise $100,000 for a new software that transforms cellular devices into a compact desktop computer. According to the campaign, Andromium’s key mission is to democratize the desktop by making it more affordable and highly accessible…. Read More

November 21, 2014 @ 12:26 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Thursday (November 20th), Internet giant, Google, announced the launch of its new crowdfunding tool for publishers known as the Contributor. The new website is designed to allow users to pay sites that they often visit a monthly fee. In return, they will no longer… Read More

November 11, 2014 @ 12:32 pm By Farah Bashir  |  

  It was only a few weeks ago that CrowdFundHerLive, organized by Woomentum, hosted a live crowdfunding campaign for start-ups led by women. Founded by Mouna Lagendorf, the event attracted a crowd of over 100 women to the site of the event – the MCCAAN offices… Read More

October 22, 2014 @ 12:13 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Atlas Wearables, a wearable device that tracks the user’s body on the x-, y- and z- axes as well as detects and logs exercises performed by users, has closed its campaigns on SeedInvest, Fundable  and Crowdfunder.  After successfully raising over $629K on its pretail Indiegogo campaign,… Read More

October 16, 2014 @ 12:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

Osmo, the interactive hardware game that connects to any iPad has announced that Apple has accepted their product to be retailed across their 284 locations in North America capturing high profile shelf space in the most successful retail store ever. Simultaneously Osmo shared that it has closed… Read More

September 23, 2014 @ 5:45 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this month, Com1 launched a crowdfunding campaing on Indiegogo to raise funds for its “first Android Wear” smartwatch. The plan was for the watch to be sold for a price of $125 ($175 for the stainless steel or aluminum), the project wanted to raise… Read More

September 16, 2014 @ 9:27 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Google strikes again! Mayor Ed Murray announced on Monday (September 15th) that the Internet giant has fully funded the classroom requests of every teacher in King, Pierce, and Snohomish Counties on the education crowdfunding platform DonorsChoose.org. As a result of Google’s $338,542 donation, 295 teachers will receive materials for their 36,000 students –… Read More