| Date | Title | Description |
| 23.06.2014 | Help NYU game researchers make fidgeting more productive | Do you fiddle with stuff at your desk while working?
It could actually be that you aren’t wasting time. You might, in fact, be doing what it takes to get your brain working the way you need it to. That’s the working assumption behind a proj... |
| 10.12.2013 | The future is enchanted objects, not glass slabs | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
This is a guest post by Brad Feld, a managing director at Foundry Group.
On Saturday, I read the final draft of a magnificent book by D... |
| 18.02.2013 | Why developers should start choosing conscience over profit | This is a guest post by Jason Cavnar, the co-founder and CEO of Singly.
Over the holidays, I looked around the living room and saw eight adults over 55 sending text messages, having video conversations with loved ones in other cities, and s... |
| 09.01.2013 | Hands-On With Sifteo Cubes: High-Tech Games Built Into Classic Building Block Shapes | Kids these days have it so much better than we all did, am I right? Better clothes, funner food, cooler hair, and amazing tech-enabled games.
Reinforcing that last example is Sifteo, a San Francisco startup that has built an especially uniq... |
| 23.11.2012 | “In the Studio,” Sifteo’s David Merrill Unveils “Sifteo Cubes” To The World | Editor’s Note: Semil Shah is an EIR with Javelin Venture Partners and has been a contributor to TechCrunch since January 2011. You can follow him on Twitter at @semil.
“In the Studio” presents the first of two special holiday segments this ... |
| 23.11.2012 | Gift Guide: Sifteo Interactive Gaming Cubes | Short Version
What do you get the person who already has everything? Sifteo Cubes might be the answer. These innovative little gaming devices work together to create interactive gaming experiences with very tactile, imaginative elements you... |
| 16.09.2012 | Hardware Alley At Disrupt — From Tele-Presence Robots To Golf Swing Sensors | The great thing about Hardware Alley at TechCrunch Disrupt is – apart from the fact that it seems to grow bigger at every event – is the sheer variety of companies exhibiting. There’s pretty much anything you can imagine, and only two feet ... |
| 10.08.2011 | Sifteo launches intelligent blocks as a new form of entertainment | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Sifteo, a table-top game startup, is announcing today that it has begun selling intelligent blocks known as Sifteo Cubes. These devices... |
| 10.08.2011 | Sifteo launches intelligent blocks as a new form of entertainment | Sifteo, a table-top game startup, is announcing today that it has begun selling intelligent blocks known as Sifteo Cubes. These devices are like little dominoes with displays on one side.
The cubes are wireless, motion-aware 1.5-inch blocks... |
| 30.06.2011 | True Ventures Looks for Magic in the Crowd of Portfolio CEOs, Not Its Partners’ Brains | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
How do you run a venture capital fund with $378 million under management with just four full-time partners? San Francisco-based True Ventures, a six-year-old early stage inves... |
| 23.06.2011 | card.io: Like Square, but without the square | It’s been a busy week folks! I’m pleased to announce the developer launch of K9 Ventures’ portfolio company, card.io (pronounced card-I-O). As the name suggests, card.io is the simple and secure way to accept credit cards in mobile applicat... |
| 22.03.2011 | Poll Results: Hurricane Party Hottest Startup at SXSW 2011 | After a week of polling, Austin-based startup Hurricane Party came out on top of our 2011 Hottest Startup at SXSW poll. Though group texting/chat was a hot trend at SXSW 2011, it seems that the real battle was between geo-location services ... |
| 17.03.2011 | Poll: What’s The Hottest Startup at SXSW 2011? | In the past, South by Southwest Interactive (SXSW) has been a place where startups launch and make a big splash. In 2007 and 2008, Twitter was the buzz. The last two years, both Gowalla and Foursquare grabbed people's real-time check-in att... |
| 05.01.2011 | Sifteo demos cute wireless game cubes for kids | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Sifteo is one of the few cool new tech toys to emerge in recent years. The company has created small cubes with tiny displays and wirel... |
| 05.01.2011 | Sifteo demos cute wireless game cubes for kids | Sifteo is one of the few cool new tech toys to emerge in recent years. The company has created small cubes with tiny displays and wireless connectivity, as you can see from the picture.
The cubes are one more example of how sensing technolo... |
| 08.09.2010 | If There Were No IP Restrictions, What Kind Of Mobile Devices Could You Build? | I’ll have a post forthcoming sometime soon about a very interesting book on the value of companies being able to imitate and build on the work of others, but there are times when you can see it in action. Jack Everitt points us to a short, ... |
| 10.05.2010 | Sifteo raises $9M round for table-top gaming | Sifteo has raised $9 million in funding for its “Siftables” table-top gaming platform, according to peHub.
The Siftables are domino-like plastic tiles that sit on a table top. They contain small computers with motion-sensing, neighbor detec... |
| 10.05.2010 | Sifteo raises $9M round for table-top gaming | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Sifteo has raised $9 million in funding for its “Siftables” table-top gaming platform, according to peHub.
The Siftables are domino-lik... |
| - | Empowering Creativity With littleBits | We’re thrilled to announce our lead investment in the groundbreaking startup called littleBits, founded by the brilliant Ayah Bdeir.
littleBits is a platform of electronic modules that magnetically join together in unlimited combinations, ... |
| - | Welcoming 3D Robotics | We’re thrilled to announce our lead investment behind groundbreaking innovator and visionary Chris Anderson at 3D Robotics. As most in our industry know, Chris is accomplished in many, many things: he is former Editor in Chief of Wired maga... |
| - | Welcoming Streetline | At True, we are big believers in the “connected web” and the “Internet of Things” (IoT). We love how this powerful movement takes cutting-edge software and wraps it in beautiful hardware packages, and connects the digital and physical world... |
| - | Sifteo Closes $9M in Funding | Congrats to Dave, Jeevan, and the rest of the Sifteo team for closing their round! peHUB broke the story here today. We are also very excited to be working with the Foundry team again, whom we have worked closely with in the past.
Since we... |
| - | Steve Blank is Right About the Need for Lean VCs | I met Steve Blank for the first time a few weeks ago when he came to visit the Women 2.0 group at Pier 38. As someone who has long believed in the value of engaging one on one with customers, I have long respected and admired his work in cu... |
| - | Super Neural – True Founder Camp IV – Spring 2011 | Metcalfe’s law states that the value of a network is proportional to the square of the number of connected nodes or users. With all due respect to Dr. Metcalfe, I think he only got it half right (1). In addition to just the number of nodes,... |
| - | The Hardware Revolution is Upon Us and Why it Matters | Almost exactly six years ago, Apple launched the first iPhone. It was a small device that many dismissed as a toy. In reality Steve put a supercomputer in our pocket — we just didn’t know it. And like super computers before, it came with im... |
| - | Congratulating Entrepreneur Magazine’s “Brilliant 100” | Entrepreneur Magazine has announced its “100 Brilliant Companies” for 2013—100 companies who “have turned brilliant ideas into business solutions.” We are thrilled to congratulate True portfolio companies Makerbot, KISSmetrics, Sifteo, Dire... |
| - | Interface (Il)literacy: Learning How to Read & Write in the 21st Century | Back in 1991, Mark Weiser, a researcher at Xerox PARC, wrote an article for Scientific American called “The Computer for the 21st Century.” Weiser envisioned a future in which people interact in natural ways (e.g., gesture, speech) with a c... |
| - | Venture Capital 2012: A Year in Review | A few weeks ago, I had the good fortune to talk with Lizette Chapman of The Wall Street Journal about 2012’s venture capital landscape and my outlook for 2013. You can read that interview on the WSJ blog, but I’d also like to address the to... |
| - | Impromptu Breakout Session on Hardware |
Amidst the planned activities, speakers, and discussions at last week’s Founder Camp, there was room for socializing and reconnecting. As you can see, there was also room for an impromptu break-out session for the founders of Sifteo, Fi... |
| - | Connecting people never goes out of style | Connection is an essential part of the human experience. And since we don’t often have the luxury of face-to-face contact with our friends, family and business associates, communications has become one of the most important resources in our... |