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| Sep 17, 2013 | Yep, Social Discovery Startup Sonar Is Dead (And Its CEO Explains Why) | So, uh, what’s going on with Sonar? The startup, which promised to connect users with relevant people nearby (using data from Facebook, Foursquare and elsewhere), seemed to have disappeared from the web, as noted in a Valleywag post earlier... |
| Aug 7, 2013 | Former Sonar CTO Paul Fisher Joins Tablet Publishing Startup Onswipe | Paul Fisher, who was most recently CTO at social discovery startup (and TechCrunch Disrupt alum) Sonar, has joined Onswipe in the same role.
Onswipe works with publishers to optimize their websites for tablets and other touch devices. In Ju... |
| Jun 19, 2013 | Blackboard Co-Founder Michael Chasen Raises $12.75M Series A For SocialRadar, A New Take On Location-Based People Discovery Apps | If you thought the “ambient location” craze has passed, prepare to be surprised. A company called SocialRadar is announcing today that it has raised $12.75 million in Series A funding from NEA, Grotech Ventures, and others including Steve C... |
| Apr 25, 2013 | Twitter said to be toying with local discovery | New feature would allow users to see tweets of people they do not follow within a certain radius
As we have seen time and again, Twitter has become the go-to place for breaking news around the world, whether it be riots in Iran, the overthr... |
| Mar 14, 2013 | As It Prepares For Relaunch, Airtime Hires K2 Media Labs Founder Daniel Klaus As President | Sean Parker’s video chat startup Airtime is still alive and kicking and has a new executive running it. According to sources, K2 Media Labs founder Daniel Klaus has joined the company, as it has moved its operations to New York City and is ... |
| Mar 5, 2013 | Startup Jobs of the Day (05/03/2013) | From Silicon Valley to rest of USA, to UK to Italy to Germany to Singapore, startup jobs for any taste (and location). Have a look:
– Sonar (read here)
– Snaptee (read here)
– Red Hot Labs (read here)
– Farfetch (read here)
– Stik (read her... |
| Mar 1, 2013 | Sonar Receives Strategic Investment from Bing Fund | Sonar, a NYC-based mobile app that notifies users when their friends are nearby, received a strategic investment from Bing Fund, a Microsoft-backed angel vehicle.
The amount of the funding was not disclosed.
Co-Founded by Brett Martin, CEO,... |
| Feb 28, 2013 | Funding Daily: From the Bay to the Sound | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Funding Daily comes to you today from the rainy c... |
| Feb 28, 2013 | Microsoft’s Bing Fund invests in social discovery app Sonar | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
New York City startup Sonar announced today that ... |
| Feb 28, 2013 | Microsoft’s Bing Fund invests in social discovery app Sonar | New York City startup Sonar announced today that has received a strategic investment from Microsoft’s Bing Fund.
VentureBeat VentureBeat's mission is to be a digital townsquare for technical decision makers to gain knowledge about transform... |
| Feb 28, 2013 | Social Discovery App Sonar Gets New Investment From Bing Fund, Announces It Via Vine | Sonar, a social discovery service (and TechCrunch Disrupt alumni) that was among the top apps at last year’s SXSW in Austin, is today announcing new investment from Bing Fund. This angel fund and incubator program from Microsoft was publicl... |
| Nov 2, 2012 | After Hurricane Sandy, NY Startups Have To Find A Place To Get Back To Work | Recovering from Hurricane Sandy is no small feat as most of Lower Manhattan is still in the dark without power. I talked with a couple of people working in startups who had to find a place to get back work. But the most difficult part was p... |
| Oct 15, 2012 | Find your friends nearby with Kismet | Social discovery app was the winner of the People's Choice Award at Vator Splash SF
At Vator Splash SF last month, two winners were announced: one was picked by the judges, and the other won the People’s Choice Award, where members of the a... |
| Sep 19, 2012 | Startup News: David Karp And Rachel Sterne Get Judgemental and Louis C.K. Inspires a Startup | (Photo: wikipedia.org)
Game Over? There seems to be a mass exodus at Zynga. It was reported yesterday that Wilson Kriegel, the former chief revenue officer of Omgpop, has now left the company. In the last 30 days, the company has lost its C... |
| Sep 6, 2012 | Is Mixer The Mobile Social Location-Based App We’ve Been Looking For? Maybe… | In the last few months we’ve seen the rise of location-based mobile networking the likes of which some people envisioned a while ago but few executed on. And the executions are patchy but often interesting. Banjo aggregates geo-tagged infor... |
| May 23, 2012 | Sonar’s “Here-Now” social network shows Highlight how people discovery is really done | After launching one year ago, New York City-based Sonar unveiled a major update today that makes it easier than ever to find friends and like-minded people nearby — all with the goal of becoming a “Here-Now” mobile social network.
When it l... |
| May 23, 2012 | Sonar’s “Here-Now” social network shows Highlight how people discovery is really done | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
After launching one year ago, New York City-based Sonar unveiled a major update today that makes it easier than ever to find friends an... |
| May 4, 2012 | Facebook picks up the team at mobile start-up Glancee | Social networking giant snaps up mobile social discovery app
Congratulations to the Glancee team. Late Friday, the Glancee team let users of the mobile social discovery service know via email that it's now part of Facebook.
Glancee, one of ... |
| Apr 18, 2012 | Like a Highlight for salespeople, Serendipity creates “chance” business encounters | Serendipity, the latest product from business app developer Taptera, helps Salesforce.com customers view potential sales leads around them on their iPhones.
The app is taking a similar approach to Highlight and Sonar, both apps that help fi... |
| Mar 19, 2012 | Glancee’s SXSW Adventure: Battling Bad WiFi, Battery Drain & The Silicon Valley Mafia | Ironically we couldn’t find each other. I’d arranged to meet Glancee founder and CEO Andrea Vaccari at 2pm in the Hilton Austin lobby, during the height of SXSW Interactive. But with hundreds of geeks running around, I couldn’t see him anyw... |
| Mar 18, 2012 | Why Highlight Wasn’t A Breakout Success At SXSW | [Editor’s Note: Brenden Mulligan is an entrepreneur who created Onesheet, TipList, ArtistData, MorningPics, and PhotoPile. He’s a mentor for 500 Startups and several startups. You can find him on Twitter at @mulligan.]
Highlight is one of t... |
| Mar 15, 2012 | Gary Sharma’s SXSW 2012 Highlights: Jay-Z, Leo DiCaprio, Pool Parties, Grilled Cheese Eating Contests & More | Storyful's Erica Berger, ABC News' Maya Baratz, The Today Show's Rina Raphael and Fashism's Ashley Granata & Brooke Moreland hanging out at TheDaily's now epic Pool Party @ SXSW 2012. (Photo: Nick McGlynn)
This is a guest post from Gary... |
| Mar 9, 2012 | Highlight vs. Banjo: 2 Approaches to Social Discovery | Social discovery – finding people nearby whom you might want to meet – is shaping up to be a startup trend this year. And what better way to test drive this new crop of apps than at SXSW, an over 15,000-person event where everyone is dashin... |
| Mar 8, 2012 | Sonar CEO Brett Martin: “I Do the Exact Opposite of What I Did on Wall Street” | Ice breaker app Sonar is propelling forward: since their launch in May 2011, they’ve quadrupled their employees, ran a partnership with Wired, and started the SonarU program on college campuses.
Available on iOS and in beta on Android (with... |
| Mar 8, 2012 | Gauss Wants to be the People Magnet For Your Pocket | Social bridging: a mobile application built to bridge the gap between on and offline social interaction based upon proximity, mutual friends and interests – is a term I just made up to describe a trend to look for at this year's SXSWi. It's... |
| Mar 7, 2012 | TriplePoint, NEA invest in discovery app Kismet | AngelPad graduate raises sizable seed from top VCs, and a host of angels
Kismet, a mobile app to discover people nearby, announced Wednesday that it's raised seed funding from a host of investors, including Triple Point Ventures, NEA and a ... |
| Mar 7, 2012 | Startup News: Have Fun in ATX—Love, NYC | Hook 'em! | U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Wikipedia)
HILL COUNTRY. Made in NY: Austin will celebrate New York based tech startups at South by Southwest on March 11 from 6 p.m. to 12 a.m. at the Fast Company Grill at Cedar Door in the Texa... |
| Mar 6, 2012 | Sonar comes to Android as it prepares for SXSW showdown over ambient awareness | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Tech journalists have a bad habit of picking a theme each year for SXSW and crafting a drama around which startup will “win” the festiv... |
| Mar 6, 2012 | All The Location Apps You Have To Use At The SXSW Royal Rumble | It’s turning into a royal rumble at SXSW — the sheer number of location-based networking apps hoping to emerge from the conference as this year’s breakout hit is nearly overwhelming. What’s worse, they’re often so similar in nature, so it’s... |
| Mar 6, 2012 | INTRO Wants To Be The LinkedIn Of The Ambient Location Apps | Just when you thought this space couldn’t get any more saturated, yet another ambient location app throws its hat into the ring as SXSW prepares to kick off. Introducing INTRO. But wait, before you groan “enough already!“, you should know t... |
| Mar 5, 2012 | Just In Time For SXSW, Social Discovery Service Sonar Arrives On Android | Social discovery service (and TechCrunch Disrupt alumni) Sonar has some big news today, and just in time for SXSW: it’s arriving on Android. According to founder Brett Martin, support for the Android platform has long been users’ most frequ... |
| Mar 3, 2012 | Highlight Needs To Let You Switch Off ‘Friend Of Friend’ Notifications Before SXSW | Ambient location app Highlight is a big deal. Eldon likes it, Scoble likes it, MG and Mike like it and Grindr fan Charlie Cheever likes it. More importantly, I like it.
Before you call me out for being slightly narcissistic with the above s... |
| Feb 29, 2012 | Startup News: LetsLunch Wants to Send You on a Platonic Date | Umami's new "Dishboard"
TV IS SOCIAL. At New York Tech Meetup earlier this month, Umami showed us how their audio fingerprinting technology can help users find anything and everything about the show we’re watching. Now, they’re ro... |
| Feb 2, 2012 | Surprise! Location App Highlight Actually Creates Serendipity | The big promise of location-based mobile apps is that they can help you find something great in real life without you meaning to look for it. But that hasn’t usually been my experience. Instead, whether because of the friction of having to ... |
| Jan 12, 2012 | Top 10 start-up logos | It’s the most visible, striking aspect of your business. The thing that your customers will see more than any other, which you hope you will be plastered approvingly across billboards and the internet in double-quick time.
Given a logo’s pr... |
| Dec 27, 2011 | Half A Million Downloads Later, Social Discovery App Banjo Hits The Web | Banjo, the creepy/awesome cyber-stalking app (I mean social discovery service) that shows you who’s nearby based on their Facebook and Foursquare check-ins, geotagged tweets, TwitPic and Instagram uploads, is now a web app, too. In case you... |
| Dec 1, 2011 | New Social Discovery App Ntro Launches, Backed By $1.7 Million In Funding | The L.A.-based startup nProgress is launching a new social discovery app ntro this morning, backed by over $1.7 million in funding from Jarl Mohn, Gordon Crawford, Kevin Wall, Activation Media Partners, Baroda Ventures, SV Angel, Jeff Pulve... |
| Sep 16, 2011 | The New Social Network: Who’s Nearby, Not Who You Know | There’s a new concept for social networking services taking root, and it’s not about re-creating your offline social graph on the Web, like Facebook does today. It’s about discovering the people who are nearby you now – the ones you probabl... |
| Sep 14, 2011 | Sonar Adds LinkedIn Support, Gets A Shiny New Interface | This afternoon at TechCrunch Disrupt SF, Sonar announced that they’d added in what is likely their userbase’s most requested feature: LinkedIn support.
Launched just months ago at Disrupt NY, Sonar taps into your existing social network acc... |
| Aug 12, 2011 | Banjo Now Lets You Stalk Locations, And the People There | Six-week old mobile application Banjo has been updated with a new feature that lets users virtually stalk locations, and the people there, in real-time. Banjo, for those unaware, is a new social discovery service which reveals the social ne... |
| Jul 11, 2011 | Finding The Common Link: Commonred Wants To Take The Awkward Out Of Networking | Vaporware Labs, a software company that makes social, mobile, and web apps, like Steve Young Football for the iPad and iPhone, and MEETorDIE, an an online tool that tells you how much money your company is wasting by having meetings and how... |
| Jun 22, 2011 | New Wave of Social Networks Have You “Friending” Your Location | This morning, another new startup launched a mobile social networking application where location is the primary feature and friends comes second. Banjo, which shows you all the people nearby upon first launch, is one of many similar service... |
| May 25, 2011 | Arrington: Sonar (Which Took $250K To Build) Is Better Than Color Could Hope To Be | At the TC Disrupt Startup Battlefield finals going on now, after Sonar CEO’s product demo. TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington asked founder Brett Martin, how much he spent to build the service which introduces you to people relevant around... |
| May 25, 2011 | And The Winner Of TechCrunch Disrupt NYC Is…Getaround! | Three days and 32 startup pitches later, the winner of TechCrunch Disrupt has been determined. Out of the 30 startups and two audience choice winners, we whittled the list down to six finalists, which include Billguard, ccLoop, Do@, Getarou... |
| May 25, 2011 | The Secret Sauce in Sonar.me – Making the “Meatspace” Mainstream | One of the great themes among New York’s location based start-ups is that the services, which rely on the mobile web, generate a lot of their real value offline, by encouraging people to try new things and change their routine behavior.
Son... |
| May 23, 2011 | Sonar tells you why the people around you matter | I saw plenty of startups today at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in New York City, but Sonar, a newly launched iPhone app, stood out from the crowd because it offered up a simple new way to take advantage of the social data we’re increas... |
| May 23, 2011 | Sonar Finds You The Most Relevant People In The Room | Using your publicly available profiles on Facebook, Foursquare and Twitter, etc, mobile app Sonar, shows you who, how many, and why particular people are relevant to you in a room.
Says founder Brett Martin, “It’s simple- you open up sonar ... |
