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| May 13, 2008 | Mozes Raises $11.5 Million for SMS-Based Communities. Wants to Move Beyond Bands To Brands. | Palo Alto-based mobile startup Mozes has secured an additional $11.5 million in Series B funding from lead investor Maveron, as well as existing investors North Bridge Venture Partners and Norwest Venture Partners.
Mozes powers online commu... |
| Apr 17, 2008 | TripIt Raises $5.1 Million in Series B Funding | TripIt, the online travel assistant that debuted at Techcrunch40 and is one of the sites Michael can’t live without, has received $5.1M in Series B funding.
The main contributions for this round come from Sabre Holdings, O’Reilly AlphaTech ... |
| Apr 2, 2008 | Trouble in conference land: TechCrunch50, DEMO happening at the same time | The dates are out for the next TechCrunch conference, and surprise: TechCrunch50, in its second year, will be held on almost the exact same dates as venerable — or some might say vulnerable — tech-startup conference DEMO, which is about to ... |
| Mar 24, 2008 | Viewdle Funded by KIT Capital, Partners with ROO | Viewdle, a startup developing facial recognition technology for video, has received an unspecified amount of funding from KIT Capital. As part of the deal, Viewdle will partner up with ROO, another KIT portfolio company focused on IPTV broa... |
| Mar 18, 2008 | Fixya Raises $6 Million B Round for Crowdsourced Tech-Support | Companies hate providing good tech support for their products because it is expensive. And consumers hate calling up tech support when they can’t get a gadget to work properly because they usually get the run-around. The idea for Fixya is q... |
| Mar 5, 2008 | Mint Gets A Mint | Silicon Valley based Mint, an “online Quicken” that also suggest to users different ways to save money by searching for deals on credit cards, bank accounts, etc., will announce a third round of funding today – $12.1 million from new invest... |
| Dec 30, 2007 | Zivity Founder Bares All To Promote Her Startup | Zivity is definitely one of the most controversial startups of 2007. It’s the first (as far as we know) adult site to have received Silicon Valley backing, including an announced $1 million angel round. And they certainly livened things up ... |
| Dec 12, 2007 | Le Web 3 startup competition winners | This year’s Startup Competition at Le Web was very closely fought. Thirty three companies participated out of more than 125 applications reviewed. The judges said the scores were very close (judges had to mark startups out of seven categori... |
| Dec 6, 2007 | OpenSocial Still "Not Open for Business" | It’s only been about a month since Google launched OpenSocial, its development platform for social networking applications. But already developers are frustrated with how half-baked the whole thing is. Russ Whitman, the founder of MediaPops... |
| Nov 26, 2007 | TechCrunch40 Presenters' Traffic Two Months In | The team over at Docstoc has compiled a document (embedded below) with traffic charts from Alexa and Compete for all forty of the companies that presented at TechCrunch40.
As could have been expected, many of these presenters’ websites expe... |
| Nov 16, 2007 | Yak4Ever Takes Second (and Final) Dip into Deadpool | Well, that was fun while it lasted – for consumers at least. Yak4Ever has sunk back into the TechCrunch Deadpool after reemerging from it in May. This time it looks as though it’s there to stay.
We first reported on Yak4Ever when it was cal... |
| Nov 12, 2007 | Wired Covers DanceJam Without Trashing M.C. Hammer | I wrote about DanceJam last week, disclosing that I was an investor and saying I’d be linking to other coverage of the startup. Wired just posted a good overview of the company, which was founded by M.C. Hammer, Geoffrey Arone and Anthony Y... |
| Nov 1, 2007 | Flock 1.0 Released | Flock 1.0 (production version) is now available for download.
Some reports have suggested that many of the Flock tweaks to the underlying Firefox engine were designed specifically to provide a more stable browsing experience; in the couple ... |
| Oct 31, 2007 | 1,000 WooMe Invitations for TechCrunch Readers | WooMe – a website for “speed introductions” that presented at TechCrunch40 but is still in private beta – is giving out one thousand invitations to our readers (redeem yours here).
You would be excused for mistaking WooMe for a speed dating... |
| Oct 29, 2007 | Maps + News = YourStreet | What do you get when you combine Google Maps with hyper-local news and comments? You get a map-based news site called YourStreet, which officially launches tomorrow (although the site is already up). The site detects where you are located a... |
| Oct 18, 2007 | Dispatch From the Web 2.0 Launch Pad | Today’ Web 2.0 Summit ended with a Launch Pad session where six startups each got six minutes to pitch their companies to the crowd and a panel of venture capitalists. Here’s a thumbnail sketch of each with my initial impressions (For a mor... |
| Oct 18, 2007 | Ambulance Chasers Have A New Home, SueEasy | Have you or a loved one been injured in a car accident? Suing TechCrunch? To answer these questions, soon-to-launch SueEasy.com is hoping you turn to them before the white pages, FindLaw, or ratings sites like Avvo. They’re currently in a p... |
| Oct 12, 2007 | The Man In The Arena | Yossi Vardi is one of the people I’ve had the pleasure to get to know since starting TechCrunch. You can find him at technology events worldwide – just look for the smiling, wild-haired guy surrounded by a pack of people.
To understand what... |
| Oct 10, 2007 | Happy 1st Anniversary YouTube and Google; Now Move Over a Bit | Time for another roundup, and this one coincides with a notable first-year anniversary: that of Google’s $1.65 billion acquisition of YouTube, confirmed on October 9th, 2006.
Since then, the name “YouTube” has become virtually synonymous wi... |
| Oct 5, 2007 | Stixy: Free-Form Collaboration and File Sharing Spaces | The internet ought to have made it dead simple to share files long ago. But for some reason, I still scratch my head every time I want to send a batch of photos or a collection of documents to a non-technical friend without resorting to ema... |
| Oct 1, 2007 | Wixi Gives Away 5,000 Invites to Our Readers | Media-centric social network Wixi, which launched at TechCrunch40 a couple of weeks ago, is giving away 5,000 invitations to its private beta to TechCrunch readers.
To claim yours, go here and enter “havefun” as the Wixi access pass. Once y... |
| Sep 26, 2007 | 1,000 Docstoc Invites for TechCrunch Readers | Docstoc, a startup aiming to be the YouTube for professional documents, is giving away 1,000 invitations to its private beta to TechCrunch readers.
Redeem your invitation by going here and entering “TC40” into the “invitation ID” field. The... |
| Sep 25, 2007 | Fuser: Manage All Your Email and Social Networking Messages in One Place | Another product that aims to simplify your digital lifestyle is launching today. Give Fuser access to your email and social networking accounts, and the website will organize all of the messages from those accounts in one place so you don’t... |
| Sep 25, 2007 | TV Coverage For Dancejam, Realius and Gizmoz At TechCrunch40 | http://v2.tinypic.com/player.swf?file=msc207&s=2
Three TechCrunch40 demo pit startups got local bay area television coverage last week – Dancejam (note: I’m an investor), Realius and Gizmoz. It looks like the reporter did the easy thing... |
| Sep 24, 2007 | Ouch…mEgo Gets Kicked Out Of DEMO Conference | Well this was inevitable I guess. mEgo has been booted out of the DEMO conference. The reason? They showed their stuff at TechCrunch40 last week. Our coverage of them is here.
That’s a bit rough on the company, since many of the presenting ... |
| Sep 24, 2007 | Chat With Mark Zuckerberg At TechCrunch40: The Video | One of the highlights of the TechCrunch40 conference last week was when I had an opportunity to sit down with Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. We talked for 45 minutes about some of the big projects Facebook has launched over the l... |
| Sep 24, 2007 | Attendi Wants to Search Inside Your Head | As if the more than 20 billion Web pages out there aren’t enough, a new startup coming out of stealth mode today called Attendi has come up with a new twist on “people search.” This is not to be confused with the type of people search that ... |
| Sep 18, 2007 | TechCrunch40: Jeff Clavier Launches $12 Million Venture Fund | Angel investor and startup advisor Jeff Clavier (pictured with Digg founder Kevin Rose) just announced a new $12 million early stage venture fund today at the TechCrunch40 conference. The new fund will be called SoftTech VC II.
Clavier, who... |
| Sep 18, 2007 | Mint Wins TechCrunch40 Top Company Award; Takes $50,000 Prize | Jason Calacanis just announced that Mint was chosen as the best presenting company at TechCrunch40. The provider of an impressive personal finance application will receive $50,000 as part of the award.
Mint presented its application this mo... |
| Sep 17, 2007 | TechCrunch40: Let The Show Begin | We’ll be bringing you live coverage of TechCrunch40 through the next two days. Enjoy, and also checkout the TechCrunch40 website. |
| Sep 17, 2007 | Follow the TechCrunch40 Conference Online | Couldn’t snag a ticket to this year’s TechCrunch40 conference? Head on over to techcrunch40.com to follow the action online.
We’ve put together a fully-featured website for the event, which starts this morning and continues through Tuesday ... |
| Sep 17, 2007 | TechCrunch 40 Day 1: Wrap Up | As the party goes on in downtown San Francisco, a quick wrap up of the first day of the TechCrunch 40 Conference. We live blogged the whole event, and added some great pictures as well. I’ll clean up the typos tomorrow…or the day after.
Tec... |
| Sep 17, 2007 | First Five Present at TechCrunch40 | With additional writing by Josh Catone.
This morning saw the first five startups at the TechCrunch40 event hit the floor and presented to journalists, investors, and early adopters. The first session focused on search startups. It’s interes... |
| Sep 16, 2007 | CG Readers in San Francisco | Howdy, guys. I’m in San Francisco for TC 40 and would love to meet up with some CG readers Monday or Tuesday. Drop me a line at john @ crunchgear.com or AIM me at johnbiggsny. We can grab a beer or swim to Alcatraz or whatever you guys do o... |
| Sep 14, 2007 | Diigo to Launch Website Slideshow Feature Next Week | Website annotation tool Diigo will officially announce its new WebSlides feature next week.
The new widget is an embeddable player that presents feeds or bookmarks as live web pages in an interactive slideshow format, complete with full pag... |
| Sep 13, 2007 | Google To Present At TechCrunch40 | We just got permission to post this – On top of everything else we’ve got planned, Google will present something at TechCrunch40 next week. Like the AOL and Yahoo product launches, it will not be eligible for the $50,000 top prize awarded t... |
| Sep 12, 2007 | Second Life 2.0: The Metanomics Conference | Things are changing in Second Life. The period of glee abandon in which companies joined Second Life, built giant edifices to their offline brands which no one visited, then ran away has passed. We are now seeing those who survived and new ... |
| Sep 12, 2007 | TechCrunch40 Tickets To Sell Out; More News | Just five days until TechCrunch40 next week in San Francisco. As of right now we have 27 tickets remaining, which means it should sell out sometime tomorrow afternoon and registrations will be cut off. There will be approximately 900 people... |
| Sep 10, 2007 | AOL, Yahoo To Launch New Products At TechCrunch40 | Just one week to go until TechCrunch40 conference. Forty new products will launch over two days, with a $50,000 cash prize going to the “best-in-show” product as selected by the panel of experts.
But the entrepreneurial spirit isn’t just al... |
| Sep 5, 2007 | TechCrunch40 Keynote Talks: Marc Andreessen, David Filo, Chad Hurley, Michael Moritz and Mark Zuckerberg | It’s just two weeks until TechCrunch40 kicks off on September 17 in San Francisco. Last week we announced that we’ve doubled the number of presenting companies from 20 to 40. And today we’ve announced the two keynote sessions to be held at ... |
