Sramana Mitra: What is also becoming very popular is virtual collaboration. I run a virtual company. My team is spread all around the world. There’s pretty much no friction. We have a very seamless...
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I’ve been holding a series of micro meetups in New York over the past few years and I thought we should have one on February 28 to talk about token sales/ICOs. I’ll bring in an outside speaker and I’d love to have one or two companies pitch who are working on their own token. If you would like to be on a panel with me or pitch in front of the group email
February 15, 2018
Less than a year after releasing its first product, Nima announced its highly anticipated peanut sensor is now available for pre-order, adding an allergen to its connected food sensor platform. If you have a peanut allergy, Nima is a must have.
Pre-order before March 8 to get the product for $229 ($60 off the retail price). More here about the science behind the peanut sensor.
Nima launched on the market a year ago with the Nima gluten sensor, the first company on the market to create a connected food sensor for consumers. Nima has enabled thousands of gluten-avoiding folks to test food for gluten at restaurants and packaged foods. The device takes an eight-step lab process and shrinks it to a little device that fits in your pocket.
With Nima, you can test your own food but you can also see what thousands of others are testing through the Nima iOS mobile app. To date, more than one out of four foods that are labeled or indicated as gluten-free are testing positive for gluten by the Nima community.
Let Nima take the first bite so you can enjoy mealtime with peace of mind.
Also published on Medium.
LiveLike, a startup that powers VR streaming experiences for broadcasters like FOX Sports and Sky, has raised a $9.6M Series B round led by Greycroft Partners and Lepe Partners. This brings total funding raised to just over $23M. As a refresher, LiveLike’s VR experience let you select different camera angles, sit in and look around a virtual “suite”, view pre-produced content… Read More
Unsplash is rethinking the way photography gets distributed and monetized, and today it’s announcing a $7.25 million Series A to fund those efforts. The site actually started as a side project for freelance marketplace Crew, but eventually the founders decided to focus on Unsplash and sold Crew to Dribbble. While the Unsplash photo library contains only 400,000 photos (compared to the… Read More
According to a report by Global Market Insights, the global eyewear market is forecast to grow to $180 billion by 2024. While the industry remains predominantly a brick and mortar one, in the US,...
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This interview focuses on the Corporate Innovation strategy of a major advertising agency as it navigates the challenges of a rapidly changing consumer engagement landscape. Sramana Mitra: As an...
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During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Daniel Cohen, General Partner, Viola Ventures, who discussed the Israeli startup market and his firm’s focus within that segment. Sagisu As for...
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Sramana Mitra: You can play this with a very specific domain focus with a specific set of corporate around you. In some cases, these corporates are investing in these little micro-funds that play...
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February 14, 2018
Amy arrived home from Africa yesterday evening around 6pm. She had been gone for 12 days and, while she had an awesome trip, we missed each other terribly.
She arrived home to a bunch of early Valentineâs Day stuff like a hot bath.
I figured it was Valentineâs Day somewhere in the world yesterday at 6pm Colorado time like, well, in Kenya, where Amy was.
Itâs great to have Amy back home. For some reason, Valentineâs Day is one of my favorite holidays. Love is better than everything else.
Also published on Medium.
Sramana Mitra: Can you point new entrepreneurs to open opportunities where companies can be built. Shan Sinha: If you take all the problems that we’re solving today, and you said, “That problem is...
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Today’s 386th FREE online 1Mby1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Wednesday, February 14, at 8:00 a.m. PST/11:00 a.m. EST/9:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. All are...
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Today’s 386th FREE online 1Mby1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Wednesday, February 14, at 8:00 a.m. PST/11:00 a.m. EST/9:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. All...
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According to a recently published report, the Global Digital Marketing Software Market is expected to grow 13% annually over the next five years to reach $77.4 billion by 2023. The growth is expected...
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French startup Adikteev raised a $12 million funding round led by Ring Capital and BNP Paribas Développement, with existing investors ISAI, Ventech and Laurent Asscher also participating. It’s also worth noting that it represents Ring Capital’s first investment after raising its initial $170 million fund. Adikteev is an adtech startup that previously acquired Motion Lead, a… Read More
Third time is a charm. Viva Technology (or “VivaTech” for short) hosted its kick-off press conference to present this year’s event. And this year is going to be quite special for TechCrunch as well because we’re hosting a Startup Battlefield Europe at VivaTech and a Hackathon. Hosted at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the press conference started off with… Read More
TechCrunch Startup Battlefield is headed to VivaTech in Paris on May 24th to find and feature the best early-stage startup across Europe! In partnership with VivaTech, Startup Battlefield Europe will feature startups from across continental Europe working on the cutting-edge technologies blooming this Spring. VivaTech is the perfect spot to host our Startup Battlefield Europe competition as… Read More
Homesnap has come a long way from its days as a consumer-facing app for displaying information about local homes by taking a photo. While its current app still works this way for prospective buyers, these days its core focus is for U.S. real estate agents, and close to 75 percent of them are said to be using it. Read More
One of the great things about podcasts is the opportunity to discuss things in-depth, without having to squeeze it all down into a 30- or 60-second sound bite. But that creates a challenge: What’s the best way to promote those longer conversations on social media? The team at SpareMin has tackled the problem with Headliner, a browser-based product for transforming audio clips into videos. Read More