The pitfalls of venture funding
As the venture funding landscape continues to flourish, entrepreneurs who want to build a sustainab ...
Email and file encryption service Virtru, built by ex-NSA engineer, raises $29 million
Talk about being at the right place and at the right time. Following revelations of government spyi ...
Newsela rolls out Library to help students read beyond the news
When Newsela was created in 2012, the edtech startup aimed to help students master reading at their ...
Looklive helps men shop by mimicking celebs’ styles
Many of today’s fashion applications are targeted toward women, but a new app from Looklive wants t ...
Mimo’s new app teaches you how to code on your iPhone
Apple’s new iPad app Swift Playgrounds is popularizing the idea of learning to code on mobile devic ...
Google will soon open a dedicated space for startup developers in San Francisco
Google today announced that it plans to set up a new space for developers and startups at 301 Howar ...
Dexter, the betaworks-backed platform for building bots, raises $2.3 million in seed
Dexter, the betaworks-backed company that helps people build integration-based apps, has today anno ...
Strangify your life with the Stranger Things title generator
The meme of the moment is here and it’s pretty creepy. As our own Romain Dillet points out th ...
ZeroCater raises $4.1 million to keep office workers well-fed in the U.S.
While it seems like a new food delivery business launches or gets funded every season in the U.S., ...
Yik Yak yearns to be local, not just anonymous
Anonymity has proven a dangerous path for startups like Secret, so Yik Yak is pushing a soft pivot ...