Sep 23, 2013 | News, Western Europe
TechCrunch Sept 22 London-based startup Dattch is a dating app with a difference. I don’t mean the fact that it’s exclusively for lesbians, bisexual and/or bi-curious women — though that certainly makes it stand out from the ranks of straight dating apps. What really...
Sep 23, 2013 | News, North America
TechCrunch The editorial beauty website Into The Gloss has raised $2 million in venture capital funding led by Forerunner and Lerer Ventures, along with several angel investors. Since it was founded in September of 2010, the site has been making waves in the style...
Sep 21, 2013 | News, North America
New York Times Sept 16 Remember 2008, when people at conferences and cocktail parties would bump their phones together to exchange digital business cards? Ever wondered what happened to that app, called Bump? On Monday, Bump announced that it was acquired by Google....
Sep 21, 2013 | News, North America
TechCrunch Sept 21 In this episode of Ask A VC, Telefonica Digital’s Tracy Isacke joined us in the studio to talk about the telecom giant’s venture arm. Isacke, who has led the company’s acquisition of San Francisco-based TokBox in 2012, as well as investments in...
Sep 18, 2013 | China, East Asia, News, North America
TechCrunch Sept 18 With recruiters viciously competing for the best talent in the Valley, startups end up with plenty of paperwork and files to contend with. A San Francisco-based startup called Distill is looking to make recruiting dead simple and just picked up $1.3...
