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Venture Capsule Collection: Edition01 Raises $500K+ from Tisch, Lerer and SV...
Who's afraid of the big bad web? A new fashion start-up launching in September has secured backing from some of the biggest names in angel investing on the East and West coasts. Edition01 has raised...
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SkillShare Raises $3.1 Million to Teach the Masses
Now offering classes in business ethics In the same way that Kickstarter connects users with backers for their projects, SkillShare connects experts with students for their classes. The start-up just...
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GroupMe’s Exit to Skype a Big Win for New York’s Young Tech Investors
The seed stage investors in GroupMe featured a lot of the same twenty-something investors Betabeat wrote about in our Littlest Angels feature back in February. David Tisch, Ben Lerer and Josh Kushner...
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Paul Graham Explains What Makes Some Cities Great Startup Hubs
Paul Graham, image via Inc Paul Graham surprised us at Y Combinator's first ever Manhattan meetup tonight. In town for the innagural YC in NYC, Mr. Graham recalled that when he set out to build his...
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Percolate Raises $1.5 M. and Turns Away from Consumers to Helping Brands...
Dashboard for American Express OPEN Forum. Percolate, the New York-based curation engine that helps brands source relevant content for their social media presence, just raised $1.5 million. The seed...
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Y Combinator Alum Launches Kaleidoscope, a Street Style App That Takes You...
Aspirational! Earlier this week, Inporia co-founder Ryan Junee launched Kaleidoscope, a more monetizable take on those suddenly ubiquitous fashion apps, in the Android market. (Relax, fangirls, the...
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Caterina Fake’s New Startup: Pinwheel, ‘A Flickr for Places (Ish),’ Lets You...
Last June, Flickr and Hunch cofounder Caterina Fake announced that she had raised $2 million from investors like New York's Founder Collective, True Ventures and SV Angel with an emphasis on consumers...
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Branch Joins Obvious Corp, Picks Up $2 M. from Lerer Ventures and SV Angel,...
Branch cofounders via bulletin.branch.com When you've got Evan Williams, John Borthwick, and Max Levchin chatting it up on your "curated discussion platform," it's probably just a matter of time before...
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Pair, Y Combinator’s ‘Perfect Sexting App,’ Sure Doesn’t Sound Very Sexy
Happily app-y after. By the tweets of it, everyone, their mom, and Jennifer 8. Lee showed up for Y Combinator's biggest Demo Day evah last night to watch the parade of hoodies try to convince folks...
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eBay Acquires NYC-Based Social Shopping Site Svpply
Pieratt. (Photo: Brooklyn Beta) eBay announced on its blog today that it has acquired Svpply, the NYC-based social shopping site that curates personalized collections of clothing and products. Located...
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