Fashion Metric, a two-year-old startup that can provide a retailer with your body measurement by asking you less than a dozen questions, has raised a $1 million seed round led by… Read more »
Today’s CIOs can best serve their companies — and their own careers — by focusing on customer needs instead of turf wars, says Charlie Feld. Read more »
Chicago’s SpotHero is trying to create a parking marketplace, where garages can charge for spaces based on demand, not just time and location. Read more »
This is the age of seed-stage funding and the incubator/accelerator model. But for those trying to invent a new optical interconnect or chip architecture, funding is harder to find than ever… Read more »
With more people carrying smartphones with high definition cameras and fast connections, ResolutionTube has raised a seed round to turn those handsets into a powerful collaboration tool out in the field. Read more »
Karma is building a community of mobile broadband users who share their connections without sharing their data. It’s attracted 50,000 users so far, a number it hopes to boost as it… Read more »
Big data, the internet of things, digitizing medicine and even more marketplaces to drive efficiency all were themes at Tuesday’s Techstars Austin demo day. Read more »
Classtivity, a TechStars-backed startup, is shifting gears from a discovery and booking site for activity classes to a subscription-based fitness membership program. Read more »