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• HotelFlex lets you check in and out of a hotel at whatever time you want Juli 28, 2017
   Most would agree that the worst part of traveling is timing the hotel check in. Either you get off a redeye and have to figure out what to do all day while waiting to check in, or you arrive late at night and waste money paying for a room you didn’t get to use all day. Enter HotelFlex. Part of Y Combinator’s summer 2017 batch, the startup wants to change th […]
  Fitz Tepper
• Meg Whitman says she’s not going to Uber Juli 28, 2017
   Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman wants everyone to know that’s not going to Uber. Bloomberg and Recode had reported that she was on the short list for the CEO spot, but she took to Twitter to make it clear that it’s not happening. In a three-part tweet, she concluded that the “rumors” have “become a distraction,” so she wants everyone to know… Rea […]
  Katie Roof
• Mattress startup Purple merges with NY shell company in $1.1 billion deal Juli 28, 2017
   Purple, a Utah-based mattress startup announced today it will merge with Global Partner Acquisition Corp (GPAC) in a deal that would value the company at $1.1 billion. Purple was already well on its way to that valuation when we got to take a sneak peek at operations at the company’s headquarters in the small town of Alpine, Utah and its giant factory an ho […]
  Sarah Buhr
• Dropbox is reportedly inching closer to a potential IPO Juli 27, 2017
   Dropbox may be taking another step in its very slow shuffle toward an IPO, and is now working with Goldman Sachs to prepare documents that could be filed as soon as this year, according to a report by Bloomberg. The company is expected to hire Goldman Sachs as the lead advisor of the IPO process, according to the report. Read More
  Matthew Lynley
• Timekettle’s WT2 real-time translation earpieces enable ordinary conversation across language barriers Juli 27, 2017
  At TechCrunch’s event in Shenzhen last month, we had a chance to test out the WT2, a clever and ambitious device from startup TimeKettle. It’s a pair of wireless earpieces; each person in a multilingual conversation wears one, and they translate what’s said into the language spoken by each participant. Essentially it’s a Babel fish, though admittedly a rough […]
  Devin Coldewey
• Patook wants to be Tinder for platonic friendships Juli 27, 2017
   Technology isn’t necessarily the best solution for forging new real life connections, whatever the collective marketing spiel of the web’s social giants likes to claim. But Patook is having a crack at the tricky feat of remotely sparking friendships, without inviting in the creeps… Read More
  Natasha Lomas
• Net30 wants to fix the construction industry’s payments problem Juli 27, 2017
   The invoicing and payments process in the commercial construction industry is broken. It takes a median of about 70 days to get paid, which means contractors are often stuck without enough working capital. Net30, a startup in Y Combinator’s current batch, wants to solve that problem. Read More
  Catherine Shu
• UpCodes makes researching building regulations less exhausting for architects Juli 27, 2017
   For architects, complying with building codes means navigating labyrinthine layers of regulations that vary between municipalities. Sorting through different codes and keeping track of updates is a daunting task and, in a worst-case scenario, a mistake can cost thousands or even millions of dollars to tear out and fix. Firms that can afford it hire building […]
  Catherine Shu
• Peer5 raises $2.5M for its peer-to-peer approach to streaming video Juli 27, 2017
   Peer5, which helps publishers stream video to large audiences, is announcing that it has raised $2.5 million in seed funding. I wrote about the startup earlier this year when it was part of Y Combinator. CEO Hadar Weiss said he raised the funding after YC Demo Day from investors including FundersClub, Oriza Ventures, Tank Hill Ventures, Leorsa Group, Ed Rom […]
  Anthony Ha
• Devialet announces surround sound TV speaker with Sky Juli 27, 2017
   French speaker maker Devialet just announced a brand new speaker in partnership with British broadcasting company Sky. The Sky Soundbox is a single speaker designed for your TV. It’s roughly the size of a gaming console and it is supposed to produce surround-like sound. This partnership is something brand new for the French startup. Most people know Deviale […]
  Romain Dillet