VeloCity Graduate PiinPoint Is Latest Y Combinator Startup
PiinPoint, a location analytics startup that previously won $25,000 at the VeloCity Fund Finals, has become the latest company to participate in the Y Combinator…
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Victoria’s Sendwithus Is Headed to Y Combinator
Getting accepted to join Y Combinator must feel like winning the Super Bowl. With alumni like Reddit, DropBox, AirBnB, and Heroku, and Paul Graham’s…
Is Canada Experiencing A Renaissance for Hardware Startups?
Following the aftermath of BlackBerry’s agreement to a tentative offer from FairFax Financial Holdings (and the inevitable chorus of told-ya-so’s from Canadian media outlets),…
Homejoy chooses downtown Toronto as its first international market for professional house cleaning
Homejoy, a simple startup with a very clean goal, has chosen Toronto as its first international expansion market. The California-based startup is barely more…
GetGoing Launches "Pick Two, Get One" Flight Platform for Flexible Travelers
Hotwire has built a successful company on the element of travel surprise, letting travelers book hotels at discounted rates, and finding out which hotel…
ZenPayroll Launches With $6.1M in Funding to Take On PayChex, ADP
Today San Francisco-based ZenPayroll announced the launch of its cloud-based payroll service in addition to having raised $6.1 million in funding from Salesforce, Google…
Referly Adds $1.1M to Grow Referral-Driven Curated Shopping Platform
Today San Francisco-based Referly announced it has closed $1 million in seed funding for its referral-driven shopping platform, from investors including New Enterprise Associates,…
YourMechanic Raises $1.8M, Launches “We Come to You” Car Repair Marketplace
This week “we come to you” auto repair service provider YourMechanic debuted their web and mobile apps, and announced $1.8 million in seed funding…