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WeeCare – Building A Marketplace of Affordable Daycares
Parenting
Sep 27, 2018

WeeCare – Building A Marketplace of Affordable Daycares

If you’re a parent with a child who was born in the past few years, you most probably would have gone through the grind of finding an affordable, quality daycare. WeeCare, an LA-based startup, has an app that helps connect parents with home daycare owners, while also helping daycare owners operate their business. Not So […]

BY BHARGAV DHAKAPPA
Relativity Space Is 3D Printing An Entire Rocket
3D Printing
Sep 10, 2018

Relativity Space Is 3D Printing An Entire Rocket

LA-based Relativity Space’s unique proposition of reducing the time taken to build and launch rockets has multiple investors fired up. In March, it closed a $35M Series B round led by Playground Global (which backs entrepreneurs working at the intersection of bits, atoms, and AI) to reach a valuation of $45.1M. The startup’s valuation roughly […]

BY APEKSHITA VARSHNEY
Beyond Meat – the vegan burger maker who has a beef with meat
Foodtech
Aug 28, 2018

Beyond Meat – the vegan burger maker who has a beef with meat

The world produced 317M metric tons of meat in 2016, powering a processed foods industry that was worth $714B in 2016 and is expected to reach $1500B+ by 2022, according to a market research report. Beyond Meat, the LA-based foodtech company, has other plans. The company is looking to replace all those meat products with […]

BY VIPUL NANDA
Goodbye Traffic. Hello Arrivo – Hyperloop Technology of the Future
Transportation
Aug 27, 2018

Goodbye Traffic. Hello Arrivo – Hyperloop Technology of the Future

What do you get when you cross a Concorde, a railgun, and a bullet train? A technological chimaera dubbed ‘ hyperloop technology ’, which is the fastest way to move goods and people from point A to B. Bringing the world one step closer to this transportation dream is Arrivo, the hyperloop-inspired future of travel […]

BY POOJA PILLAI
Blavity Is Proof That Black Consumers Are Rising
Social Media
Aug 20, 2018

Blavity Is Proof That Black Consumers Are Rising

In July, Blavity, a digital lifestyle media startup correcting the representation of black millennials in media, snagged a $6.5 million Series A round led by GV with participation from Comcast Ventures, Plexo Capital and Baron Davis Enterprises. Founded by Morgan DeBaun, CEO and co-founders Aaron Samuels, Jeff Nelson and Jonathan Jackson in July 2014, Blavity […]

BY APEKSHITA VARSHNEY
Goop Sells an Unconventional Lifestyle
Lifestyle
Aug 17, 2018

Goop Sells an Unconventional Lifestyle

In September 2008, Gwyneth Paltrow started sending out a weekly e-mail newsletter. It was going to be full of insight into her life – her recipes, her health advice, her recommendations on where to eat, live, travel. The newsletter, with the help of Paltrow’s celebrity, catapulted into mammoth success. It became a lifestyle brand in […]

BY APEKSHITA VARSHNEY
Largest English Encyclopedia? It’s Everipedia not Wikipedia
Edtech
Jul 26, 2018

Largest English Encyclopedia? It’s Everipedia not Wikipedia

“Wikipedia represents an enormous missed opportunity,” writes founder Dr Larry Sanger. “It is sloppy, incomplete, and—yes—small.” Sanger has been a vocal critic of Wikipedia for a long time. He tried to improve on Wikipedia with Citizendium where, unlike Wikipedia, authors used their real, verified names. Citizendium’s FAQ described Wikipedia’s process “as part anarchy, part mob […]

BY APEKSHITA VARSHNEY
Heal more, Wait Less – Doctor House Calls Simplified
Medtech
Jul 20, 2018

Heal more, Wait Less – Doctor House Calls Simplified

It takes over 29.3 days to get an appointment with a primary care practitioner in the United States. Arguably, that’s 29.3 days more than what should be the ideal wait time. This disappointingly high number leaves no doubt about the growing inaccessibility of doctors, to say nothing of the continually rising healthcare costs across the […]

BY POOJA PILLAI
Can Multi-Channel Retail Make This Rug a Household Staple?
Retail
Apr 26, 2018

Can Multi-Channel Retail Make This Rug a Household Staple?

Ruggable’s rug appeared on the Today Show on Thursday, April 26. The Today Show, hosted by Hoda Kotb and Savannah Guthrie is the only national AM show that is anchored by an all-female team. “The winner of the “Next Big Thing” competition on NBC’s Today Show went from selling about 2,000 units in eight months’ […]

BY AISHWARYA
With $115M to feather its nest, this Bird is ready to soar nationwide
Transportation
Apr 19, 2018

With $115M to feather its nest, this Bird is ready to soar nationwide

Source: Bird Website “Today, 40 percent of car trips are less than two miles long. Our goal is to replace as many of those trips as possible, so we can get cars off the road and curb traffic and greenhouse gas emissions”, said Travis Vanderzanden, the Founder & CEO of Bird. Bird is an on-demand […]

BY AISHWARYA