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Elastic Path has raised an $8 million debt round to fuel the development of its “commerce everywhere,” API — a hypermedia platform that abstracts backend complexity for the front-end developer and business person. Wellington Financial out of Toronto provided the financing.
Elastic Path has traditionally served as an e-commerce company. But over the past few years, it has focused on building an...
Editing video is tedious enough on its own, but it becomes a whole new world of pain when producers, editors, audio guys, and others are trying to collaborate on a single project.
That’s where First Cut Pro (not to be confused with Final Cut Pro) comes in. The software comes out of Austin, where the company won our TC Meetup + Pitch-off Competition, meaning that the First Cut Pro guys will be...
Freelance writing doesn’t exactly have the reputation lately for being a lucrative endeavor. But it looks like at least some investors are seeing some bright spots there — at least when it comes to technology platforms in the space.
Scripted, the San Francisco startup that runs an online marketplace to connect freelance writers with companies who need written content, has raised $4.5 million in a...
Blottr, the crowd-sourced (or citizen journalism) news service, has raised an additional £400,000 (~$612k) to help scale NewsPoint, its syndication platform that lets publishers/broadcaster purchase user-submitted content to help power their web sites and news rooms. It brings the total raised by the London, UK-headquartered company to £1.4 million ($2.1m). This latest round was led by Kima...
A spot of acquisition news in Europe’s digital video distribution space. Rightster, a U.K. video distribution and monetisation startup has made its first acquisition — buying European content marketing platform and movie trailer distributor, Preview Networks, for an undisclosed sum. Rightster said the acquisition will bring major movie distributors, mainstream media agencies and brands including...
Timbre launched last September as a bootstrapped mobile iOS app to help people discover and share live music recommendations in their vicinity. The simple-but-engaging user interface and service proved to be a hit, and within two months, with no spend on media or marketing, it saw more than 100,000 downloads. That attention then brought something else: VCs, who came knocking on the door of Boston...
NewsWhip, a service that surfaces the latest news based on social signals from Facebook and Twitter, has released an iPhone and iPad app that puts it up against the likes of Flipboard and other social news readers. But the twist is that this looks at all socially shared news, not just news in your own personal social graph.
NewsWhip scans Facebook and Twitter to see which news stories are being...
Editor’s Note: Semil Shah is a contributor to TechCrunch. You can follow him on Twitter at @semil.
“In the Studio” this week welcomes a former economist who worked for his country’s treasury department and reserve bank, a former intern with The Economist Group, and, by way of his very unique company bio page, a former windsurfer and kiteboarder who is now settled in San Francisco and the founder...
Bitly has launched a set of social APIs that includes real-time search, attention spikes and metadata about URLs.
Real-time search allows a user to run a query and get back the top URLs and stories. Queries can be specific phrases such as Portlandia or filtering by criteria, for example, with stories about food that people are reading about in San Francisco.
The search can then be drilled down...
GitHub continues to build out its unique social network with Contributions, a new addition to profile pages that displays the projects developers created and what they are contributing to, as well as a calendar that shows all of their updates.
It’s once again GitHub’s way of providing a social graph based on the work developers are doing. A developer can show off the most popular repositories...