Savioke, a robotics startup out of Sunnyvale led by the former CEO of the now-defunct but influential Willow Garage robotics startup, is announcing a seed round of funding today, $2 million from Jerry Yang’s AME Cloud Ventures, Google Ventures, Morado Venture Partners and other individual investors. It is planning to use the money to develop and build its first robot, an as-yet unnamed piece of hardware that will be focused on the services industry.
Stray Boots, a startup that makes exploring your city feel like a game, is hoping to turn its users into tour guides.
The company, which first launched in 2009 with SMS-based scavenger hunts, believes the best way to expand its catalog of smartphone walking tours is to bring in user-generated content.
Stray Boots chief executive Avi Millman tells VentureBeat that he’s received tour requests from 25 different countries but has no way to get to all of them in time by creating the content in-house.
Los emprendedores y emprendedoras de Euskadi podrán acogerse entre este mismo mes de abril y principios de mayo a dos programas de SPRI, el Programa Ekintzaile, dotado para este año con 1,75 millones de euros, y que servirá para dar apoyo financiero a nuevos proyectos empresariales de carácter innovador y de sector industrial o servicios conexos (desarrollo de software avanzado, Biomedicina-Biociencias, Nano y Microtecnología, Tecnología de la lengua, Energías limpias y renovables..), tanto para la fase de maduración de la idea de negocio, como para su puesta en marcha; y el programa MiniConnect, dotado de 0,8 millones, destinado a acelerar proyectos de empresas jóvenes d
While “smart home” companies such as Nest and SmartThings have been making all the headlines lately, industry veteran iControl Networks is scooping up a company to add to its Big Brother-like arsenal of connected home offerings.
iControl announced today that it has acquired Blacksumac Inc, the maker of Piper, an all-in-one security and awareness device for the home for an undisclosed amount.
L'Institut Fraunhofer pour l'énergie éolienne et de génie des systèmes énergétiques (IWES) de Kassel (Hesse) a publié le 7 avril 2014 un rapport sur l'état de développement de l'énergie éolienne en Allemagne en 2013 [1].
Health-tech startup Omada Health promises to help people with health issues change their behavior. And it’s starting out with a program to help diabetes sufferers.
“It is a digital therapeutic, and they deliver weight loss over an Internet connection,” Balaji S. Srinivasan, a partner at investor Andreesen Horowitz, told VentureBeat in an interview.
The company, which is announcing a hefty $23 million in new funding today, takes landmark behavioral science research and turns it into programs that use various digital technologies to help people who are at risk for or suffering from a particular health issue.
The convergence of commercial real estate and new technologies has spawned a throng of new startups tackling the real estate tech space ranging from interactive 3D models for spaces to online storefront rentals to real estate transaction management software. And 2013 saw venture investors deploy over $429M across 102 deals to private tech companies hoping to disrupt the multi-billion dollar industry as momentum around venture investing in the real estate tech space appears to be hitting a fever pitch.
Bio-organic system, which uses peptide compounds to boost the charge, expected on market in 2016An Israeli start-up said on Tuesday that it was working to develop a bio-organic system that can recharge a smartphone battery in just 30 seconds.
Tel Aviv-based StoreDot’s prototype battery and charger is currently being tested with Samsung’s Galaxy phones, but the start-up’s founder and CEO Doron Myersdorf told AFP that a product compatible with all makes of smartphone should be on the market by 2016.
The U.S. Air Force’s “BATMAN” research team at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio is beta-testing Google Glass for possible use on the battlefield.
And so far, it likes what it sees.
The positive attributes “are its low power, its low footprint, it sits totally above the eyes, and doesn’t block images or hinder vision,” said 2nd Lt. Anthony Eastin, a behavioral scientist on the BATMAN team testing the glasses.
Google is launching a new program to find practical ways to use its Google Glass wearable gadgets in the workplace, the company announced today.
More specifically, the “Glass for Work” program wants to cooperate with outside companies on ways that Google Glass might enhance an employee’s workflow, such as adding it to IT support workers while on calls or giving it to surgeons while operating. The main point of the program is to help make Glass an indispensable gadget in the office in the same way desktops and smartphones are.
