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AOL Acquires Photo-Sharing App Hipster
AOL has acquired Hipster and their five-person team will be working at the company’s mobile team in Palo Alto, California. They will be reporting to Sol Lipman. Hipster CEO Doug Ludlow will be the director of mobile product management. Hipster will not be shut down.
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Bloomberg TV and TechStars Partner On A New Reality Show [TRAILER VIDEO]
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TechStars and Bloomberg TV have partnered to work on a reality show that highlights what it is like to be on the founding team of a start-up. The reality show miniseries is called “TechStars” and it will premier on September 13th at 9PM. About 6 episodes will run through October 18th. Eleven start-ups will be highlighted in this season which includes OnSwipe, Immersive Labs, Veri, ToVieFor, Shelby.tv, RedRover, Nestio, ShuttleCloud, CrowdTwist, FriendsList, and ThinkNear.
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Categories Bloomberg TV, David Cohen, David Tisch, TechStars
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Gay Social Network Fab.com Raises $8 Million
Fab.com is a social network for gay men that used to be known as Fabulis. Fab.com has raised $8 million in Series A funding.
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Categories A-Grade Investments, Ashton Kutcher, Baroda Ventures, Ben Ling, Dave Morgan, David Tisch, Don Baer, Fab.com, First Round Capital, Guy Oseary, Jason Goldberg, Jon Anderson, Josh Kusher, Kevin Rose, Menlo Ventures, SoftTech VC, SV Angel, The Washington Post, Zelkova Ventures
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Nestio Raises $750,000 for Apartment-Hunting App
Startup Nestio has raised $750,000 to expand their apartment-hunting app. TechCrunch reports that the funding comes from Quotidian Ventures, Joanne Wilson, Rick Webb, Josh Auerbach and David Tisch. Nestio’s services are currently only available for users looking for apartments in NYC, but the company plans to use the new funding to add new features and additional cities to the app. Nestio is currently available on the web and as an iPhone app.
Categories David Tisch, Joanne Wilson, Josh Auerbach, Nestio, Quotidian Ventures, Rick Webb
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Google Ventures Invests In Legal Q&A Company LawPivot
Google Ventures has led a $600,000 investment in LawPivot, a legal Q&A service. LawPivot will make it less necessary for you to hire a law firm to answer your legal questions. LawPivot will be moving into the Google Startup Lab in Mountain View, California. Startups can write a question and LawPivot will find the answer to it. LawPivot considers themselves as being a “Quora for legal.” All of your questions with LawPivot are private and confidential.
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Categories Allen Morgan, Chris Yeh, David Tisch, Deep Nishar, Google Ventures, LawPivot, Richard Chen
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Art.sy Raises $1.25 Million From Several Angel Investors
Art.sy is a New York City based startup company that has raised $1.25 million in funding. Investors in Art.sy include Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Rupert Murdoch’s wife Wendi, Jack Dorsey (Twitter co-founder), Jim Breyer, Dash Zhukova, Founder Collective, Keith Rabois, David Tisch, Charlei Cheever, Dave Morin, and David Kidder. Art.sy’s funding was led by Thrive Capital. Art.sy raised $160,000 in seed funding and launched at TechCrunch Disrupt. Art.sy was founded by 24 year old founder Carter Cleveland and he decided to make the website private again. Now he is shifting his service to be more focused on high-end art deals. [TechCrunch]