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Awair air quality monitor teams up with Nest, Amazon Echo and IFTTT

bitfinderawair Awair, the IoT product that sits in the home and measures the quality of your air, has today announced integrations with a number of other platforms to improve the experience.
The company behind Aawir, Bitfinder, has teamed up with Nest, the Amazon Echo, and IFTTT to offer users new ways to interact with the data gathered from air quality monitor and more seamlessly automate their other… Read More

Density raises $4 million to track crowds at the DMV, theme parks and corporate campuses

density The Department of Motor Vehicles is one of the most notorious ways to waste your life away. Density could help ease this pain. Today, Density is launching its people-counting sensor for measuring how many people are inside a space at any given time. The company is also announcing a $4 million Series A round led by Upfront Ventures Managing Partner Mark Suster with participation from Ludlow… Read More

Big Health, the startup behind Sleepio, raises $12M to scale delivery of non-drug mental health solutions

Sleepio Today Big Health, which is already backed by Index Ventures, is disclosing that it has raised $12 million (£9.15m) in new funding led by Octopus Ventures. Also participating are Kaiser Permanente Ventures, Index, Sean Duffy (CEO, Omada Health), and JamJar Investments (the UK-based investment fund of the innocent drinks founders). Noteworthy is that Esther Dyson, and Peter Read are also… Read More

Square Plums gets investment to provide branded rental homes to singles in India

For house owners, Square Plums offers the benefit of letting out a fully furnished house, with up to 50 per cent higher rentals, without having to spend on furnishing the house Square Plums, a branded rental homes platform in India, has received INR 3 crore (US$450,000) from Indian Angel Network (IAN). The round was led...

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The pros and cons of hiring interns in your startup

For startups strapped for cash, hiring interns instead of more full-time employees may make financial sense but it also comes with caveats These days, it is inevitable for startups to hire interns at the initial stages of their company’s advancement — especially if they are bootstrapping. While this may initially appear to be a good...

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The pros and cons of hiring interns in your startup

For startups strapped for cash, hiring interns instead of more full-time employees may make financial sense but it also comes with caveats These days, it is inevitable for startups to hire interns at the initial stages of their company’s advancement — especially if they are bootstrapping. While this may initially appear to be a good...

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