March 18, 2019
YC-backed Basement is a social network for close friends only
The past few years have been a bit of a dark age for budding social media...
March 15, 2019
Firework officially launches a short-form video storytelling app, backed by Lightspeed
Facebook usage has declined for the first time in a decade, while video-centric...
March 9, 2019
Funerals are tough. Ever Loved helps you pay for them
Alison Johnston didn’t plan to build a startup around death. An early...
February 27, 2019
Threads emerges from stealth with $10.5M from Sequoia for a new take on enabling work conversations
The rapid rise of Slack has ushered in a new wave of apps, all aiming to solve...
February 23, 2019
Pinstagram? Instagram code reveals Public Collections feature
Instagram is threatening to attack Pinterest just as it files to go public the...
February 19, 2019
Slack off. Send videos instead with $11M-funded Loom
If a picture is worth a thousand words, how many emails can you replace with a...
February 11, 2019
Reddit confirms $300M Series D led by China’s Tencent at $3B value
Last week TechCrunch reported that Reddit was raising $150 million from Chinese...
February 11, 2019
Sean Parker’s govtech Brigade breaks up, Pinterest acqhires engineers
Facebook co-founder Sean Parker bankrolled Brigade to get out the vote and...
February 7, 2019
Fabula AI is using social spread to spot ‘fake news’
UK startup Fabula AI reckons it’s devised a way for artificial...
February 5, 2019
Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3 billion valuation
Reddit is raising $150 million to $300 million to keep the front page of the...