Boston companies: Last chance to meet with the best mentors in town

Just a friendly reminder that we’ll be in Boston next Tuesday, February 14, and we’re still looking for the best local companies to come meet with us.

We’ll be there as part of our global DEMO tour, and we’ll be partnering with three of the top mentors Boston has to offer. Antonio Rodriguez (partner at Matrix Partners), Katie Rae (head of Techstars Boston and Project 11), and Fred Destin (partner at Atlas Venture) will all … Continue Reading

Stealth startup Hopper gets $8M for travel search

Hopper, a startup focused on travel search for consumers, has just announced it’s raising an $8 million round of funding.

The company was founded in 2007 by former Expedia employees. The service itself is still in closed alpha testing.

What we do know about Hopper’s product is that it won’t be focused on finding prices and itineraries for folks who already know where they want to go and what they want to do. Rather, Hopper … Continue Reading

Mobile backend startup Kinvey nabs $2M to make building apps easier

Kinvey, a startup that helps mobile developers streamline the process of building apps, has raised $2 million in seed money.

Kinvey has built an out-of-the-box backend that can make building and shipping mobile applications a lot simpler and faster. Basically, the startup attempts to “take everything that a developer finds to be mundane, a sheer pain or just hard to do, and make it really really easy,” as CEO and founder Sravish Sridhar told VentureBeat … Continue Reading