Klip version 2.0 brings even more goodies to its video-sharing iPhone app
More than 115 million smartphones were sold during Q3 of 2011, according to the latest Gartner report, and almost all of them have some video capability. But with the spike in video creation comes a new problem: what to watch. Startup Klip tackles this problem by making it easy to track and sort videos from your friends on your iPhone.
Klip is a video sharing app that helps you sift through all that video to … Continue Reading
Edmodo wants to be the cloud leader in EdTech, raises $15M more
Education technology is a red-hot market, and both startups and investors are taking note.
Edmodo, a social network for education, stands poised to benefit tremendously from the great shifts taking place in educational delivery. The company announced today that it raised $15 million from Greylock Partners and Benchmark Capital. Greylock partner and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, and Benchmark Capital general partner Matt Cohler also joined Edmodo’s board.
A typical student will spend 13 years in … Continue Reading
Lights, camera, Klip: Social video startup raises $8M
As people’s pockets fill with camera-enabled smartphones the rush is on to be the top dog in social video sharing. Palo Alto video startup Klip announced today that it has raised $8 million in a second round of funding, just two months after launching and raising $2 million.
The money will help Klip solidify its position against competitors such as Socialcam, recently launched by Justin.tv, or tools such as Vimessa, which let users share video … Continue Reading
Nextdoor: a social network for your neighborhood
Stealth startup Nextdoor believes it has cracked the social/local code, and is today launching a digital platform that brings together your real-world neighbors.
Nextdoor is creating the “neighborhood graph” by combining the best of Web 2.0 sites like Yelp and Facebook, with the features of early Web tools such as Craigslist and Yahoo! Groups to reconnect neighborhoods and re-establish a sense of community, on and offline.
Nextdoor has the look and feel of Facebook, with … Continue Reading
Zendesk introduces cloud-based call center option powered by Twilio
Customer help desk management provider Zendesk on Monday unveiled Zendesk Voice, a new feature that lets customers set up cloud-based call centers for much less money than old-school call centers.
“Traditional call centers are a source of frustration to customers,” said Zack Urlocker, COO of Zendesk, in a statement. “You’ve got long wait times, complex phone trees and, most of the time when you finally get through to a real person, they don’t have access … Continue Reading
Benchmark plops down $7.6M to make CouchSurfing into a for-profit
CouchSurfing, the site that helps you find a couch to spend the night on or a safe foreigner to warm your own couch, is switching from the slow lane to the fast lane.
It’s converting itself from a non-profit into a B Corporation, a for-profit structure intended for companies aimed at solving environmental and social problems. It’s moving to a new headquarters in the heart of the social media startup universe, San Francisco. And it’s … Continue Reading
Omniture cofounder unveils new business intelligence service
Omniture cofounder and former CEO Josh James has unveiled his next act: Domo, a business intelligence dashboard for executives.
The company emerged out of James’s frustration with not being able to get real-time business data on the company he was in charge of (Omniture).
“When I was a CEO of a publicly traded company, I’d have access to all these different systems, but if I wanted to know what my cash balance was, I could … Continue Reading
