Almost everyone needs the occasional leg up, but sometimes just putting your right foot forward can be tough. The DEMO Conference is aiming to fix that with the DEMO Scholarship Partner Program. Twenty startups that have raised less than $500,000 …
Pinger, a startup offering free text and voice messaging, has launched Textfree Web, a service that aims to blur the lines between SMS and mobile IM. Anyone with access to a web browser can text any mobile number from the …
Are you an entrepreneur looking to change the world?
Well, grab one of the last spots left to present at the VentureBeat/DEMO meetup with Rogers Ventures in Vancouver this Thursday, June 23.
If you’re in the area and have a …
Guest Post
DEMO is like the Super Bowl of startups. It’s a rare moment where all the bright lights are on your company, your team, and most importantly, your product. People are in attendance to see how your company could potentially change …
Starting next week, I’ll be heading up to Canada as part of my quest to find the top entrepreneurs from around the world to launch their new technology at DEMO, the conference VentureBeat co-produces twice a year.
We’ve partnered up …
If you’re a tech company in the Seattle region and are considering launching your product over the next year or so, you should join us next week for a meetup at one of Seattle’s most respected venture capital firms, Madrona …
Everloop, a social networking service aimed at children 8-13 years old (who are too young to use Facebook), just announced that it has raised $3.1 million in funding.
There has been a lot of talk about a possible tech startup …
If you’re a tech company in the Boulder, Colo. area and are working on a new idea to launch in the next year or so, join VentureBeat and DEMO for a meetup with Foundry Group one week from Wednesday on …
If you’re based in the Austin region and are looking to launch a new tech product in the near future, join us for a meetup at one of Austin’s most respected venture capital firms, Austin Ventures.
We’ll be inviting up …
Feel like taking the world by storm?
I’m delighted to announce that DEMO, the leading conference for emerging technology product launches, will also have a DEMO Asia.
It’s a nifty development, because among other things, it gives companies launching at …
VentureBeat will be in New York City one week from today — on Wednesday, May 11, we’ll be throwing a party at Katra Lounge (217 Bowery at Rivington).
We’re in NYC for a couple of reasons: One, we’re constantly looking …
VentureBeat and DEMO are partnering with Accel Partners, one of the hottest venture capital firms in the world (it has backed Facebook, Groupon, 99Designs, Angry Birds, Cloudera, Etsy, Diapers.com and many others).
We’ve joined with Accel to provide feedback and …
If you’re based in New York and have the next big disruptive tech company, you’ll want to apply for a special session we’re hosting next month with one of New York’s most respected venture capital groups, RRE Ventures.
A month …
I’m delighted — actually, completely jazzed — to announce a new initiative at DEMO that will let a portion of the companies at the event launch for free.
The new program, to debut at the event in Silicon Valley on …
Zurb, interaction design and strategy firm that specializes in online and mobile applications, has gone back to the drawing board for its Web-design collaboration tool Notable. By stripping away unnecessary features, lowering its pricing, and removing storage and user limits, …
Profitably, a provider of online business analytics software, has raised a funding round worth $1.1 million led by White Owl Capital. The company is a DEMO Fall 2010 conference alumnus.
Traditional business intelligence and analytics programs, such as the ones …
Here’s our roundup of the week’s top tech business news. First, the most popular stories that VentureBeat published in the last seven days:
iPhone 5 part shows bigger display, iPad 2 available next week? — We reported a few weeks …
Team VentureBeat is still recovering from DEMO Spring 2011, the product-launch conference we co-produced in Palm Desert, Calif. this week. From Sunday afternoon into the wee hours of Wednesday morning, we went nonstop.
As exciting as it is to tell …
GutCheck, the startup that wants to make focus group research more affordable, just won the top prize at DEMO.
The Denver-based company has built a database of possible interview subjects, along with relevant demographic information. So if a business wants …
CVAC Systems is one of 53 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Spring 2011 event taking place this week in Palm Desert, Calif. After our selection, the companies pay a fee to present. Our coverage of them …
