YC-backed Zapier launches dashboard to track downtime for nearly 200 APIs

App integration startup Zapier has launched a new API status dashboard, a tool that can help developers and companies identify downtime for about 200 APIs.

Funding daily: Scattered investments in clean-tech and consumer tech

Today, we saw some scattered investments in the $4-10 million range. Here's a shortlist of the hottest tech and clean energy deals.

Goldbely delivers the best of America’s culinary bounty to your door

Got a craving for Katz's pastrami or Magnolia Bakery's cupcakes? Goldbely will deliver straight to your city apartment.

Y Combinator’s surprise hit: Teespring, a nerdy T-shirt startup

A custom T-shirt startup is generating a huge buzz at Y Combinator's demo day. Today, it announced it made $700,000 in sales in the month of April alone.

‘Kickstarter for science’ wants to cure Alzheimers, teach coding, save the pandas

Microryza is a crowdfunding platform for scientific research projects.

Get in line: Investors flock to hot anti-fraud startup Sift Science

SiftScience has raised $5.5 million from high-profile investors, including Salesforce CEO Mark Benioff, Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian, Union Square Ventures, First Round Capital, and more.

Paul Graham: when a handshake deal is not a handshake deal

The new Silicon Valley handshake is a four-step digitally-enhanced process.

New Instacart feature lets friends and colleagues share a shopping cart (exclusive)

To make it easier for roommates or colleagues at a small company to order items for a shared kitchen, Instacart has launched a new feature called "Shop with Friends."

Clever makes teaching with technology as easy as 1,2,3

Education technology startup Clever has raised $3 million to integrate online learning software with student data.

Amid criticism, Uber’s CEO fights back: ‘On bad days, I look at our revenue graph’

Uber's CEO, Travis Kalanick, made a public appearance this weekend to make one thing very clear. He is not worried.

Facebook acqui-hires Carsabi, more for the sabi than the car

Founders Dwight Crow and Christopher Berner were acqui-hired by Facebook today. Terms were not disclosed, but what is clear is that Facebook is not getting into the business of helping you buy and sell cars.

Local-search site Stik leaves Silicon Valley for Detroit, announces $2.5 million funding

How do you succeed online in the crowded, noisy, and sometimes scammy local search market? If you're Stik.com, you succeed by focusing on transactions that are infrequent, expensive, and have a high cost of failure.

Tripl’s genius guerrilla marketing idea: fake parking tickets at Y Combinator’s demo day

Travel storytelling and discovery app Tripl just executed a genius guerilla marketing idea: handing out fake parking tickets at Y Combinator's demo day that promo the company's app -- and investor-readiness.

Facebook flop means hard times ahead for startups — Y Combinator’s Paul Graham is worried

Paul Graham is the genius behind Y Combinator, one of the first startup incubators and the birthplace of immediately recognizable companies such as Reddit, Scribd, Disqus, Dropbox, Posterous, and many, many more. So if he gets worried, people listen.

Right …

Everyme, the truly private social network, arrives on Android and the web

Sitting at the intersection of group messaging and social networking is Everyme, a startup so zeroed in on private communication that it prevents sharing beyond its walls. Today the company, which allows users to post updates and photos to groups, …

42Floors’ new “Showroom” turns startup offices into seductive hiring tools

42Floors emerged from Y Combinator’s Winter 2012 class back in March as an office space search and discovery service with the mission of helping companies find their dream office.

The company launched with some strong rhetoric about technologically upending the …

YC startup SendHub secures $2M for serious SMS (exclusive)

SMS messages sent for practical, group communication rather than just LOLs is serious enough business that investors have handed SendHub a $2 million check.

Recent Y Combinator graduate SendHub, which bills itself as SMS for organizations, is in the business …

VBWeekly: the best of Y-Combinator and ask the Magic 8 Ball.

In today’s VBWeekly video we invade the VentureBeat writers lounge to ask our reporters about the Y-Combinator Demo Day event. We asked Meghan Kelly and Sarah Mitroff about the presentations that made them laugh; later we ask them what company …

Hackpad aims to build a better wiki with real-time updating

Creating and managing a wiki can take work. It requires a special syntax to format your text and build out the wiki how you’d like it. Hackpad is trying to make the wiki fresh again, with real-time updating and no …