| Date | Title | Description |
| 28.06.2018 | How David’s Bridal Boosted Mobile Site Visitation Time | Bridging the gap between social media and online shopping continues to baffle and evade retailers and brands. Tech solutions company, Curalate, has added a new platform to its suite, Showroom. The software enables retailers and brands to “t... |
| 02.10.2017 | Instagram opens its shoppable posts feature to retailers on Bigcommerce’s platform | Businesses based in the United States that use Bigcommerce now have access to Instagram’s shoppable posts, the e-commerce platform announced today. This is one of the latest steps in Instagram’s gradual roll out of the feature, which began ... |
| 03.07.2017 | This 360° photo of Philly shows you where to watch Fourth of July 2017 fireworks | In case you’re still hashing out your game plan for July 4th firework watching, you may want to check out this map real quick.
It’s a 360° photo of Penn’s Landing built by coupling Curalate’s Revolve technology — more often used for “visual... |
| 07.03.2017 | 5 Philly tech companies that mastered the art of content marketing | The best way to sell in 2017 is to stop selling. Stop pushing your product or service on people. They’ll buy when they’re good and ready, and when they believe that you have their best interests at heart.
In other words, they don’t want to ... |
| 02.12.2016 | What interns and new grads really get paid at top tech companies | From woefully underpaid internships to legendary hiring bonuses at huge Silicon Valley companies, it’s hard for job seekers to know what they’re worth in tech. It’s even harder when they’re new to the rat race.
One undergraduate computer sc... |
| 07.11.2016 | Check out this startup event during the annual State of Young Philly | Young Involved Philadelphia’s State of Young Philly and law firm Montgomery McCracken, where I work, will be hosting “From Founding to Funding,” a panel discussion amongst local entrepreneurs who will share their experiences and celebrate t... |
| 04.02.2016 | Curalate Raises $27.5M in Series C Funding | Curalate, a Philadelphia, New York City and Seattle-based visual commerce solution provider, raised $27.5m in Series C funding.
The round was led by New Enterprise Associates with participation from existing backers First Round Capital and ... |
| 03.02.2016 | Curalate raises $27M Series C for visual commerce | Visual commerce platform connects customers and brands through Instagram, Pinterest
Curalate, provider of a visual commerce platform, has closed a $27 million Series C round of funding led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA) with participati... |
| 03.02.2016 | Daily funding roundup - February 3, 2016 | TravelStart secured $40M; GeoFeedia received $17M; DisputeBills raised $400k funding
DisputeBills, provider of a medical bill reduction solution for individuals and businesses, closed a $400,000 seed round led by Chicago angel investor Step... |
| 02.02.2016 | Image Recognition Invades Shopping As Curalate Raises $27.5M | Pinterest. Instagram. Tumblr. The future of the web is visual, but how does anyone make money on that? By understanding what’s in the images people post and connecting them to where you can buy what you see. That’s Curalate’s job. The image... |
| 26.01.2016 | Top 10 Cities Techies Should Consider Moving to In 2016 |
You need a change. You want to change. Change yourself and the world. Right now, the tech industry is making a major dent in today’s society. Whether that’s through massive corporations or tiny startups.
“Your time is limited, so don’t was... |
| 21.09.2015 | Can Instagram Improve Your Email Marketing? | Instagram has garnered a lot of buzz as a marketing channel over the past couple years, and that buzz is only on the rise thanks to new ad capabilities. What you may not have considered, however, is how Instagram content actually improve yo... |
| 31.08.2015 | 5 Social Media Hacks for Your Ecommerce Store | The key to increasing your ecommerce store’s productivity is to increase its visibility. While there are several methods that you can use to drive customers to your website, there are few greater tools than social media. Unfortunately, many... |
| 22.05.2015 | Inside the annual event that reminds you that Monetate is kind of a big deal | It’s Wednesday morning, just after 9 a.m., and the giant event room on the second floor of the Loews Hotel is kissed with blue — the color of Monetate.
Glowing blue orbs sit at the center of every table, long rows of Monetate employees — in... |
| 03.02.2015 | These 51 Philly tech firms are hiring right now [NET/WORK] | Believe us, if you want a job in tech, you don’t need to leave Philly. More than 50 businesses, startups and organizations will be on hand next Tuesday, Feb. 10, for NET/WORK, our tech jobs fair at concert venue Union Transfer.
We have a fu... |
| 09.06.2014 | Curalate Secures $8.6M in Series B |
PHILADELPHIA, PA, Leading visual analytics and marketing platform, has secured $8.6 million in Series B financing, bringing its total funding to $12.5 million.
>> Click here for more funding data on Curalate
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| 09.06.2014 | Curalate Secures $8.6M in Series B Financing | Curalate, a New York, NY- and Philadelphia, PA-based provider of a visual analytics and marketing platform, secured $8.6m in Series B financing.
The round was led by New Enterprise Associates with participation from First Round Capital, Men... |
| 06.06.2014 | Curalate just raised $8.6M | Just weeks after news of Pinterest‘s $200 million raise and $5 billion valuation, visual analytics firm Curalate has announced the completion of an $8.6 million Series B, according to a release.
The round is led by previous investors NEA, w... |
| 06.06.2014 | 'Cool as s***' Curalate raises $8.5M for better Pinterest, Instagram, Tumblr analytics | “Curalate’s product is cool as s***,” says social media maven Gary Vaynerchuk. “Everyone knows that images are where it’s at, and Curalate is helping brands crush it with images.”
That’s probably one of the reasons the startup just raised $... |
| 29.05.2014 | What Brands Are Doing Wrong With Visual Social Media | In case you haven’t noticed, consumers on the Internet are doing a lot of their online communication through visuals these days. People are sharing roughly 1.8 billion photos every day just on Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, and WhatsApp. Bu... |
| 18.04.2014 | TechShop DC-Arlington Opens in Crystal City [Links] | TechShop DC-Arlington Opens in Crystal City [Tech Cocktail]: “TechShop, a membership-based facility that’s a do-it-yourself fabrication and prototyping studio, hackerspace, and learning center, announced today that it has officially opened ... |
| 14.04.2014 | Curalate Adds Tumblr To Its Visual Analytics Platform | Startup Curalate has been described as a Pinterest marketing platform, but its ambitions are broader than that, as indicated by today’s announcement that it supports Tumblr, too.
That means Curalate now offers analytics and marketing tools ... |
| 24.02.2014 | How The Visual Web Could Achieve Its Potential | This post is presented by CIBC.
From today’s vantage point, it looks like nothing will slow the momentum of the Visual Web.
See also: The Triumph Of The Visual Web
Selfies, pins, memes, and other picture formats are now dominating our once ... |
| 06.02.2014 | Behind Pinterest’s Crackdown On Paid Pins: Stopping Visual Pollution | Pinterest is cracking down on users who get paid to “pin”—that is, for posting items on the visual social network. Weirdly, though, its new rules don’t actually prevent people from getting paid for putting stuff up on Pinterest. Instead, th... |
| 18.12.2013 | The Triumph Of The Visual Web | ReadWriteReflect offers a look back at major technology trends, products and companies of the past year.
This has been the year of the image—whether selfies, memes, pins or what-have-you. Social sites that emphasize pictures over text—Pinte... |
| 04.12.2013 | Zonoff-powered connected home products are now available at Staples [Startup Roundup] | WHO’S GETTING FUNDED?
Gencore Systems, the startup from Penn’s Computer Science department that offers apps to help computer networks to run more efficiently, received a $150,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, according to foun... |
| 20.11.2013 | RightCare Solutions raises $5M [Startup Roundup] | WHO’S GETTING FUNDED?
RightCare Solutions, the Horsham-based company that aims to prevent hospital readmissions, raised a $5 million Series B, according to a release. The round was led by existing investors Princeton-based Domain Associates... |
| 13.11.2013 | Hot Tip: To Get More Likes on Instagram, Simply Put a Giant Blue Thing in Your Photo | Carly Aquilino gets it. (Photo: Instagram.com/carylaquilino)
Sometimes, Instagram users’ habits can be baffling. Nobody liked that photo of your parents’ dog, but 45 people immediately felt the urge to double tap yet another cloud or sunset... |
| 13.11.2013 | This is the perfectly likable Instagram image | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
If you’re trying to produce likable, shareable In... |
| 13.11.2013 | Instagram Success: These Types of Images Drive the Most Engagement (Infographic) | November 13, 2013 2 min read
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For many, picking the right Instagram filter can be an agonizing task. With so many options, it's tough to discern what's going to look the best and... |
| 13.11.2013 | This is the perfectly likable Instagram image | If you’re trying to produce likable, shareable Instagram images, you’d better share blueish images with a lot of background, texture, and light. And stay away from red.
“Likes on Instagram, while incredibly valuable, are hard to come by, wi... |
| 13.11.2013 | What Your Pinterest API Will Look Like | Here’s a confidential message to developers from Pinterest: the coveted API, which many developers would like to get their hands on to access Pinterest services for their own apps, already exists—it’s just not ready for you yet.
See also: P... |
| 25.09.2013 | Curalate pilots new product with Urban Outfitters, Under Armour [Startup Roundup] | WHO’S MAKING MOVES?
Curalate, the Center City visual analytics firm, announced the pilot of its latest product with a host of major brands including Urban Outfitters, Under Armour and Beauty.com, AdWeek reported. The product, FanReel, helps... |
| 22.08.2013 | How To Work Around Pinterest’s Missing-In-Action API | Want to make an app that works on top of Pinterest? Be prepared for some hard work.
Developers who want to make their apps work with Twitter or Facebook can do so easily, since both companies have long offered tools for just that purpose. M... |
| 22.05.2013 | How we raised $6.25M as a Philadelphia Startup: RJMetrics | Last week, my company RJMetrics announced a Series A investment from West Coast VC firm Trinity Ventures. One hundred percent of this capital came from outside the Philly region. But this city helped us get that support to grow us to the ne... |
| 16.05.2013 | Startup Banking 101: RJ Metrics, DuckDuckGo use Silicon Valley Bank | In the early days of a startup it’s like pick-up hoops, dodgeball or any other playground game: picking teams is a big deal. You want strength and experience on your side.When you don’t have profits, audits or much history, how do you appro... |
| 09.04.2013 | Shift attacks Salesforce, Adobe with ‘open marketing cloud,’ an app store for digital marketing tools | Salesforce says it has the world’s only unified social marketing suite. Adobe says its marketing cloud is a single service that includes everything digital marketers need to get ahead.
Shift begs to differ.
“We’re bringing the market altern... |
| 09.04.2013 | Shift attacks Salesforce, Adobe with ‘open marketing cloud,’ an app store for digital marketing tools | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Salesforce says it has the world’s only unified s... |
| 29.03.2013 | Fanbase Media Debuts Its Social Marketing Platform For Instagram (And Maybe One Day, Vine) | Fanbase Media, a new social media marketing startup which has been flying under the radar for over half a year, helps companies use Instagram for connecting with their customers. Despite the company’s low profile – its turnkey, self-serve s... |
| 12.03.2013 | Pinterest Web Analytics Puts Third-Party Developers And APIs Into Focus | Pinterest Web Analytics, the site’s traffic measuring tool for website owners that was unveiled earlier today, is a foray into services that could help the social network generate revenues some day — for now, it’s free with “no plans to cha... |
| 27.02.2013 | First Round Capital opens a NY Dorm Room Fund // Monetate does the Harlem Shake [Startup Roundup] | WHO’S MAKING MOVES
First Round Capital opened a second $500,000 Dorm Room Fund, AllThingsD reported, and this one’s in New York City. The student-run investment fund, originally piloted in Philadelphia, will be at Columbia, NYU, Princeton a... |
| 30.01.2013 | Nathan Egan, cofounder of PeopleLinx: ‘Surround yourself with people who are smarter than you are’ | Nathan Egan, cofounder of Center City social business optimization firm PeopleLinx.
In effort to grow our community, we want to introduce you to interesting Philadelphians you might not know. Each week, we’ll speak to someone new and have t... |
| 24.01.2013 | First Round Capital: 4 deals the VC firm made this month | First Round Capital was one of the top five most active venture capital firms in the country, according to a recent report by CB Insights. Here are four deals the University City firm made that were announced this month:
[Full Disclosure: T... |
| 21.01.2013 | Curalate: visual analytics startup raises $3M, still committed to Philly | Nearly the whole Curalate team in the mezzanine at the First Round Capital. It was a half-hearted attempt to celebrate Flannel Friday.
If 2012 was Curalate‘s time to be Rookie of the Year (just look at all these awards!), the startup is hop... |
| 17.01.2013 | Curalate Raises $3M in Series A Financing | Curalate, a NYC and Philadelphia, PA-based Pinterest analytics and marketing platform, raised $3m in Series A financing.
The round was led by NEA with participation from First Round Capital and MentorTech Ventures. The investment follows a ... |
| 17.01.2013 | Curalate Secures $3M in Series A Funding |
PHILADELPHIA, PA, Leading Pinterest analytics and marketing platform, has secured $3 million in Series A financing. The round was led by NEA with participation from First Round Capital and MentorTech Ventures.
>> Click here for mor... |
| 17.01.2013 | Funding Daily: Media frenzy | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Today was a big day for media. The Knight Foundat... |
| 16.01.2013 | Curalate bags $3M to track the visual Web | The analytics company is ahead of the game by tracking image-based conversations
Text is a thing of the past. As FirstMark Capital founder and managing director Rick Heitzmann said in a recent interview: “No one’s sitting down with their pi... |
| 26.12.2012 | Curalate wins Philebrity’s Business of the Year [Startup Roundup] | Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup parses out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve highlight. Follow along... |
| 20.12.2012 | Study: Almost 50% of top Pinterest pins link to webpages that don’t exist | 48 percent of the most popular pins on Pinterest lead to expired pages on top retailers’ websites, according to a new study by Curalate, the social curation company. Since Pinterest is the fourth largest referral traffic driver to e-commerc... |
| 20.12.2012 | Study: Almost 50% of top Pinterest pins link to webpages that don’t exist | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
48 percent of the most popular pins on Pinterest ... |
| 19.12.2012 | First Round Capital launches “common app” for its portfolio companies [Startup Roundup] | Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup parses out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve highlight. Follow along... |
| 19.12.2012 | Roll First Round Style: First Round Capital’s 2012 holiday video | Ah, the holiday season. Office parties, mistletoe and of course: the First Round Capital holiday video.
In the past, the firm has taken on Susan Boyle, the Old Spice guy and Rebecca Black’s Friday. This year, it’s all about Call Me Maybe an... |
| 05.12.2012 | Monetate named one of the best places to work in Pa. [Startup Roundup] | Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup parses out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve highlight. Follow along... |
| 21.11.2012 | Curalate and Kembrel named two of Philly’s coolest new businesses [Startup Roundup] | Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup parses out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve highlight. Follow along... |
| 07.11.2012 | Pinfluencer Launches Pin ROI Tracking System For Pinterest, Supports Integration With Google Analytics, Omniture & Coremetrics | Pinfluencer, a popular Pinterest analytics solution, is today announcing a new Pinterest ROI and Pin-to-Purchase tracking system for marketers and brands, as well as support for integrations with other analytics providers, including Adobe O... |
| 07.11.2012 | Voters reluctant to take a stand on energy, foreign policy issues, according to ElectNext data [Startup Roundup] | Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup parses out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve highlight. Follow along... |
| 31.10.2012 | Monetate named 8th fastest growing local company [Startup Roundup] | Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup parses out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve highlight. Follow along... |
| 09.10.2012 | Councilman David Oh to hold Council hearings on job creation this week | Councilman David Oh will hold joint City Council and State Senate hearings on local job creation today and tomorrow, and he’s invited several local business leaders and entrepreneurs to speak on panels throughout the day.
On Wednesday at 1 ... |
| 05.10.2012 | Benjamin’s Desk: Rittenhouse coworking spot ready for grand opening [VIDEO] | In the open space at Benjamin’s Desk in Rittenhouse Square.
Benjamin’s Desk is open for business — and this time, it’s official. The Rittenhouse coworking spot will hold its grand opening party next week.
RSVP here.
The space, which boasts ... |
| 01.10.2012 | Philly Startup Weekend 4.0: voxx.io, a digital jukebox, takes top honors | Voxx.io, a digital jukebox, wins Startup Weekend. Josh Hudnall (center, in plaid shirt), who lives in Denver and flew in for the weekend, led the team.
voxx.io, a digital jukebox, took top honors at Philadelphia Startup Weekend 4.0, beating... |
| 26.09.2012 | After multiple rejections from Apple, Trap Call launches petition to get app back in iTunes Store [Startup Roundup] | Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup parses out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve highlight. Follow along... |
| 05.09.2012 | Entrepreneurs who stay home are more successful than those who relocate [Startup Roundup] | Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup parses out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve highlight. Follow along... |
| 17.08.2012 | Quewey: business Q&A startup pivots, now offers professional networking matchmaking | One local startup’s old idea is another’s new venture.
Quewey, the business-focused Q&A site, recently pivoted to offer a professional networking matchmaking service.
If the idea sounds familiar, it’s because a Philly startup has alread... |
| 27.07.2012 | Benjamin’s Desk: coworking spot soft launches with new tenants Curalate, Uber, Zokos | Benjamin’s Desk co-founder naval officer Lt. Michael Maher inside the Rittenhouse coworking spot back in February.
Benjamin’s Desk, the Rittenhouse Square coworking spot, is just about open for business.
The space soft launches August 1, wh... |
| 27.07.2012 | Benjamin’s Desk: coworking spot soft launches with new tenants Curalate, Uber, Zokos | Benjamin’s Desk co-founder naval officer Lt. Michael Maher inside the Rittenhouse coworking spot back in February.
Benjamin’s Desk, the Rittenhouse Square coworking spot, is just about open for business.
The space soft launches August 1, wh... |
| 18.07.2012 | Cipher Prime’s ‘Splice’ chosen for major indie game showcase [Startup Roundup] | Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup parses out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve highlight. Follow along... |
| 17.07.2012 | Curalate: Pinterest analytics shop doubles client base to 400 | After a few pivots in less than a year, homegrown Philly startup and Pinterest analytics provider Curalate might just be here to stay.
Curalate started as Storably, a marketplace for storage space, but co-founder Apu Gupta says the team cou... |
| 10.07.2012 | Pinterestification! Sociable Labs Signs Up Wine.com, 19 Others For Its Pinterest-Like EverShare Offering | The Pinterest effect on e-commerce sites continues: online wine retailer Wine.com, a company with $67 million in annual revenue, is adding a social shopping component to its website which not only looks like Pinterest, but is also powered b... |
| 05.07.2012 | Philly Geek Awards nominees announced; Curalate, ElectNext and SnipSnap vie for Startup for the Year | It’s Geek season.
In its second annual Philly Geek Awards, Geekadelphia, Philly’s geek culture blog of record, will celebrate everything you might have once been embarrassed about.
Geekadelphia released a list of nominees today. Notable cat... |
| 14.06.2012 | Pyro-E: King of Prussia shop demos waste energy recovery technology “to do for human mobility what Steve Jobs did for human intelligence” | Pyro-E thinks it has found treasure in the equivalent of energy trash.
Founder Kevin Lu says his company has developed a technology that improves the efficiency of electric generation by turning waste heat into electricity. The technology L... |
| 16.05.2012 | Pinterest analytics platform Curalate raises $750,000 in seed round [Startup Roundup] | Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup parses out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve highlight. Follow along... |
| 16.05.2012 | Curalate Launhces and Raises $750K |
PHILADELPHIA, PA, Leading monitoring and analytics platform for socially curated sites announces seed funding round of $750,000 from NEA, First Round Capital and MentorTech.
>> Click here for more funding data on Curalate Launhces ... |
| 15.05.2012 | Curalate Launches with $750K in Seed Funding | Curalate, a Philadelphia, PA-based provider of a monitoring and analytics platform for socially curated sites, has launched today with $750k in seed funding.
The round was led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA), with participation from Firs... |
| 15.05.2012 | Look Out: Pinterest Marketing Platform Curalate Lands $750k Seed From NEA, First Round, MentorTech | A new breed of social media sites led by visual rather than text-based interactions is now spawning a new breed of marketing service catering to the new format. The latest of these is a startup called Curalate, which is officially launching... |
| 04.04.2012 | Wharton Venture Award winners announced with a focus on healthcare [Startup Roundup] | Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup parses out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve highlight. Follow along... |
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