| Date | Title | Description |
| 20.09.2015 | Entangled Is A Watch App To Fight Loneliness | Not every app here at the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon has its roots in ideas of quantum entanglement and the ineffable quality of human connection, but that’s what drove Freddie Iboy and his coding partner Alec Garcia to build Entangled.
O... |
| 18.07.2015 | M&A roundup - week ending 7/18/15 | Groupon bought OrderUp; Match Group acquired PlentyOfFish; Microsoft picks up FieldOne
Oculus, the virtual reality startup that was purchased by Facebook last year, acquired Pebbles Interfaces, an Israeli company that develops hardware and ... |
| 14.07.2015 | Mobile Shopping App Wish Buys Android Lockscreen App Maker Locket | Mobile shopping startup Wish — fresh off a $500 million round of funding — has made its first acquisition. The company has acquired Locket, a startup that makes lockscreen apps for Android handsets: an eponymous app that serves tailored new... |
| 14.07.2015 | Wish Acquires Locket | Wish, a San Francisco-based mobile commerce platform, acquired Locket, a San Francisco, CA-based intelligent personalization platform that brings news and other content to smartphone lock screens.
The amount of the deal was not disclosed. T... |
| 13.02.2015 | Funding roundup - week ending 2/13/15 | AppDirect, Pursuit, Jet, WedPics, Laurel & Wolf, Sigfox, Soothe, Reserve, TrueFacet, Capital Float
Seed Stage
Pursuit Vascular, the maker of a preventive medical device for catheter-related bloodstream infections, raised $1.6 million in... |
| 10.02.2015 | Locket Raises $3.2M in Funding | Locket, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of a lock screen messaging app, raised $3.2m in funding.
Backers included Tyra Banks, Turner Broadcasting Systems and Great Oaks Venture Capital.
The funds will support the company’s development an... |
| 10.02.2015 | ScreenPop, Backed By $3.2 Million, Lets You Message Friends From Your Phone’s Lockscreen | Locket, the makers of a mobile application that brings personalized news and other stories to your Android phone’s lockscreen is out today with a new lockscreen-based messaging application called ScreenPop. The new app, which grew to 15,000... |
| 14.04.2014 | What I learned in my first year as a female startup CEO | Yunha Kim is the CEO of Locket.
What is it like to be a female in tech?
I think the industry is really curious about this topic — almost so much so that we appear committed to proving how different (or perhaps difficult) it is to be a femal... |
| 14.04.2014 | What I learned in my first year as a female startup CEO | 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!
Yunha Kim is the CEO of Locket.
What is it like t... |
| 19.11.2013 | Locket Receives Investment from Tyra Banks | Locket, a NYC-based provider of an Android application that brings content to smartphone lock screens, received an investment from Tyra Banks.
Fierce Capital, LLC, the investment arm of The Tyra Banks Company, provided the funding (of undis... |
| 19.11.2013 | Tyra Banks Invests In Locket, The App That Brings Ads And Other Content To Android Lockscreens | Locket, the Android application that puts ads and other content on your lockscreen, letting users earn small amounts of money every time they unlock their smartphone, has received an additional investment from Fierce Capital, LLC, the inves... |
| 19.11.2013 | Locket is totally fierce: Tyra Banks invests in the lockscreen ad app | Proving yet again that you can’t escape Tyra Banks, she’s now setting her sights on ad tech.
New York City-based Locket, which has developed a platform for ads and content on Android lock screens, announced today that Banks’ Fierce Capital ... |
| 19.11.2013 | Quote of the Day: Tyra Banks | “Yunha Kim is a kick ass female living with five of her male team members to bring her vision to life of disrupting the mobile marketing world”
Tyra Banks speaks about Yuhna Kim, CEO and co-founder of Locket, following her investment in the... |
| 19.11.2013 | Locket is totally fierce: Tyra Banks invests in the lockscreen ad app | 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!
Proving yet again that you can’t escape Tyra Bank... |
| 19.11.2013 | Funding Daily: Clouds, smart locks, & Tyra Banks ya’ll | 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!
Good news everyone! We’ve just gathered up all th... |
| 19.11.2013 | Funding Daily: Clouds, smart locks, & Tyra Banks ya’ll | Good news everyone! We’ve just gathered up all the funding news for the day and rolled it up into our now legendary* Funding Daily column.
Check out all the new investments below.
Aria Systems snags $40M for cloud-based billing
Aria Systems... |
| 22.10.2013 | Locket Launches A Developer Toolkit That Lets App Publishers Push Ads To Android Lockscreens | Locket, the Android app that pays you (in tiny amounts) just for unlocking your smartphone, is today launching a toolkit for app developers that will allow them to publish their own content to users’ lock screens. That means when users see ... |
| 15.10.2013 | Locket, which puts ads on your Android lock screen, calls a vote for its next round of charities | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
After dipping its toes into lock screen charity donations in August, Locket will now let its users choose the next few charities it wil... |
| 15.10.2013 | Locket, which puts ads on your Android lock screen, calls a vote for its next round of charities | After dipping its toes into lock screen charity donations in August, Locket will now let its users choose the next few charities it will feature.
Locket initially launched with the goal of putting ads on Android smartphone lock screens, ope... |
| 15.10.2013 | Locket Launches My Locket Cares | Locket, the NYC ans San Francisco-based, venture-backed startup, is launching My Locket Cares, a platform allows users to vote for their favorite charities to be selected as donation partners.
To promote the program, users will see a series... |
| 14.10.2013 | Google may soon pay you to monitor your mobile app usage (report) | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
For Google and Facebook, the race is on to figure out exactly how we use our mobile devices.
Following Facebook’s announcement that it ... |
| 08.10.2013 | Mobile Ad Startup Locket Hires Charity Sabater, Formerly Of Candy Crush Maker King, To Lead Sales | Locket, a startup that runs ads in Android lockscreens and pays users to unlock their phones, has hired Charity Sabater as its first vice president of national sales.
Co-founder and CEO Yunha Kim told me Sabater has been brought on to bring... |
| 04.09.2013 | Startup Rundown: AT&T Charging Stations Open Around NYC and Square Launches a Coding Camp for Girls | Working at Grind is keeeewl (Photo: Vimeo)
Grind’s a-growin’ We’re wishing a happy housewarming to exclusive coworking platform Grind, which just opened its second NYC location at 39th and Broadway. The company—whose original NYC location i... |
| 26.08.2013 | Locket now lets you donate earnings from Android lock screen ads to charity | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Locket, a New York City-based startup that lets you earn money from ads on your Android phone lock screens, is aiming to use its techno... |
| 22.08.2013 | In a town of gamblers, Mattermark is counting cards | 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!
It’s the late afternoon, and Danielle Morrill is ... |
| 22.08.2013 | In a town of gamblers, Mattermark is counting cards | It’s the late afternoon, and Danielle Morrill is bone-tired from a week of sales meetings. It’s the best kind of exhaustion, she tells me, as it’s the kind that entrepreneurs feel when they are finally on to a slam dunk.
Morrill had spent m... |
| 14.08.2013 | Locket, Interview with CEO Yunha Kim | Yunha Kim is one of the co-founders of Locket, a NYC-based mobile advertising startup backed by Great Oaks VC. They just launched an Android application that delivers ads on smartphone lock screen and pays users for unlocking their phone. S... |
| 18.07.2013 | Locket Puts Ads On Smartphone Lock Screens, Pays You To Use Your Phone | Would you install an Android app that put ads directly on your smartphone’s lock screen? No? What if you were paid to do so, and whenever you swiped to unlock your device, you made a little money? That’s the promise of a new mobile applicat... |
