| Date | Title | Description |
| 20.08.2026 | Pinwheel Appoints Lewis Wight as Chief Product Officer to Lead Next Generation of Healthy Technology for Kids and Teens | Pinwheel Chief Product Officer Lewis Wight AUSTIN, TX, UNITED STATES, August 20, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Pinwheel, the kid tech company behind the best-selling Pinwheel Phone, today announced the appointment of Lewis Wight as Chief Produ... |
| 11.08.2026 | Pinwheel Earns Spot for Second time on Inc. 5000 List of America's Fastest-Growing Private Companies | Austin-based startup recognized for rapid growth as it expands an ecosystem of technology designed to grow with kids
Our goal at Pinwheel isn't simply to make safer technology; it's to help raise a generation that has a healthy, productive ... |
| 12.07.2026 | Parents embrace kid phones that work like landlines — and keep cellphones out of young hands | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
One recent morning, Grey Prohofsky, 4, deemed his mother, Amalia, boring. It was time for a visit with the more fun Popop — his grandfather, Christopher Hertel, who lives next door.
Grey grabbed hi... |
| 02.07.2026 | A major online safety bill for kids just passed the House. Here’s what experts say parents need to know | On Monday, the House passed the Kids Internet and Digital Safety (KIDS) Act, a package intended to protect minors from various dangers presented by online platforms such as social media and AI chatbots.
The legislation includes measures reg... |
| 08.01.2026 | How two founders are digitizing immigration in APAC | - |
| 05.01.2026 | Pinwheel Set to Launch 'Pinwheel Home' – Screen-free, Voice Calls-Only Family Phone | Pinwheel Home is a fun way for kids to connect with friends and grandparents
Pinwheel Home helps teach children basic verbal communication skills and phone etiquette
Pinwheel Home will come in a variety of colors and with fun stickers for k... |
| 15.04.2025 | Leading Child-Safe Smartphone Pinwheel Launches in Australia | Pinwheel smartphone for kids available now in Australia
Phone designed for safe use by children has age-appropriate guardrails, parent-monitoring features and no access to browsers or social media
Pinwheel gives children a way to stay conne... |
| 28.10.2024 | Pinwheel’s Bill Navigator Launches to Save Money on Unused Subscriptions | Pinwheel, a Fintech developing account activation and engagement products, this week introduced Bill Navigator, a solution to help banks, credit unions, and fintechs save their customers money on unused subscriptions and manage their recurr... |
| 13.08.2024 | Kid's Tech Company Pinwheel Ranks No. 212 on the 2024 Inc. 5000 | Phones designed for kids and managed by parents make Pinwheel among the fastest growing US companies
Pinwheel helps kids of all ages develop healthy tech habits.
Increasing Revenues by 20X in Three Years Places Pinwheel Among Top 5% of Amer... |
| 18.06.2024 | Pinwheel Announces Launch of Canada’s First Kid-Safe Smartphone | Canadian parents can rest easy with Pinwheel’s kid-safe smartphone, offering features like remote monitoring and contact Safelists.
Pinwheel gives kids the benefits of a smartphone, such as staying connected and having fun, while parents mo... |
| 04.06.2024 | 2024-05: HH Global supports Earth Day 2024 with global sustainability initiative | LONDON, June 4, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Earth Day is celebrated each year on 22 April - a global initiative dedicated to environmental protection and raising awareness about pressing ecological challenges. The day serves as a platform for prom... |
| 30.11.2023 | Pinwheel Introduces Free Kids' Smartphone as a Holiday Gift | Pinwheel's new Genesis phone is free for the holidays with a subscription purchase
Your kids will love the new Pinwheel Genesis, and you'll love the price.
Parents can get a free Pinwheel Genesis phone for kids with the purchase of a quarte... |
| 26.10.2023 | Pinwheel Announces Phone Upcycling to Prevent Adult Phones from Going to Kids or into the Landfill | Parents can send in old phones for recycling and save on a new smartphone for kids
Pinwheel will exchange old phones of any model for a discounted smartphone designed for kids
Hand-me-down phones, originally designed for adults, present cha... |
| 27.05.2022 | Recreating Connection in Ukraine | Thirteen million Ukrainians live in uncertainty, fearing death for themselves as well as their loved ones, whom they’re often unable to communicate with.
Shipping out phones won’t make an impact on the big picture over there, but I hope it ... |
| 21.01.2022 | SXSW Pitch Competition to Feature Four Austin-based Companies as Finalists | South by Southwest’s Pitch Competition showcases some of the world’s most innovative companies. |
| 19.01.2022 | GGV Capital leads $50M round for Pinwheel | Pinwheel has raised a $50 million Series B led by GGV Capital. The New York-based company is the developer of an API platform designed to help financial institutions manage payroll transactions including direct deposits, underwriting and em... |
| 18.01.2022 | Pinwheel raises $50M Series B at $500M valuation for its income verification APIs | Six months after its $20 million Series A, payroll connectivity platform Pinwheel just announced that it has nabbed another $50 million in a round led by new investor GGV Capital.
Pinwheel serves neobanks and fintechs like Block, Varo, and ... |
| 26.07.2012 | Looks Like Caterina Fake’s Pinwheel Is Changing Its Name: Pinwheel.com Redirects To 2bkco.com | Here’s a quick update to yesterday’s story about the legal fight between the makers of two similarly named products — location service Pinwheel (which was built by a new startup from Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake) and photo-sharing app Pi... |
| 25.07.2012 | Court Grants Injunction Against Caterina Fake’s Use Of The Name ‘Pinwheel’ | It looks like Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake may have to find a new name for her new product Pinwheel. A New York court has granted a preliminary injunction against Fake’s startup 2bkco, as requested by a similarly named startup Pinweel.
T... |
| 08.05.2012 | Why Location-Based Services Will Create Multiple Winners At The Application Layer | Editor’s Note: TechCrunch columnist Semil Shah currently works at Votizen and is based in Palo Alto. You can follow him on Twitter @semil
Location, location, location. Whether you’re a real estate agent, a traveler, or building mobile appli... |
| 08.04.2012 | Real Estate Will Always Be The Best Investment: Time To Augment It | Editor’s note: Jacob Mullins is a senior associate at Shasta Ventures. Follow him on Twitter @jacob.
I spend a good portion of my day thinking, researching, and analyzing our industry, our world, consumer habits, and the technology products... |
| 18.03.2012 | The “Twitter Mafia” Poised to be Silicon Valley’s Next Great Network | Editor’s Note: TechCrunch columnist Semil Shah currently works at Votizen and is based in Palo Alto. You can follow him on Twitter @semil
In middle school, my teacher assigned a book by Mario Puzo called “The Godfather.” Yes, it was pretty ... |
| 15.03.2012 | Everplaces Joins The Pinterest-For-Location Party | We’ve long been used to book marking web pages, then ‘adding to favourites’ and more, but there is plenty more to be done in this space where location is concerned. Gogobot and Foursquare are doing it in travel and venues respectively. But ... |
| 15.03.2012 | CircleMe Lets You Plant – And Find – Virtual Items On Locations | There are one or two apps which allow you to ‘plant’ virtual objects in a location allowing others to pick them up later on (Pinterest for location anyone?). Everplaces literally just launched, Stikinotes and Pinwheel have yet to launch. Bu... |
| 28.02.2012 | Pinweel: Caterina Fake ‘interested’ in buying our trademark (exclusive) | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
When Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake announced her new travel-note app Pinwheel earlier this month, the folks over at photo-sharing app... |
| 28.02.2012 | Pinweel: Caterina Fake ‘interested’ in buying our trademark (exclusive) | When Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake announced her new travel-note app Pinwheel earlier this month, the folks over at photo-sharing app Pinweel (no “h”) weren’t happy. In fact, the company even asked that she “cease any further or intended ... |
| 28.02.2012 | Circl.es: Facebook-Connected Online Dating That Isn’t Creepy | Most 21st century humanoids have probably either at one point tried online dating or dissed online dating. Or both.
We have reached a new point in history, at which we either do not feel like we can meet people in real life, or we are too e... |
| 16.02.2012 | Flickr co-founder announces newest startup & newest funding | Caterina Fake (pictured), who previously co-founded photo-sharing megalith Flickr, has just taken the wraps off Pinwheel, her brand-new app.
Pinwheel is currently in private beta; Fake says it’s a way to “find and leave notes all over the w... |
| 16.02.2012 | More Details On Caterina Fake’s New Startup, Pinwheel: A Mobile Flickr For Places (Ish) | As we heard last year, Flickr and Hunch co-founder Caterina Fake was in the process of launching a new startup, with $2 million in funding from a number of high-profile investors, including True Ventures, Founder Collective, SV Angel, Keith... |
