| Date | Title | Description |
| 05.03.2022 | Ukraine wages war by phone | Ukraine’s resistance to invasion by Russia is being waged on mobile phones as well as on the battlefield and in the city streets.
Contents Phones and bulletsA war of public opinion
Intelligence about troop movements is being relayed via ima... |
| 17.08.2021 | Props Shutdown Throws Reg A+ Funding Model Into Limbo | Four young adults, two men and two women, were talking about ways to make vegan sausages edible when I showed up with my pesky questions. I was reporting on Props, a social media cryptocurrency experiment that has become a semi-prominent fe... |
| 16.12.2019 | Musicians Want to Break Free of Big Tech | This post is part of CoinDesk's 2019 Year in Review, a collection of 100 op-eds, interviews and takes on the state of blockchain and the world. Roneil Rumburg is co-founder and chief executive officer of Audius, a blockchain music streaming... |
| 09.10.2019 | YouNow Sees Strong Revenue Growth After SEC Approves Token Distribution | In a disclosure expected to be published Wednesday by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), blockchain-based live-streaming company YouNow reported revenues have grown steadily since the release of its props token in July.
The ... |
| 11.06.2019 | Yubo is a social network about socializing | Meet Yubo, a French startup that wants to make social networks a bit more… social. Yubo is an app designed for teenagers, and it’s all about meeting people, making new friends and belonging to a community.
The app has quietly grown over the... |
| 08.12.2017 | The Blockchain Token Velocity Problem | Kyle Samani
is the co-founder and managing partner of Multicoin Capital, a new thesis-driven crypto fund that invests with a multi-year time horizon in blockchain tokens.
Basically, all token pitches include a line that goes something like ... |
| 02.11.2016 | Kickstarter Live | Live video broadcasting is happening all around us. From youth oriented services like our portfolio company YouNow to the largest platforms on the Internet like Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter, people are turning their camera on themselves a... |
| 05.07.2016 | The Online Club | I recall reading a history of The Beatles and as it is told, they developed their performance skills playing in rock clubs in Hamburg Germany in the early 60s. They played night after night and developed a style and technique that formed th... |
| 22.06.2016 | YouNow goes beyond the live stream by letting you share interesting moments | YouNow has quite an explicit startup name. The live streaming startup lets you stream yourself, now. But with more than 150,000 live streams per day, how can you be sure that you didn’t miss a funny or heartwarming moment when you were away... |
| 08.06.2016 | Periscope and Facebook Live Bring Value to Live Streaming | Live streaming platforms have been getting a lot of attention lately. Some platforms are hitting critical mass, and new ones are popping up all the time. The result is a fun and exciting new way for users to interact with their followers.Le... |
| 13.04.2016 | Announcing the Disrupt NY 2016 Agenda | Disrupt NY is right around the corner. The event starts on May 9th and we’re delighted to reveal the agenda. The lineup is stellar and for the first time, we will be hosting Disrupt NY in Red Hook, Brooklyn at the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal. ... |
| 28.03.2016 | Pay celebs to text or video message you with TipTalk | It has never been worth it for celebrities to respond to their endless digital fan mail — until now. TipTalk lets them set a price for a private text, photo or video response. The idea is that in their downtime, they could forge deeper rela... |
| 08.02.2016 | And The Winners Of The 9th Annual Crunchies Are… | Silicon Valley is getting dressed up tonight to celebrate startups, their founders and CEOs, VCs and angels, and the products they make during our 9th Annual Crunchies awards show at the San Francisco War Memorial Opera House. Tonight’s sho... |
| 02.01.2016 | The 9th Annual Crunchies Finalists announced | The 9th Annual Crunchies Awards Show is round the corner. Let’s meet the finalists.
The 9th edition of the Annual Crunchies Awards also referred to as The Oscars of Startups and Technology, is quickly approaching. On Tuesday, February 8, 2... |
| 28.12.2015 | Announcing The 9th Annual Crunchies Finalists | After a multitude of worthy nominations, TechCrunch is proud to announce the 9th Annual Crunchies Awards finalists. Take a peek below at the full list of finalists for each award category.
There are 12 categories that recognize a variety of... |
| 14.12.2015 | Differences Matter | I was struck by this paragraph in the Slate piece on our portfolio company YouNow this weekend:
In theory, YouNow sounds a bit like Twitter’s real-time video feature, Periscope. In practice, they’re nothing alike. Periscope’s tagline is “Ex... |
| 06.10.2015 | Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place | Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, updated as the day unfolds. Tip us here if you have a deal to share. Code42 raises $85M to prevent company data from being held hostage
Code42, a security startup that recently raised $85 milli... |
| 06.10.2015 | Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place | 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!
Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, up... |
| 05.10.2015 | YouNow, A “Live” Social Network, Raises $15 Million in Fresh Funding | YouNow, a four-year-old, New York-based social network that connects audiences and broadcasters in real time, has raised $15 million in new funding co-led by earlier backers Venrock and investor Oren Zeev, with participation from Comcast Ve... |
| 05.10.2015 | YouNow Secures $15M in Financing | YouNow, a NYC-based live social network that connects audiences and broadcasters in real time, secured $15m in financing.
The round was co-led by current backers Venrock and Oren Zeev, with participation from new investor Comcast Ventures.
... |
| 05.10.2015 | Daily funding roundup - October 5, 2015 | Precision Biopsy raised $33.6M; Voylla landed $15M; SportzVillage secured $10M
Flixel Photos Inc., a Toronto, Canada-based visual storytelling company that enables content creators to produce cinemagraphs, raised $2.2 million in seed fundin... |
| 05.10.2015 | YouNow Secures $15M In Financing |
NEW YORK, NY, Live social network that connects audiences and broadcasters in real time, has secured $15 million in new financing.
>> Click here for more funding data on YouNow
>> To export YouNow funding data to PDF and Exc... |
| 03.10.2015 | Video Of The Week: Emma McGann | Our portfolio company YouNow is a broadcasting app that tends to be used by entertainers, youtubers, and young people in general. While not as well known as Periscope, it’s users are super into it and highly engaged. This week came the stor... |
| 10.08.2015 | NomadCast Is A Powerful Live Streaming App With Embeddable Player | Meet NomadCast, a recent addition to the live-streaming app space. While Meerkat, Periscope and YouNow have been focused on the social aspect of live streaming, NomadCast varies in many ways. NomadCast isn’t a social app, it’s an iOS live-s... |
| 14.06.2015 | A Blast From The Past | I’ve been assisting with a project that is attempting to document the history of tech in NYC since Samuel Morse helped to bring the telegraph to market in the 1830s. I can’t help much with what went down in the 19th and early 20th century. ... |
| 04.05.2015 | Taking Inspiration From Failed Projects | It’s easy to dismiss ideas after the first attempt fails, but I don’t think we should do that. Instead we should learn from what worked and what didn’t.
I saw the news that the Mayweather fight was watched on Periscope by many people and th... |
| 12.04.2015 | Twitter Is Pushing Celebrities And Publishers To Stop Using Meerkat | Twitter is doing whatever it can to help its live video streaming acquisition Periscope beat independent competitor Meerkat. Multiple sources tell TechCrunch that Twitter has been contacting celebrities who use Meerkat, trying to convince t... |
| 27.03.2015 | Feature Friday: Archives of Live Broadcasts | I wrote about the live broadcasting craze earlier this week. There are three significant players in this market, YouNow, Twitter/Periscope, and Meerkat. I’m a shareholder in two of them (YouNow is a USV portfolio company and we own a lot of... |
| 26.03.2015 | The World In ‘Scope | Movies, financial markets and fashion trends all fall into frenzies, dips and lulls. Consumer apps are much the same.
Whether it’s photo-sharing, anonymity or live streaming, it seems that a confluence of apps all doing similar things at th... |
| 09.10.2013 | Splice | It feels like it is fairly well understood that the Internet enables unprecedented sharing of information, ideas and content. At USV we have participated in a bunch of services that make it easier to share – such as Twitter, Behance, Skills... |
| 13.03.2013 | Live Social Video Network YouNow Acquires Streaming Service BlogTV | Social video startup YouNow wants to bring live video performers online and provide a social environment where they can show off their skills to anyone else tuning in. But to do that, you need users, and so YouNow has acquired long-running,... |
| 06.01.2012 | New York Flexes its Tech Cred | It's a new year. The ebullient New York tech community picked up where it left off with several notable events: the first New York Tech Meetup of 2012, a Zaarly-sponsored Startup Crawl, and the auspicious piece in The Economist on Mayor Mik... |
| 06.10.2011 | Shawn Fanning And Sean Parker Talk About Airtime And “Smashing People Together” | The last company Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker started together was Napster, over a decade ago. Now they are teaming up again to create a new startup called Airtime (previously codenamed Supyo). The two have completed an $8.3 million series... |
| 01.10.2011 | Going For It | One of the things I admire most about entrepreneurs is their ability to "go for it", to put themselves out there and take a risk.
A few weeks ago, Adi Sideman, founder and CEO of our portfolio company YouNow, did this on state at ... |
| 12.09.2011 | Cheer and jeer broadcasters (until you boot them off) with YouNow | 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!
YouNow, an online video streaming application whe... |
| 12.09.2011 | Take YouTube, Add The Gong Show, Get YouNow | There is a lot of junk on YouTube. But there are also a ton of undiscovered gems. Imagine if you could have a hand in surfacing the best stuff. And imagine how much more exciting that would be if you could do it live.
That’s the basic premi... |
| 12.09.2011 | Meet The Startups That Made It To The TC Disrupt Battlefield (SF 2011) | Below are the 29 startups that were chosen, out of roughly 650 applicants, to pitch their business ideas over the next few days at the Startup Battlefield competition during the TechCrunch Disrupt event in San Francisco. This will obviously... |
| - | YouNow: Как заработать на людях, поющих в прямом эфире | Прямые трансляции с мобильных устройств переживают второе рождение. На рынок выходит все больше игроков, среди которых есть и гиганты вроде Facebook, Snapchat и YouTube. В феврале этого года пользователи последнего получили возможность вест... |
| - | 5 sites para fazer live [Alternativas para transmissões ao vivo] | Mesmo com a popularidade de sites e serviços como a Twitch, YouTube e Facebook, não é todo mundo que tem a intenção de disputar os espectadores e usuários dessas plataformas. Há alternativas espalhadas por toda a internet para quem quiser r... |
| - | The founder of casual sex app Bang With Friends is trying to launch the next generation of influencers with a new live-streaming app called LiveAF | LiveAF
LiveAF is a social app that launched this week in the US. It hopes to give aspiring artists and influencers a platform for live-streaming and a way to launch their careers.
The company's CEO, Colin Hodge, is the founder of the casual... |
| - | SA 100 2014: The Coolest People In New York City Tech | Business Insider New York City has become home to some of the tech industry's most promising companies, including Etsy, MongoDB, and Vice Media.
So we created the Silicon Alley 100 to celebrate people who did the coolest things in the past ... |
