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02:49 22.09.2015

Robo Wunderkind’s Programmable Bricks Are Like Legos That Teach You How To Code

Meet Robo Wunderkind, the Lego of the future. This startup is building programmable Lego-like bricks that teach your children how algorithms work. It is launching today on stage at Disrupt, and on Kickstarter. Read More... →

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02:43 22.09.2015

Aircall Wants To Reinvent Customer Support By Making All Representatives Mobile

Slack efforts to reinvent email are inspiring others to simplify different forms of communication. Aircall, a company that presented at TechCrunch Disrupt today in San Francisco, wants to remove the complications around calling — and international customer support calls, in particular. Read More... →

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02:34 22.09.2015

Zumper: One-Third Of San Francisco’s Rent Is Attributable To VC Funding

Well, this is sure provoke to some debate. Zumper, a venture-backed startup that focuses on creating a more efficient and transparent apartment rental marketplace, ran a study of housing costs in tech hubs across the United States. They’re arguing that one-third of San Francisco’s rents are attributable to venture capital funding. Last year, venture firms invested $49 billion… Read More... →

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02:24 22.09.2015

Agrilyst Wants To Be The Google Analytics For Greenhouses

Agrilyst, which is officially launching in the TechCrunch Disrupt SF Battlefield today, helps greenhouse operators run their operations more efficiently by pulling in data from sensors in the greenhouse and information about crop yields and other metrics. Read More... →

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02:15 22.09.2015

EasyPaint Wants To Take The Pain Out Of Getting A Room Painted

If there’s one thing I dislike about owning a home, it’s when the time comes to paint a room. If I do it myself, I go crazy before the prep work is even done. So. Much. Masking. Tape. If I hire someone, I end up spending just as much time talking to friends/neighbors/the Internets trying to find a reputable local painter only to never be quite certain I made the right choice. Read More... →

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02:07 22.09.2015

Robinhood’s Vlad Tenev On Stock Market Turmoil And Eliminating Trading Fees

This might seem like the best time to be running a startup involved in stock market trading, but Vlad Tenev, co-founder of Robinhood, still sees plenty of opportunities. “There’s always companies and products that are doing well, and there’s always comapnies and products that aren’t doing so well,” he said. “In adidtion to that, short-term fluctuations aside,… Read More... →

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02:01 22.09.2015

Discovr Labs Brings Virtual Reality To The Classroom, Lets Teachers See What Students See

As consumers, we tend to focus on how virtual reality will work in our homes — the new types of games it allows, the insane 360-degree cinematic experiences, etc. Some of VR’s greatest potential, though, lays not at home but in the classroom. Hell, you can boil VR’s potential as a learning tool into just three little words: Magic. Friggin’. Schoolbus. Think shared… Read More... →

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02:00 22.09.2015

Postmates Unveils Revamped Platform, Announces 4 Million Deliveries

Postmates recently unveiled a revamped version of its app, dubbed Postmates 3.0, which features category discovery, delivery tracking, gifting and estimated delivery times. In addition to providing customers with timely information, one of the reasons why Postmates added estimated delivery times is to adjust customers’ expectations. “Most of our deliveries are not just under an hour. Read More... →

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01:27 22.09.2015

Humon Is A Wearable That Helps Endurance Athletes Train Smarter

Make way for another wearable. Launching sign-ups for its alpha program on stage today, here at TechCrunch Disrupt SF, is a startup called Humon — which is building a real-time lactic acid threshold monitor designed for endurance athletes to help them tailor training to their personal limits. Read More... →

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01:26 22.09.2015

21 Announces The Bitcoin Computer, A Mini-Mining Machine Coupled With A Payment System

Buying and running a bitcoin miner is either a labor of love or an effort at profit… but rarely both. 21.co, for their part, seems to have reached an interesting parity. Their new Bitcoin Computer is a Raspberry Pi 2 connected to a bitcoin mining rig. It is available for pre-order now on Amazon for $399. They also include a WiFi adapter and a 128GB SD card with a copy of the… Read More... →

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01:14 22.09.2015

Mother And Daughter Team Launch Scrumpt, An Easier Way To Pack A Healthy School Lunch

A new wave of startups, including companies like Blue Apron, Plated, HelloFresh and more, have been catering to consumers looking to cook healthier meals at home, but lack the time to shop and source the right ingredients. Today, a new service called Scrumpt is offering a similar option for kids – or rather, for their busy parents who want an easier way to pack a healthy school… Read More... →

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01:10 22.09.2015

Mixmax, Which Adds Rich Media, Polls, Scheduling To E-mail, Integrates With Google Inbox

Mixmax, an e-mail startup that recently raised $1.5 million from Harrison Metal and Floodgate, integrated with Inbox to turn e-mails into much more than just a text-heavy experience. With Mixmax, you can schedule calendar availability directly from where you’re composing your e-mails from Google Inbox among other features. Mixmax was founded in the past year to turn e-mail from a static… Read More... →

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01:09 22.09.2015

Virtual Reality Goes Beyond Gaming

Virtual reality’s breakthrough moment might not be gaming. Claude Zellweger from HTC, Dr. Richard Marks from Sony, Paul Raphaël from Felix and Paul Studios took the stage with our own Drew Olanoff at Disrupt SF to talk about virtual reality. These VR experts had a lot of things to say about the content that should hit your favorite VR headset in the coming years. Read More... →

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01:03 22.09.2015

Stitch Is Slack For Healthcare Messaging

Stitch, a central messaging hub for healthcare providers, is launching today on stage at Disrupt to cut down on the $11 billion that U.S. hospitals waste each year due to breakdowns in communication. You can think of Stitch as Slack for healthcare, except channels are organized around individual patients instead of teams or departments. When a patient checks in, the front desk can set up… Read More... →

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01:01 22.09.2015

An Interview With Brady Forrest On The New Hardware Startup Stars

Hardware startups are really cool and Brady Forrest has brought more of them to market than anyone we know. Now he and Dave McClure are the stars of Bazillion Dollar Club, a new show on SyFy that is showing exactly what it’s like to living inside a high-pressure startup. Forrest and McClure are the Jason and Thetis of the startup straits and are doing a bang-up job. I sat down with… Read More... →

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00:57 22.09.2015

Weight Loss App Rise Launches CoachLine, A Personal Assistant That Boosts Human Advice With AI

Rise made its name in the world of health apps as a platform for people to connect with human coaches, to help them tailor their lifestyle and eating choices to lose weight. Now, Rise is adding in a new feature that it hopes will help it scale to a much bigger audience. Today, the company is taking the wraps off of CoachLine, a new real-time personal assistant that will let anyone… Read More... →

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00:51 22.09.2015

Staffly Supplies The Workforce For Independent Retailers

Independent retailers often have a hard time finding and retaining qualified employees. TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield participant Staffly, a startup created by husband and wife team Bjorn and Marissa Ovick, wants to make it easy for them to fill their staffing needs. Staffly has created a digital temp agency of sorts in which retailers find staff, employees find work and Staffly runs… Read More... →

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00:39 22.09.2015

Leap Financial Puts Detailed Business Reporting In Startups’ Hands

Most startups struggle when it comes to understanding the underlying financial metrics that typically determine the success or failure of their business. At the same time, they are often keeping the books in online tools with easily accessible data. Leap Financial, a startup participating in the TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield competition this week, wants to make it easy to connect to… Read More... →

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00:30 22.09.2015

Healthcare Is The Last Industry To Be Disrupted, Says KPCB’s Beth Seidenberg

Tech has changed almost every aspect of our lives, from shopping to transportation. But despite the enormous amount of money Americans spend on healthcare, many treatments are decades old. In an onstage conversation with TechCrunch’s Sarah Buhr at Disrupt today, Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers partner Beth Seidenberg said “healthcare is really the last industry to be… Read More... →

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00:10 22.09.2015

Felix & Paul Studios Spins Off 3D Sound Unit As Headspace Studios

Virtual reality company Felix & Paul Studios announced Monday onstage at Disrupt SF the launch of a separate division focused on 3D, 360-degree sound mixing. Led by Jean-Pascal Beaudoin, Headspace Studios will bring the sound editing technology and innovation used in Felix & Paul productions to other leading VR companies. The studio is the first to focus only on 3D sound for VR… Read More... →

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