News from our portfolio companies and partners.

LoyalBlocks Lands $9 Million Led By General Catalyst To Scale Out Its Mobile-Based Loyalty Program
May 24, 2013
With 1 million songs played per week, JoyTunes gets $1.5 million to make piano lessons a game
May 17, 2013
Telmar Information Services Corp. releases out-of-home advertising planning software linked to ADstruc's out-of-home media buying platform
May 15, 2013
Using Peer Pressure to Cut Energy Use
May 09, 2013
Kinsa launches a smartphone-connected thermometer to create a real-time health map
April 30, 2013
Newlyweds each lose leg in Boston Marathon attacks, donations pour in
April 25, 2013
Caterina Fake's Augmented Reality: Content Before Gizmos
April 25, 2013
Skillshare Takes On the Education Gap
April 17, 2013
Picturelife Tackles Simple Photo Storage
April 17, 2013
See.Me Helps Artists Raise Money and Build Relationships With Fans
April 12, 2013
Email Productivity Startup ToutApp Raises $920K, Launches A Real-Time Analytics Dashboard For The Inbox
April 04, 2013
Like a “Like,” but Better: See.Me Lets You Tip Artists With Actual Money
April 04, 2013
Marketing software startup ThriveHive sees billion-dollar opportunity in serving small biz
March 29, 2013
Centzy Raises $1.6M Seed Round From Cowboy Ventures, Founder Collective, Lightbank & Others To Bring Offline Biz Data To Web & Mobile
March 27, 2013
Smart Power: Why More Bytes Will Mean Fewer—and Cleaner—Electrons
March 26, 2013
Contently Wants to Help Brands Be Publishers Changes speak to growing pains of content marketing
March 25, 2013
Ex-Googlers Launch Sift Science, A Fraud-Fighting System For Websites, Backed By $5.5M In Funding From Union Square, First Round, YC & Others
March 19, 2013
Startups are about to blow up the textbook
March 18, 2013
Proven: Killing It With 'Mobile First'
March 14, 2013
Boundless Seeks Court Ruling On Free Online Textbooks
March 07, 2013
Inside CoachUp, which connects athletes with personalized trainers
March 04, 2013
After Two Years in the Works, Picturelife Comes Alive
March 03, 2013
Anti-Immigration Laws Are Speeding the Rise of the Robot Workforce
March 01, 2013
Look Smarter
March 01, 2013
With $1.8M From Andreessen, Chris Sacca & More, Rental Marketplace Getable Digs Into The $32B Construction Market
February 27, 2013
Journalists Take Refuge in the World of Branded Content
February 26, 2013
UberX to Launch in Boston, Offering On-Demand Cars For 40% Less
February 25, 2013
Suddenly, Everyone Is Using Smartphones To Find Jobs
February 25, 2013
Suddenly, Everyone Is Using Smartphones To Find Jobs
February 25, 2013
Codecademy (YC S11) launches API lessons for Twitter, Evernote, Box, WePay, Firebase, Github, more
February 21, 2013
What Twitter's Ad API Really Means for Social Advertising New partners such as Salesforce and Adobe share tactics, spin theories
February 20, 2013
Gigwalk, An Amazon Turk For Real World Work, Gets An Upgraded Backend For Businesses
February 20, 2013
HowAboutWe Opens its Website to Couples Looking for Romantic Ideas
February 14, 2013
Private chef service Kitchensurfing grabs $1 million, expands beyond New York
February 13, 2013
Real-Time Yammer Competitor Hall Launches New Apps For iOS And Mac; Hits 10K Businesses, Double-Digit Growth
February 12, 2013
Virtual Storage Performance Company Infinio Raises $10M From Highland Capital And Bessemer Venture Partners
February 12, 2013
About.me Buys Itself Back From AOL
February 05, 2013
Touch here for a bed
February 04, 2013
With A Fresh $1M From Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh, Skillshare Looks To Expand Its Course Menu And Go Big Abroad
January 31, 2013
7 Mass. innovation sectors see rise in employment
January 31, 2013
Readyforce Acquires Umeqo – The MIT Campus Recruiting Event Management Platform
January 31, 2013
Online Kids’ Clothing Consignment Service thredUP Opens Its Next New Vertical: Juniors
January 28, 2013
Travis Kalanick: The Transportation Trustbuster
January 25, 2013
Free, Open-Source Digital Textbook Provider, Boundless, Releases Its Content Under Creative Commons
January 22, 2013
Listia Partners With Best Buy To Let You Trade Old Stuff For New Electronics
January 21, 2013
CustomMade aims for Whole Foods-style shift in furniture and jewelry buying
January 18, 2013
Site management startup Pantheon now serving over 1B hits a month
January 15, 2013
Causes Acquires Votizen To Democratize Democracy
January 10, 2013
Boundless expands free replacements for college textbooks
January 09, 2013
Limo driver: Uber 'saved the day'
December 27, 2012
As Mobile Work Rises, 9-to-5 Jobs Decline
December 24, 2012
With a Click, a Meal and a Story
December 21, 2012
See.me’s community is 500K artists, $1.5M strong
December 17, 2012
Tech Insurgents 2012: Mike Karnjanaprakorn, Founder and CEO, Skillshare
December 15, 2012
Blue Box raises more cash, this time from David Frankel’s Founder Collective
December 15, 2012
Google-ITA powered MileWise refreshes its flight rewards app, now with ComboFares, Price Alerts and more
December 13, 2012
Art Site Takes Charitable Turn
December 13, 2012
YouTube to Power New Media Businesses of the Future? Maybe.
December 11, 2012
CNNMoney's Laurie Segall shares some inventive new tips for job searching.
December 08, 2012
Urban Airship Acquires Tello
December 04, 2012
Urban Airship Extends Mobile Commerce Opportunities With Tello Acquisition
December 04, 2012
Public Radio : Marketplace Segment
December 04, 2012
Uber wins unanimously in Washington, DC, which is now rewriting its taxi laws
December 04, 2012
Former Z Corp. chief executive joins Harvest Automation, agricultural robotics startup
November 30, 2012
DIY Website For Kids Is A Gallery Of Ideas
November 28, 2012
PowerInbox and ActivePath Merge with Venture Funding
November 28, 2012
CustomMade Pairs Artisans with Those Seeking Custom Goods
November 28, 2012
App Helps Find Current Rental Listings
November 28, 2012
Free Textbooks Spell Disruption for College Publishers
November 19, 2012
SavingStar Makes Paperless Coupons National
November 08, 2012
BillGuard Teams Up With Lemon’s Mobile Wallet, Will Alert Users To Fraudulent Charges
November 05, 2012
Boundless Continues to Revolutionize How Textbooks are Made By Hosting a New Kind of Hackathon
November 02, 2012
InStyle’s Best of the Web List 2012
November 01, 2012
Correspondent Brian Rooney explores how the under- and unemployed are now making money -- as long as they have a smartphone and the right app.
November 01, 2012
Pot-Moving Automation From Harvest Automation Tested At Metrolina
November 01, 2012
Best Inventions of the Year 2012 : The MakerBot Replicator 2
November 01, 2012
Online Consignment Shop ThredUP Launches Digital Fundraising Platform Called “Groups,” Now Raising Money For Hurricane Sandy Relief
November 01, 2012
Outdoor Ad Startup ADstruc Launches A New Ad-Buying Workflow And Partners With Telmar
October 31, 2012
Re-thinking education for the Internet Age
October 31, 2012
Readyforce sets off on cross-country trip, picking up hackers along the way
October 29, 2012
Hacker Tour Links Startups With College Coders
October 18, 2012
Build, Make, Hack, Grow With DIY.org
October 18, 2012
Video Surveillance And Retail Analytics Startup Prism Skylabs Raises $7.5M Andreessen Horowitz, Triangle Peak And Others
October 16, 2012
Oyster Raises $3M From Founders Fund To Finally Create An Unlimited Subscription Service For Books
October 10, 2012
YouTube Premium Content Goes Global - Without Asia
October 09, 2012
Lovely Goes From Craigslist Target To The Kayak Of Apartment Rentals As It Launches Nationwide
October 09, 2012
Online, a Genome Project for the World of Art
October 08, 2012
3-D Printing: A technology on the make?
September 28, 2012
Bureau Of Trade Raises $1.2M From Foundation Capital & Others For New Men’s Shopping Site
September 26, 2012
Hotel Tonight — A Mobile App Exception to Commoditization
September 24, 2012
Cassidy: Pablo Fuentes hopes Proven will become the LinkedIn for service workers
September 24, 2012
Gyft Brings Gift Cards From Over 200 Retailers To Apple’s Passbook
September 24, 2012
Cassidy: Pablo Fuentes hopes Proven will become the LinkedIn for service workers
September 24, 2012
US government and Stack Exchange launch crowdsourced patent process
September 20, 2012
Contently Adds Tools to Help Writers Showcase and Track Their Work
September 20, 2012
Makerbot Releases The $2,199 Replicator 2.0, A Leap Forward In Home 3D Printing
September 19, 2012
Tello Launches PassTools To Help Businesses Build Their Apple Passbook Passes
September 19, 2012
The New MakerBot Replicator Might Just Change Your World
September 19, 2012
Zynga Buys A Bit Lucky To Break Into Mid-Core Gaming
September 17, 2012
Gina Bianchini’s Mightybell Evolves Into A Collaborative Online Space For Creative Projects
September 16, 2012
This Tiny New York Startup Is Showing Facebook How It's Done
September 14, 2012
BuzzFeed Hires Web Video Pioneer Ze Frank
September 14, 2012
BuzzFeed’s First Acquisition Kingfish Labs Could Make Its FB Ads Go More Viral Than Football Cats
September 13, 2012
CustomMade Is the Custom-Goods Matchmaker
September 12, 2012
A Taste of a Distant Home, Minus the Chopping
September 12, 2012
An App That Combines All Your Calendars Into One
September 11, 2012
Founder Collective raises $70M for second fund
September 11, 2012
Difference Engine: The PC all over again?
September 09, 2012
Robots in the shrubbery
September 07, 2012
Recommendation Site Top10 Gets Even More Selective With Number One Picks
September 06, 2012
Pose, 1M Users Strong, Brings Its Fashion Photo App To The iPad — And Starts To Make (And Share) Revenue
September 06, 2012
eBay Acquires Style-Focused, Social, Curated Shopping Site Svpply
September 06, 2012
Chat With FanBridge: Why YouTube Stars Seek Help Connecting To Their Fans
September 05, 2012
Boundless Hits Local Campuses to Get Feedback on New, Free Textbook Product
September 05, 2012
An Easier Way to Find Adult Classes
August 31, 2012
HotelTonight Books Up 10 New Markets For Its Last-Minute Service, Reaches 3M App Downloads
August 29, 2012
Ticketing Startup SeatGeek Raises $1.65M To Embrace Mobile And More
August 29, 2012
Start-ups Join Hacker Tour to Recruit Tech Talent
August 23, 2012
GraphEffect Launches a Game-Changing Enterprise Collaboration Platform for Social Marketers, Including Public API
August 22, 2012
Drafting It - Seth Rosen of CustomMade
August 20, 2012
Online Payments Service Braintree Acquires Social Payments Startup Venmo For $26.2M
August 16, 2012
Boundless, Battling Big Publishers, Rolls Out New Site to Replace Textbooks
August 09, 2012
Help Wanted: Moonlighters for Mobile Apps
August 09, 2012
Skillshare Rethinks Education By Putting Projects, Not Lectures, Online
August 09, 2012
How Buzzfeed Won Over Madison Avenue
August 09, 2012
Uber’s tried-and-true marketing plan: Let your customers do the work
August 09, 2012
Amid Lawsuits From Publishers, Boundless Launches A Free, Open Alternative To Textbooks
August 08, 2012
Boundless Unveils Next Generation of Free Digital Textbooks
August 08, 2012
GiveForward Raises $2 Million For Crowd-sourced Donation Service
July 25, 2012
AdSafe Preps For M&A Activity, Tackling 'Impression-Fraud'
July 25, 2012
Give Away Old Stuff, Get New Stuff: Listia Opens A Rewards Store
July 18, 2012
Lore: The Social Network for Higher Education Redefines How Educators & Learners Communicate
July 17, 2012
Slideshow: 30 Under 30: Aditya Julka
July 15, 2012
Slideshow: 30 Under 30: Carter Cleveland
July 15, 2012
How Opower's Dan Yates Persuades People to Use Less Energy
July 12, 2012
Meet the 30 Under 30, Class of 2012: HeyZap
July 02, 2012
Meet the 30 Under 30, Class of 2012: Codecademy
July 02, 2012
Meet the 30 Under 30, Class of 2012: BaubleBar
July 02, 2012
Meet the 30 Under 30, Class of 2012: Contently
July 02, 2012
This Company Wants You To Get Paid For Teaching In Your Spare Time
May 12, 2012
Ticket Search Entrepreneurs Going Native
May 09, 2012
Zach Klein On His New Startup: DIY, A Community and App For Kids Who Make
April 27, 2012
Boundless Learning Raises $8 Million to Make Expensive College Textbooks Free
April 05, 2012
CustomMade's makers will build anything you can imagine
April 04, 2012
Just the Facts. Yes, All of Them.
March 24, 2012
The Goal: a Perfect First-Time Fit
March 23, 2012
QVC Acquires Personalized E-Commerce Site For Fashion Accessories, Send The Trend
February 23, 2012
Flickr co-founder announces newest startup & newest funding
February 16, 2012
Milo.com finds local sales
February 09, 2012
Milo, and Now Google, Try to Put Store Stock Online
February 09, 2012
Factual Raises $1 Million Seed Round
February 09, 2012
Online Art Wars Heat Up, as Paddle8 Secures $4 Million From Tech and Luxury Investors
February 08, 2012
Significant and Silly at BuzzFeed
February 05, 2012
Top10's Nifty Spotify App Drives 100,000 Song Recommendations In Three Weeks
January 05, 2012
Betaworks Raises $20M From Intel, Others
December 18, 2011
Milo.com finds local sales
December 18, 2011
These May Be The Droids Farmers Are Looking For
November 11, 2011
The Future of the Web: Brand Content and Browsers
November 02, 2011
New Factual Resolve API Will Help Clean Up
October 24, 2011