Google Glass app Race Yourself wants to help motivate better fitness through augmented reality
San Francisco-based startup Race Yourself (formerly GlassFit), a virtual reality fitness app for Google Glass, announced its beta launch at CES...
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Funding & Acquisitions Newswire: January 9, 2014
Today’s early-stage startup funding and acquisitions news: Devices/Gadgets The Eye Tribe Says It’s Shipping Its First $99 Eye-Tracking...
Elephanti wants to enable local brick-and-mortar businesses to easily connect with motivated buyers via mobile device
A Q&A with Elephanti founder and president Lalin Jinasena. The Singapore-based startup, which is a mobile app that connects shoppers with local...
CES envy? The best places to catch up online
By Brian Kovalesky, StartUp Beat Editor Feeling like you’re missing something by not attending CES? I can relate. While there was too little...
Funding & Acquisitions Newswire: January 8, 2014
Today’s early-stage startup funding and acquisitions news: Transit Drive Raises $2.7 Million For Its Uber-Like Service In The Crowded French...
Inspired by personal experience with overpriced supplements and other nutritional products, Nutraspire is cutting out the middleman and the markups for health-conscious consumers
A Q&A with Nutraspire founder and CEO Jonah Lupton. The Wilmington, North Carolina-based startup, which was founded in the spring of 2013 by the...
Featured Startup Pitch: Dublin-based Watly has built a solar-powered electricity, water filtration and Internet connectivity device for infrastructure-poor regions
By Marco A. Attisani, Watly founder and CEO Elevator Pitch: Watly is an integrated utility machine that desalinates and purifies water, provides...
Funding & Acquisitions Newswire: January 7, 2014
Today’s early-stage startup funding and acquisitions news: Health/Healthcare Omicia raises $6.8M for service that lets doctors analyze...
Featured Startup Pitch: Momentage’s app pulls multimedia elements together to make social media posts into ‘storytelling moments’
By George Castineiras, Momentage co-founder and CEO Elevator Pitch: Momentage, the leading online community for the new creatives, is bringing...
Funding & Acquisitions Newswire: January 6, 2014
Today’s early-stage startup funding and acquisitions news: Social Pinterest purchases image recognition company to improve search (via...
Editor’s Note: A quick look back, and a longer look forward
By Brian Kovalesky, StartUp Beat Editor In the spirit of StartUp Beat’s mission to shine a light on innovative, early-stage startups that often...
Featured Startup Pitch: Ebook publishing startup Pubsoft wants to help publishers and authors reclaim the ‘reader relationship’
By Dougal Cameron, Pubsoft co-founder and COO Elevator Pitch: Pubsoft gives today’s publishers a way to reclaim relationships with authors and...
