Glasses by Warby Parker is an artificial intelligence app that helps people find the perfect eyeglass frames using iPhone X’s TrueDepth camera. The app takes maps of people’s faces, and uses that data to recommend styles of glasses that will best fit their faces. It
Smart-Save by Stash is a new app that helps users save their spare cash automatically. Rolled out by Stash, an app that allows people to invest in ETFs from as little as $5, Smart-Save studies users’ spending and earnings patterns to figure out when they’ve
Education technology startup Panorama Education completed $16 million in Series B financing, led by Emerson Collective. Spark Capital, Owl Ventures, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and Uncork Capital also participated in the funding. Panorama Education is a data analytics company focused on K-12 education with a technology
Proofpoint, Inc., a cybersecurity company, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Cloudmark, Inc., a company that provides messaging security and threat intelligence for Internet service providers (ISPs) and mobile carriers worldwide. The transaction is expected to close in 2017. Cloudmark correlates email threat telemetry
Enterprise IT startup Equalum closed $5 million in Series A financing, led by Innovation Endeavors, with participation from GE Ventures. Equalum’s data beaming platform is designed to ingest data in real time, as it is created, from any number of sources or data silos – with
Follywood is an entertainment app that allows users to dub movie parodies to share online and with friends. It supports multi-track audio recording, sliding track to adjust sync, and various sizing flexibility, including Square, 4:3, 16:9, and Portrait. Users simply pick a video (or add
Gridics announced the close of $1.6 million in seed financing, led by BH3. Gridics is real estate technology and analytics startup in downtown Miami. The company’s flagship patent-pending application, Zonar.City, aims to provide city planning departments, land use attorneys, commercial brokers, architects, and developers the power
Storage startup StrongBox Data Solutions announced it secured $27 million in financing. Fonds de solidarite FTQ and Partner One Capital participated in the round. By leveraging the power of machine learning, StrongBox Data Solutions offers a suite of solutions that strives to reduce storage costs,
Security startup NeuVector announced the acquisition of $7 million in Series A financing, led by HWVP. NeuVector’s real-time, “layer 7” network container security solution is designed to secure containers at their most vulnerable point – during run-time. The company’s declarative security policy aims to ensure that
Coment is a tool that aims to monitor and manage all comments on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Disqus, and WordPress with a single click, all from one dashboard. According to the company, Coment automatically detects and flags inappropriate comments – no keyword lists required –