Retroscope is a new social network app that allows users to track, map, and share their mood on any topics or places with smileys and maps. They can also follow their family and friends’ feelings, explore the crowdsourced “world moodmap,” and give real-time emotional feedback
Consumer startup Modern Adventure announced the completion of $1 million in seed financing, led by Seal Rock Partners. The Portland, Oregon-based company is on a mission to be a leading provider of curated experiential travel. For instance, travelers can join chef Joshua McFadden of Ava Gene’s
InteraXon, an electronics startup, announced it raised $11.6 million in Series B financing, led by Export Development Canada, OMERS Ventures, and Trend Forward Capital. InteraXon’s brainwave-sensing technology is designed to help people free themselves from physical, emotional, and mental obstacles. The company’s flagship product, a brain
Brain Power Autism System is is a wearable, computerized “life coach” with game-like apps that empower children and adults on the autism spectrum to teach themselves social and cognitive “life skills” crucial to happy self-sufficiency. This four-part system includes Google Glass, autism related apps based
Vidrovr, a digital media startup, announced the close of $1.3 million in seed financing, led by Samsung NEXT, with participation from Verizon Ventures, RGA Ventures, and Social Starts. Vidrovr develops multimodal computer vision and machine learning systems to index, tag, and understand video. It processes videos
Hugsy products are built on the benefits of Kangaroo Care, a skin-to-skin contact method of holding a baby that leads to deeper sleep, better brain development, and improved bonding.The Hugsy Cuddle captures a parent’s warmth and scent, and the Hugsy Heartbeat plays back a parent’s
According to a recent SEC filing, security startup FireEye has raised $4.5 million in financing from an undisclosed investor. The FireEye malware protection platform strives to offer integrated, multi-vector protection utilizing stateful attack analysis to stop all stages of an advanced attack. With its Virtual Execution
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