article thumbnail

9 Startups That Made Life Better In 2014

ReadWriteStart

One thing common to 2014’s most intriguing upstarts is how they didn’t just serve themselves: They empowered others to innovate, too. Whether it’s through easier communication, better health, or faster development, these companies have made a big splash in the way we live and work. MyFitnessPal.

API 60
article thumbnail

Digital.NYC: The First Ecosystem Hub

Gust

On October 1st, 2014, after more than two years of partnership and development, Gust proudly joined the Mayor of the City of New York and IBM in announcing the launch of Digital.NYC , NYC’s new official hub for tech and startups. News outlets from USA Today to Mashable to Brooklyn’s Technical.ly Gust News'

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

View from Seed - Untitled Article

View from Seed

When Jay joined our team back in 2014, we were the first early-stage VC in Boston to have a dedicated head of platform and one of the first handful in the country to do so. We are excited for Jay to also continue to focus more time on some of his own projects, which you can check out here.

article thumbnail

Welcoming Ginny Mineo to the NextView Team!

View from Seed

When Jay joined our team back in 2014, we were the first early-stage VC in Boston to have a dedicated head of platform and one of the first handful in the country to do so. We are excited for Jay to also continue to focus more time on some of his own projects, which you can check out here.

article thumbnail

Making Social Media Work For SMEs

YoungUpstarts

Small businesses rarely have the time or resources to invest in outsourced customer service support, and some are finding it more efficient to serve customers via social media platforms: one LinkedIn study from 2014 revealed that 81 percent of North American SMEs use social media [5]. It’s exactly the same in social media. [6]

article thumbnail

30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

VC Cafe

Anodot (2014) – a real-time analytics and automated anomaly detection system that discovers outliers in vast amounts of data. Fraugster (2014) – Technically based in Berlin, the company uses AI to predict malicious attacks before they happen. Logz.io (2014) – Logz.io Raised $8M in series B in September 2016.

article thumbnail

Small Businesses A Great Fit For The New Nimble Marketplace

YoungUpstarts

2 “Retailers Try to Adapt to Device-Hopping Shoppers”, The New York Times, December 21, 2012. 4 “New Research Shows How Digital Connects Shoppers to Local Stores”, October, 2014. 6 “Mobile Commerce will be Nearly Half of E-commerce by 2018”, InternetRetailer, March 10, 2014.