Frameri Partners With EnChroma To Offer Fashion Eyewear For The Color Blind 

frameri For the one in twelve men (and one in two hundred women) who suffer from color blindness, online eyeglasses retailer Frameri is partnering with color-enhancing lens manufacturer EnChroma to create the first fashion eyewear collection for the color blind.
Frameri launched last summer with the hypothesis that people who wear glasses regularly get tired of wearing the same pair all the time. Read More

Drones Take The Runway At New York Fashion Week

 As the lights dimmed at the Rebecca Minkoff runway show at New York Fashion Week on Friday, a drone hovered above the band in the center of the runway.
The drone, a Yuneec Typhoon quadcopter with a GoPro attached, followed overhead as each model …

With $23M From Accel And Salesforce, CartoDB Will Bring Mapping To The Masses

Screen Shot 2015-09-10 at 8.10.43 AM So maybe you’ve heard that deforestation is destroying 200 kilometers of the world’s forests each day. Obviously, that doesn’t sound good. But visualize this data on a map of the world, and it’s much easier to understand why deforestation is a huge concern. This ability to communicate information through maps is what spurred Javier de la Torre, a conservation scientist… Read More

Fundbox Secures $50 Million More To Power Small Businesses

fundbox_team Less than six months after announcing a $40 million Series B investment, alternative lending startup Fundbox has closed on another $50 million in funding to provide small businesses with the immediate cash they need to stay afloat.
Spark Capital Growth led the round, which brings Fundbox’s venture funding total to $108 million in just under a year and a half. Bezos Expeditions, Sound… Read More

With A Fresh $14M, Freightos Wants To Power The Global Freight Industry

Screen Shot 2015-09-09 at 9.35.04 AM Take a look around you. From the screen you’re staring at to the shoes on your feet, chances are you’re surrounded by products made in China, India, and Europe. Whether you realize it or not, you rely on the trillion-dollar international freight industry to get these items from the factory to your doorstep. But the process is much less high-tech than you’d think.… Read More

The Black Tux Grabs $25M To Dress Men To The Nines

theblacktux The Black Tux, a suit and tuxedo rental startup based in Santa Monica, has scooped up another $25 million in funding to make sure groomsmen no longer look like they’re wearing their dads’ old suits. Led by Stripes Group (also investors in eco-friendly fashion brand Reformation) with participation from prior investors First Round and Menlo Ventures, the Series B comes less than… Read More

The Eko Core Is A Digital Upgrade For The Centuries-Old Stethoscope

Screen Shot 2015-09-01 at 6.47.47 PM In a few months, the stethoscope will celebrate its 200th birthday. A medical breakthrough in 1816, it’s still a part of nearly every doctor’s visit today and a symbol of medicine itself.
Yet the stethoscope hasn’t changed much in the past 200 years. No different than in the 17th century, listening to a heartbeat has been a manual process that relies entirely on a… Read More

Edenworks Is Building The Future Of Food On Urban Rooftops

Screen Shot 2015-09-01 at 7.28.49 AM Avocados from Mexico. Apples from Chile. Broccoli from China. If you take a look at the stickers on the produce you’re buying at the grocery store, chances are they’ll read something like this.
Fast-forward twenty years. Instead of driving to Whole Foods to pay top dollar for produce that was picked two weeks ago and artificially kept alive with preservatives and refrigeration… Read More

Storefront Launches RetailGrade, A Scoring Tool For Pop-Up Shops

Screen Shot 2015-08-25 at 5.17.30 PM Despite a growing number of direct-to-consumer brands, brick-and-mortar shopping still accounts for 94 percent of retail sales in the U.S. That’s why Storefront, a startup that provides brands with temporary retail space, is launching RetailGrade, a new tool that makes reaching these offline shoppers a lot more straightforward. Since launching in San Francisco in 2012, Storefront… Read More

Hyper Brings You The Best Of Internet Video, Every Day

Screenshot_Hyper1 Hyper, a curated video discovery platform, is launching today to provide you with a daily dose of the best short-form video content that the Internet has to offer.
Powered by $1.1 million in seed funding from Advancit Capital, Lowercase Capital, Broadway Video Ventures, Freehand Ventures and Mesa Ventures, film producer Markus Gilles and cinematographer Jonas Brandau left Berlin’s… Read More