TVTY Raises $4.5 Million To Sync TV And Online Ads

TVTY Raises $4.5 Million To Sync TV And Online Ads

French startup TVTY raised $4.5 million from Partech Ventures, 360 Capital Partners and business angels. This is yet another sign that French companies’ efforts to advertise technology have been doing very well. TVTY provides an API for advertising companies to bridge...
Tinder-Style Clothes Shopping App, Mallzee, Swipes £500K To Grow

Tinder-Style Clothes Shopping App, Mallzee, Swipes £500K To Grow

TechCrunch May 22, 2014 ‘Tinderfaces’ are in app vogue right now. By which I mean Tinder-esque ‘swipe to filter’ interfaces. ‘X app is the Tinder of Y’ has become the standard descriptive shorthand for this trend (named, of course, for dating app Tinder which...
How TheFamily Is Reshaping The French Tech Ecosystem

How TheFamily Is Reshaping The French Tech Ecosystem

TechCrunch May 22, 2014 French startup accelerator TheFamily is raising up to $2 million from angel investors and Index Ventures. It’s an open round — so far investors have committed $1 million. Given the overall interest around the funding, the company should quickly...
Restaurant Waitlist Platform NoWait Raises $10 Million

Restaurant Waitlist Platform NoWait Raises $10 Million

TechCrunch May 20, 2014 Mobile wait listing service for restaurants NoWait has raised $10 million in Series B funding, the company is announcing this morning. The new round was led by Drive Capital, the $250 million Ohio-based fund focused on Midwestern companies, and...
Amazon Invests $20M In Shanghai-Based Food Delivery Site Yummy77

Amazon Invests $20M In Shanghai-Based Food Delivery Site Yummy77

TechCrunch May 19, 2014 Amazon has poured $20 million in Yummy77, a food delivery site based in Shanghai. Yummy77 confirmed the funding in a post on Weibo and said it will use the capital to expand into new markets and help Amazon’s China site expand its selection of...