A new site designed to make that tough decision of where to eat tonight a bit easier for restaurant-goers and food lovers has launched in DC. From the Food Network, the reservation site CityEats is partnering with Graffiato’s Chef/Owner, Mike Isabella, and competing directly with OpenTable. CityEats’ innovative cloud-based technology attempts to make reservations easy…
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Between crowded meter spots and overpriced garages, trying to find parking in a busy city district can be a major headache. Luckily, now we have Parking in Motion (PIM) – the new parking app that lets you find and compare parking wherever you may be. PIM brings real-time parking information and services to consumers through…
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If you are an obsessive social media user with a sense of adventure, LA-based startup Chatterpop, which demo’d at our Tech Cocktail Los Angeles mixer last week, has developed an easy-to-use video app with a social learning underpinning. The vision behind Chatterpop is to create a new way to make, share, and experience the world…
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It’s not mind control, but new technology out of Denmark comes close: Senseye is working on eye tracking software that lets your eyes control your phone. The software uses your smartphone or tablet camera to detect where you’re looking on a page. Based on that, you can scroll, click on icons, and play games –…
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Since it was founded in 2008, the financial discussion network StockTwits has attracted 150,000 users who post over 10,000 messages a day. These messages reach 40 million readers through streams licensed to CNN Money, Reuters, Yahoo! Finance, and others. Almost 200 public companies have signed up to use StockTwits’s premium version for $499 per month….
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If you plan on doing some online holiday shopping during a lull at work or tonight after you get home, MakerCraft, which demo’d at our Samsung Chicago Mobile event in September, just announced a number of updates to their mobile app, a DIY jewelry design platform. Their CEO, Corissa McClay, emailed us a list of their…
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Today 14 new startups are being announced as part of DreamIt Ventures Demo Days Philadelphia. This invitation-only event showcases the year’s graduating ventures first with a presentation from each individual start-up, followed by an open gallery where attendees can interact with the companies directly. For DreamIt Ventures, one of the top 15 ranked accelerators in the U.S.,…
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Touted as a Flickr competitor, Toronto-based photo sharing site 500px got a $525,000 vote of confidence from investors in June and – more importantly – from 3 million monthly unique visitors this fall. They released an updated iPad app last Friday, where you can follow photographers and see their favorite photos. 500px’s free platform uses…
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Instead of grumbling about potholes and all those other things their local government has yet to fix, CitySourced users have been making themselves heard since 2009. The Los Angeles-based startup lets users submit video, audio, or photo evidence of local issues related to public safety or the environment: on the app, I saw reports on…
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Long Beach-based startup Mingle, founded in July, looks a lot like your typical location-based social network. Like Sonor, it lets you view and chat with people nearby, but it focuses on professional networking. This free iOS app has attracted over 37,000 downloads – I even found some users in Vietnam when I downloaded it. But unlike…
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Looking for an app that is as secure as your bank account and stores all of your important documents and information to completely organize your life? Whether you’re a supermom, an executive, a pet lover, a friend, or a spouse, Personal is something you should know about. Let’s say you’re a mom. Do you need…
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Fooducate, a San Francisco startup, helps users make healthy purchases after they scan food barcodes. They just announced 10 million product scans in a new infographic. Fooducate is a free iOS and Android app that lets shoppers scan food items and view a letter grade and explanation, with flags like excess sugar, trans fats, additives,…
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Finnish-based startup Ovelin has developed an iPad app called WildChords that sounds like a fun way to learn an instrument – especially if you were thinking of adding that to your list of New Year’s resolutions. Of the company’s 3 founders, 2 used to play guitar and one still does. Their goal is to make…
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There are few places in the U.S. that speak to our love for shopping like the Mall of America in Minneapolis, so it is fitting that QR Codes met their match there on Black Friday. Mall of America worked with Minneapolis-based mobile agency MixMobi to deliver time changing offers within each of the QR Codes…
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A new app called ShoutFlow wants to create a non-intrusive social network by hooking you up with people that you haven’t met, but who share common interests and mutual friends. Let the comparisons to 2 other social discovery tools we recently covered begin: Converge pulls data from social networking sites to help you meet new…
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Seattle-based Glympse is an app for the always-running-10-minutes late, the socially inclined, and the worried parent. Glympse is a location-sharing device with an innovative map that lets you share your exact location with friends, family, and business associates. You don’t have to download the app to use it, and you can customize the duration of…
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Two months after the iPad 2 debuted in March, around 40% of users surveyed said their iPad was their primary computer, up from around 30%... Read More
There are a number of startup accelerator and incubator programs in the United States. We are fans of these programs (not to be confused with... Read More
We are excited to announce the participating startups for Tech Cocktail's South by Southwest (SXSW) event: #Startuplife Celebration presented by .CO. It was one of... Read More
With our Startup Mixology Conference coming up next week followed by our classic Tech Cocktail DC Summer mixer which will showcase a handful of early-stage... Read More