Mobile distribution efforts to bring fruits and vegetables to food deserts have been a repeatedly-tried solution for bringing healthy food into the hands of those who need it. The recent trend with food businesses is to go mobile, with food trucks popping up on every street corner. For food justice advocates, that means filling school buses,…
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This morning, NYC-based startup Honestly Now announced they closed their Series A financing round led by Golden Seeds and Canrock Ventures. The team, led by CEO and co-founder Tereza Nemessanyi, has been completely revamping their online product and their mobile apps, and they are relaunching today as a social game that helps reduce the stress of…
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How would you like to spend a day on the set of Modern Family? Or hang out with scientists at the MIT Robotics Lab? Or win a chance to meet with X-Prize founder Peter Diamandis? You can enter a sweepstakes to do all of the above thanks to a brand-spanking new (literally, it’s like 2…
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I recently wrote about three sites that make trip planning fun. But not every trip is planned; sometimes you get stranded, sometimes you decide to take an impromptu trip, and finding a hotel can be hard even when you have time to plan. RoomSailor , an iPhone app, uses geolocation to search for hotels nearby. You can…
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With the daily deal market overflowing, how can new entrants possibly hope to compete?Sharing Spree, which combines deals with charity like Deals for Deeds, can teach us a thing or two. The site has expanded to three cities and donated over $152,000 to nonprofits in a year. Users pick from around 150 charities to receive…
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If you knew how easy it is to contribute to campaigns that are doing good in the world, would you do your part? StartSomeGood is a new social crowd-funding platform that should make the decision easy so you can feel good about helping those who need it. Social entrepreneurs always encounter an uphill battle when…
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Mobile apps are taking over the world. We are covering more and more of them here at Tech Cocktail, and they all seem to be amazingly clever and useful. And now they are arriving in a big way on the restaurant scene. At yesterday’s Wall Street Journal-sponsored D: All Things Digital Conference, Flip Video founder…
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When exercise is fun, we’re more likely to do it. That’s the idea behind Explorence, a mobile app that turns outdoor recreational activities into real-life video games. Video games are great, but they keep you on the couch. With obesity in the United States carrying a $147 billion price tag, just over 9% of medical spending,…
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Social Innovation – the concept of creating new strategies and ideas to strengthen society – will be showcased and celebrated tonight in Boston at the Eighth Annual Social Innovation Forum. Described as ‘a venture fair for nonprofits’, five organizations will pitch their ideas that encourage innovation and contribution for the greater good to a network of…
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TroopSwap, a startup based in Hampton Roads, VA, has announced the upcoming launch of their daily deal site exclusively for members of the military community, following a round of private funding from investors. The $585,000 infusion of cash is taking the company from conceptual to actual, with a launch date in Hampton Roads expected before Memorial Day Weekend. The…
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Portapure, the company that creates portable water filtration systems, is debuting their new eco-friendly Travel Filter at Tech Cocktail NYC tonight. Designed to achieve bottled water taste without the expense and waste of purchasing bottled water, the pocket-sized TravelFilter is the perfect alternative to bottle and pitcher filters. It removes organic contaminants, heavy metals, chlorine,…
Read MoreGoing out for a night on the town can be expensive, especially if you live in a big city. If you go out two or three nights a week, it can add up fast. Beside trying to make friends with the bartender there really isn’t anything you can do to bring the cost down, but…
Read MoreWith the unemployment rate at 9.5%, building marketable skills and accessing networking opportunities is not just a desire but a necessity for millions of Americans. Enter CommuniTeach, a cost-effective way to do both. CommuniTeach is an application that makes it easy to learn anything from your peers – for free. For any skill you want…
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After last winter’s devastating earthquake in Haiti, safe drinking water in the affected areas became a very scarce commodity. As a Water Filtration Specialist with the City of Chicago’s Department of Water Management, George Page knew there had to be a way to provide access to safe drinking water. He set out to create portable…
Read MoreGoogle launched a brand new Google for Nonprofits portal and offering on Wednesday night at its Washington, DC offices. The event took place on the eve of the 11NTC, the nonprofit sector’s leading technology conference. Google’s new nonprofit effort adds two major changes to the company’s current offering; a new single sign-on procedure for all…
Read MoreTech Cocktail is very fortunate to get to meet and work with so many amazing companies and groups. And one of the organizations we’re privileged to work with on our SXSW event is Applications For Good (A4G), a project that is leveraging the power of the crowd to create applications that serve public purpose. A4G is produced…
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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