I’m always excited when an experienced team from the consumer mobile world crosses over into a complex and formidable area like healthcare or biotech. With Color Genomics, we’re getting just that. Elad Gil and Othman Laraki, who sold Mixer Labs to Twitter six years ago and went on to oversee search, geo and growth for the company, have joined forces again to do affordable… Read More
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The thesis behind Teleport, a new Andreessen Horowitz-backed startup from a group of early Skype alums, is that workers should be free to migrate to whichever city and country suits them best. They’ve been slowly building out a suite of tools that help digital workers figure out where they can maximize their take-home pay after accounting for costs like housing and… 
Most of us have embarrassing stories about things we’ve shared on social media, but it’s hard to top Ethan Czahor‘s. He was hired as Jeb Bush’s chief technology officer, but shortly after he got the job, journalists uncovered some old, offensive tweets and he had to resign. Now Czahor is back in the tech world (before going into politics, he co-founded Hipster, which… 
Ever since Uber launched to enable users to hail a ride with a mobile app, any number of on-demand and same-day delivery services have emerged. In most cases, those companies end up building out their own logistics infrastructure and hiring their own delivery drivers. But why keep reinventing the wheel if the delivery and routing part of the service isn’t a part of your core competency? 
Another week, another episode of TechCrunch Radio on Sirius XM, and this week is no different. We’ll be bringing on the illustrious Anthony Ha from TechCrunch as a co-host while John Biggs is away, as well as guest appearances by Bumble cofounder Whitney Wolfe and a surprise guest judge. Judge for what, you ask? I’m glad you brought it up. For the last half of every TechCrunch… 
Twitter has for years tested a feature that would allow anyone to opt in to receive direct messages from other users on its platform, even if the accounts weren’t following each other as per earlier requirements. This setting was rolled out more broadly to a portion of Twitter’s user base in 2013, but never became an option for the general public. That changes today, says… 
Online health insurance for small businesses platform SimplyInsured has raised a total of $1.75 million in seed funding from Starling Ventures, Altair, NerdWallet co-founders Jake Gibson and Tim Chen, Amee and Adil Chaudry, Sam Melamed and Y Combinator to help “pour gas” on sales of the product. SimplyInsured launched out of Y Combinator’s winter 2013 batch with the aim of… 
Berlin-based startup edgee reckons it’s spotted a vacant space in the crowded social media parking lot for a new digital content format designed to sit between the expertise and effort of writing a blog post, and the brevity and flightiness of a tweet. 
MetaMind has named Ruslan Belkin, formerly of Salesforce, Twitter and Linkedin, its new vice president of engineering. The artificial intelligence startup launched late last year with $8 million from Khosla Ventures and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff. The company applies deep learning of natural language and images to solve a range of business problems. Currently the platform can be used for… 
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