Tag: startups

5 Questions and One Link with Kindara

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Say hello to Kindara, a mobile fertility app that helps women manage their reproductive health and navigate the complexities of modern day pregnancies using their own data and personalized support. We sat with Co-Founder, Williams Sacks, to talk about what’s next for Kindara and the key learnings they’ve made in their growth, so far.

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Five Questions and One Link with Dispatch

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Welcome back to Five Questions and One Link, a brief conversation with the noteworthy companies we believe are transforming the way we use technology. This week we’re introducing Dispatch, a TechStars NYC Grad, building a tool for teams to discuss and organize their projects. Co-Founder, Nicholas Stamas, took a break to answer a few questions.

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Five Questions and One Link with Unpakt

This installment of Five Questions and One Link requires full disclosure: Undercurrent worked with Unpakt to help conceptualize the product and place the key creative and technical partners. But regardless of our personal connection, Unpakt is the disruptive kind a startup we always admire. With the goal of bringing transparency, simplicity and accurate pricing to the arduous process of moving, the service lets users search, compare and book movers online. Daniel Cooke, General Manager of Unpakt, took on this batch of questions.

1) In 140 characters or less, what problem is your company solving?

Finding a great mover and getting pricing is a time-consuming, difficult process. Unpakt is a digital service that makes it fast and easy.

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Five Questions and One Link with Riffle

Welcome to Five Questions and One Link, a new feature that gives a quick look inside some of the most interesting startups. This week we’re talking to Neil Baptista, the founder and CEO of Riffle, a new social web app that helps users discover great books. Read on and see below for a special link to jump the beta queue and join the community.

1) In 140 characters or less, what problem is your company solving?

Riffle is the future of book publishing. Connecting readers with books they’ll love, anywhere they’d like to read them.

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The Hardware Startup Movement

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A return to making things. —A return to making things.

An influx of new technology has made hardware startups far more attractive and less daunting to new entrepreneurs. Get ready for the next wave of startups that manipulate atoms instead of bits.

In light of Internet Week and Walkabout NYC, Undercurrent’s office has been buzzing about local startups. The roster of tech startups that are opening their doors on 5/18 are a familiar ilk: SaaS companies, apps, and e-commerce sites.

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