Swiftype closes $7.5M in less time than it takes to break a habit. Usually startups take a little break between raising their seed rounds and their Series A, but not Swiftype.
This “search-as-a-service” company has closed $7.5 million, just six weeks after announcing a $1.7 million seed round. Y Combinator-backed Swiftype provides solutions that help companies integrate search engines into their websites, no coding required. Canary smartphone-connected home security monitor is now available to pre-order, unexpectedly. 11 September '13, 06:41pm Follow Canary, the home security device that plays nicely with your smartphone to keep you up to date of happenings at home even while you’re not there, is now available to pre-order priced at $199.
While pre-orders were not expected to go live just yet, the company sent out a note to its Indiegogo backers to let them know that additional devices would be made available at the early bird price of $199 – making it less than some of them paid via the Indiegogo project. Delivery is expected from July 2014. To rectify the pricing imbalance, the company is offering Canary buyers who pre-ordered a matte black or silver device (one or two units) either three months of premium Canary Cloud service (which brings extra video storage and other features) or the option of their money back. Pearltrees for iPad is a Must-Have App. "Tell me when it's an iPad app," I've told the team behind web curation startup Pearltrees over and over again.
That day has finally come and what was a clumsy, Flash-based web experience is now a gorgeous, brilliant iPad app. Happy day, the Pearltrees iPad app is finally here! Pearltrees is a link saving and sharing service that uses a beautiful visual metaphor - links are saved as floating glass orbs just made for touching, swiping and zooming.