Latest from Fitz Tepper
Featured Article
Whitney Wolfe Herd doesn’t care what she’s supposed to do
It’s 4:55pm Central Time on a Tuesday at Bumble headquarters in Austin, Texas. Whitney Wolfe Herd, the 28-year-old founder and CEO of the woman-led dating app is showing me around the nearly four-year-old startup’s office before we sit down to talk. Our first stop is the standard startup watering hole, with…
3:00 pm PDT • May 13, 2018
Bumble is suing Match Group for $400M for fraudulently obtaining trade secrets
8:10 pm PDT • March 28, 2018
Two weeks ago Match Group (Tinder’s parent company) sued Bumble for patent infringement and misuse of intellectual property. Bumble has now returned the favor by filing a separate lawsuit accusing Match…
Media & Entertainment
Morning Brew is a daily business briefing built for millennials
10:40 am PDT • March 26, 2018
What’s the best way to stay up to date on things happening within your industry? Seasoned finance professionals read the Wall Street Journal. Anyone who wants to work in politics…
It’s no secret that much of the legal industry is build on reusable content. Most law firms have their own customized set of standard documents (like NDAs or Wills), but lawyers…
It’s generally a given that whenever a new technology takes off people rush into the space to build everything under the sun, and eventually natural selection kicks in and only…
Crypto
CryptoKitties raises $12M from Andreessen Horowitz and Union Square Ventures
9:50 pm PDT • March 20, 2018
CryptoKitties, the virtual collectible kitten game that turned into a viral sensation has raised $12M in funding and will be spun out from Axiom Zen, the Vancouver and San Francisco-based design…
Yesterday we reported that Match, the parent company of Tinder, was suing Bumble for patent infringement and misuse of intellectual property. Specifically, Match alleged that Bumble “copied Tinder’s world-changing, card-swipe-based, mutual…
Media & Entertainment
Drake and Ninja are playing Fortnite live on Twitch
11:37 pm PDT • March 14, 2018
What do Drake, Ninja the professional esports player, Kim Dotcom, Travis Scott and NFL player JuJu Smith-Schuster have in common? They’re all playing Fortnite together right now and live-streaming it…
Media & Entertainment
FanDuel’s new March Madness game lets casual fans pick teams instead of players
10:37 am PST • March 8, 2018
Over the last year or so daily fantasy sports companies like FanDuel and DraftKings have shifted their focus towards building products that are simple enough for even casual sports fans…
Fintech
Square’s Cash app now supports direct deposits for your paycheck
6:44 pm PST • March 7, 2018
It seems like each new feature Square adds to its Cash app brings it one step closer to being a de-facto bank account for its users. Case in point, the…
When you’re the runaway leader in a growing industry, you typically have two opinions: A) Stay in your lane and let other companies pop up to solve the industry’s problems, or…
Mighty has raised $9M to build a CRM for legal and medical funders
9:56 am PST • March 6, 2018
What’s better than building a company in a fast growing industry? Building a service provider for all the other companies in that fast growing industry. While Mighty started as a…
Enterprise
Intelligo is using AI to make background checks relevant again
8:28 am PST • March 6, 2018
To realize that the background check industry needs an overhaul look no further than the backlog of 700,000 background checks faced by the federal agency that handles all background checks…
Media & Entertainment
Bumble is becoming the LA Clippers’ jersey sponsor
6:00 am PST • March 6, 2018
The latest company to sponsor an NBA team by putting a patch on a jersey is…Bumble, the female-led dating and networking app. The company’s logo will now be appearing on…
Dating app Bumble is joining the dozens of major companies that have decided to take the fight against gun violence into their own hands following a string of mass shootings…
Crypto
Coinbase has hired LinkedIn’s M&A boss to spearhead new acquisitions
2:11 pm PST • March 5, 2018
Coinbase is continuing its executive hiring spree as the company has announced that Emilie Choi is joining Coinbase as vice president of Corporate and Business Development.
What if it look like if the majority of newly issued ERC-20 tokens were used for good, instead of scammy ICO evil? One Y Combinator-backed startup that thinks they have an…
Alexa has literally lost her voice as users report outages and unresponsiveness
9:15 am PST • March 2, 2018
Amazon’s Alexa smart assistant seems to be down this morning. We’ve been hearing reports over the last hour of either delayed responses or just total loss of connection. While Amazon…
Garrett Camp, best known for being a co-founder of Uber and founder of the accelerator/venture fund Expa, is launching his own cryptocurrency. The currency is called Eco, and Camp wants…
Media & Entertainment
Amazon Prime Video will now show pay-per-view UFC fights
2:53 pm PST • February 28, 2018
If you’re a UFC fan you’ll now have another place to watch fights – Amazon Prime Video. The online retailers just announced that starting with UFC 222 on March 3rd,…
Startups
Here’s what Spotify shares will be worth when they start trading
12:33 pm PST • February 28, 2018
Spotify has finally filed to go public. But unlike most tech offerings, Spotify won’t be raising any money by issuing new shares. Instead they’ll just allow existing shares owned by…
Startups
Rhino is getting rid of security deposits for rental apartments
10:55 am PST • February 28, 2018
Arguably the most frustrating part of renting an apartment, especially in an expensive city like New York, is dealing with the security deposit. One startup wants to make renting easier…
As the streetwear and sneaker industry continues to explode in popularity we’re seeing more and more startups popping up to service the industry, all from slightly different angles. Meet Bump,…
Media & Entertainment
This is the tech that NFL players are excited about in 2018
8:44 am PST • February 21, 2018
With the NFL season now over, players finally have time to focus on their passions and side projects, which can be anything from an externship on Capital Hill to angel…
Startups
Molly wants to use your online presence to create an automated knowledge base
8:00 am PST • February 19, 2018
Isn’t it frustrating when you ask a friend a question — like what’s your favorite restaurant in New York or what trips have you been on this year — knowing…
Crypto
Visa confirms Coinbase wasn’t at fault for overcharging users
6:30 pm PST • February 16, 2018
Yesterday, we wrote that Coinbase customers were being charged multiple times for past transactions. While some speculated that the erroneous withdraws were down to a Coinbase engineering issue, Coinbase issued a…
While Coinbase has had its fair share of technical issues the last few months, it seems the latest one may not be its fault. Earlier today reports started coming in…
Startups
CoinTracker will keep track of your crypto as you transfer it between wallets and exchanges
10:30 am PST • February 15, 2018
It’s no secret that the cryptocurrency market cap has grown faster than the broader crypto industry. This means that the options for tools to help hold, track and manage your…
Startups
LiveLike raises $9.6M to get more broadcasters streaming in VR
7:10 am PST • February 15, 2018
LiveLike, a startup that powers VR streaming experiences for broadcasters like FOX Sports and Sky, has raised a $9.6M Series B round led by Greycroft Partners and Lepe Partners. This…
Startups
Sourcify is connecting entrepreneurs directly to pre-vetted overseas factories
9:03 am PST • February 13, 2018
If you’ve ever tried to order and source products from overseas you likely know the process is broken. Factories rarely talk directly to customers and middlemen are difficult to track…
