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Cratejoy, a startup that runs a marketplace for subscription businesses and helps founders launch and scale their own subscription box services, has laid off 18 members of its 43-person team.

The companyco-founder and chief executive officer Amir Elaguizy confirmed the lay-offs to TechCrunch. He says the cuts are part of a restructuring

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Not even Techstars NYC can avoid the end of summer, where 10 startups are wrapping up their participation in the acceleratorsummer program.

This also marks the end of Alex Iskoldtenure as managing director of the program. Hecertainly going out with a varied groups of startups — these entrepreneurs are working on

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People procrastinate about buying insurance because itsuch a boring and complicated chore to compare policies. But Cover combines plans from 45 insurance companies into a single marketplace so iteasy to find the best one for your car, home, rental, business, personal property, pets, jewelry and more. Now Cover is building

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Maybe you&ve never heard about Tiny, but chances are, you&ve used its products. Tiny is the company behind the text editors you&ve likely used in WordPress, Marketo, Zendesk, Atlassian and other products. The company is actually the result of the merger of Moxiecode, the two-person team behind the open source TinyMCE editor, and

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We&ve finalized the Vancouver micro meetup for this Thursday. We&ll be holding it at Hootsuite HQ on 5, East 8th Ave at 7pm on October 4. Extra special thanks to the folks at Hootsuite for helping out.

You must RSVP here so we know how many are attending. If you&d like to pitch please fill out this form and I will contact you ONLY

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Heed, a startup looking to create new ways for sports leagues and clubs to engage with fans, is announcing that it has raised $35 million led by SoftBank Group International.

As laid out for me by CEO Danna Rabin, the company sits at the intersection of sports and IoT — which makes sense, since itwas founded by Internet of Things

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