One of Washington DC’s top investors and philanthropists, David Rubenstein has given $15 million dollars to his alma mater Duke University for innovation. Rubenstein recently donated $7.5 million dollars to repair cracks sustained in the Washington Monument during last years freak east earth quakes. Rubenstein’s $15 million dollar donation to Duke University makes it his
Our good friends at TechCocktail are bringing one of their great session events to Washington DC on May 24th. The event called “Relationships Matter: Harnessing The Power of Your Network To Build Your Startup” will take place Thursday May 24th from 6:30pm-9:00pm. The location for the event is top secret right now, to ensure that
One of the things Cameron and I noticed when we were in Washington DC as part of our nationwide startup road trip, was that their parking meters were equipped for internet payment. That meant we could refill our parking meters while we were meeting with some great startups all over town, and not have to
Washington DC based Ed-Tech startup LearnZillion has recently scored a $2.4 million dollar series A round. Participating in the round is the University of Michigan. Through U of M’s Social Venture Fund, $50,000 was contributed to this round. So what does LearnZillion do? They are creating a video library of some of the best lessons
Uber’s free UberX promotion comes just in the nick of time for hundreds of thousands of furloughed federal government workers in Washington DC.
Vine turned this ordinary 16 year old into a super star, then when he held a “meetup” at a DC area mall people mistakenly thought it was an active shooter.
News about one of our favorite Washington DC startups, Speek, came out of the excitement at SXSW V2V on Tuesday morning. Speek, the innovative and intuitive conference calling platform has raised another $1.1M in venture funding. The funding round had a variety of participants, most of which were in Las Vegas for the festivities (and
This DC startup is betting the key to better customer engagement is longer, more engaging contests.
1776 DC inks partnership with Pearson to support EdTech startups!
Online education is broken. Or so says Jacob Ruytenbeek, CEO and co-founder of DC startup yourClass. Online education has plenty of faults. For starters, although technology is vital to education, in most cases education is the last segment to benefit from changes in technology. Consider this: while there are a lot of startups tackling online
DC native startup Spinnakr announces seed round with Andreessen Horowitz, 500 Startups and more.
Cont3nt co-founder and 2012 NY Angel Hack winner, and DC mega startup enthusiast, Anton Gelman gets hackers excited about Angel Hack DC this past weekend at 1776.
“I think I’ve been here every week since it opened,” DC Mayor Vincent Gray told a standing room only crowd at the Speek launch and thank you party held at 1776DC on Friday evening. Gray and Newark Mayor Cory Booker are two politicians very friendly to startups. Gray and his constituents working on DC’s economic
Close to DC? Come get the Speek monkey temporarily tattooed to celebrate their launch Friday night.
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