Online Galleries Help Shoppers Get Smart About Art

When San Francisco-based UGallery came on the scene in 2006, co-founders Stephen Tanenbaum and Alex Farkas purposely targeted a demographic new to serious art: people who were ready to graduate from... Read more »

Startups Offer Webcam Workouts for the Gym-Averse

From the Nike+ FuelBand to the Wii Fit, and from YouTube workout videos to Fitbit, there are more ways than ever to work out and track exercise and health... Read more »

Shipwire Gives Mom-and-Pops the Fulfillment Services of Big Retailers

Shipwire CEO Damon Schechter started his company with a simple goal: “To help small businesses take on the efficiencies that big businesses have.”

He cofounded the Palo Alto-based order fulfillment services... Read more »

Scanadu Aims to Empower Patients with DIY Vital Signs Device

An accident changed Walter de Brouwer’s life.

Over the past few decades, the Scanadu CEO had his hands in everything from semiotics and academia to publishing computer and cyberpunk magazines to... Read more »

Misfit Wearables Puts Design First in New Activity Tracker

Misfit Wearables cofounder and CEO Sonny Vu learned a valuable lesson at his last company, AgaMatrix. The mobile health startup produced a blood glucose meter called the iBGStar, which... Read more »

Giftly Looks to Disrupt Traditional Gift Card Market

When CEO Tim Bentley founded Giftly, a site that allows users to give gift certificates through recipients’ credit cards, he realized business would be heavily seasonal. The three big holidays... Read more »

Search Engine Blekko Brings Human Evaluation to Search Results

Two years after he sold his second start-up, the online news aggregator Topix, to a trio of media companies, Blekko CEO Rich Skrenta was ready for a new challenge. During his... Read more »

PokitDok Helps Patients Connect the Dots in a Fragmented Healthcare System

Before co-founding PokitDok, a forum and marketplace for health services, CEO Lisa Maki was in the midst of a major health issue. A serious athlete, Maki had rowed crew at... Read more »

Subscription Service Love With Food Helps Gourmets Discover New Treats

When Aihui Ong, founder and CEO of Love With Food, a Birchbox-style food subscription service, was applying to the incubator 500 Startups last fall, she wasn’t too optimistic. She believed... Read more »

InstaEdu’s Brother-Sister Team Puts Tutoring Online, On Demand

InstaEdu, a San Francisco-based startup that provides teens with on-demand online tutoring, began as a side project ginned up by siblings Alison and Dan Johnston. Alison, who had been part... Read more »

Cater2me, ZeroCater Bring Food-Truck Lunch To Startups

Free catered lunches for employees aren’t just for tech giants like Google anymore, thanks to Bay Area startups that are bringing food to even the smallest tech companies. San Francisco-based Cater2.me... Read more »

Drawbridge Ads Follow You from Desktop to Smartphone

Drawbridge founder and CEO Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan is reimagining the way advertisers target consumers.

When Google acquired mobile advertising network AdMob back in 2009, Sivaramakrishnan, the company’s lead applied research scientist, went... Read more »

Wifarer’s Smartphone App Makes Sense of the Great Indoors

The inspiration behind Wifarer, an indoor positioning technology company, came to CEO and co-founder Philip Stanger during a visit to the National Portrait Gallery in London in 2005. As he... Read more »

Getaround Aims to Tackle “Car Overpopulation”

Car-sharing service Getaround burst on the scene a year ago a when it emerged as the big winner at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York, capturing the $50,000 prize. The San Francisco-based... Read more »

99designs Crowdsources Its Own New Website Design

Crowdsourcing design startup 99designs is putting its own product to the test with a competition to redesign its homepage. The company, which connects businesses in need of design help with freelancers... Read more »

Personal Capital Shows the Affluent All Their Money in One Place

Personal Capital, an online financial advisory company, came out of the gate with a big mission. “We’re looking to tear up the financial services world,” says company CEO Bill Harris,... Read more »

Clio Searches for Music—Using Music

In 2007, Clio founder and principal scientist Dr. Greg Wilder saw a fundamental problem with music search engines: they all required words. So he set out to build an engine that... Read more »

Mobile Game Maker Storm8 Competes With Goliaths of the Industry

Unlike a lot of revenue-poor startups with freemium business models, mobile game maker Storm8 is rolling in cash. The fully bootstrapped producer of 25 Android and iOS games like iMobsters, World... Read more »

Quixey’s ‘Power Search’ Helps Users Weed Through Universe of Apps

The idea for Quixey, the search engine for apps, came from a simple problem. When co-founder Tomer Kagan was still the CEO of his last company, Your Logo Here, a... Read more »

Localmind Aspires to Answer Questions Around the Globe

Last weekend, Localmind founders Lenny Rachitsky and Beau Haugh took their location-driven question-and-answer app back to South by Southwest, where it first launched a year ago.

This time, they put every... Read more »