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Alexis Prendergast, a Brooklyn 25-year-old who has autism spectrum disorder, is the first to admit there are skills she hasn’t mastered. “Mostly it’s social stuff. I miss some cues,” she says. Her wiring also lends unusual strengths, like an ability to focus for long stretches on tasks requiring gr...

In an era when influencers can rack up a quarter of their annual income during Nordstrom’s anniversary sale, it was only a matter of time before a company introduced a way to sell the fashionista styles of consumers’ favorite Instagram stars.
Meet Choosy: an on-demand shopping company, which aims...

Available now, the shoppable recipes are created using Chicory’s AI technology. Once you pick a recipe on Campbell’s website, you can click the “Get Ingredients” button at the bottom, enter your zip code and select your preferred grocer for delivery. Right now, Campbell’s works with retailers inc...

Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator (ERA) today announced that it has selected 14 startups for its Summer 2018 class, which begins today. The companies selected to participate in the four-month program are innovating in a variety of significant industries, all with businesses primed to grow in New York Ci...

Today Scentbird, the subscription-based fragrance company, announced it has raised $18.6 M, one of largest Series A funding rounds secured by a direct-to-consumer brand led by a female CEO, taking the total investment to $24.4 M.

Choosy today announced a $5.4 million seed round led by New Enterprise Associates, with participation from Forerunner Ventures, Innovation Global Capital, Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator, XFactor Ventures, Supernode Ventures and angel investor Bryan Rosenblatt.

Today, 11 new companies launch out of the Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator based in NYC. This is the 14th cohort of startups to launch out of ERA, and each company has received $100,000 in seed funding from the accelerator. These startups span a wide variety of industries, from hospitality to new retai...

Adobe today announced that it has acquired Sayspring, a startup that helps developers prototype and build the voice interfaces for their Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant apps. The company says the Sayspring team will join Adobe tomorrow and that it’ll then start integrating the company’s technology i...

SeamlessDocs, which started out digitizing PDFs for local government and has since expanded to include more digital services and payments, has raised a $7.5 million Series B funding round. . . Joining SJF Ventures on the Series B round is Motorola Solutions, Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator, NY State I...

Investors in the seed round include HearstLab (which also invested in KitSplit’s pre-seed funding), Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator, 3311 Ventures, NYU Innovation Venture Fund, WTI and Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger.