entrepreneurship : Innovation & Job News

Social Tables, the company that offers cloud-based event planning for caterers and the hospitality industry, has hired seven new employees. The startup is planning to leave its current home at 1776 in November for larger digs.

CO Everywhere, a hyperlocal "what's happening around you" app, integrates social media feeds for an integrated look at a restaurant, street, block, city or more.

The D.C. chapter of the Entrepreneurs' Organization is hosting a regional pitch competition for the Global Student Entrepreneur Award. The winner gets $2,500.

Macaw, a new app in the latter stages of development, exports print design code for web development. Get in line, people, get in line.

Trestles, a creative agency that lends a foundation for building bridges between different sectors of a company, is gearing up for its official launch.

Bloompop, a District-based startup for online floral arrangements and delivery, will exit private beta at the end of August. 

Georgetown Angels, an angel group that invests in seed and series A rounds for tech startups, is bringing some big investors to town for an event in September.

Taxi Magic, an e-hail app out of Alexandria, Va., is the latest transportation company to win approval from the D.C. Taxicab Commission.

Tired of walking your parents through attaching a photo to email for the millionth time? IT IS SIMPLE will teach them for you.

Canvas, the coworking space near Dupont Circle, doubled in size in March and promptly sold out its dedicated desk space. 

D.C.-based Betterific has added USA Today as a client. The home of the digital suggestion box is also rolling out Google Hangouts with certain brand founders in the coming months.

The D.C. Office of the Chief Technology Officer and the Latino Economic Development Center have been helping District small business owners  integrate tech into their businesses for nine months. They will celebrate tomorrow by awarding free hardware and software to 21 small business owners.

FinaBiosolutions LLC has entered into a partnership to develop and manufacture a low-cost component in a pneumonia vaccine.

Pink mustaches are going to take over the District, if Lyft has its way with D.C. The real-time peer-to-peer rideshare company has kicked off District operations.

Social Tables, the D.C.-based event planning startup, has closed a funding round led by Militello Capital.