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Innovation & Job News
Power Supply, a local healthy meal provider in the paleo and vegetarian space, has acquired D.C-based Healthy Bites and Los Angeles-based eliteEATS.
NextGen Angels, an angel investor group for entrepreneurs based in the District, just closed a $1M funding round. The group is also expanding to other cities.
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is expected tomorrow to announce a new program called DC Innovation Opportunity that will serve high-potential, low-income D.C. residents.
After hitting $1 million in sales, Alexandria-based SoapBox Soaps is expanding by offering a second line of products and taking its original line to Sam's Club and 1,700 CVS stores across the country.
When it announced it had acquired Disruption Corp in Arlington, VA, and Hattery in San Francisco, 1776 cofounders Evan Burfield and Donna Harris and now managing director Paul Singh faced lots of questions from the #DCtech community. They just released a podcast to explain more on their plans.
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
1776, the growing incubator, coworking space and seed fund, announced today that it has acquired Hattery in San Francisco.
Happy spring! Jobs are blooming and we've collected a few for you this week.
Wash Cycle Laundry, a dry cleaning and laundry service that hires locals who need help getting back into the workforce, recently landed a contract with GWU, necessitating the increase in staff.
Fiestah, an event planning platform that was built in New York and went through DreamIt Ventures accelerator in that same city in 2014 launches in DC as part of a multi-city roll-out in 2015.
Gusto makes point-of-sale systems that easily integrate with third-party apps, thanks to CEO Bill Draper's complete redesign of what a POS should be. The company closes a $2M Series A round today.
It's spring, the season of new life and new jobs! We've got 'em.
Wednesday, April 01, 2015
Orate is a female-founded DC tech company that connects public speakers and events. The cofounders are back from their time at The Startup Factory and are hiring as they build out the second version of their platform and bringing on women tech speakers.
Imagine If, an Arlington-based hotel booking platform, has launched a third product in its suite that lets travelers comparison-shop for hotels and save their favorites.
ribl, a location-based message board built in DC for Google Play, launched at SXSW last week. Cofounder Mike Chan reflects on the experience and on what's next for the startup.
Savory, a meal delivery service that begins at 10 pm, came out of beta this week and has been selling like hotcakes.