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Surprise Ride, the startup that mails educational, hands-on activities to kids each month, already survived an appearance on "Shark Tank." Now the D.C. startup is prepping to appear on the spinoff "Beyond The Tank."
Tuesday, September 15, 2015
The advocacy platform is spending $250,000 to educate high-school and college-aged DC kids on how to build apps and a career in tech.
“We are excited to raise additional capital from two great new partners,TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC Corporation and Square 1 Bank,” said Tobin Moore, CEO and co-founder of Optoro in a release.
Another WeWork coworking location is coming to town.
Nicely is a six-month-old startup that lets locals ship a taste of D.C. to guests, family members or friends in the form of locally made snacks, beverages and treats.
For $2,250, students will learn the basics in web application development and coding over two weeks, while immersing themselves in the local tech scene.
The $21 million raise will go toward hiring up to 100 new employees.
The startup won WDCEP's "Live Free in D.C." competition, designed to attract startups to D.C.'s tech scene.
Mayor Muriel Bowser has appointed Matt Bailey, a former user experience manager for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and co-founder of Code for D.C., as the city's first director of technology and innovation.
Allyson Jacob, innovation news editor since Elevation DC first began publishing news in January 2013, has written her last piece for the publication.
Today's jobs are a little off the beaten path--we're serving up doughnuts and theater alongside our normal dose of development, design and marketing jobs.
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.
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.