Transcriptic is a startup that’s trying to let grad students and researchers conduct their experiments over the web. The company offers a lab-as-a-service product and hopes to take some of the economics from the cloud and apply them to scientific research. Read more »
Y Combinator is on the hunt for its next batch of startups, and the competition is stiff: The incubator generally accepts only three percent of the applications it receives. I sat down with YC partner Jessica Livingston to find out what they look for in entrepreneurs. Read more »
It’s easy to look around at the consumer Internet and see that things are hopping. The private investment research firm CB Insights today gave us a stat to work with: 26 percent of all early-stage deal flow in the first quarter was for seed investments. Read more »
