New York’s tech scene is exploding, and June was a particularly busy month. Hardly a day went by without something of note happening in the tech community. While it's a good problem to have, it's still a problem.
To help you keep track of everything, we thought we'd take a look back at the things that caught our attention last month. Here's to you, June:
June 1st: NYC’s Laundry Subscription Service Launches
Cleanly, the Amazon Prime of laundry, launched a scheduled laundry service. The service allows users to sign up for a yearly membership and then get 10 percent off of all of Cleanly’s services, as well as perks like no delivery fees, waived cancellation fees, free hang dry, etc. Living an on-demand lifestyle has never been easier.
June 9th: Ariana Huffington announces Thrive
Ariana Huffington’s newest venture, Thrive, will focus on health and wellness with the help of positive content contributed by celebrities and bloggers. This isn’t really a launch, so much as news of an impending one, and Thrive isn’t slated to actually come online until later this year. None-the-less, we can't wait to get recipes from Kanye and exercise routines from Miley. You can read our story here.
June 14th: Google teaches kids in Queens to code
Google began offering free coding classes to kids at the Queens Library. The program, called Google CS First, is increasing access and exposure to computer science skills to students through after-school, in-school and summer programs. You can read our story here.
June 15th: Fullstack Academy launches
Fullstack Academy launched the Fullstack Fund, an investment fund for startups that graduate from Fullstack Academy’s program. The fund will give startups $20,000 in seed money, a coworking space in their NYC campus and mentorship. You can read our story here.
June 21st: Tumblr Adopts Video
Tumblr announced that the company was going to be adopting video capabilities into their blogging platform. The technology will allow users to broadcast video directly onto their follower’s dashboards. You can read our story here.
June, 22nd: Centric Launches in NYC
Centric is a video discovery and sharing platform that integrates all the content uploaded to Twitter, Periscope, Instagram and YouTube within a 22-mile radius into one single stream. 'Voyeurism without tears,’ they call it. We're calling it the death of FOMO. You can read our story here.
June 23rd: gen.video Merges Amazon and YouTube Video
NYC-based gen.video launched a platform that allows video producers to expand the reach of YouTube creators to Amazon. The platform unifies the publishing and monetization of videos across the platforms. So far, over 800 video creators with around 30 million combined subscribers are using gen.video’s platform.
June 24th: Matter Looks East
Matter, an early-stage venture capital firm and startup accelerator, launched in New York City. The company has been around for about four years, operating out of San Francisco, but the company made the jump east in a partnership with The New York Times and Google News Lab. You can read our story here.
June 28th: Galvanize Comes to NYC
The Colorado-based technology learning community Galvanize announced they’d be opening a new campus in New York. The space will offer education, workspace and networking to students, startups and established companies. The campus won’t be finished until early next year, but the company is operating out of a pop up space until then. You can read our story here.
June 29th: IPsoft’s launches an Autonomic Center
IPsoft launched their new Autonomic Center, a space dedicated to the convergence of autonomic and cognitive technologies. The space, located at 7 World Trade Center, is a place to create an IT environment for businesses where artificial intelligence and humans can work together — pretty crazy, right?
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