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The Roundabout Tapes – RjDj now plans to game reality with sound [TCTV]
RjDj’s Michael Breidenbruecker, also a Founder last.fm, has certainly opened up the avenues for sound apps on mobile platforms. The startup’s apps have become platforms for musicians, but are gradually…
The Roundabout Tapes – GroupSpaces is poised to go global (TCTV)
UK-startup GroupSpaces, which last year secured a $1.3m Seed round from a star-studded roster of investors including Index Ventures, Dave McClure, Chris Sacca and Simon Levene, has become a ‘Silicon…
The Roundabout Tapes – Could GoSquared put the heat on Chartbeat? (TCTV)
Back in January GoSquared arrived on the scene to attempt an assault onChartbeat’s realtime analytics territory. While Chartbeat has raised an impressive $3 million Series A financing with a glittering…
Shutl aims to disrupt ecommerce delivery – is this Urban Fetch done right? (TCTV)
Shutl, an on-demand delivery platform that aggregates transportation carriers so they can deliver something in an hour, recently took £650,000 ($1m) investment round from Hummingbird Ventures and others. It’s been…
Crowd-source your night out in the city with the AreaNow iPhone app (TCTV)
The rise of location-based apps has been so rapid that there are a slew of products coming onto the app stores most of the time. But few have gone to…
The Roundabout Tapes – Musicmetric is strapping an analytics rocket to the music industry
Late last year Semetric, the startup behind the Musicmetric analytics service, secured a “significant round” of funding led by Pentech Ventures (terms were undisclosed) but that gave the company a…
The Roundabout Tapes – Mixcloud powers ahead with its YouTube for radio
Continuing our series of interviews with companies in the Silicon Roundabout area of London (we’re calling this The Roundabout Tapes), we went to interview Mixcloud. The on-demand radio service wants…
The Roundabout Tapes – Frameblast aims to be the Google for TV and video archives
Continuing our series of interviews with companies in the Silicon Roundabout area of London (we’re calling this The Roundabout Tapes), we interviewed Clearer Partners. Clearer is a specialised tech/media consulting…
The Roundabout Tapes – Squadify aims to be the Meetup for sports
Squadify is a stealth-mode startup planning to try and disrupt the world of casual team sports. We interviewed the company as part of our new video series, The Roundabout Tapes,…
The Roundabout Tapes – Documenting the startups of Silicon Roundabout
Many have talked about the explosion of tech startups in the East of London, which has come to be known colloquially as “Silicon Roundabout”. But who are they? We’ve been…