Author: gyasistory
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Wedding Startup Loverly Hires Peggy Fry As COO, Joanne Wilson Joins The Board
By Jordan Crook Loverly, the online platform for planning your wedding, has today announced that Peggy Fry will be joining the team as Chief Operating Officer. Fry comes from Add This, an advertising business focused on building a brand through viral online sharing, where she was president. Before her time there, Fry was Vice President…
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Hatchery Launches A Marketplace For Artisanal Food Makers
By Jordan Crook Hatchery launched in October 2013 to bring artisanal ingredients to customers from all over the world. Like many subscription box companies that have come before it, the startup packaged together a bunch of fun ingredients each month and sent it to users as a “Tasting Box.” Today, however, the company is shifting…
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ScienceLogic Launches App Store To Share Customized Monitoring Apps
By Ron Miller ScienceLogic announced a new App Store today that enables customers and third parties to create and share customized apps for the ScienceLogic platform. ScienceLogic is a cloud service that lets IT pros monitor every aspect of their IT infrastructure whether it’s in the cloud or on premises, getting right down to the…
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Nordstrom Acquires Men’s Shopping Service Trunk Club
By Sarah Perez Personal styling service for men, Trunk Club, has been acquired by Nordstrom for an undisclosed amount. The five-year old Chicago-based startup offers a subscription-based service that’s like having your own personal stylist on demand who picks out top designer labels for you and ships them to your home for free. After signing…
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Palantir Acquires App-Making Startup Propeller
By Anthony Ha In its second announced deal this week, Palantir has acquired Propeller, a startup offering tools for building native mobile apps. Two acquisitions in one week seems pretty ambitious for any company, but as noted in Fortune, it’s particularly unusual for Palantir, a data analysis company that has only made one other acquisition,…
