PictureMenu Changing the Way People Dine Out
Let’s face it – Americans love to eat out! The average consumer spends approximately $2,500 a year dining out at restaurants according to the United States Department of Labor. NewME Accelerator Spring 2012 graduate, founder Chris Lyons wants to make that dining out experience a great one withPictureMenu. PictureMenu is an iPhone and iPad app that [...]
Read MoreVisualize Your Natural Hair With The Big Chop iOS App
In 2011, Washington D.C. native Arsha Jones co-founded Capital City Apps; hence the name “Capital City”, with her husband as a platform to venture into technology related business ventures. Jones has always had an interest in Apple products including its apps, but noticed there were not many that targeted the African-American community. “One day I [...]
Read MoreAfrican-American Tech Start-up Creates Financial Literacy iOS Gaming App Mindblown Life
Jason Young, an African-American founder and CEO of Mindblown Labs, an Oakland, CA based education technology start-up, knows first-hand how financial literacy or lack thereof can impact the African-American community. Through his own personal experiences he learned very quickly that financial literacy is essential for everyone so he created a mobile app called Mindblown Life. [...]
Read MoreAfrican-American Women in Tech Honored at Interactive Digital Vanguard Awards & Creative Technology Festival
The Inaugural Women Interactive Digital Vanguard Awards and Creative Technology Festival in conjunction with Spelman College Digital Image Salon successfully took place in Atlanta Oct 12 and 13th. The festival opened to a crowd of hundreds of women seeking to gain knowledge and insight in the world of creative technology. It provided an interactive, in [...]
Read MoreNewME Accelerator Launches First Pop-Up Location in Miami, Florida
NewME Accelerator announced that it will run a “Pop-Up” program in Miami Nov. 12-14 in partnership with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and The LAB Miami. NewME Pop-Up is a concentrated three-day version of the start-up accelerator held in San Francisco. The program will allow Miami ‘s tech startups to gain critical advice, [...]
Read MoreNewME Accelerator Start-ups Raised $3.4 Million in Funding and Created 60 Jobs Since 1st Class
NewME Accelerator, a residential technology program that launches minority and women-led start-ups, announced recent updates and data tracking the startups in its program since it’s launch last June. NewME has shown to be successful in helping its start-ups create a robust network of investors and experts and improve product development. New data shows 59 percent [...]
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