All Things Digital: CEO & Pregnant
Pooja Sankar and Maria Seidman are both first-time founders and CEOs of young, venture-capital-backed tech start-ups. And they’re both pregnant and due this summer. Talk about doing it all. Read more here.
Tag mobile apps
Startup America: Create Your Own Mobile Apps with Yapp
Check out our interview with Startup America! We always thought of Maria and Luke as Yapp’s own superheros…
Technoverse: Yapp is a Mobile App for Managing Events
“Unlike the mobile app generators I’ve written about–EachScape, Infinite Monkeys, One Pager– Yapp is less of a generic tool and more of a focused appliance for scheduling and managing events.” Thanks so much for the mention!
The Best of NY Tech Day
More than 200 New York-based startups come out today to show off their wares. The offerings are a bit uneven, but CNET is on the job to call out the best of the best. “Yapp is a mobile app development…
Save paper with your own wedding app!
“In this world full of iPhones and Androids (along with those apps that we don’t know how we survived without) how cool would it be use a mobile app to keep your wedding guests connected? Yapps are now on the…
BetaBeat: Yapp Founder and CEO Maria Seidman On Raising a Seed Round and Launching While Pregnant
Earlier this week, Yapp, the New York City-based startup that helps regular folks create customizable mobile apps, announced a round of funding from Kleiner Perkins, North Bridge Venture Partners, Cue Ball, and other individual investors. Yapp, which was “proudly made in a basement…
TechCrunch: Yapp Raises Funding From Kleiner Perkins To Allow Anyone To Create Mobile Apps For Events
Maria Seidman helps organize a monthly womens’ networking event for her business school alums in New York City but was frustrated with some of the options for creating a dedicated mobile app for an event. So she decided to create…
Mashable: Planning an Event? Yapp Makes an App in Minutes
“Conferences, weddings and parties often have their own websites, but the founders of a new app builder called Yapp want to replace those online pages with mobile apps.” Read more here.
What is Yapp’s App Builder Actually For?
It does beg the question then as to why the app builder has been developed at all. There is an insight from Yapp co-founder Maria Seidman that this could be very similar to what happened in web design where designing…
GigaOm: Yapp lets anyone create a mobile app for events
“Most mobile apps take a lot of time and development hours — but what if someone came out with a WYSIWYG-type editor that would allow anyone to easily create customizable apps for the iPhone? That’s what New York City-based startup Yapp hopes…
A Yapp Made in Heaven
“Maria Seidman, former vice president of digital distribution at Warner Bros., decided to found a new company to “democratize the…
Private Beta
Today, we opened our first product, Yapp Events, to users in a private beta. Yapp Events allows anyone to create a mobile application for their wedding, conference, book club, reunion, team, club, and…(well, that is what we are excited to…