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…
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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…
Appsplit: Yapp is An App for your Events
“Yapp is built particularly to provide a simple solution to a problem rather than a complex open source platform for app building.” Read more here.
HuffPost Weddings: ‘Yapp’ Helps Couples Create Apps For Their Big Days
You might think a wedding website is the easiest way to share information with your guests. But what if you could build a mobile app that guests could access anytime, anywhere? According to Maria Seidman, co-founder of Yapp, a New York City-based…
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.
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…
Business Insider: Yapp Is A Dead Simple Way To Make A Mobile App Without Writing A Line Of Code
“Last month Yapp demoed at New York Tech Meetup. Today it’s announcing a round of financing from Kleiner Perkins, North Bridge Ventures Partners, Cue Ball, and angel investors.” 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…
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…
How mobile should you be?
Today’s “service announcement” by Google that businesses need mobile websites brought me back to 1996. Agencies were telling and selling companies they needed a web presence and the first self service platform, Geocities, launched. It was the dawn of the…