Aviary, a NY-based startup, is currently serving more than 10 million image edits a day and boasts about 20 million users. According to Bloomberg, the software has been used to edit over a billion images in the last year. The company was founded in 2007 and was backed by Amazon's Jeff Bezos and [Full Story…]
Startups Pay Designers $5000 to Move to NY
March 12, 2012 at 2:29 pm
Seven startups have banded together for a campaign called Come Work in New York that aims to ply talented developers, designers, and “business people” with $5,000 to help them move to the city if they’re hired, according to BetaBeat. The list of participating companies, includes some of [Full Story…]
Aviary Soars to New Highs
January 3, 2012 at 4:06 pm
Aviary, a NY-based startup developing mobile and web photo editing APIs, announced a new milestone recently, that it reached more than 2 million photo edits per week. Its previous milestone of 1 million weekly edits was only a month ago. The Next Web also reported that on Christmas, Aviary also [Full Story…]
NY to Host Biggest Photo Hackathon Ever
August 11, 2011 at 11:03 am
According to the NY Egotist, the NY company Aviary will be hosting the biggest photo hackathon ever. Aviary is a hub of web-based image editors and the hackathon will allow companies to present details about their photo-based APIs to developers. Some of the companies that will be be involved in [Full Story…]
Aviary’s NY Office Shows Brand Dedication
May 15, 2011 at 5:02 pm
Business Insider recently took a look inside the NY offices of Aviary, a cloud-based Photoshop startup, and saw how dedicated the employees are to their product. Employees wear Aviary branded shirts and sweatshirts to work, larger-than-live sized bird paintings fill the walls, and eggs are branded [Full Story…]
NYC’s Aviary Wants to Become an Artistic Marketplace
September 7, 2010 at 8:17 am
MIT's Technology Review taped a video interview with Avi Muchnick, the founder of NYC-based start-up Aviary, developer of collaborative cloud multimedia editing software. The free Web-based software allows users to edit images and sounds, tweaking photographs or composing complex musical [Full Story…]
Music Tech Meetup Scheduled for Tonight
May 26, 2010 at 7:13 am
A NYC Music Technology Meetup will be held 7PM tonight at Bowery Electric. Confirmed speakers include: Jacob Blumberg & Hartley Lewis, Street Tracks Andrew Flynn Soltys and Ilya Smelansky, 12Ideas Adam Varga, Boomscope Dan Kantor, Extension.fm Michael Galpert , Aviary's Audio [Full Story…]
Jeff Bezos, Spark Capital Invest in Aviary
October 26, 2009 at 10:23 am
Aviary, which is based in New York and makes Web-based creative software, has raised $7 million in a Series B financing round led by Spark Capital and joined by Jeff Bezos of Amazon's investment firm.Business InsiderPrevious:> Startups Share Their NYC Experiences> Internet Week: Startups [Full Story…]
Startups Share Their NYC Experiences
April 29, 2009 at 4:42 pm
NYConvergence ORIGINAL Last night, representatives from four NYC-based startups shared their experiences building their businesses here and participated in a panel discussion on the subject of being an entrepreneur with Mashable's Editor-in-Chief Adam Ostrow. The event was hosted by [Full Story…]
Creative Commons Turns Six
December 17, 2008 at 9:42 am
NYConvergence ORIGINALTo celebrate their sixth "birthday", Creative Commons held a "salon" at the For Your Imagination (FYI) studio last night in NYC. Four presenters talked about having their work shared using Creative Commons, including the musical guest. The presenters [Full Story…]
Aviary’s Michael Galpert Talks with PSFK
September 23, 2008 at 5:14 pm
In the latest installment of their NYC Innovators Series, PSFK spoke with Aviary founder Galpert about how the company has created an easy-to-use, Web-based platform for artists. You'll find the video interview here. PSFK [Full Story…]
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