Fact: it sucks to drive in The Big City. There are as many reasons for this suckage as there are drivers in this garbage can we call San Francisco (or wherever you live, it’s probably the same), and each of them has at least two or three startups trying to burn VC money and be the first to go out of business.
- Reason #78: groceries and other junk shifting around in the trunk. You just know that was the bag with the eggs in it that fell over, damn it. Associated startups: Instacart, Safeway.
- Reason #32: motorcyclists popping wheelies while weaving between stopped cars. Associated startups: none out of stealth mode, opportunity is knocking.
- Reason #4: Parking!! I hate you so much!
Did you ever wish that drinking adult grape juice could involve more pretentiousness and gadgetry? Kuveé (VC: $6mm) sure as shit did. Their smart wine bottle brings the exciting technological world of vendor lock-in, cloud services that will soon be shut down and miniscule battery life to the staid world of smushed grapes in bottles. You can tell that they mean business, because they figured out how to put an accent mark on one of their e’s.
This thing slices, quite possibly dices. It also squeezes a pre-filled packet so hard that goop you drink falls out. Prototypes exploded. In this economy that equals big VC money for Juicero (VC: $120mm).