Democracy Works receives $1.4M in foundation support [Startup Roundup]

Who’s getting money?

Democracy Works secured $1.4 million in funding from the Knight and MacArthur Foundations, according to a news release. The organization, which promotes voting better fitting the lives of the electorate, has hired several more people and relocated from the Blue Ridge Foundation to 20 Jay Street, according to the organization’s email newsletter. Democracy Works is offering paid summer student positions for helping to build up its TurboVote platform. Applications open now.

Who’s making moves?

If you want to annotate everywhere on Genius, you can apply to join the Beta (this reporter is in). The company’s social buzz campaign has extended to wheatpasting around New York City this week.

Posters goin ⬆️ #genius #beta #betababy #babycore

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You can now back Kickstarter projects using Apple Pay, according to the company’s blog.
All three of the city’s libraries, including Brooklyn Public Library, are hiring mobile digitizers, to help preserve NYC history in digital formats.
Former head of product at Flickr and Bitly, Matthew Rothenberg, built an art project website that disappeared as soon as Google indexed it. The idea was to give its users a way to communicate without feeling like the eyes of the internet were watching them. The story of the short-lived site that eventually reached 346 people was told on VICE’s Motherboard.

Certainly didn't expect to wake up this morning to find myself as the subject of a "…but is it art?" discussion on HackerNews of all places.

— Matthew Rothenberg (@mroth) March 8, 2015

Who’s getting buzz?

While Etsy is pretty adamantly not talking now that it has gone public with its IPO plans, more and more analysis is pouring out. Fortune points out that it will be only the second publicly-traded company with an HQ in Brooklyn. The Wall Street Journal says New York City has been pretty boring, exit wise, but Etsy probably won’t be.
Dumbo-based App Partner collaborated with Amarillo startup JUSMOVE to make an app that allows a dancer to play music and record themselves dancing to it from the same device, according to the Amarillo Globe-News.