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Crowd Cow expands with new local beef program, lands more investment from Ashton Kutcher

by Kurt Schlosser on June 20, 2019June 20, 2019 at 7:28 amComment

Crowd Cow, the Seattle-based startup with a mission of bringing higher quality, more sustainably raised meat to consumers, is doubling down on hyper-local farms with the launch of “Crowd Cow… Read More

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Crowd Cow raises $8M from Ashton Kutcher, Joe Montana, Madrona and others to grow digital marketplace for craft meats

by Kurt Schlosser on May 24, 2018May 24, 2018 at 10:17 am 2 Comments

Three years after getting started with a plan to change how people shop for quality beef products, Seattle-based Crowd Cow announced an $8 million Series A funding round on Thursday.… Read More

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Crowd Cow’s digital butcher case expands beyond beef to introduce sustainably raised pork products

by Kurt Schlosser on April 23, 2018April 22, 2018 at 9:07 pmComment

Crowd Cow, the Seattle-based startup that set out to change the way people think about, order and consume beef, is now setting its sights on sustainable pork, promising a new… Read More

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Crowd Cow takes its crowd-funding beef business national, opens up delivery across the U.S.

by Kurt Schlosser on June 6, 2017April 22, 2018 at 9:06 pm1 Comment

Crowd Cow’s crowd of cow-tipping beef lovers just got a lot bigger. The Seattle-based startup announced Tuesday that it is expanding its reach and will now deliver its sustainably raised beef to… Read More

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Beef-sharing startup Crowd Cow raises $2M as it steers its focus toward a national audience

by Kurt Schlosser on January 24, 2017June 7, 2017 at 8:01 pm 2 Comments

Talk about seed and feed. Crowd Cow, the Seattle-based startup that launched in 2015 with the goal of bringing higher-quality beef to more meat lovers, announced Tuesday that it has… Read More

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The taste of success: We bite into a Crowd Cow burger as the startup eyes big growth

by Kurt Schlosser on October 31, 2016October 5, 2018 at 9:26 amComment

More than a year after launching Crowd Cow, the startup with a mission of delivering quality beef to meat eaters through crowdfunding, founders Joe Heitzeberg and Ethan Lowry report that… Read More

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Meet Crowd Cow: Tech vets take the mystery out of buying good meat, turn customers into ‘steak holders’

by Kurt Schlosser on February 29, 2016February 29, 2016 at 11:35 am 5 Comments

“Where’s the beef?” may have found its calling as a catchphrase with a long shelf life in the 1980s, but if Seattle startup Crowd Cow has anything to say about… Read More

Poppy, the contraption that turns your iPhone into a 3D camera, now shipping to Kickstarter customers

by Taylor Soper on December 10, 2013December 10, 2013 at 9:56 am1 Comment

Those who ordered Poppy, the device that can turn your iPhone into a 3D camera, are about to have some fun this holiday season. Poppy is the oddly-shaped 3D photo and… Read More

Q&A: Poppy’s Joe Heitzeberg on making the transition from software to hardware

by Cecilia Wilson on July 22, 2013December 19, 2014 at 9:09 am1 Comment

Software veterans Ethan Lowry and Joe Heitzeberg are moving into the realm of hardware with a simple and groundbreaking idea—a non-mechanical device that can turn your iPhone into a 3D… Read More

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GeekWire Radio: The inside story of Poppy, the 3D video device for the iPhone

by Todd Bishop on July 13, 2013June 12, 2017 at 11:30 am1 Comment

How did a couple of veteran software guys get immersed in the world of hardware? And what’s the deal with this cool 3D contraption that they’ve come up with for… Read More

Poppy raises 300% of Kickstarter goal, will turn your iPhone into a 3D camera

by Taylor Soper on July 4, 2013July 4, 2013 at 11:53 amComment

Here comes a white Poppy. Poppy, the oddly-shaped 3D photo and video viewing device that uses an iPhone to create what is best described as a next-generation View-Master, is scorching… Read More

View-Master 2.0: Seattle entrepreneurs create Poppy to turn iPhones into 3D viewers

by John Cook on June 26, 2013June 26, 2013 at 7:00 pm 5 Comments

Remember, the classic View-Master device? Well, two Seattle area entrepreneurs — Urbanspoon co-founder Ethan Lowry and Snapvine founder Joe Heitzeberg — are looking to re-create that experience for the iPhone… Read More

Startup vets Ethan Lowry and Joe Heitzeberg are cooking up new connected devices

by John Cook on May 8, 2013May 8, 2013 at 1:49 pm 2 Comments

Ethan Lowry and Joe Heitzeberg are software guys. Lowry is best known as one of the co-creators of the wildly popular Urbanspoon mobile app, while Heitzeberg worked at companies such… Read More

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