Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

Wayra, the Telefónica backed accelerator network, is launching a new startup program in the UK that aims to tackle the so-called ‘poverty premium’ — whereby people on low incomes pay more for some goods and services. Read More... →

Okay, European startup fans. You’ve procrastinated long enough. Tomorrow, we’ll be releasing a batch of 50 pairs of tickets to Disrupt Berlin 2017, but in order to take advantage of this limited-time 2-4-1 opportunity, you’ll need to sign up today. Read More... →

Стартап обещает начать выпуск первых систем уже в этом году.... →

Binary Capital, the San Francisco-based early stage fund whose cofounder, Justin Caldbeck, resigned this past Sunday, is shutting down for all practical purposes. A source tells Bloomberg that the young firm, which had closed its second fund last year with $175 million in commitments but barely begun to invest that capital, will be wound down. Binary’s portfolio companies, including from… Read More... →

An anonymous source tipped off Crunchbase News that Eaze, the Series B-stage cannabis delivery startup with over $24 million in venture funding, has experienced a security incident. Some of its user data may have been stolen by a former employee of Don Davidson, MD, a medical service provider that provides patient consultations and medical cannabis recommendations (the equivalent of a… Read More... →

An augmented reality headset startup founded by former Valve employees and funded by Android co-creator Andy Rubin’s Playground Global is shutting down after it failed to receive further investment, Polygon reports. CastAR was building a headset device that projected holographic images into the field-of-view of a user, similar to products being built by companies like Microsoft and… Read More... →

Инвестор и PR-специалист Маша Дрокова вложилась в стартап для привлечения пользователей в мобильные приложения Acquired.io Андрея Казакова и Максима Ганнутина. Об этом она рассказала Firrma. Общая сумма раунда составляет $2 млн рублей, из которых Дрковой, по ее словам, была вложена очень небольшая часть. Среди прочих инвесторов – зарубежные предприниматели, вкладывающиеся в мобильные игры: Джонатан Цвейг, основатель AdColony (принадлежит Opera) и Джон John Ждановский, экс-глава Linden Lab. Acquired.io – при... →

Проверка рынком, отказ от остальных каналов продвижения в пользу growth hacking и краткий обзор концепции эволюционной кривой.... →

ThredUP, the online secondhand clothing store that has raised over $130M in funding is going old school. The startup has announced they will be opening at least five brick and mortar retails stores by the end of the year, with the first one soft-opening today in San Marcos, Texas. Why San Marcos, a small town of ~60,000 located somewhere between the cities of San Antonio and… Read More... →

Self-driving technology startup Drive.ai has raised a $50 million Series B funding round, led by NEA and with participation from GGV and previous investors, including Series A lead Northern Light. The new funding will help the company pursue its evolved business strategy, which now focuses on creating retrofit kits that can be used to add self-driving capabilities to existing commercial and… Read More... →

Klarna, the $2 billion+ startup out of Sweden that works with some 70,000 e-commerce sites to enable payments and provide flexible financing to make purchases, is adding one more key investor to help take its next steps into a wider range of services. Today it announced that credit card giant Visa is making an equity investment in the company, and as part of it, the two are forging a… Read More... →

Украинская инвестиционная компания Digital Future вложилась в американо-фино-украинский стартап PromoRepublic. Общий раунд финансирования составил $1,2 млн. Также в сделке приняли участие дочь американского ученого Питера Дрюкера Сесили Дрюкер, бывший главный эксперт по вредоносным программам в Facebook Ник Билогорский, бизнес-ангел Авирам Дженик, гуру бизнес-моделирования Дэвид Лоттенбах, финское агентство финансирования инноваций Tekes, Howzat Partners и Spring Capital VC. Об этом сообщает Techcrunch. Pr... →

Security firm Trend Micro is the latest corporate to jump into the startup investment world after it unveiled a $100 million corporate fund today. It is predominantly looking at opportunities in the internet-of-things (IoT) space, but the exact scope of how it will operate is not clear. The company is headquartered in Japan and listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, where its current value… Read More... →

Венчурный фонд CB Invest вложился в американские проекты Light Polymers и UAVOS. Первый занимается нанохимическими технологиями, второй —разработкой беспилотных средств. О сделках Firrma сообщил управляющий партнер фонда Вадим Тарасов. Сумма инвестиций и приобретенные в проектах доли не раскрываются. «В Light Polymers я вкладывался на протяжении между сентябрем прошлого года и началом этого года», — рассказал Тарасов. При этом американские СМИ в марте сообщали, что Light Polymers привлек $24,3 млн в раунде... →

The U.K.’s Oxford University continues to be a hotbed of AI talent, fuelling not just academic research into AI but also the ambitions of startups and large technology companies alike. The latest Oxford-based AI startup to make headlines is Diffblue, a University of Oxford spin-out that is applying Artificial Intelligence (AI) to software development. Read More... →

As AI slowly seeps into various sectors, it was fairly inevitable that we would start to see the “AI for X” startups begin to appear. Thus “AI for small business social media” is now a thing, in the shape of PromoRepublic, a US/Finnish/Ukrainian startup which has now raised a $1.2M investment round. More specifically, they bill themselves as a “WIX for a small… Read More... →

New York-based startup Stayawhile announced today that it’s scored $1.5 million in seed funding to provide travelers with what founder Janine Yorio refers to as “medium-term housing.” It’s a midway point between your standard hotel/Airbnb stay and a year-plus apartment lease, aimed at vacations and business travelers who’d like to spread out their stay in a new city… Read More... →

Put aside whatever shred of healthcare decency the Senate happens to be ripping out at the moment and take a look at Better, a startup helping people deal with out-of-network medical bills. The startup has just pledged 100 percent of its revenue towards relieving those stuck in serious medical debt. Better raised $1.1 million in funding from Initialized Capital, Designer Fund and various… Read More... →

We are still searching for innovative startups that want to launch on our Disrupt SF stage and aren’t afraid to get a little competitive! The winning company takes home the legendary Disrupt Cup and an equity-free check for $50,000 — not to mention a place in the startup history books. Read More... →

Стартап Pearl бывших сотрудников Apple, который за время работы привлёк $50 млн, закрылся. Об этом сообщает Axios со ссылкой на несколько источников, знакомых с ситуацией.... →