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Венчурный фонд Target Global снова инвестировал в немецкий сервис уборки по дому со штатными сотрудниками Book A Tiger. Компания привлекла €8 млн. В сделке также участововали фонды DN Capital, Atami Capital и Davidson Technology Growth. Средства пойдут на развитие платформы. По данным открытых источников, впервые Target Global вложился в Book A Tiger в декабре 2014 года. Объем раунда составил $5 млн, в сделке также участвовал DN Capital. Затем Target Global инвестировал в компанию в феврале 2017 года. Все... →

Furniture and kitchenware giant Williams-Sonoma, Inc. (WSI) is acquiring augmented reality startup Outward in an all-cash deal for $112 million. The furniture mega-brand parent company which operates stores including Williams Sonoma, Pottery Barn, West Elm and others will be using the startup’s 3D imaging tech to “enhance and extend its high-touch customer service platform, and… Read More... →

On November 16, TechCrunch and Elevacao hosted Startup Battlefield Australia in Sydney. The pitch-off competition featured startups from all over Australia and New Zealand. Top-notch investors and founders served as judges. We also had a great line-up of speakers who discussed everything from entrepreneurship to inclusion to the blockchain. Here are all the videos from the event. Read More... →

Personal finance startup NerdWallet seems to be on the struggle bus, having just laid off 53 people today (about 11 percent of its workforce) due to the fact that the company is not hitting its profitability goals, TechCrunch has learned. As part of the restructuring, NerdWallet’s sales and partnerships teams will be folded into various product teams, a NerdWallet spokesperson told TC.… Read More... →

It looks like accessibility isn’t the only thing that Airbnb wants to upgrade on its platform. On the same day that Airbnb announced that it acquired Accomable, an “Airbnb for disabled travellers”, it has emerged that it’s also made another small acquisition. Airbnb has acquired adtech startup AdBasis, which had built a platform and dashboard for ad testing and… Read More... →

Airbnb, the accommodation and travel startup that is now valued at $31 billion, is today announcing an acquisition that points to how it wants to address the travel needs of more kinds of customers. It has bought Accomable, a startup based out of London that focuses on travel listings that are disabled-friendly. Along with the announcement Airbnb is refreshing its own accessibility features as… Read More... →

Миллиардер Алишер Усманов в рамках конкурса стартапов Usmanov Challenge выделил по 1 млн рублей двум проектам — Supa.ru и Windy. Об этом сообщается на странице Usmanov Challenge в соцсети «ВКонтакте». Supa.ru — сервис для быстрого создания видеоконтента. Проект позволяет создавать короткие и привлекающие внимание видеоролики, которые подходят для использования в социальных сетях. Редактирование видео происходит в визуальном редакторе, т.е. в браузере пользователь видит тоже самое, что и на конечном MP4 ви... →

If the blockchain is going to be an immutable record, you need to start with clean data. The question is, how do you get clean data into a blockchain database to begin with. It’s kind of a quandary for use cases not starting with a green field, but Venzee, a startup that has been helping customers clean up their retail supply chain data to share with large vendors, thinks it has an… Read More... →

Segment is a startup that helps companies collect customer data from a variety of siloed sources and place that data in a single usable record. Today, it announced it has added a new tool to prepare for the EU’s GDPR privacy guidelines, which are coming in May next year. The new tool makes it a simple matter to stop collecting data or completely remove a person’s information from… Read More... →

They’re back. After staying heads down for the past year, Trae Vassallo and Neil Sequeira, two longtime venture capitalists whose individual brands are well-known to Bay Area startup founders, are finally taking the wraps off their new venture firm, Defy Partners. As part of the big reveal, they say they’ve closed their debut fund with $151 million in capital commitments,… Read More... →

Public market investors have the luxury of being able to make, invest and move their money anywhere they’d like. But the same isn’t true for startup investors, who, if conventional wisdom is to be believed, tend to invest relatively close to home. Read More... →

Фонды Impulse и the Untitled, а также некий частный инвестор, вышли из рекрутингового сервиса JungleJobs.ru. Об этом Firrma сообщили в «Севергрупп», которая приобрела контрольную долю в проекте. Как говорится в сообщении, после сделки управляющая команда компании не изменится, генеральным директором JungleJobs остается один из основателей проекта – Евгения Дворская. Деятельность компании разделена на три направления: JungleJobs, JJuber и North.ai. JungleJobs – это площадка, на которой работодатели взаимодей... →

Советы начинающим предпринимателям по созданию собственного бизнеса от юриста Кирилла Манаенкова.... →

Tencent announced another impressive quarter of financials yesterday, but the Chinese internet giant — which is creeping towards a $500 billion market cap — made other financial moves this week. Reuters reported that the firm invested $150 million Chinese cinema ticketing startup Maoyan, which was created from a merger between dominant players Maoyan and Tencent-backed Weiying… Read More... →

Another UK startup is using Pi electronics as the foundation for an edtech business idea, and Kickstarter to try to crowdfund their product: A learn-to-code retro games console. Read More... →

Bike-sharing, the year’s hottest startup trend in China and beyond, looks like it is about to see the biggest casualty of its cut-throat competition. Bluegogo, which had raised $90 million from investors and operates around 700,000 bikes across China, seems headed for the deadpool after Technode, our Chinese partner site, reported that the company has lost a slew of top executives and is… Read More... →

Венчурный фонд FinSight Ventures вложился в уральский IT-стартап «Мерката». Сумма и условия сделки не раскрываются, контроль над компанией остается у основателей. Об этом сообщает «Деловой Квартал-Новосибирск» со ссылкой на управляющего партнера фонда FinSight Ventures Алексея Гарюнова и Юрия Кушпеля, сооснователя и генерального директора компании «ЭкоДок», которая является абсолютным владельцем ООО «Мерката Дистрибуция». Привлеченные средства компания направит на доработку функционала продукта, развитие т... →

Для этого сервис сотрудничает со стартапом по созданию систем идентификации Sum&Substance.... →

TechCrunch is proud to announce HealthMatch is the winner of the TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Australia and FluroSat is the runner up. A panel of expert judges picked the winner of out of the batch of five finalists that also included CancerAid, Life Whisperer and Spalk. The startups from Australia and New Zealand were hand-picked to participate in our highly competitive startup competition. Read More... →