Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

Another Disrupt, another Startup Alley. In this exciting video I wear a unicorn head, stare dumbfounded at a founder who told us to go away, and talked to Co-Sender, Marvelmind, API.live, BoostHQ as we wander the variegated halls of Disrupt New York 2017. Read More... →

A startup called Lisnr wants to replace NFC and QR codes with a new technology that sends data over audio — a communication protocol it’s calling Smart Tone. The technology it’s invented can be used across a number of applications, including point-of-sale transactions, ticketing and authentication, offline messaging, device to device connectivity and more. Read More... →

Oscar Health CEO Mario Schlosser came on stage with me at Disrupt yesterday at our annual New York conference to talk about his company and the more than $200 million it took in net losses last year. Though he mentioned the Feds still owed his company the equivalent amount in Obamacare subsidies it still wasn’t a good look for a startup struggling among bigger insurance firms with… Read More... →

For when a screen shot just won’t cut it, Slack’s paid users can now share live video of their screens during video calls. The addition of the feature comes a slow two years after Slack bought Screenhero, a startup that offered enterprise screenshare, in a cash-and-stock deal for its tech and six employees. The feature will roll out on Slack’s latest Mac and Windows apps over… Read More... →

Software might be eating the world, but the real estate industry remains one market segment that is still operating in an antiquated world full of phone calls, faxes and manual paperwork processing. Startup Battlefield company Houzeo wants to change that, by digitizing — and simplifying — the process of selling a home. Read More... →

Can an app look you in the eye and know if you have a brain injury? That’s something being worked on by Startup Battlefield company Brightlamp, a computer vision and machine learning startup out of Purdue University. Read More... →

Основательница и бывший генеральный директор разработчика мобильных игр Game Insight Алиса Чумаченко создаёт новый проект, связанный с игровой индустрией — Gosu.ai. Чумаченко подтвердила vc.ru, что является основательницей стартапа, но отказалась от дальнейших комментариев.... →

We wrote last year about the employees at Uber who were seemingly handcuffed to the company, noting that those whose shares were vested can’t afford to quit. Startup employees typically have to exercise their options within 90 days of leaving a company or else lose them and at Uber, that cost is simply too high. By February of this year, Uber had struck on one way to give restless… Read More... →

Symphony, a secure messaging app that counts 15 of the world’s biggest banks among its investors and 200,000 paying customers, has raised a new tranche of funding to fuel its expansion into new markets. Symphony has closed in on $63 million; and according to sources close to the company, the startup is now valued at over $1 billion — confirming our reporting from December. This… Read More... →

Когда стартап понимает, в чем заключается его бизнес, он перестает быть стартапом.... →

According to AngelList, the renowned startup funding and recruiting platform, the number of companies being minted continues to far exceed the numbers of funds that can support them at the Series and even the seed stage. Meanwhile, angel investors don’t necessarily have enough capital, particularly those who may be respected operators but haven’t yet enjoyed a major liquidity… Read More... →

Людмила Голубкова, управляющий партнер фонда Starta Capital, в метафорической форме рассказывает о новых типах инвесторов, которые появились на российском рынке. Три года назад в глобальной инновационной экосистеме начался новый этап. Изменения докатились и до нашей страны. Сменился состав инвесторов ранних стадий. С конца прошлого года на венчурных мероприятиях прибывало все больше новых лиц, а число старых знакомых убывало…   Кто эти новые инвесторы? Попытаемся дать их краткий, но легко узнаваемый портрет... →

Людмила Голубкова, управляющий партнер фонда Starta Capital, в метафорической форме рассказывает о новых типах инвесторов, которые появились на российском рынке. Три года назад в глобальной инновационной экосистеме начался новый этап. Изменения докатились и до нашей страны. Сменился состав инвесторов ранних стадий. С конца прошлого года на венчурных мероприятиях прибывало все больше новых лиц, а число старых знакомых убывало…   Кто эти новые инвесторы? Попытаемся дать их краткий, но легко узнаваемый портрет... →

Российский венчурный фонд AddVenture вложился в австралийский стартап Shippit, занимающийся управлением логистикой. Проект привлек $2,2 млн инвестиций в раунде А, пишет StartupDaily. Лид-инвестором выступил фонд Aura Group, также в раунде принял участие RTL Group Investment. Общий объем инвестиций, которые стартапу удалось привлечь с момента запуска в 2015 году, составил $3 млн. Shippit занимается управлением логистикой. Компания разработала платформу для ритейлеров, позволяющую регистрировать перевозчиков,... →

French startup Talent.io is turning headhunting into a marketplace by connecting promising engineers with tech companies. The company just raised $8.8 million (€8 million) from existing investors Alven Capital and Ventech. While Talent.io started with Paris, the company is now operating in other major European cities, such as Berlin and London. The startup acquired Webcrowd and Go Digital… Read More... →

If RecordGram has its way, top record producers will all turn to their app, a kind of mobile recording studio, to find the next Justin Bieber or Nicki Minaj. And aspiring artists will all find beats, create songs and get signed to their first label through RecordGram. The company was a “wildcard” contender at TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield in New York today. Read More... →

UploadVR is being sued by the company’s former Director of Digital and Social Media for sexual harassment, sex and gender discrimination and wrongful termination, TechCrunch has learned. The virtual reality startup, with offices in San Francisco and Los Angeles, consists of co-working spaces, training courses and a media publication, and has received funding from General… Read More... →

VMware announced today that it has acquired Apteligent, a startup that will allow it to provide more tools to customers building and optimizing mobile apps. Read More... →

Between therapy sessions, mental health patients can feel alone. Sunrise Health is a new startup aiming to improve mental healthcare by combining the constant support of group chat, the openness afforded by anonymity, the guidance of professional therapists and the safeguard of artificial intelligence watching for abuse and emergencies. Read More... →

There’s nothing efficient about sorting through 30,000 resumes by hand. Recruiters spend months evaluating applicants only to have great prospective candidates get lost in the pile. At TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield, French startup Riminder made the case for how its deep learning-powered platform could augment recruiters — helping them better surface ideal contenders for… Read More... →