Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

I’ve tried both Blue Apron and HelloFresh before, but I don’t like being locked into some subscription, so I decided to go with Chef’d this time around. Chef’d, which raised $35.2 million in August from strategic investors like pork producer Smithfield Foods and online grocer Fresh Direct, is different in that you don’t need to subscribe to anything, ever. There… Read More... →

Makespace, one of the many startups that launched to give consumers a new option for storing their stuff, has a new chief executive, TechCrunch has confirmed. The company’s thirty year-old co-founder and chief executive Sam Cohen is stepping down to make room at the top for Rahul Gandhi, Cohen’s fellow founder and Makespace’s chief operating officer. News of the change at the… Read More... →

Robin, which pitched a combined “Uber for lawn care” and robotic-lawnmower-as-a-service at Disrupt SF’s Startup Battlefield last year, is making some big changes. It quietly sold the first part to Porch earlier this year, and is now focused on expanding the robot service nationwide via a franchising plan. (And they’re going to be on Shark Tank.) Read More... →

Российский онлайн-сервис Mixcart.ru, позволяющий ресторанам автоматизировать закупки и бэк-офис, а поставщикам получать заказы на единой платформе, объявил о выходе на рынок Испании. Об этом Firrma сообщил сооснователь компании Артур Шаламов. Mixcart.ru — инструмент для автоматизации процесса взаимодействия между поставщиком и рестораном/кафе/баром в России и СНГ. Сооснователями компании являются Руслан Тугушев и Евгений Гаврилин, которые ранее запустили краудфандинговый сервис Boomstarter.   По собственн... →

African tech can produce surprises. One this week is a $1.2 million Series A startup buying part of a $1 billion company. That’s what Lagos based property startup ToLet.com.ng has done, purchasing Jumia House Nigeria for an undisclosed amount. Jumia House is a subsidiary of the continent’s lone tech unicorn — Pan-African e-commerce giant Jumia.com. ToLet and Jumia House… Read More... →

Сооснователь Look At Media, медиаменеджер Василий Эсманов назначен консультантом по направлению «Технологии для филантропии» и социальным проектам в семейном фонде венчурного инвестора Игоря и Екатерины Рыбаковых «Рыбаков фонд». Об этом Firrma сообщил Василий Эсманов. В мае этого года «Рыбаков фонд» запустил акселератор для стартапов в сфере филантропии PhilTech. Это была совместная акселерационная программа с бизнес-инкубатором НИУ ВШЭ, которая стартовала в трех пилотных городах: Москве, Санкт-Петербурге ... →

Исполнительный директор стартапа Sofitto Александр Васильченко об особенностях ведения бизнеса в стране.... →

Today’s Stories Uber CEO says 2019 is the target for IPO Apple has acquired imaging sensor startup InVisage Technologies Twitter pauses account verifications after critics slam it for verifying Charlottesville rally organizer Credits Written by: MRD Hosted by: MRD Filmed by: Joe Zolnoski Edited by: Joe Zolnoski Read More... →

Here at TechCrunch we serve a global audience which is why we’ve held casual meetup events across many different parts of the world. Now we’re excited to add a new region to that list: Southeast Asia. As someone who has watched the region’s startup ecosystem grow in recent years, I’m delighted to announce that we’re teaming up with Google and VC firm SeedPlus to… Read More... →

Investors are suing Outcome Health, a startup selling ad space on screens in doctor’s offices, for alleged fraud and breach of contract eight months after pouring $500 million into the company. First reported in the Wall Street Journal, investors Goldman Sachs, which invested $100 million into the company, and Google parent company Alphabet’s investment arm CapitalG, Norwest… Read More... →

Electric cars are set to become an increasingly lucrative investment target, if they continuing enjoying the strong support of global initiatives to lower emissions and put clearer vehicles on roads. So expect more funding like the reported $1 billion that Niobium’s (formerly NextEV) has raised from a host of investors led by Tencent, per Reuters. The Chinese carmaker has already set… Read More... →

Whether it’s to “bring the world closer together” or improve its public image, Facebook today announced Community Boost. It’s a program travelling to 30 cities around the U.S. in 2018 that will teach digital job skills to the unemployed, Internet literacy to those just getting online, startup methodology to entrepreneurs, and customer growth to small business… Read More... →

Digital patient relationship platform Welkin Health has landed $8 million in Series A financing, led by Jared Kushner’s Thrive Capital. This now brings the total in the VC piggy bank to $12 million for the company. Welkin launched in 2013 as a digital monitoring system for diabetics. It joined Rock Health in 2014 to create a disease management platform with robotic coaching tools,… Read More... →

Authentic sports jerseys are expensive and infrequently worn, but that doesn’t stop fans from wanting to own as many as possible from all their favorite players. So why not borrow them? Meet Rep the Squad – the company is essentially Netflix (well, the old DVD-version of Netflix) for sports jerseys. For $20 a month the startup will send you one authentic jersey at a time that you… Read More... →

If you’ve ever interacted with a chatbot and felt like there was just something missing, the founders of a new startup called Conversive think they know the missing element — face-to-face interaction. And that, essentially, is what they’re trying to enable with their technology. Conversive customers can create a character (animated or recorded human) to represent them, place… Read More... →

As Apple continues to work on ever-smaller but more powerful computing devices, it has acquired a startup focusing on nanotechnology, and specifically as it relates to image sensors. TechCrunch has learned and confirmed that Apple has picked up InVisage Technologies, a startup that develops solutions to improve imaging capabilities on space-constrained devices, like smartphones. An Apple… Read More... →

Только в 2016 году на площадке запустилось около 27 тысяч новых блокчейн-стартапов.... →

Swiftype isn’t just a startup that we write about — we also use the technology to provide site search on TechCrunch itself. Now it’s being acquired by Elastic, the company behind the open source technology Elasticsearch. It turns out the two companies are already connected, because Swiftype uses Elasticsearch for indexing and storing its search content. In fact, Swiftype CTO… Read More... →

Венчурный фонд AddVenture повторно вложился в электронную платформу Douleutaras.gr, объединяющую профессионалов в разных областях. Об этом Firrma рассказал управляющий партнер фонда Максим Медведев. Впервые AddVenture инвестировал в Douleutaras.gr в 2016 году. В текущем раунде на €1,8 млн также приняли участие VentureFriends и PJ Tech Catalyst, сообщает портал New Europe. Платформа Douleutaras.gr позволяет найти необходимых специалистов для ремонта, строительства, уборки или перевозок. Сервис был запущен в... →

Ресурс Crunchbase проанализировал инвестиции россиян в американские стартапы за последние семь лет.... →