Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

Entrepreneur Bre Pettis and Berkeley-based Other Machine seem like a match made in heaven. The MakerBot founder has been through the ringer once already, leaving the company he co-founded and ran after selling it to 3D printing colossus, Stratasys. But now he’s doing the buying. Other Machine founder and CEO Danielle Applestone tells TechCrunch that her CNC Milling startup has… Read More... →

Shenzhen-based Kuang-Chi Group is investing $5 million in SkyX Systems Corp., according to the drone tech startup’s founder and CEO Didi Horn. A former fighter pilot with the Israeli Air Force, Horn started SkyX in 2015 to help public and private companies monitor energy infrastructure from on high, using increasingly powerful drones and big data analytics. Horn said, “Our… Read More... →

As mobile developers and publishers wrestle with how to keep users engaged with their apps, Mavin Motion co-founder and CEO Shailesh Nalawadi said it’s time for new strategies. The startup started out by building engagement products for mobile apps in India, but today it’s announcing its US launch — as well as a $3 million seed round from Mousse Partners and Montane… Read More... →

Impossible Foods has raised over $200 million to make a burger that tastes at least as good as ground beef but which is engineered from plants. The CEO of the five-year-old food startup, Patrick O. Brown, is a famed Stanford geneticist who previously started the nonprofit Public Library of Science. The company’s many backers— among them Bill Gates, Li Ka-Shing, UBS, Khosla Ventures… Read More... →

Sayspring, a startup that enables designers to create voice-enabled apps without code ahead of handing over projects to development, has just raised $1.5 million in funding for its efforts, the company is announcing today. The round was led by Compound (formerly Metamorphic Ventures), with participation from strategic angels including Scott Belsky, Alan Chung, and Peter Stern. The startup… Read More... →

Сооснователь и исполнительный директор «облачного» сервиса Uploadcare Игорь Дебатур о развитии стартапа только за счёт работы с клиентами.... →

In partnership with TechCrunch, The Europas Conference & Awards, is a different kind of tech startup event which features smaller breakout sessions on key subjects for startups, as well as main-stage speakers and panels. The Europas conference is followed by a glittering awards for the hottest startups in Europe, based on voting by expert judges and the industry itself. But key to it all… Read More... →

Shipamax, a London-based startup and recent graduate of Silicon Valley accelerator Y Combinator, has raised $2.5 million in seed funding, money it plans to use to continue building and marketing its cloud software platform for the bulk shipping industry. Leading the round is Cherubic Ventures, with participation from AME Cloud, and FF Angel. Read More... →

Plum is one of a number of fintech startups reimagining how we manage our finances online, in the form of an AI-driven or ‘smart’ chatbot. However, unlike competitors that exist primarily as standalone apps, the London startup (for now, at least) has decided to bet big on Facebook Messenger. The thinking, explains co-founder Victor Trokoudes, who was previously an early employee… Read More... →

Редакция vc.ru продолжает публиковать резюме специалистов, желающих работать в стартапах и ИТ-компаниях (выходят по понедельникам), а также вакансии компаний, которые ищут сотрудников (выходят по четвергам).... →

Венчурный фонд Target Global вложился в немецкий автосервис Auto1 Group при оценке в $2,8 млрд. Об этом сообщает издание Bloomberg. Компания привлекла 360 млн евро в виде инвестиционного займа и венчурного финансирования. В этом раунде инвестиций участвовали также Baillie Gifford & Co. и Princeville Global. В качестве кредитных банков выступили JPMorgan Chase & Co., Goldman Sachs Gr, Barclays Plc, Citigroup Inc., BNP Paribas SA and BHF-Bank AG. Auto1 Group – онлайн биржа для подержанных автомобилей, сервис ... →

Инвестировать смогут все, у кого есть подходящая криптовалюта, обещает организатор – Starta Accelerator... →

Tech titans like IBM and Google have emerged major players in New York’s startup ecosystem. Here’s a look at how their New York offices stack up to their west coast counterparts. Read More... →

Startups put great effort into finding the perfect name. Ideally, it should be short, memorable, descriptive, and easy to pronounce. Names that meet all the criteria are commonly taken, however, so most founders find a compromise. They settle on a creative misspelling, add a word or just string together sounds they like. In the end, the hope is that a well-named startup will have an easier… Read More... →

Mobile Beach Conference — третья ежегодная конференция по мобильному маркетингу, ставшая одним из наиболее значимых мероприятий сферы в Европе.  Что нужно о ней знать:   Аудитория: более 1000 участников с географией выходящей далеко за рамки СНГ.  Спикеры из компаний: Facebook, Shazam, WarGaming, Inmobi, Adcolony, Looksery, Mail.ru и др.  Конкурс стартапов: на протяжении всей конференции будет функционировать выставка с финалистами отборочного тура стартапов, а завершением первого дня станет сражение команд... →

Deep Algo was one of the more fascinating companies on display in Startup Alley at TechCrunch Disrupt this week. The French team aims to make coding languages more accessible for the masses with SaaS (software as a service) offering that promises to do for languages like C++, C Sharp and Javascript what WYSIWYG does for HTML. It’s a pretty bold claim, but the company is confident that… Read More... →

Стартап Mercaux привлек $900 тысяч в виде конвертируемого займа. Как сообщила Firrma основатель Mercaux Ольга Коцур, средства в проект вложили несколько бизнес-ангелов, в том числе Борис Жилин, директор по маркетингу российского Alibaba.com Татьяна Игнаточкина, вице-президент по корпоративным и торговым операциям в Veeam Software Антон Антич. Осенью 2015 года в компанию инвестировали Maxfield VC,  Sun Capital, Алексей Менн, Борис Жилин и другие бизнес-ангелы. «В этом году планируем привлечь $2,5 млн в раунд... →

Инвесторами выступили Антон Антич, Борис Жилин, директор по маркетингу Alibaba в России Татьяна Игнаточкина и другие... →

Startups in Latin America are using creative solutions to address not just local but also global problems. For investors outside the region, the prospect of working with these startups can appear attractive, yet complicated. Investing in early-stage startups in Latin America can present challenges; however, time and time again I’ve found it can be well worth the effort. Read More... →

This week the TechCrunch team threw another successful Disrupt conference, this time in New York City. 20 companies took the stage at TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield, where they presented their products and took questions from our expert judges. The judges narrowed the competition down to five finalists. But RecordGram, a mobile recording studio where aspiring artists can find… Read More... →