Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

Сервис онлайн-автозайма CarMoney с февраля 2016 по апрель 2017 года выдал займы на сумму, превышающую 1 млрд рублей. Об этом Firrma сообщили в компании.  На текущий момент совокупный кредитный портфель CarMoney составляет около 760 млн рублей. До конца мая показатель увеличится до 890 млн рублей, сумма выданных кредитов превысит 1,4 млрд рублей, заявили в стартапе.  В начале мая совокупный кредитный портфель CarMoney составит 760 млн рублей. С февраля этого года он уже увеличился более чем на 25%. Дальнейша... →

Венчурный инвестор Александр Румянцев вложился в сервис по оказанию услуг в сфере онлайн-игр Landroshop.com, получив в обмен 10% компании. Об этом Firrma сообщил Александр Румянцев. Александр Румянцев заметил стартап в ходе конференции Startup Village 2016 и предложил заключить инвестиционное соглашение. По словам основателя компании Владимира Денисенко, «официально мы стали портфельным проектом Александра Румянцева на днях». Привлеченные средства пойдут на маркетинг и освоение новых рынков в этой сфере. У ... →

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).... →

Next Insurance, a startup that wants to make it simpler for small businesses to find coverage, has raised a $29 million Series A. The round was led by Munich Re/HSB Ventures, the venture capital arm of German insurance company Munich Re. Existing investors including Markel and Nationwide, also participated. Read More... →

Go-Jek, the motorbike on-demand startup that is battling Uber and Grab in Indonesia, has closed a new round of $1.2 billion led by Chinese internet giant Tencent, two sources close the company told TechCrunch. The deal, which we understand was signed last week, values the company at $3 billion post money. It is expected to be officially announced “soon.” Neither Go-Jek… Read More... →

Posted by lydiagilbertsonBeing a small or startup publishing company is hard. The digital advertising industry is broken. Larger companies like Vox and Buzzfeed are some of the only online publications that can hope to monetize their content effectively. Smaller niche publications often have an even harder time attracting return visitors or getting people outside of their current active users to see their content at all. Already at a disadvantage, most small publications are also understaffed and underfunde... →

Входящая в холдинг Alphabet компания Waymo во время судебного заседания против Uber заявила, что стартап её бывшего сотрудника Энтони Левандовски Otto был создан, чтобы скрыть его переход в Uber сразу после ухода из Google. Об этом пишет TechCrunch.... →

As huge tech co’s continue to dump money into VR and AR technology that looks to convince us digital objects in front of us are actually real, they’re still having a tough time figuring out how to make them feel real. Ultrahaptics is working on a technology that uses ultrasound waves to construct 3D objects in the air that users can feel. The startup is looking to use this tech… Read More... →

Factory machinery was the killer app of the mid-nineteenth century, speeding up the process and lowering costs for many upstarts of the day and they paved the way for a slew of candy companies to pop up around that time. In the year 1830, a man by the actual name of William Startup had hopped on the trend in Manchester, England. Thanks to these new technological innovations, Startup was able… Read More... →

Goldman Sachs is investing $13 million in Nav, a startup that helps small businesses with financial advice and credit scores. Billionaire Steven Cohen’s Point72 Ventures is also investing, along with Clocktower Ventures and the CreditEase Fintech Investment Fund. This follows $25 million that was invested in the company last year, and is considered part of the same Series B round,… Read More... →

Have a robotic startup or project? We want you on stage at TechCrunch Session: Robotics this July 17 at MIT. We’re looking for students to demo and early stage startups to pitch. If selected, both will get free tickets and exhibit space at the event. Use this form to apply. This opportunity will put participants in front of the companies, founders and engineers driving the robotics… Read More... →

This week, Softbank is reportedly in discussions to pour $1.4 billion into the India-based digital payments company Paytm. Last week, it was reported to be close to an investment in Improbable Worlds, a London-based virtual reality startup backed by Andreessen Horowitz. Last month, the reports centered on talks that Softbank is having with coworking giant WeWork about a new round of… Read More... →

Dots. Two Dots. Dots & Co. It seems like Dots (that’s the name of both the startup and its first game) is following a pattern with each release — a pattern it’s breaking with its fourth game, Wilds. Wilds isn’t scheduled to launch until late 2017, but the company has just released a live-action trailer for the game, directed by Radical Friend and choreographed… Read More... →

Decibel Insight, a U.K. startup that has built “digital experience analytics” tech to help large companies understand how individual customers interact with its websites and apps, has raised $9 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Eight Road Ventures, with participation from John Simon, via his Ventureforgood investment entity. Read More... →

As more companies wade into the business of building artificial intelligence systems to help you drive (or do the driving for you), a startup founded by an ex-Apple computer vision specialist is open sourcing a huge dataset that can help them on their road to autonomy. Mapillary, a Swedish startup backed by Sequoia, Atomico and others that has built a database of 130 million images through… Read More... →

Недавно запущенный фонд Binomial Ventures Олега Равнюшкина и Константина Стискина закрыл первую сделку. Он вложился в маркетинговый стартап Yieldify.  Общая сумма сделки составила $6 млн. В раунде инвестиций участвовали также основатель fashion-ритейлера New Look Том Сингх (Tom Singh), предприниматель Джон Джулиани (John A. Giuliani), с недавних пор назначенный новым председателем совета директоров, а также предыдущие инвесторы – фонды Hoxton Ventures и Data Point Capital. Деньги пойдут на развитие продукта... →

Как российская команда виртуального банка попала в финал SeedStars World.... →

Userfeeds is a new startup which has a platform which applies blockchain tokens to news discovery. The idea is to combat so-called “fake news” by providing an economic incentive rank content well. The Warsaw based company has raised $800k in seed funding from BlueYard Capital, Fred Ehrsamh (the Coinbase co-founder) and Piotr Smolen (Dataventures). The system of content ranking… Read More... →

Nutonomy, the self-driving car startup that span out of MIT in 2013, has inked a deal that will see it work with Peugeot-maker Groupe PSA to test autonomous vehicles in Singapore. Nutonomy is more than familiar with Singapore: it has a relationship with local Uber rival Grab and the Singapore Economic Development Board was an investor in its recent $16 million fundraising. This new tie-in… Read More... →

Tel Aviv, get ready! TC is coming to Israel at the end of June for our second TC Meetup + Pitch-off, and if last year is any indication, it’s going to be off the chain. Israel is one of the world’s fastest-growing and impressive startup ecosystems, and we simply can’t resist paying a visit. As part of that, ten startups from the area will have the chance to pitch their product… Read More... →