Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

Lots of online eyewear retailers offer to send you a selection of frames to try on at home before you buy, a model made popular by Warby Parker in the U.S. and GlassesDirect in Europe. However, although sending you the exact same frame as you intend to buy has largely solved the conversion problem selling eyewear online creates, it can be pretty costly. Read More... →

Rakuten is getting into the Airbnb for business sector after it invested SG$4 million ($2.8 million) in Singapore-based MetroResidences. MetroResidences was founded in 2014 by James Chua and Lester Kang and it matches corporate employees needing to rent for a month or more with home owners who seek tenants. It is currently active in Singapore, but has plans to expand into Hong Kong and… Read More... →

Российский сервис по аренде вещей Rentmania получил $500 тысяч конвертируемого заема. Как сообщила Firrma партнер стартапа Людмила Булавкина, средства пойдут на увеличение команды и выход на новые рынки. Летом 2016 года Rentmania привлекла 15 млн рублей от двух бизнес-ангелов. Оценка компании составила 70 млн рублей. В мае 2016 года Фонд развития интернет-инициатив (ФРИИ) продал свою долю в Rentmania основателю стартапа Аркадию Мешковскому за 2,4 млн рублей. Фонд владел 7% в ООО «Неовента» (торговая марка –... →

Tenzo, a London startup and graduate of Techstars, has built what looks like an interesting and timely platform to help restaurants (and potentially any brick ‘n’ mortar retailer) get real-time data insights on how they and their staff are performing. 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).... →

Saleswhale, a Singapore-based startup that uses artificial intelligence to let companies automate their sales emails, has raised a $1.2 million seed round. The capital was provided by VC firms Monk’s Hill Ventures, Gree Ventures and Wavemaker Partners with a number of angel investors. Those include early Dropbox hire Albert Ni, Pieter Walraven (who founded now Google-owned… Read More... →

A new European Commission funded startup accelerator, Data Pitch, is being launched today with the aim of connecting established businesses and organisations with lots of data with startups who might be able to help them unlock the value of the info they hold and thereby tackle industrial and societal challenges. Read More... →

Meditation app Headspace recently brought on Robert Lamvik, Spotify’s now-former director of its premium service, and Dr. Megan Jones Bell, former chief science officer at mental health startup Lantern. Their respective roles at Headspace are head of growth and chief science officer — two new roles at the company. “We’ve always had team of scientists, but as we go into… Read More... →

Autonomous passenger drones might be coming to Dubai this summer, but in Russia I had the chance to check out this startup which literally wants to build a hoverbike. Emerging from the Skolkovo “startups and science park” just outside of Moscow, human-carrying drone maker Hoversurf has created a sing-seat hoverbike which looks awesome, but does rather make you fear… Read More... →

You can imagine that Stripe CEO Patrick Collison is asked a lot about whether his San Francisco-based payments company plans to go pubic any time soon. Last year, the seven-year-old company raised $150 million in a deal co-led by General Catalyst Partners and CapitalG that valued the startup at $9.2 billion, almost double the valuation it was assigned in 2015. Altogether, it has raised… Read More... →

The last time I wrote about Save, the French startup had just raised $16.7 million to prove that you could scale smartphone repair services. It’s been a roller coaster ride since then as the company had to claim insolvency. After this process, Remade Group is picking up Save’s business and employees. While the startup managed to grow quite rapidly, it was hard to keep up with the pace. Read More... →

Acknowledging that its technology is second-best is a rare move for a competitive startup, but as Uber faces a lawsuit from Waymo, claiming the runner-up title might save its self-driving car program. Uber is also claiming that, although one of its engineering leads is accused of stealing tens of thousands of secret documents from Google, those documents were never uploaded to an… Read More... →

Подробности о первом гонконгском стартапе, который может достичь оценки свыше $1 млрд... →

It’s no secret that data is the hot new revenue source for automakers, who are seeing additional profit opportunities bloom as vehicles become more connected and they can retrieve a ton of useful data that’s incredibly valuable when deployed correctly. Israeli startup otonomo has been on top of that trend since its founding in 2015, with nine automakers worldwide using its platform… Read More... →

Сегодня в рубрике «Стартапы» – онлайн-каталог Malpa Travel для путешественников, в котором собрана информация о всех мировых сервисах бронирования авиаперелётов, отелей, экскурсий и других этапов любой поездки. Передаём микрофон.... →

Придумать идею для стартапа — дело техники. И вот какой... →

Венчурный инвестор Александр Румянцев вложился в музыкальный сервис GrammyGo.com в обмен на 10%. О сделке Firrma рассказал сооснователь проекта Андрей Пастухов. GrammyGo.com основан лидером музыкальной группы VIA CHAPPA Ильей Тавлияровым и главным менеджером проекта HitStarter Андреем Пастуховым, которым сейчас принадлежит остальные 90% стартапа. Сервис помогает «раскрутится» начинающим музыкантам с помощью рейтингов музыкальных произведений, которые составляются слушателями. Алгоритм сервиса ранжирует трек... →

Финалисты акселератора GenerationS от РВК рассказали о том, как доказать инвестору, что вы не жулик, почему Стив Джобс делал презентации на темном фоне и как отвечать на вопрос «зачем вы это делаете?».  Владимир Степанчук, «Алюминиевый трансформатор нового поколения с керамической изоляцией обмоток катушки», победитель трека Power&Energy: – Cамое главное, чтобы во время презентации инвестор понял, сколько можно заработать на технологии, каким образом и в какой срок. Для промышленного партнера важно, как те... →

On Wednesday I had the unique pleasure of hanging out with a a bunch of Macedonian startup founders and was very impressed. The Balkans have long been a promising spot for startups – the cost of living is low and the talent level is high – and this visit was unique in that everyone was fully prepared to pitch on a global scale. The winners of the pitch-off were Letz, a cool… Read More... →

Производить обувь будет американский стартап Carbon.... →