Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

HackerEarth, an Indian startup that grew from arranging hackthon to offering corporate innovation services, has closed a $4.5 million Series A funding round. The Bangalore-based company said the funding was led by DHI Group, which operates U.S. IT recruitment portal Dice.com, with participation from Japanese quartet Beenext, Beenos, Digital Garage, BizReach and existing investor Prime… Read More... →

Like most new forms of media and communications, GIFs have thus far struggled to find a business model that matches their ubiquity. GIF-sharing startup Tenor hopes to change that, by partnering with media companies, brands and advertisers to help them build and distribute GIFs users will love — and hopefully make a few bucks along the way. Read More... →

Full Harvest, a San Francisco-based startup, has raised $2 million in seed funding to reduce food waste at the farm level. Founded by Christine Moseley, formerly the head of business development for cold-pressed juice makers Organic Avenue, Full Harvest connects farmers with food makers who want to buy the fruit and veggies that grocers deem too ugly to sell in stores. While she was helping… Read More... →

Darkstore, the startup that enables brands to offer same-day delivery, recently closed a $1.4 million seed round from PivotNorth — the same firm that led the seed round for same-day delivery darling Deliv. As part of the deal, PivotNorth CEO Tim Connors will join Darkstore’s board of directors. Thanks to the new funding, Darkstore will expand from just three markets to seven with… Read More... →

Indian health tech startup Lybrate has raised $3 million in new funding, according to a filing in the U.S., where it is incorporated. Lybrate declined to comment on the filing, nor would it provide details of the investors who participated in the round. Make what you will of that cagey response. The company last raised $10.2 million led by Tiger Global in July 2015, which is some time ago. Read More... →

Orbital Systems, a ‘clean-tech’ startup out of Sweden, has raised $15 million in Series B funding. The company’s founder and CEO Mehrdad Mahdjoubi has developed new re-purification technology, in collaboration with NASA, that significantly reduces the amount of water and energy used when taking a shower. The same technology can also be used to save water in other domestic… Read More... →

Qwilr, an Australian startup that helps companies turn boring PDFs and other static sales documents into attractive websites, has grabbed $1.5 million to develop its product and expand its global reach. Sydney-based Qwilr raised $500,000 from Sydney Seed Fund and Macdoch Ventures in 2015, but its new financing is provided by Germany’s Point Nine, a VC firm that specializes in… Read More... →

Стартап собирает блокчейном $3,5 млн на строительство завода... →

First Circle, a fintech startup enabling SME lending in the Philippines, has raised $1.3 million. The capital was provided by Accion Venture Lab, which is attached to finance-focused non-profit Accion, and Deep Blue Ventures. First Circle previously raised $1.2 million last year, and it counts 500 Startups, IMJ, and Key Capital among its backers. SME lending is a given in most Western… Read More... →

Walmart.com is preparing to launch a new feature called “Pickup Discount” that will lower the prices on up to one million online-only items if the customer chooses to pick up their order at a local store instead of opting for shipping. The feature is said to be inspired by the Smart Cart technology developed by Jet.com, the e-commerce startup Walmart acquired for $3 billion last year. Read More... →

When you have so much data that the real world doesn’t do it justice, why not toss it into virtual reality? Virtualitics is aiming to bring insight through isolation, visualization and manipulation, giving you a chance to get up-close and personal with your data while wearing a VR headset. Today, the startup announced that it has closed a $4.4 million Series A led by The Venture… Read More... →

Компания Aerostate, которая занимается прогнозированием качества воздуха, прошла отбор в акселератор Plug and play в Кремниевой Долине. Об этом Firrma рассказал CEO компании Дмитрий Соломенцев. Программа стартует уже сейчас и продлится до 15 июня. Постоянно обучатся в Plug and play будет директор по бизнес девелопменту Евгений Ганьшин и менеджер по отношениям с партнерами Богдан Узбеков. Также в акселерации примет участие Дмитрий Соломенцев, но будет находиться там временно. Дмитрий Соломенцев прокомментиро... →

Создатели сервиса анонимных вопросов Ask.fm инвестировали $500 тысяч в стартап Arbitrum, который позволяет модерировать тексты, изображения и видео. Об этом пишет TechCrunch.... →

Сегодня в рубрике «Стартапы» — приложение English Fight Club, которое помогает тренировать и изучать английские слова в ходе игрового процесса. Передаём микрофон.... →

Don’t you love it when there’s a fragmented market with many different actors and outdated tech products? French startup FretLink is using all the tips in the startup handbook and applying them to a neglected industry — the trucking industry. FretLink a software-as-a-service marketplace connecting companies that need to send big piles of stuff with thousands of… Read More... →

Компания Millhouse Capital Романа Абрамовича, фонды  AddVenture и Altair Capital инвестировали в сервис заказа услуг прачечной Cleanly. Раунд в размере $5 млн возглавил AddVenture. Сейчас сервис функционирует в центре Нью-Йорка, в Бруклине и в Вашингтоне, но планирует медленно расширятся. Именно на географическую экспансию будет направлены средства от нового раунда. В частности, следующем городом на карте сервиса станет Сан-Франциско. Стартап не планирует стремительно расширяться, прежде чем сможет поддержи... →

Cleanly, the on-demand laundry and dry cleaning service started in NYC, has raised $5M in Series A funding. The startup had previously raised $2.3M in seed funding after participating in YC in 2015. The round was led by AddVenture, with participation from returning investors Initialized Capital and Altair Capital and Millhouse Capital as a new investor.  Since Cleanly launched two years ago… Read More... →

While many traditional publishers are figuring out their social media strategies, The Shade Room has already built an Instagram-centric media juggernaut. Since its founding in 2014, the startup’s Instagram account (which offers celebrity news aimed at a black audience) has attracted more than 8.9 million followers — compare that to The New York Times’ 2.4 million,… Read More... →

Создатели латышского сервиса Ask.fm Илья Теребин, Марк Теребин и Оскар Лиепинс запустили сервис по управлению контентом Arbitrum и вложили в него $500 тысяч. Об этом сообщает Techcrunch. Инвестиции были выданы через рижскую финансовую компанию Макса Теребина Balaclava Lab. Arbitrum – сервис модерации текста, изображений и видео, основанный Германом Гедгаудсом, ранее возглавлявшим отдел модерации и развития продукта в латвийском сервисе вопросов и ответов Ask.fm. Бета-версия Arbitrum была запущена в феврале ... →

Synack, a startup that combines software security tools with a network of white-hat hackers to help keep its customers secure, announced a $21.25 million Series C funding round today. The round was led by Microsoft Ventures with participation from Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Singtel Innov8. Previous investors GGV Capital, GV (formerly Google Ventures) and Kleiner Perkins Caufield &… Read More... →