Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

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Китайский сервис микрокредитования Fenqile, инвестором которого является фонд DST Global Юрия Мильнера, планирует провести IPO и привлечь $600 млн. Средства, привлечённые по время IPO, компания направит на развитие, чтобы конкурировать с китайской компанией Qufenqi. В декабре 2014 года DST Global стал лид-инвестором раунда В финансирования ю Fenqile. Общий размер раунда составил $100 млн.  Кроме фонда Мильнера в сделке приняли участие текущие акционеры компании – Bertlesmann Asia Investment, Matrix Partners... →

In a world where having internet connectivity is the lifeblood of just about every business, Cradlepoint helps customers deliver consistent networking services, even when there is a lousy cell signal. Today the company announced it had secured an $89 million Series C investment from TCV. TCV is the only investor this round, and as part of the deal TCV’s general partner Ted Coons and… Read More... →

Бывший вице-президент по маркетингу и коммуникациям Сбербанка Светлана Миронюк вложилась в российско-британский fashion-стартап с Style Counsel. Об этом Firrma рассказал представитель Миронюк. Раунд был закрыт в январе 2017 года, но транш от бывшего топ-менеджера Сбербанка поступил еще в 2016 году. В текущем раунде ангельских инвестиций участвовали также инвестор и создатель Mercury Media Science Гидеон Хоффман (Gideon Hoffman), спонсор Каннских Львов и создатель рекламной платформы LiveIntent Дейв Хендрикс... →

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).... →

Another fintech startup has raised a growth round to tap into the estimated $25 trillion dollar market for money transfers. London-based CurrencyCloud, which builds tools for payment companies to use by way of an API to enable remittances and money exchanges across borders, has raised £20 million ($25 million) in a Series D round of funding led by Google’s GV. The news comes one… Read More... →

A few years ago, when I launched a daily email newsletter, I was ecstatic — thrilled! — to be striking out on my own for the first time. Alas, just a few weeks weeks after filing to secure a trademark,  an officious-sounding note appeared in my inbox, and soon after, I found myself shelling out $10,000 in lawyer’s fees over a short-lived trademark dispute. It… Read More... →

Today at the inaugural Udacity Intersect conference, the online education startup announced new robotics and digital marketing variants of its popular Nanodegrees — an effort to expand its corpus of  21st century skills-based courses. In addition to the new degrees, Udacity is adding 21 new hiring partners spanning the automotive, defense, tech, hardware and telecommunications industries. Read More... →

Pinterest has made another acquisition that could point to another way that it plans to increase interaction on its visual-search-and-discovery platform: it has acquired Jelly, the startup co-founded by Twitter co-founder Biz Stone and Ben Finkel in 2014 as a “human-powered search engine” — essentially an app that let people ask questions and get crowdsourced replies from… Read More... →

Earlier this week, as President Donald Trump was readying his second attempt to block immigrants from predominantly Muslim countries, two entrepreneurs — a refugee from Iran and the daughter of an Iranian immigrant, were laying the groundwork for the launch of their business aiming to transform educational access. The dichotomy between the founders of Toot, who are trying to expand access… Read More... →

Airbnb co-founder and CTO Nathan Blecharczyk was in Paris today to announce a neat little perk for future residents of Station F. Based in Paris, the huge Station F building is going to have 3,000 desks for tech companies of all kinds. It wants to become the biggest startup campus in the world. And Airbnb is going to offer some free credit. This is just the first perk announcement as there… Read More... →

Kenyan communications hardware company BRCK unveiled its SupaBRCK this week―a waterproof, solar-powered Wi-Fi box that operates as a 3G hotspot and off-grid server. Read More... →

Another legal tech startup coming out of the UK: Cognitiv+ is applying artificial intelligence to automate contract analysis and management, offering businesses a way to automate staying on top of legal risks, obligations and changing regulatory landscapes. Read More... →

Kabbage, a billion-dollar startup that combines machine learning algorithms, data from public profiles on the internet and other factors to rate and then loan people money for their small businesses, is today announcing another big step up in its ambitions. The company has secured over $500 million in fixed-rate, asset-backed notes, money that it will use to expand the amount, payback… Read More... →

Nominations are now open for The Europas, the European Tech Startup Awards and one-day conference. The Europas will be held on 13 June 2017, in London at Here East, and are officially part of London Tech Week. TechCrunch is the exclusive media sponsor of the conference and awards. You can nominate an individual (founder, investor etc), startup, accelerator or venture investor which you… Read More... →

Amazon has quietly made one more acquisition to build out the productivity services on its cloud platform AWS. The company has acquired Do.com, a startup that had built a platform to make meetings more productive by doing things like managing notes in preparation for them, and creating reports for those who were not there, as well as organising the meetings themselves. Amazon is… Read More... →

Корпорация Google приобретает стартап Kaggle платформу, которая объединяет исследователей науки о данных. Об этом пишет TechCrunch, со ссылкой на анонимные источники. Изданию неизвестны подробности сделки, ожидается, что о ней будет объявлено уже завтра. Платформа объединяет сообществом ученых, которые конкурируют друг с другом, чтобы решать проблемы науки о данных, используя разнообразные приложения машинного обучения. У стартапа есть опыт решения проблем по целому ряду отраслей, включая финансовые услуги,... →

Norwegian startup Gobi raised $500,000 at a $15 million valuation to take on Snapchat with its “Stories” communication tool. The platform enables users to create public and private groups where users can share photos and videos that stay around for three days before vanishing into digital pixel-dust. Read More... →

Type 2 diabetes is a disease affecting 415 million people globally and Virta, a Silicon Valley-based health startup, believes it has something unique to reverse it – remote monitoring of everything you eat. Most people with the disease end up having to constantly monitor their blood sugar with the prick of a needle and diabetic pills or can “cure” it with bariatric surgery. Read More... →

Subscription gym startup KFit has continued to morph into Groupon after it acquired the third country business from the group-buying giant in Southeast Asia. Today it announced that Fave, KFit’s e-commerce offshoot, has acquired Groupon Singapore. KFit acquired Groupon Indonesia and Groupon Malaysia last year as part of a pivot to move from a business that sells fitness-based… Read More... →