Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

The real estate industry was relatively slow to adapt technology, but it’s now quickly catching up. That means that virtually every part of the industry is seeing a lot of startup activity. Juniper Square, which today announced it has raised a $6M Series A round, is tackling the real estate investment side by helping investment managers raise and manage outside capital for their projects. Read More... →

Not every self-driving car has to be able to move passengers from point A to point B. Take, for example, Nuro: The startup just revealed their unique autonomous vehicle platform, which is more of a mobile small logistics platform than a self-driving car. The company, which has been working away in stealth mode in Mountain View until now, has raised a $92 million Series A round led by Banyan… Read More... →

Trifacta, a big-data business intelligence startup that is building tools to help businesses structure and analyse data that gets generated in their networks through customer interactions and other actions, is today announcing that it has closed out its Series D round at $48 million, with a notable list of strategic and financial investors that includes Google, Ericsson, the Deutsche Börse,… Read More... →

Uber is launching a bike-sharing service next week in partnership with JUMP, a startup that recently received the first and only permit to operate dockless bike-sharing in San Francisco. JUMP’s contract with the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency enables it to launch 250 of its dockless, electric bikes in San Francisco. After the first nine months of the program, the SFMTA… Read More... →

What began as a movement among couture culturati with the success of Rent the Runway has moved into everything from cars (Porsche’s got a subscription service ) to construction equipment and furniture.  Well, the Los Angeles-based startup Joymode has just raised $14 million to be the subscription service for nearly everything else.  Read More... →

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Хорошие основатели строят команду вокруг стратегии продукта... →

Стартап планировал привлечь $1 млрд.... →

Фонд Gagarin Capital вложился в сервис аутентификации пользователей Idrnd.net. Об этом Firrma рассказал управляющий партнер фонда Николай Давыдов. Сделка была закрыта в декабря 2017 года. Gagarin Capital получил 5% в проекте. Сумма вложений не раскрывается. Как правило, на данной стадии развития стартапа фонд вкладывает от $200 – $500 тысяч. Стартап осуществляет аутентификацию пользователй по трем параметрам: по голосу, лицу и по поведению. Компания Cherry Labs, сооснователем которой является Николай Давыдо... →

Венчурный фонд Life.SREDA собирает третий фонд – BB Fund (Based-on-Blockchain Fund). Предполагается, что новая структура заработает уже в первой половине 2018 года, передает FinSMEs. Первоначальный объем фонда должен составить $50 млн, в дальнейшем он может быть увеличен до $200 млн. Фонд будет структурирован как limited partnership для традиционных инвесторов с отделением токенизизированного фонда для криптоинвесторов. BB Fund разработал специальную платформу, чтобы обеспечить безопасность, прозрачность и... →

Директор по стратегии и анализу Mail.Ru Group Александр Горный каждый день рассказывает о примечательных проектах.... →

What should we do about token sales? Two days ago a Lithuanian “company” called Prodeum looked like a promising if silly blockchain startup. Their stated goal? To track every piece of food on the Internet. While I doubt many of us will care about the exact provenance of the orange we just ate, we could see, in some distant future, a need for this sort of tracking. After all, the… Read More... →

Red Hat, a company best known for its enterprise Linux products, has been making a big play for Kubernetes and containerization in recent years with its OpenShift Kubernetes product. Today the company decided to expand on that by acquiring CoreOS, a container management startup, for $250 million. The company’s core products includes CoreOS, a Linux distribution and Tectonic, a… Read More... →

Директор по стратегии и анализу Mail.Ru Group Александр Горный каждый день рассказывает о примечательных проектах.... →

Платформа синхронного перевода для мероприятий SPEAKUS прошла отбор в акселерационную программу StartUP Kazakhstan. О этом Firrma рассказали в стартапе. Проект получил более $30 тысяч в виде беспроцентного займа от GVA Alatau Fund. $11,5 из этой суммы будет выплачено услугами акселератора. По условиям сделки заем может быть конвертирован в привилегированные акции компании. После окончания акселерации стартап может получить еще $100 тысяч за 7% в американской компании, которая будет создана.  Облачный сервис... →

As Pinterest increasingly tries to sell itself as a startup specialized in computer vision that it plugs into visual discovery, it’s continuing to pick up additional pieces to help continue to build that out. Today, the company said it is hiring former Google computer vision research lead Chuck Rosenberg, who was previously at Google for 14 years. Pinterest sees more than 300 million… Read More... →

Heptio holds a special place in the Kubernetes startup ecosystem. Its co-founders are, after all, two of the co-founders of the Kubernetes project. Heptio has raised millions, but it was never clear what their business plan looked like beyond offering training and professional services. It’s becoming clearer now, as the company today announced the launch of the Heptio Kubernetes… Read More... →

Want to put your money in something like a 1955 Porsche or 1985 Ferrari but don’t have hundreds of thousands of dollars to spend? Meet Rally Road. The New York-based startup lets investors buy a real equity stake in a classic car for as little as $50. The company just closed a $2.9M seed round led by Columbus Nova with participation from Social Leverage and other angel… Read More... →

The SoftBank Vision Fund has struck again. This time, it’s investing $300 million in on-demand walking and dog care startup Wag. Wag has also brought on Hilary Schneider, formerly of identity theft protection company LifeLock, to serve as the company’s new chief executive officer. Wag, which launched back in 2015, offers on-demand walking and boarding for pups. The startup… Read More... →

It’s crunch time for TrackR, that startup that lets you use an app to find items like keys, wallets and bags that have been tagged with its small Bluetooth-based tracking devices. TechCrunch has learned and confirmed that the company has laid off a substantial proportion of its staff, as it seeks to sharpen its focus amid a wider market contraction for item-tracking businesses. The… Read More... →