Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

Airbnb has finalized its deal to buy social payments startup Tilt, TechCrunch has confirmed. We first reported the acquisition talks last month, but now everything has been made official. We are told that investors will be getting back about $12 million in cash, but the deal value is tens of millions of dollars higher if you include employee retention packages, which were paid for in cash… Read More... →

Already a hit in the limited California regions that it serves, doctor-on-demand startup Heal is planning to take its house call service to more cities across the country. Today, the company announced that it would be expanding into cities in Florida, Texas, New York and Pennsylvania by the end of the year. It has been only two years since Heal’s first doctor made the first house call… Read More... →

For the better part of the last year, tech pundits have been writing about the demise of the app. Once thought to be the savior of consumer-facing software, apps are now ubiquitous, underused, underappreciated, and underwhelming. Enter the Los Angeles-based startup Maple Media. The new company is hoping to breathe new life into the app market with a consolidation play intended to roll up the… Read More... →

Amobee just announced that it has agreed to acquire adtech company Turn for $310 million. Amobee used to be a mobile ad startup itself, before a 2012 acquisition by Singtel, where it remains a subsidiary. Since then, Singtel and Amobee have continued to make make more acquisitions on the digital ad side, including Gradient X, Adconion and Kontera. Turn, meanwhile, operates both a data… Read More... →

Headphone startup Earin announced today that it’s scored $3.5 million in funding, hot on the heels of announcing its second-generation wireless earbuds back at CES. The new round will go to fund the release of the M-2, due to be released at retail this spring. The move marks a shift for the company, which took to Kickstarter to fund its first headphones back in 2015, ahead of the recent… Read More... →

Snapdeal, one of India’s big online marketplaces, is feeling the pinch of competition from Flipkart, Amazon and a host of startups that have emerged with the rise of e-commerce in the country. The startup — backed by the likes of eBay, Alibaba and Softbank and last valued at $6.5 billion — said it is laying off staff as part of a bigger restructuring. The company has… Read More... →

For many promising young startups, displaying in the Startup Alley at TechCrunch Disrupt is one of the best decisions they can make. At Disrupt NY 2017, we’re giving startups the opportunity to participate in the Alley free of charge. TechCrunch rolled out our featured pavilions at Disrupt SF and Disrupt London last year, but for New York, we’re taking the concept to a whole new level. Read More... →

Getting product lock-in is key in the world of startups. Your app, service or products needs a hook that brings your users back time and time again. How about a startup that hangs its hook on daily milk deliveries? Supr Daily is that startup. Its is currently taking part in the latest program at Y Combinator, from where CEO Puneet Kumar explained more about what the Mumbai-based startup… Read More... →

Voice-powered artificial intelligence is not something that’s easy to set up for just any business, even if it might have real benefits in terms of driving sales or improving customer experience. Voysis is a startup that wants to change that, with an AI platform that can parse natural language input, and that works effectively in specific domains including ecommerce, entertainment and more. Read More... →

Сервис, предоставляющий индивидуальные рабочие пространства и услуги для офиса, Knotel, сооснователем которого является управляющий партнер венчурного фонда Kite Ventures Эдуард Шендерович, привлек $25 млн.  Лид-инвестором сделки стал фонд Invest AG. В инвестиционном раунде участвовали также Bloomberg Beta, 500 Startups, Rocket Internet, Observer Capital и некие бизнес-ангелы из Нью-Йорка. Полученные средства будет потрачены на поиск новых помещений в США и Европе. Knotel – сервис, предоставляющий индивидуа... →

Сегодня в рубрике «Стартапы» — приложение Ommy, которое создает на основе селфи пользователя наборы анимированных стикеров, похожих на него. Передаем микрофон.... →

Internet of Things startup Toymail, which sells connected plush toys to parents of younger kids who want them to have a playful alternative to a mobile phone, has now launched an app store. Read More... →

MakieLab, a London-based startup that 3D printed and sold custom dolls, has officially shuttered, with a partial exit to Disney. TechCrunch understands that the U.S. entertainment company acquired MakieLab’s tech and assets as early as July last year, a story that I have tried but failed to nail down ever since. Until now, that is. Read More... →

Выпуск своего первого мобильного продукта стартап наметил на первый квартал 2017 года.... →

Фонд Larnabel Ventures семьи предпринимателя Михаила Гуцериева и инвесткомпания VP Capital Виктора Прокопени инвестировали $5 млн в стартап Banuba, который занимается разработкой мобильных приложений на основе технологий дополненной реальности (AR). Об этом vc.ru сообщили в VP Capital.... →

Фонд Larnabel Ventures , основанный семьей Гуцериевых, и компания VP Capital Виктора Прокопени инвестировали $5 млн в белорусский стартап Banuba, который  разрабатыват мобильные приложения на основе технологий дополненной реальности. Об этом Firrma сообшили в стартапе.  Технология стартапа способна выявлять и распознавать объекты, выражения лица и мимику в режиме реального времени, используя нейронные сети и современные алгоритмы машинного обучения. Кроме того, технологии позволяют изменять и дополнять расп... →

A startup called Exyn Technologies Inc. today revealed AI software that enables drones to fly autonomously, even in dark, obstacle-filled environments or beyond the reaches of GPS. A spin out of the University of Pennsylvania’s GRASP Labs, Exyn uses sensor fusion to give drones situational awareness much like a human’s. In a demo video shared by the company with TechCrunch, a… Read More... →

A Swiss startup, Terpon SA, is making virtual reality webcams specifically for the adult entertainment industry. The cameras aren’t available for purchase, but customers can rent them for about $30 a month, a price that includes around the clock technical support. Terpon Chief Executive Jean Claude Artonne said he wants to empower adult performers around the world to create immersive… Read More... →

As our society continues to devalue facts and statistics, Data.world, a two year old data collaboration startup out of Austin, Texas, is fighting back with its passionate community of data nerds. Today the company is announcing a $18.7 million Series B led by Pat Ryan’s family investment group to further build out its platform for aggregating and analyzing data. CEO Brett Hurt and… Read More... →

Американский рэпер Jay Z (Шон Картер) решил открыть собственный венчурный фонд, пишет издание Axios со ссылкой на собственные источники.... →