Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

Quiqup, a London-based delivery startup that offers an app and service similar to Postmates in the U.S., has partnered with take-out ordering service hungryhouse to let partner restaurants outsource delivery. Read More... →

Breathometer, a startup that quickly rose to prominence due to an appearance on Shark Tank, has agreed to a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission in which it will offer refunds for mobile-connected breathalyzer devices the company sold from 2013 to 2015. The two products — the Original ($49) and Breeze ($99) — were marketed as devices that could detect a user’s… Read More... →

Viant, the ad tech company acquired by Time Inc. last year, just announced an acquisition of its own. The company has reached an agreement to buy Adelphic, an ad startup focused on mobile and cross-device targeting. “Adelphic will bring superior media execution capabilities to Viant’s advertising cloud platform as one of the only DSPs built mobile-first,” said Viant… Read More... →

Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan’s $45 billion philanthropy organization is making its first acquisition in order to make it easier for scientists to search, read and tie together more than 26 million science research papers. The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is acquiring Meta, an AI-powered research search engine startup, and will make its tool free to all in a few months after enhancing… Read More... →

Supersonic airplane startup Boom has just completed a key step on the way to building a production supersonic passenger jet; the startup finished its wind tunnel testing, verifying its first two years of aerodynamic design work and setting the stage for building the airframe that will eventually become the basis of it first flight-ready aircraft. I spoke to Boom CEO and co-founder Blake… Read More... →

Tricentis, a startup that helps enterprise development teams automate software testing, got a bushel of money today from Insight Venture Partners — $165 million to be exact. As part of the deal, Insight Managing Director Mike Triplett will join the Tricentis board. In a traditional software development cycle, developers took months to create and deliver a product. Testing involved… Read More... →

Here’s an interesting turn of events in the ongoing story of the streaming music industry. Today, Sprint, itself owned by Softbank, announced it would take a 33 percent stake in Tidal, the streaming music startup that was majority acquired by Jay-Z and relaunched in 2015. Sprint said that it plans to make the service available to its mobile users, which today number 45 million across… Read More... →

On the heels of hiring a new CTO from Yahoo and trying to position itself either as a stronger acquisition target or standalone entity, SoundCloud is getting a lot deeper into the business of advertising. Today the audio startup — which streams both licensed music tracks and is also a go-to platform for user-generated content (similar to YouTube) — announced that it would be… Read More... →

Just weeks after landing a $215 million Series D funding round, Chinese bike-sharing service Mobike has scooped up a strategic investor from prolific manufacturing firm Foxconn. Read More... →

Pitchero, a U.K. startup that makes it easy for amateur and grassroots sports clubs to build a web presence and move its community online, has scored £3.1 million in Series A funding. ICM, a global fund manager with numerous other sporting interests including Harlequins Rugby Club, led the round. Read More... →

Сегодня в рубрике «Стартапы» — команда Incharp — производитель беспроводных встраиваемых зарядных устройств для смартфонов, предназначенных для установки общественных местах с целью привлечения клиентов. Передаем микрофон.... →

в формате edutainment — весело о серьезном :)... →

Baring Vostok и Vostok Emerging Finance инвестировали около $20 млн в стартапы "Рево" и "Сорсдата".... →

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).... →

Венчурные фонды Baring Vostok и Vostok Emerging Finance (VEF) вложили до $20 млн в российские стартапы «Рево Технологии» и «Сорсдата». Об этом сообщил «Коммерсант». Baring Vostok могли инвестировать до $15 млн, VEF инвестировал $5 млн. «Рево» и «Сорсдата» развивают сервис, позволяющий платить за товары и услуги в рассрочку.  «Рево» — микрофинансовая организация, которая позволяет платить за товары и услуги в рассрочку на три или шесть месяцев. Компания работает в потребительском сегменте с невысокой средне... →

Фонды группы Baring Vostok вместе с Vostok Emerging Finance (VEF) инвестировали «до $20 млн» в проекты «Рево технологии» и «Сорсдата», которые развивают сервис, позволяющий платить за товары и услуги в беспроцентную рассрочку. Об этом пишет «Коммерсантъ» со ссылкой на сооснователя стартапов Ирину Швакман и представителей Baring Vostok.... →

13 городов за 3 месяца.... →

Читатель vc.ru Иван Никитин прислал в редакцию письмо с рассказом о том, как он решил расторгнуть договор со стартапом по разработке логотипов «Логомашина», после чего от него потребовали не публиковать негативную информацию о компании. Редакция vc.ru публикует материал с комментариями руководителя «Логомашины» Романа Горбачёва.... →

UK startup Lobster is gearing up to scale its user generated content licensing marketplace, as it closes a £1 million Series A. It’s expecting to have closed out the round next week, with 85 per cent of the funding committed at this point and only its decision on the last few investors outstanding. Read More... →

Travel tech startup FLYR raised $8 million in Series A funding for technology that predicts the price of airfares by applying artificial intelligence to a database of both open industry data and a proprietary collection of year’s of past prices and fluctuations. The funding round was led by a Peter Thiel fund, and according to an SEC filing, Thiel Capital Principal Phin Upham was involved… Read More... →