Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

A fun little side project-cum-startup from two of the founders of Soundwave, the social music company acquired by Spotify, wants to turn patents into art. Launching today, Retro Patents lets you buy prints of famous patents to hang on your office wall, or at home, if that’s your thing. The patent prints for sale include games consoles, such as the original Nintendo Gameboy and Sony… Read More... →

Сегодня в рубрике «Стартапы» — приложение-аудиогид Skadi, которое помогает пользователю не заблудиться на большом курорте, благополучно съехать с трассы и вовремя вернуться домой. Передаем микрофон.... →

Венчурный фонд Flint Capital вышел из калифорнийского beauty-приложения MatchCo. Об этом Firrma сообщили в фонде. Компанию приобрел производитель косметики и парфюмерии – Shiseido. Подробности сделки не раскрываются. Известно, что Flint Capital профинансировал MatchCo в марте 2015 года. Коэффициент выхода, по словам управляющего партнера фонда Дмитрия Смирнова, составил 3х. MatchCo – калифорнийский стартап, предлагающий клиентам определить собственный тон лица с помощью мобильного приложения, и на основе по... →

Peanut — which TechCrunch understands will launch as early as next month — is a new London startup founded by Deliveroo co-founder and former CTO Greg Orlowski and ex-Badoo deputy CEO Michelle Kennedy. Read More... →

Как инвесторы общаются со стартапами после раунда... →

Сайт Axios опубликовал презентацию, которую медицинский стартап Theranos показывал потенциальным инвесторам во время питчей в 2006 году — ещё до того, как проект был оценён в $9 млрд, а затем оказался в центре скандала.... →

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).... →

Восемь отличий между мобильной коммерцией Казахстана и России.... →

How much traction? What’s the market size? Who else invested? Are you the target user? These are the questions every investor will ask you, so you better build a business with the right answers and get ready to recite them. That’s what Pitchbot.vc helps you practice. Pitchbot simulates a pitch meeting with an angel, incubator, seed fund, or VC firm. You respond to… Read More... →

Microsoft has been making notable improvements to the experiences on its Twitch competitor, Beam, since it purchased the startup this past August. A major update was just launched globally for the service which highlights a new faster video player, Xbox Live sign-ins, and a redesigned home page that makes the service’s various communities more visible to users. These features had… Read More... →

Applications for Startup Battlefield at Disrupt NY are now open! We’re searching for new, up-and-coming startups to launch and compete on the  TechCrunch Disrupt NY stage. Why Apply? Your team will get to pitch for six minutes and then face Q&A from an all-star list of judges. Past Battlefield judges have included Roelof Botha (Sequoia Capital), Fred Wilson (Union Square… Read More... →

Silicon Valley is no stranger to protests against tech companies. But it’s unusual when the tech workers themselves protest tech. Such was the case this morning in front of Palantir headquarters in Palo Alto where 50 people in the tech community came out in the pouring rain to demand the data mining startup take a firm stand against the makings of a Muslim registry. The organizers… Read More... →

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified in a Dallas court yesterday as part of a lawsuit claiming that Oculus VR, the startup Facebook acquired for roughly $2 billion, was based on stolen technology. Unsurprisingly, Zuckerberg defended Oculus and in the process revealed a number of new details about the negotiations involved in purchasing the company. Among them: that Facebook agreed to… Read More... →

В начале января 2017 года производитель дрона Lily Camera, собравшего $34 млн на краудфандинговой площадке Kickstarter и предзаказах, объявил о закрытии компании. В тот же день к стартапу подали иск о введении покупателей в заблуждение. Издание Recode узнало, на какие факты опираются истцы, и предположило, что могло стать причиной смерти проекта.... →

Drone delivery startup Flirtey has raised $16 million in Series A funding to bring its high-flying service to new customers, companies and possibly countries. Earlier, the startup raised $120,000 in seed funding and participated in the Y Combinator accelerator. Flirtey was also the first company to attain FAA approvals to conduct a drone delivery in the US in 2015. That fact helped it… Read More... →

Deepgram, a YC backed startup using machine learning to analyze audio data for businesses, is open sourcing an internal deep learning tool called Kur. The release should further help those interested in the space get their ideas off the ground more easily. The startup is also including 10 hours of transcribed audio, spliced into 10 second increments, to expedite the training process. Similar… Read More... →

Сегодня в рубрике «Стартапы» — сервис SeeZisLab, который анализирует статистику, достижения, возможность заработка и основные характеристики YouTube-канала. Передаем микрофон.... →

There has been another development at Compass, the real estate startup that recently hit a $1 billion valuation. The company has appointed a new COO, Maëlle Gavet. She will report to Robert Reffkin, the CEO and co-founder of Compass. Gavet was most recently at Priceline, the travel services giant, which she joined as EVP in 2015 tasked with integrating a number of its brands, and with a… Read More... →

Pipedrive, a CRM platform designed to help SMBs sell more, has closed $17 million in Series B funding. The round was led by Atomico, the global VC firm founded by Skype’s Niklas Zennström, with participation from Bessemer Venture Partners, and Rembrandt Venture Partners. The Estonia/U.S.-based startup last raised $9 million in Series A funding back in May 2015. Pipedrive says will use… Read More... →

ProtectWise, a security startup that records all your network traffic DVR-style, and saves it in the cloud, announced a $25 million round today. The company’s security strategy is surprisingly simple. It records all of the networking activity, then indexes the data and provides customers with forensic tools to search and review it. Once a breach has been detected, the victimized… Read More... →