Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

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... →

Not even flexible, freelance jobs in the on-demand economy will be saved from the siege of automation. Starship Technologies is putting its self-driving delivery robots to work in the US. Specifically, its first US partners are the food delivery startup DoorDash, and courier marketplace Postmates, which are beginning pilot tests with Starship’s delivery robots in Redwood City, Calif.… Read More... →

Data governance and management startup Collibra — originally founded in Belgium but now based out of New York to help businesses in sectors like finance and healthcare to manage and comply with data retention policies — has raised $50 million in its latest round of funding. The company is not disclosing the valuation, but we heard that it is in the region of $650 million (which is… Read More... →

Весной 2017 года Facebook откроет в Париже свой первый стартап-инкубатор – Startup Garage. Он будет расположен в кампусе Station F. Об этом заявила операционный директор компании Шерил Сандберг. Facebook уже принимает заявки на участие в инкубаторе через страницу проекта в социальной сети. Компания планирует организовать для участников программы 80 рабочих мест и каждые полгода работать с 10-15 проектами. […]... →

Основатель и глава Facebook Марк Цукерберг во время дачи показаний по иску Zenimax против соцсети рассказал, что компания в общей сложности заплатила за стартап Oculus VR не $2 млрд, как было объявлено ранее, а $3 млрд. Дополнительный $1 млрд был потрачен на выплаты сотрудникам, пишет Business Insider.... →

Партнерский материал Самый активный частный инвестор 2016 года по версии «Рейтинга бизнес-ангелов» Firrma Александр Румянцев рассказывает о собственной методике оценки стартапов. На сегодняшний день в портфеле инвестора 15 проектов. Мой подход к оценке прозрачен: он основан на собственном анализе рынка, уже осуществлённых инвестициях и общении с другими инвесторами. Должен отметить,что я доволен большей частью своего портфеля – а это 15 стартапов, – и сейчас мы закрываем еще несколько сделок, которые оценив... →

Банк «Открытие» стал использовать в трёх своих московских отделениях идентификацию клиентов с использованием системы по анализу биометрии лица, говорится в сообщении кредитной организации. Партнёрами проекта стали российский стартап VisionLabs и компания Q-Systems.... →

Navigation and mapping company TomTom — which provides data to companies like Uber and Apple as well as for its own GPS systems — has made an acquisition to add more autonomous driving technology to its platform. It has acquired Autonomos, a Berlin startup that has worked in R&D consultancy for various self-driving projects out of Germany. Financial terms of the deal have not… Read More... →

Indian e-commerce firm Flipkart is in the midst of transition after it welcomed a new CEO this month, but that hasn’t stopped it from investing $2 million in parenting startup TinyStep. Read More... →