Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

What’s missing from N26? The company has been slowly but surely building a new bank account from the ground up. This time, the company is trying to recreate the insurance product that you typically get with a Visa Premier or MasterCard Gold. So N26 is launching the N26 Black card. The startup has been working with an insurance company directly and is now able to provide the same kind… Read More... →

“It might shock you, but I let go of pretty much everybody. When we went from 34 employees to 4, everyone was sh*tting Twinkies. Everyone was scared to death.” For Steve Newcomb, the founder and CEO of Famous, “pivot” is not a strong enough word. “We did a reboot,” he tells me in a stylish penthouse office that shouldn’t exist. His $30 million-funded… Read More... →

Following in the footsteps of Warby Parker, Everlane and Bonobos, a New York City startup called Lively has raised $4 million in seed funding to grow its direct-to-consumer lingerie brand. Incorporated as Intimates Online Inc., Lively was founded by CEO Michelle Cordeiro Grant, a long-time fashion insider. Working previously within the online division of Victoria’s Secret, and at… Read More... →

French startup Dataiku has been profitable for the past three years. But the company wants to go further and is raising a $14 million Series A round led by FirstMark Capital with all existing investors also investing. Dataiku helps data scientists and data analysts manage huge sets of data to get some insights about what’s happening with their customers, suppliers, transactions and more. Read More... →

Matt Zeiler grew up in a Canadian farming community — but fast forward a few decades and he’s now running a startup that’s looking to bring the same kinds of visual search tools that Pinterest and Google have to other companies and developers. That company is Clarifai, a New York-based startup that offers developers the ability to tag metadata to photos in such a way that… Read More... →

If your account gets hacked these days, the first thing you’ll do typically is reset your password, maybe beef up your security settings, and proceed to use the account or app again. But what if hackers get their hands on your fingerprint, iris or other biometric data? You can’t just change your fingerprints or eyes on a whim. That’s where a New York City startup called… Read More... →

EOS смог войти на перенасыщенный рынок и создал любимый бальзам для губ поколения «нулевых»... →

Google приобрела стартап Eyefluence, который работает над технологией управления приборами виртуальной или дополненной реальности с помощью глаз. Об этом говорится в блоге Eyefluence.... →

Travel and transportation have always been major focus points for the tech world. Why? Because people will always want to get from points A to B, and to do it faster and cheaper than before. GoEuro — a startup based out of Berlin — is a company to watch here because it straddles both of these industries. Come hear how GoEuro is doing this — and making a success of it… Read More... →

Red Sift, a new London startup from two ex-Shazamers, is building an ambitious cloud-based and developer platform that wants to enable individuals and businesses to plug in various data sources and make that data actually work for them in a meaningful way. Read More... →

Стартап Eyefluence - не первая подобная покупка Google за последнее время... →

Google приобрёл Eyefluence – компанию-разработчика технологий для управления устройствами виртуальной и дополненной реальности при помощи движений глаз. Сумма и условия сделки не разглашались. Стартап Eyefluence был основан в 2013 году. За время своего существования он привлёк около $21,6 млн финансирования от различных инвесторов. VR-технологии – одно из приоритетных направлений для Google. В начале этого месяца […]... →

Ok, my headline is a bit provocative, but it’s kind of true. French startup Alan is launching today a brand new full-stack health insurance company in France. Compared to existing products, Alan wants to make the experience much sleeker. Here’s how it works. The company just raised $13 million (€12 million) from CNP Assurances, Power Financial, Partech Ventures and business angels. Read More... →

Акселератор NUMA Moscow запустил посевной фонд NUMA Invest, который будет управлять инвестициями выбранных стартапов в России. Об этом Firrma сообщили в акселераторе. Фонд уже аккредитован при посевном фонде города Москвы – Moscow Seed Fund NUMA отобрал шесть проектов, которые будут участвовать в 5-месячной акселерационной программе. Каждый проект получил первые инвестиции от фонда в размере 1,4 миллиона рублей в обмен на 10% в капитале. Проекты, прошедшие отбор: Farsight – онлайн-сервис для СМИ, позволяющи... →

Могут получать, обрабатывать и передавать данные, а также вырабатывать электроэнергию с помощью крошечных солнечных панелей... →

Фонд развития интернет-инициатив (ФРИИ) и Сбербанк могут вложить по 150 млн рублей в пермского разработчика «умных» роботов-консультантов Promobot. Об этом сообщает «Коммерсант». ФРИИ получит миноритарную долю в компании. Средства пойдут на масштабирование бизнеса и НИОКР. Компания разработала говорящего робота-консультанта. Promobot может понимать живую речь, отвечать на вопросы, поддерживать разговор, запоминать диалоги, обучаться на неструктурированных данных, распознавать и запоминать людей. Компания ра... →

Google want to know everywhere that you’re looking. Today, Eyefluence announced that it has been acquired by Google. The eye-tracking interface startup founded in 2013 had raised $21.6M in funding from investors including Intel Capital, Jazz Venture Partners, Motorola Solutions Venture Capital and NHN Investment. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Eyefluence shared the… Read More... →

Last week, I sat down with IPO pro Lise Buyer to talk about the Bay Area ecosystem for a Sirius XM radio show that’s broadcast from Wharton’s San Francisco campus. Buyer was the host and I was the guest, but because the IPO market is top of mind for so many in the startup industry right now, I asked if I could turn the table for a few minutes on Buyer, who is best known for helping… Read More... →

French startup OpenDataSoft just raised a $5.4 million Series A round (€5 million) to make it easier to manipulate huge sets of data. Aster Capital and Salesforce Ventures invested in today’s round, with existing investor Aurinvest also participating and Ader Finance helping with the deal. Interestingly, this is one of the first investments from Salesforce Ventures in a French… Read More... →

If you had the chance to watch the second episode of the new season of Black Mirror, you won’t take much convincing when people tell you how important realistic 3D audio is to immersing you in a virtual reality/mixed reality experience. Dysonics is a startup in the VR audio space looking to build the hardware and software workflows that give VR content creators high-fidelity solutions… Read More... →