Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

Flying is expensive. So Airfordable is launching from Y Combinator’s Summer ’16 batch to let you book flights and pay over time before you take off. Here’s how it works: Travelers find their preferred flight online (using any travel site they want) and upload a screenshot with their flight details. Once you are approved, the startup calculates a payment plan (up to 3… Read More... →

Sitting in a Tel Aviv office, my interviewee borrowed my iPhone for a simple demo. Inside 2 minutes he was displaying my key strokes and web browsing onto a big screen in the meeting room, entirely remotely. I’d heard Israel was a hotbed of security startups — but this was a pretty impressive demo. Now that startup, Skycure, has secured a $16.5m funding round for its… Read More... →

A new startup called Civic, launching today, wants to help Americans stop becoming victims of identity theft. The company is aiming to topple similar identity protection services like Lifelock by focusing on a broader market than just credit monitoring, while also allowing people to respond to fraud alerts in real-time in order to prevent the fraud from actually taking place. Today,… Read More... →

You’re a diehard New York Yankees’ fan stuck deep in Connecticut without access to a car or reliable public transportation, but the launch of startup Rally means you no longer have to give up hope of making the trip to Fenway Park for the Yankees-Boston Red Sox series August 9. Numaan Akram, CEO of Rally, invited me to a screen-sharing session Monday to demonstrate how quick and… Read More... →

Snapchat bought Bitstrips, the startup behind Bitmoji, back in March. The acquisition was worth a reported $100 million, but at the time, how the product would be integrated wasn’t clear. Today, Snapchat finally acknowledged the acquisition and revealed how it would integrated Bitstrips’ product: Users can now send their Bitmoji to each other either in chat or in snaps. We saw… Read More... →

Service is an app we’ve covered before – the startup acts as an intermediary between you and businesses where you’ve had bad experiences. So this means whenever your bags are lost by an airline or a restaurant ruins your meal, Service will interface with the business on your behalf to help make things right in the form of a refund, credit, etc. After being in business a year… Read More... →

Mobile advertising can be really intrusive. But, if done right, you might not even notice you’re being advertised to. That’s what mobile rewards startup Kiip is all about. It allows advertisers to seamlessly integrate relevant content and rewards into mobile apps. Today, Kiip has announced the close of its $12 million Series C round led by North Atlantic Capital with new… Read More... →

Ряд инвесторов SmartHub вложились в сервис экспресс-ремонта гаджетов Masterzen (ранее Ismashed). Об этом Firrma сообщили в фонде. В сделке также приняли три частных инвестора: Леонид Шныр, Григорий Руданов, Владимир Батищев и Богдан Яровой. Средства инвестиционного раунда будут направлены на масштабирование бизнес-модели и увеличение доли рынка. Masterzen – сервис по ремонту гаджетов iPhone. Сертифицированный мастер приезжает в любое удобное для клиента время и место (офис, домой или в кафе) и ремонтирует г... →

If you look at the investment dollars for the last quarter, you might be surprised to see an uptick in deal volume. For all the gripes about sky high valuations and bubble fears, it seems strange to see more money thrown at startups. It turns out that it’s mainly the businesses that have already raised a lot of capital that continued to attract even more. While there was an increase… Read More... →

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Following a successful trial that took place earlier this Spring, restaurant delivery startup Deliveroo is expanding into alcohol delivery. The London-headquartered company has launched a wine and beer delivery service in the UK in partnership with Majestic Wines, and BrewDog, and a host of independent and other wine merchants across the country. Read More... →

Российский премиальный сервис по доставке еды Foodfox привлек $1 млн от венчурного фонда Target Global, сооснователей Lamoda Group Флориана Янсена и Нильса Тонзена, а также от ряда бизнес-ангелов. Об этом Firrma сообщили в фонде. Лид-инвестором сделки стал фонд Target Global. Это был первый раунд инвестиций, по итогам которого стартап был оценен в $4–8 млн.  Привлеченные инвестиции помогут Foodfox развить технологическую платформу: приложение для системы Android, интеграцию с ресторанами, добавление возможн... →

Have you ever bought sweet tickets for a ballgame, a concert or some other live event, only to find out that you couldn’t make it? The Internet certainly offers plenty of ways for you to unload the tickets … but how much should you charge? Ticketing startup SeatGeek has launched a new way to help you figure it out. In a way, SeatGeek has been offering this since last fall, when… Read More... →

aCommerce, a Bangkok-based startup that helps e-commerce companies in Southeast Asia run their businesses, has landed $10 million in new funding ahead of a planned Series B raise later this year. Read More... →

You’d be hard-pressed to meet someone who loves garbage more than Jason Gates, co-founder and CEO of San Francisco-based startup Compology. But Gates isn’t concerned with the residential trash that you put out in front of your home on collection day. Instead, he basks in the massive commercial and industrial waste heaped into dumpsters behind restaurants, offices and… Read More... →

Сегодня в рубрике «Стартапы» — сервис покупок в онлайн-чатах BazarCo, в котором пользователь может написать, какой товар ему нужен, и получать предложения и консультации от продавцов. Передаем микрофон.... →

A Princeton, New Jersey startup called Arable Labs Inc. recently unveiled a professional-grade crop and weather sensor that’s solar powered, rugged and was designed by Fred Bould, the creative talent behind the Nest thermostat, smoke and carbon monoxide detector, as well as Fitbit, GoPro and Roku products. The Pulsepod, which looks something like the head of a small drum or a… Read More... →

Российский сервис по аренде вещей Rentmania привлек 15 млн рублей от двух бизнес-ангелов, имена которых не раскрываются. Оценка компании составила 70 млн рублей. Об этом Firrma рассказала партнер стартапа Людмила Булавкина. Привлеченные средства пойдут на маркетинг и рост в Москве до уровня 100 сделок в день. По словам Булавкиной, переговоры с инвесторами шли с апреля 2016 года.  В мае 2016 года Фонд развития интернет-инициатив (ФРИИ) продал свою долю в Rentmania основателю стартапа Аркадию Мешковскому за 2... →

Baidu во второй раз инвестировал средства в американский стартап ZestFinance, который специализируется на разработках в области кредитного скоринга. Сумма вложений не раскрывалась. По условиям сделки, Baidu будет использовать технологию ZestFinance для разработки платформы кредитного скоринга, которая будет работать на базе данных поисковой системы. Этот проект особенно важен для китайского рынка, поскольку традиционные системы кредитования здесь не […]... →