Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

This morning Washington, D.C.-based Revolution, the 11-year-old, Washington, D.C.-based venture firm founded by former AOL executives Steve Case, Donn Davis and Ted Leonsis, is taking the wraps off its third growth fund, which it has closed with $525 million. Revolution — which has helped fuel a growing startup scene in Washington, with regional bets that include the fast casual… Read More... →

Marley Spoon, the cook-at-home food delivery startup that competes with the likes of Blue Apron, Plated, and Rocket Internet’s HelloFresh, is effectively re-launching today in the U.S. through a tie-in with household name Martha Stewart. In partnership with Nasdaq-listed Sequential Brands Group Inc., the recipe kit service is being rebranded as ‘Martha & Marley Spoon’… Read More... →

Talkspace, the startup that offers therapy via an app, has today announced the close of a $15 million Series B funding round ed by Norwest Venture Partners. Other participants in the round include existing investors such as Spark Capital, Soft Bank, Metamorphic Ventures and TheTime. As part of the deal, Norwest Venture Partners managing partner Jeff Crowe will be joining Talkspace’s Board… Read More... →

Yotpo, a platform that lets companies solicit content from their users and customers in the form of reviews, questions and answers, photos and videos, for use across various marketing channels, has picked up $22 million in Series C funding. Leading the round in the Tel Aviv and New York-based startup is Bessemer Venture Partners along with participation from existing investors, including… Read More... →

Сервис Chronext представляет собой онлайн-платформу для продажи, покупки и обслуживания наручных часов класса люкс... →

Paris-based Virtuo is a new startup in the car rental space that wants to make renting a car at airports and train stations a lot less painful. Targeting the so-called ‘Uber generation’ who have become accustomed to summoning a car with a single tap, the company is combining technology and its own fleet of Mercedes cars with the aim of giving incumbents, such as Avis, Europcar,… Read More... →

As the nature of work shifts, so too must recruitment startups. To wit: JobAndTalent, a startup in the space that, for the past several years, has been touting its matching technology to automatically surface potential job candidates for employers (and vice versa). Read More... →

Canadian startup LEAGUE closed a $25 million Series A from OMERS Ventures this morning. The company aims to put the power of customizing healthcare coverage into the hands of employees without burdening them with traditional complexities. Read More... →

Katie Jacobs Stanton has accepted the role of chief marketing officer at genomics startup Color. The former Twitter exec left her role at Twitter in February and considered a number of options before landing at the genetics services company. Color was founded by  early Twitter veterans Elad Gil and Othman Laraki to bring the cost of gene cancer screening down, particularly for two breast… Read More... →

The TechCrunch Summer Party is a thing of tradition and we hope you can make it out this year. Like in year’s past we’ll gather on the spacious grounds of August Capital in Menlo Park and enjoy an evening of cocktails and the spirit of entrepreneurship. Tickets are very limited and released on a rolling basis. It’s $85 to attend and $1000 to exhibit your startup at a demo… Read More... →

On a day with a couple of huge deals being announced, we have a much more modest one. OneLogin announced it was buying Portadi, a San Jose startup that launched at the beginning of 2015, for an undisclosed amount of money. In a market with better financed competitors like Okta with billion dollar valuations, OneLogin is working hard to improve its offering and Portadi helps bring a level… Read More... →

Stylish sex toy maker LELO is introducing something to go along with its pleasure-centered machinery today – condoms. There’s already a mind-boggling amount of prophylactics readily available at your local corner store, but what’s the difference between any of them? “Zero!” says LELO founder Filip Sedic. His sex toys launched to much enthusiasm over a decade ago… Read More... →

Nameless.tv is bringing some of the communal feeling of watching regular TV — you know, the sense that people are watching along with you – to the experience of streaming online videos. “Watching videos alone is boring,” argued CEO Kareem Rahma. The New York-based startup was previously known as NYC.TV, and it was supposed to recapture the “anything goes”… Read More... →

Генеральный директор рекрутингового сайта Superjob Наталия Годжаева и команда компании составили для vc.ru список из пяти советов для начинающих предпринимателей. Годжаева рассказала, как искать кадры в стартап, почему разработчикам в любом случае придётся платить большие деньги и в чём преимущества небольшой компании перед крупным бизнесом.... →

Стартап в области мобильной рекламы Smaato выкуплен китайской корпорацией Spearhead Integrated Marketing Communication Group за $148 млн. Smaato – SSP-платформа, которая позволяет мобильным разработчикам и издателям подключать свой рекламный инвентарь к нескольким биржам рекламы и DSP-платформам для монетизации своих приложений. Стартап также предоставляет доступ к серверу мобильной рекламы, крупнейшей в мире рекламной бирже и платформе медиации. […]... →

Walgreens has terminated its three-year partnership with blood analysis startup Theranos, citing the myriad bad test results and an on-going federal investigation as the reason for ending the relationship “effective immediately.” Theranos promised the drugstore chain it could detect hundreds of diseases using just one drop of blood – a promise which turned out to be too good… Read More... →

8 и 9 июня в Берлине прошла крупная технологическая конференция Noah, спонсирующаяся издательским домом Axel Springer и финансовым конгломератом Credit Suisse. По информации издания Fortune, на вечеринке после мероприятия оказались красивые, гламурно одетые женщины, которые не были участниками конференции, но заигрывали с гостями-мужчинами и делились своими визитками. Многие посетители пришли к выводу о том, что девушки являются эскорт-моделями, однако некоторые гости ошибочно приняли за них женщин-предприн... →

8 и 9 июня в Берлине прошла крупная технологическая конференция Noah, спонсирующаяся издательским домом Axel Springer и финансовым конгломератом Credit Suisse. По информации издания Fortune, на вечеринке после мероприятия оказались красивые, гламурно одетые женщины, которые не были участниками конференции, но заигрывали с гостями-мужчинами и делились своими визитками. Многие посетители пришли к выводу о том, что девушки являются эскорт-моделями, однако некоторые гости ошибочно приняли за них женщин-предприн... →

Новый стартап оценивает данные пользователя из соцсетей и на основе этого составляет отчет о платежеспособности и надежности клиента для будущего арендодателя.... →

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