Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

An Austin-based venture capital firm recently offered my company $400,000 for 40 percent of its equity. This was one week before their counterpart in the Bay Area offered $2 million for 20 percent of the same company. Nothing had changed in that week, and both received the same pitch and deck in the weeks prior. Read More... →

Бывший топ-менеджер Netflix Патти Маккорд написала для издания Harvard Business Review колонку о том, почему стараться удержать сотрудников в компании, предлагая им вкусные обеды и ежедневную выпивку, — не самая эффективная стратегия. Редакция vc.ru публикует адаптированный перевод заметки.... →

Один из пионеров мобильного видеостриминга — стартап Meerkat — откажется от своей основной функциональности и превратится в социальную сеть для обмена видеоконтентом. Об этом 4 марта 2016 года рассказал генеральный директор компании Бен Рубин.... →

What’s it like being the Founder of 2 wildly successful startups, advisor to Linkedin and Automattic and a prolific angel investor with Buffer and Mattermark? Hiten Shah shares a glimpse in our latest interview. We discussed the pros and cons of VC funding compared to bootstrapping your startup, the implications of financing and self-funding, how Hiten’s time in the startup world… Read More... →

Add this one to the bucket list….A startup called Cape Productions will capture you skiing with a drone. Stationed at Squaw Valley in Lake Tahoe, the team provides aerial footage of you racing down the slopes, providing different angles than your GoPro. Because of its impeccable safety track record, Cape is currently the only FAA-approved company that’s allowed to fly drones in… Read More... →

Сегодня в рубрике «Стартапы» — приложение Fliqvil, которое в реальном времени показывает на карте города фото и видео из концертных залов, баров, ночных клубов и стадионов. Сервис работает в России, США, Европе и ОАЭ. Передаем микрофон.... →

When Slack announced new voice and video services earlier this week, the enterprise messaging startup signalled a move into territory dominated by the likes of Microsoft’s Skype. But it looks like this is not the only moment when the two company’s paths have crossed in recent times. Microsoft eyed Slack as a potential acquisition target for as much as $8 billion, TechCrunch… Read More... →

The big tech news is the recent torrent of capital to Africa Internet Group (AIG)—which owns online retailer Jumia and 9 other e-ventures. Yesterday AIG announced €300 million ($326 million) in funding from backers including Goldman Sachs and MTN. CEO Sacha Poignonnec confirmed the new financing brings company equity to €1.005bn ($1.08bn). This clears the hurdle for AIG to become… Read More... →

Фонд Fidelity инвестировал $175 млн в сервис обмена фото и видеосообщениями Snapchat, в который ранее вложился фонд Юрия Мильнера DST Global. Snapchat был оценён в $16 млрд как и год назад. Инвестиции являются продолжением раунда F, который компания начала собирать в прошлом году. По данным Reuters, в феврале 2016 года Fidelity купил акции компании по цене $ 30,72 за штуку (из оценки стоимости пакета) – по той же цене, по которой он приобрёл акции Snapchat в марте 2015 года. В третьем катале прошлого года F... →

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ICX Media, a Washington, D.C. startup promising to help video creators find an audience and make money, announced today that it has raised $2.5 million in seed funding. The company was founded by Michael Avon, Tom MacIsaac, Steve McCord and Joey McCord (pictured above). Three of the four co-founders previously worked together at mobile ad company Millennial Media, where Avon was chief… Read More... →

With $6.5 million in funding from Crosslink Capital, Upfront Ventures, 500 Startups and others, Comparably is launching a platform for employment and salary information. The Santa Monica-based startup says its site will make it easier to find whether or not your salary is competitive amongst industry peers with the same level of experience. The self-reported data can also be sorted by… Read More... →

Docstoc cofounder Jason Nazar is back with a new startup called Comparably which focuses on providing transparency about what workers are paid and insights about company culture. The service breaks down compensation based on various factors including company size, location, money raised, and also by gender. The company has started out focusing on providing information to […]... →

Docker today announced that it has acquired Conductant, a small startup that focused on orchestration. While you have probably never heard of Conductant — and as far as we can see, the company doesn’t even have a web presence and has never received outside funding — this acquisition brings a lot of talent to Docker. Conductant was founded by Bill Farner and David Chung. While… Read More... →

Docker, the startup that rose to prominence by pushing container technology for wrapping up application code, today announced that it has acquired Conductant, a secretive early-stage startup founded by people with experience building software to automate the process of deploying code at scale. Bill Farner, cofounder and chief executive of Conductant who has formerly worked […]... →

Украинский туристический сервис TripMyDream выиграл международный конкурс Seedstars Summit 2016 среди трэвел-стартапов и получил $500 тысяч. Финал состоялся 3 марта в Лозанне (Швейцария). В этом году в соревновании Seedstars принимают участие лучшие инновационные проекты туристической отрасли. Каждый год на конкурсе в различных отраслях выбирается один победитель номинации Seedstars World Best Startup. В 2016 году в финал попали 10 стартапов, среди которых два из России: PeopleFly Planet  — онлайн-страхован... →

One more chapter in the messy story of Powa Technologies, the payments startup that last raised money at a $2.7 billion valuation but rapidly sank into the deadpool on a flimsy raft of vaporware. Today, accounting firm Deloitte announced that it had secured two buyers for two parts of Powa’s UK business. Neither of them was Thompson Investments, the firm that was announced as the… Read More... →

Сегодня в рубрике «Стартапы» — сервис BeautyApp для внешних коммуникаций салонов красоты. В приложении клиенты могут узнавать об акциях и новинках, записываться на процедуры и общаться с представителями салона в чате. Передаем микрофон.... →

A startup out of Malmo, Sweden called Mapillary is using crowdsourced photos to create an open source, B2B database to compete with Google’s Street View, and today the company announced a Series A round of funding from an impressive list of backers to help make that ambition a reality. The $8 million from Atomico, Sequoia, LDV Capital, and PlayFair will be used to expand… Read More... →

Wrap Media has raised $4 million it will use to grow its business in Japan. The new funding comes from returning investor Dream Incubator, a Tokyo-based consulting and private equity firm that has also signed a strategic partnership with Wrap Media. The San Francisco-based startup lets its users create interactive media for mobile browsing that are easier to navigate than responsive mobile… Read More... →