Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

Юрий Гурский известен как сооснователь Sport.com и yoga.com, а с недавних пор — как вице-президент по новым продуктам Mail.Ru Group, а также ментор и инвестор белорусского стартапа MSQRD, который в начале марта перешел под контроль Facebook. Сооснователь «Студии Борового» Виталий Денисенков взял у Гурского большое интервью для издания «Про бизнес». Редакция vc.ru публикует наиболее яркие цитаты из этой беседы.... →

Instacart, the $2 billion grocery delivery startup that recently announced an extended partnership with Whole Foods, has slashed pay for its drivers and shoppers in major markets like San Francisco and Los Angeles, The Wall Street Journal reported earlier today. Here’s a nugget from the email, obtained by TechCrunch, that Instagram sent to shoppers in the SF Bay Area: Instacart is… Read More... →

YouTube is a beautifully weird world full of surprises. It turn’s out there’s a big community of TV show and movie reaction YouTubers out there. Some of them have hundreds of thousands of subscribers and millions of views. And yet, it seems like YouTube isn’t the right platform for this kind of videos due to copyright laws. Meet Riff, a New York-based startup that has found… Read More... →

By now, the advantages of open source are there for all to see. When you give people access to the underlying code, good things happen. People find bugs and security holes. They make it better. They adapt it to different needs. They even build entire startup ecosystems on top of key projects. It’s become so ubiquitous in the private sector that the government has begun to see the light too. Read More... →

Шестимесячная программа предусматривает общение с менторами и партнерами MasterCard... →

Сегодня в рубрике «Стартапы» — приложение «Колесо Автоуслуги», в котором можно записываться на шиномонтаж, мойку, тюнинг или прохождение техосмотра, изучать отзывы и цены, а также узнавать о скидках и акциях. Передаем микрофон.... →

Корпорация General Motors (GM) приобрела стартап по производству систем автопилотов для самоуправляемых автомобилей Cruise Automation, сообщает Reuters со ссылкой на представителей обеих компаний. Стороны не раскрывают подробности сделки.... →

General Motors (GM) continues its self-driving car push today with the news that it has acquired Cruise Automation, a San Francisco-based self-driving car company that develops an autopilot system for existing cars. The news comes two months after GM first revealed its autonomous vehicle aspirations with a $500 million investment in Lyft, followed by an […]... →

General Motors (GM) announced today it plans to snap up Cruise Automation, a San Francisco-based startup making sensors that turn regular vehicles into ones that can drive themselves, for an undisclosed sum. The move is part of a big bet for GM in the driverless car industry as several of the major car manufacturers are now racing to implement this type of technology. GM recently formed an… Read More... →

Lobster позволяет пользователям покупать и продавать фото и видео из соцсетей... →

Японский стартап разработал куртку из синтетической паутины, которая поступит в продажу уже в этом году.... →

Optimizely, a startup known for its cloud-based A/B testing service for Web and mobile apps, announced today that it’s laying off 40 people, which equates to 10 percent of its approximately 400 employees. The cuts are hitting all departments of the startup. “While it is sad to see fellow Optinauts move on, it is the […]... →

Выручка стартапа «Партия еды» за 2015 год составила 51 099 384 рублей, что на 300% больше, по сравнению с 2014 годом. Об этом в своем блоге сообщил основатель сервиса Михаил Перегудов.  По его словам, компания выполнила план на 93% в 2015 году, изначально рассчитывая выйти на 400% роста. С марта 2015 года компания не привлекала инвестиции, не использовала кредиты и другие внешние средства. В блоге также утверждается, что в течение года компания выпустила новые продукты, снизила стоимость продукции на 10%, п... →

Soothe, the on-demand massage service, just closed a $35 million Series B round from its pre-existing investors. This brings its total funding to $47.7 million. This puts Soothe even further ahead of its main competitor, Zeel, which has raised $3.2 million to date. In September, Soothe snatched up its other competitor, Unwind Me, for an undisclosed amount. Soothe says the funding is for… Read More... →

Группа компаний «Мортон» купила 10% компании AT Energy, которая занимается производством водородных топливных элементов для беспилотных летательных аппаратов (БПЛА). Сумма сделки не раскрывается. По данным журнала Forbes, она была закрыта в конце 2015 года. «Мортон» планирует развивать и применять технологии в строительстве и транспорте. Инвестиции в AT Energy – это часть программы инвестирования корпорации в новые передовые технологии.  В октябре 2014 года AT Energy получила первый транш инвестиций от венч... →

Do you sometimes get the feeling that you’re having a looooooong text conversation to accomplish some fairly simple planning? I’ve certainly had tedious back-and-forths where I’m trying to figure out when to meet with someone, and then where, and so on. That’s the problem that a startup called Cola is looking to solve. I first wrote about the company in November, when… Read More... →

“This is so fast it feels like cheating” students tell Volley. The education startup’s free app lets students point their phone’s camera at a textbook page or piece of homework, and instantly see resources about key facts and tricky parts, prerequisites, and links to snippets of online classes or study guides that could help. But rather than manually cobble this info… Read More... →

You might have noticed something puzzling if you’ve been keeping an eye on the crowdfunding space: A large number of seemingly promising crowdfunded hardware startups fail to deliver. The list of high-profile stumbles includes Zano, Kreyos and Jolla, to name a few. Then there are campaigns like the Skarp Razor, which is almost certain to not meet backer expectations — assuming… Read More... →

EXCLUSIVE: Depending on which chart you subscribe to or which article you read, Tel Aviv is either the fifth– or third-best startup ecosystem in the world. The city in Israel has become known for innovative, early-stage companies, an apt description for Elasticode, a Techstars alumnus that provides real-time deployment of personalized mobile onboarding experiences. Continuing the theme of innovation, […]... →

Up All Night, a startup aiming to give your nightlife a boost, is announcing that it has raised $500,000 in seed funding. More exciting than the amount of the funding is who’s involved: Grammy-nominated musician Kaskade, Nihal Mehta of ENIAC Ventures, former Square CTO Bob Lee and Vijay Chattha, founder of marketing agency VSC. The founding team should know events and music pretty… Read More... →