Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

2016 couldn’t have started better for Italy’s economy and tech sector. In January, Cisco signed an agreement with the Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR) to provide training to teachers and students through the Cisco Networking Academy. As the first step in developing the Italian startup ecosystem, the tech giant is pursuing investment opportunities together… Read More... →

British startup Revolut just closed its seed round. After announcing having raised $2.3 million this Summer, the company has added a couple of new investors. In total, the company has raised $4.8 million (£3.2 million) from Index Ventures, Balderton Capital, Seedcamp and Point Nine, Venrex and business angels. Read More... →

Zirx, perhaps the second-most hyped startup in the we’ll park your car nook of the tech industry — see: Luxe — announced today that it plans to shut down its consumer business at the end of the month. The BMW-backed company, however, isn’t going away completely. Zirx writes that it “made the tough choice to close our consumer valet parking service […]... →

ZIRX, an on-demand valet startup, is shutting down its consumer service at the end of the month, according to an email that the company sent out to ZIRX members today. The company confirmed the move in a blog post. However, the company isn’t shutting down. ZIRX is shifting its focus to its enterprise service that offers parking to companies, while shuttering its consumer valet service… Read More... →

The augmented reality space is hot and getting hotter, especially among enterprise companies looking to redesign the experience of the onsite employee of the future. Daqri, an AR smart helmet startup, is growing its leadership board significantly today while it continues testing its device. The company is adding three new executive positions today: Mike Lynch, who most recently tackled… Read More... →

TalentSky, a startup that claims to “represent an evolution in the employment search,” announced today that it took in a $7.5 million series A investment from over 100 different angel investors. TalentSky also announced its official launch yesterday. TalentSky works as a professional network in which users can evaluate their skills and compare those skills to the […]... →

It’s here! 1st and Future, the startup pitch hosted jointly by the NFL, Stanford and your favorite tech blog, TechCrunch, is tomorrow! We’ve scoured fields, courts, arenas and stadiums around the world to find the most promising startups bringing technology to sports. These companies help athletes move faster, stay safer and ultimately perform better. Read More... →

Сегодня в рубрике «Стартапы» — проект «Энергосчет Smart», который позволяет учитывать и прогнозировать расходы на электроэнергию, а также оплачивать счета с помощью «умного» устройства. Передаем микрофон.... →

Фонд I2BF Digital (IT-подразделение фонда I2BF Global Ventures Ильи Голубовича) вышел из американского стартапа Represent. Об этом Firrma сообщил основатель и глава фонда I2BF Global Ventures Илья Голубович. Стартап был куплен компанией CustomInk. Из-за соглашения о конфидициальности  сумма сделки не разглашается. I2BF Digital впервые вложился в Represent в посевном раунде в 2013 году. По словам Ильи Голубовича, его фонд сейчас вернул вложенные средства в десятикратном размере. Это первый экзит I2BF Digital... →

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UK-based startup community and workspace TechHub has been an international organization for some time, but now it is expanding its partnership with Google — and the Google for Entrepreneurs program — into three new countries: India, Latvia and Romania. Read More... →

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Основатель проектов Free-lance.ru и Rubrain.com Василий Воропаев рассказал vc.ru о работе с фрилансерами в стартапах и дал несколько советов по организации взаимовыгодного сотрудничества.... →

Стартап выиграл тендер от властей Ливерпуля... →

CustomInk, a leading player in the online custom appeal space, has announced it is acquiring Represent, a Los Angeles-based social commerce startup. Sources close to the acquisition tell us the price tag was approaching $100 million, with it being a cash and stock deal. Founded in 2014, Represent is similar to CustomInk in that it lets anyone create and sell apparel and accessories with no… Read More... →

LinkedIn today announced in its earnings statement that it has acquired Connectifier, a startup with technology for helping recruiters find talent. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. “The acquisition of Connectifier, announced this afternoon, will further strengthen our core products and accelerate our product roadmap, leveraging powerful machine learning-based searching and matching technology to help […]... →

Meet Soundsgood, a French startup that wants to make it easier to publish playlists on the web. While it’s never been a better time to create a playlist on a streaming service and share it with readers and followers, everybody uses a different streaming service. Soundsgood works with Spotify, YouTube, Deezer, SoundCloud with more integrations in the works. Read More... →

French startup La Belle Assiette just raised another $1.5 million (€1.3 million) to expand its services. The company has become a leading on-demand chef service in Europe, and is now looking at other opportunities in the events catering industry. Read More... →

Implementing unconscious bias trainings at tech companies has become a thing over the last year or so. Part of that is thanks to Paradigm, a consulting startup that work with tech companies like Slack, Airbnb and Pinterest to help formulate strategies around diversity and inclusion. Paradigm CEO Joelle Emerson recently stopped by TC’s studio to chat with me about those unconcscious… Read More... →

Foursquare is not a consumer social app business, it’s a data company. And only when it admitted that to itself and revalued as such was it able to pull in more capital and keep chugging. Today at LA’s Upfront Summit, Foursquare’s lead investor from Union Square Ventures Fred Wilson stuck up for the startup while trying to make people understand how it’s… Read More... →