Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

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... →

Лучшие участники смогут получить от «Сколково» грант до 5 млн рублей... →

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... →

Почему отечественные финтех-проекты не конкурируют с банками... →

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... →

Virginia-based startup Notarize, an electronic notarization system, launched today after a $2.4 million seed investment led by Polaris Partners, the startup announced. Notarize said that it takes advantage of a law passed in Virginia in 2011 “allowing appropriately certified Virginia notaries to complete remote notarization via live video call.” Papers notarized by Notarize will have […]... →

Former Jolla co-founder Marc Dillon has a new job in hardware: Finnish startup Asmo, which has been crowdfunding a mobile charger that switches off automatically when the device is fully charged, has today named Dillon as its new CEO. Read More... →

Mobile payment startup Fit Pay snagged a $3.1 million seed round led by security company Giesecke & Devrient, the startup announced today. Fit Pay said its technology “allows wearable device manufacturers to seamlessly add contactless payment capabilities to their products.” Plug and Play joined the round for the startup, which participated in the Plug and […]... →

Zendrive, a startup that uses smartphone sensors to measure drivers’ behavior, has raised $13.5 million in Series A funding led by Sherpa Capital, with participation from Nyca Partners, Thomvest Ventures, and earlier backers First Round Capital, BMW i Ventures, Fontinalis Partners. Tad Montross, who’s the chairman and CEO of General Re Corporation, also joined the round. If… Read More... →

Акционеры Ozon рассматривают возможность объединить туристический проект Ozon.Travel с одним из российских онлайн-сервисов по бронированию авиабилетов и гостиниц. Об сообщает RNS, со ссылкой на источник, близкий к одному из акционеров Ozon.  По данным издания, акционеры Ozon сделали предложение OneTwoTrip и Anywayanyday о слиянии с Ozon.Travel. Переговоры начались более года назад по инициативе фонда Baring Vostok. Однако определённых договорённостей пока нет. Руководитель Anywayanyday Кирилл Подольский дал... →

Один из успешных инвесторов Кремниевой долины Педжман Нозад опубликовал в своём блоге заметку о том, как он начал финансировать стартапы. Нозад рассказал, как пытался открыть свой первый бизнес на родине в Тегеране во времена Ирано-иракской войны, как работал в магазине персидских ковров и как к нему пришла идея заняться инвестиционным бизнесом.Инвестор также выделил несколько основных черт, которые он ищет в предпринимателях — по его словам, именно следование нескольким правилам помогает ему находить персп... →