Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

Snapcart, an Indonesia-based startup that runs a service offering consumers rewards in exchange for scans of their shopping receipts, has closed $1.675 million in funding just four months after launch. Read More... →

FEATURE: Coconuts Media‘s founder describes the four-year-old news media startup as “a network of local city websites” that is now in eight cities across Asia — mostly in Southeast Asia, specifically — including Bangkok, Manila, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, Hong Kong, Bali, and Yangon. All of these are available in English, with two of the eight available […]... →

Posted by randfishIt's that magical time where, once again, I examine my predictions for the year that's just ended, and make new ones for the one ahead. As is my personal tradition, I'm going to first look at the accuracy of what I've suggested would happen in 2015. Based on how I've done, you can get a sense of how seriously to take my ideas for the future. But, if you'd prefer, you can just skip right to the 2016 predictions. For posterity, here's my post from January 6, 2015, but I won't make you go thr... →

At the end of November, Google announced it was buying bebop, a cloud platform startup founded by former VMware CEO and co-founder Diane Greene. Today, the company filed paperwork with the SEC revealing the purchase price: $380,241,352 to be precise. The move was believed to be as much about bringing in Greene to lead its enterprise cloud effort as the bebop technology itself.  Little is… Read More... →

Some consolidation in the world of gaming and specifically e-sports. Today Activision Blizzard confirmed that it has acquired Major League Gaming, a specialist in live gaming events. The news follows reports over the weekend that Activision would be buying MLG for $46 million and shuttering the business. In the event, Activision is only partly confirming these details. No word on price, and… Read More... →

Google’s umbrella company, Alphabet, today disclosed that it paid $380.2 million to buy Bebop, the startup from VMware cofounder and former chief executive Diane Greene. Greene, who sits on Alphabet’s board of directors and is now in charge of Google’s cloud businesses as a result of the acquisition, isn’t keeping a huge percentage of the […]... →

Ember Technologies, the company behind the temperature-controlled mug, is raising a $4 million Series B funding round. It has already secured nearly $750,000 in commitments from investors and told VentureBeat that it has a valuation of $60 million with a $2.73 stock price. Evidence of the company’s latest round of fundraising appeared in a filing […]... →

8i announced today it has launched a web player, the 8i Portal, for its volumetric 3D video of people in virtual reality. Using 8i’s technology and VR goggles, you’ll be able to walk around a person inside a virtual environment to see their entire being. The Wellington, New Zealand-based startup said its VR platform will allow you to view fully volumetric […]... →

Intel has made yet another hardware acquisition to build up its business of integrating its processors and RealSense imaging technology into the next wave of connected devices beyond PCs. Today the company announced it has purchased Ascending Technologies, a German startup that makes small drones and the software used to fly them. Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed but… Read More... →

It was a few months back that rumours began to circulate within the European — and specifically Berlin — startup community that ex-Early Bird VCs Ciarán O’Leary and Jason Whittier were raising a fund of their own. Well today that news comes to surface with the new firm, dubbed BlueYard Capital, getting an official, albeit modest, outing via a blog post written by O’Leary. Read More... →

A recent study showed that one in four undergraduate women experiences sexual assault in college. Revolar wants to do something about that by arming women with a new kind of emergency-use button that will alert friends or family when someone needs help. In doing so, the company hopes to be part of the growing “wearable safety” […]... →

Сервис по заказу поездок Lyft анонсировал закрытие очередного инвестиционного раунда на общую сумму $1 млрд, в котором приняли участие корпорация General Motors и Janus Capital Management, а также уже финансировавшие стартап компании. Оценка Lyft достигла $5,5 млн.О закрытии инвестиционного раунда сообщило издание Re/code.... →

Quartzy, a lab supplies marketplace, announced it has closed a $17 million round in Series B financing to help the startup build up the supply of lab equipment offered to customers. The startup launched out of Y Combinator four years back and has since partnered with several academic institutions, including Stanford to offer an alternative marketplace for pricier lab supplies. Quartzy does so… Read More... →

Movinga, the online removals startup that claims to be a leader in its native Germany but also operates in numerous other European countries, such as Austria, Switzerland, U.K., France and Italy, has picked up $25 million in Series B funding. Read More... →

Silvercar, a startup rethinking the auto rental experience in airports, already seems pretty tied to Audi — after all, every vehicle that Silvercar rents out is a silver Audi. Now the companies are deepening that relationship with a $28 million Series C investment. Audi led the round, with the company’s North American president Scott Keogh joining Silvercar’s board of directors. Read More... →

TechCrunch spoke to Vinnie Lauria, a prominent investor in Southeast Asia, about why the region is more exciting than India or China right now. Read More... →

It’s true, startups are taking over CES. But this is just part of the story. CES isn’t yet another startup show. It’s a now a startup show with hundreds of companies launching compelling new products at the same time coming from many different countries — and French startups in particular are coming en masse. Read More... →

Slack’s rocket ship has a new co-pilot. April Underwood, Slack’s former head of platform who just launched its App Directory and Slack Fund, has leveled up to become the startup’s VP of Product. Underwood joined Slack in June after nearly five years at Twitter where she was a Director of Product. Putting the head of platform in charge of the entire product shows… Read More... →

Neckties embedded with QR codes. Pants that make drum noises. “Uber for medical marijuana.” These are just a few of the goofy startup ideas that have cropped up in Silicon Valley in recent years. I can’t be the only one who’s disappointed with this. The Valley is the birthplace of game-changing innovations, like the microprocessor and the PC. It’s home to… Read More... →

Venture fund Urban.us is gearing up to close a $10 million fund to continue investing in startups focused on impacting urban city living across mobility and logistics, environment, utilities and local government. Urban.us expects to close the fund later this year, but it has already committed some of that money to smart irrigation startup Rachio, FutureMotion, the maker of electric board… Read More... →