Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

19 января стало известно, что крупный европейский инкубатор Rocket Internet, поддерживающий технологические стартапы, привлек $420 млн для нового фонда. Предприниматель Генрих Зилмер, выпускник Rocket Internet и Y Combinator, сравнил работу акселераторов. Редакция vc.ru публикует перевод текста, выполненный Анной Нгуен — представителем онлайн-магазина Lazada, также прошедшего Rocket Internet.... →

Riding the coattails of a ‘small pieces, loosely joined’ approach to the enterprise, Belgium startup PieSync offers a platform that connects a plethora of cloud applications and syncs contacts stored in those apps two-way. That’s no mean feat considering the risk of data corruption or overwriting an important contact’s information, which is why, says PieSync, companies… Read More... →

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Honor, an Andreessen Horowitz-backed company focused on caring for seniors as babyboomers tip over into retirement, is making its contractor workforce into a full-time one. The care workers, called CarePros within the company, will have the potential for stock options. “I really don’t want two classes of people in our company. Everyone is in it to help the elderly and everyone… Read More... →

A day after the news broke that General Motors was picking up assets from failed Uber competitor Sidecar, today the startup’s CEO finally confirmed the details directly in a blog post and provided a few more details about the deal. A “key component to the transaction”, writes CEO Sunil Paul, was Sidecar’s patents, for which GM has taken a license, but… Read More... →

Cumulus Networks, a startup selling a version of Linux for data center networking hardware, has closed a $35 million round of funding. The valuation of Cumulus has fallen below what it was two years ago for an earlier round, cofounder and chief executive JR Rivers told VentureBeat. Participants in the round include Andreessen Horowitz, Battery […]... →

Cisco and Verizon Ventures led a $25 million investment for Kumu Networks, the startup announced today. Deutsche Telekom and Swisscom also participated in the series C round. Kumu Networks said it developed a telecommunications technology called Full Duplex, which “doubles the capacity of existing wireless spectrum,” and enhances existing LTE by canceling “self-interference.” Kumu Networks […]... →

Андрей Романенко, управляющий партнер фонда Run Capital, дал оценку прошедшему году и сделал прогноз на 2016 год. Три важных итога года для вас лично? Мы провели первый конкурс Karpov Venture Awards, для меня и для друзей Сергея – это очень значимое событие. Во-вторых, в прошедшем году были внесены и вступили в действие законодательные изменения, позволяющие более грамотно структурировать сделки в рамках российского законодательства – введены «новые» для нашего законодательства понятия, наличие которых стал... →

The 9th Annual Crunchies are fast approaching, with the event best described as the Oscars of Startup and Technology taking place on February 8 at San Francisco’s War Memorial Opera House. Some of your favorite startups, entrepreneurs and investors will be competing to win a coveted Crunchie award in one of 12 categories up for grabs. The Best Technology Achievement Crunchie goes to… Read More... →

French startup Botify just raised a $7.2 million Series A From Idinvest and Ventech. The company uses a software-as-a-service approach to make it as seamless as possible to crawl your website and give you insights on your search engine optimization strategy. Read More... →

People who don’t take Uber frequently take the bus. And those Europeans folks now include some rather high profile investors in London-based urban transport startup Citymapper — who have just poured $40 million into a new Series B round for its app which algorithmically knits together different transit options to help city dwellers quickly figure out how to get from A to… Read More... →

Hyper is a new travel startup betting that the secret ingredient to a great travel booking experience is interacting with another human being. In other words, founders Minqi Jiang and Peter Zakin (who previously worked at Google and Venmo, respectively) are aiming to give users the experience of having a personal assistant who helps you book your flights and hotels, but via a chat interface.… Read More... →

New York-based startup Jopwell announced today that it closed a $3.35 million seed round to help build its recruitment and hiring platform, which aims to increase diversity in the workforce. Backed by Magic Johnson Enterprises and Andreessen Horowitz, Jopwell wants to give members of minority groups a boost in their job application process. Once users complete 60 percent […]... →

Brave Software, the new startup from JavaScript creator and Mozilla cofounder Brendan Eich, is releasing today an early version of its new web browser that displays websites quickly, by blocking programmatic ads, and replaces them with Brave’s own ad inventory. The browser is now available for Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android under an open-source license […]... →

Brendan Eich, creator of JavaScript programming language and former CEO of Mozilla, is working on something new — a web browser that will block ads (particularly the kinds that slow performance and use personal data) while still potentially making money for publishers. Eich’s startup Brave Software isn’t making the browser available for general usage today, but it’s… Read More... →

Сегодня в рубрике «Стартапы» — сервис Krakoza, который позволяет легально и бесплатно слушать песни, смотреть видеоклипы, формировать плейлисты, читать тексты песен, а также добавлять свой контент и делиться им с другими пользователями. Передаём микрофон.... →

FreedomPop, the startup disrupting the businesses of traditional mobile carriers by giving people ways to use mobile devices free of any charges — is today adding another sizeable round to its coffers: the company has raised $50 million, money that it will be using to continue its global rollout beyond its home market of the U.S. and to help launch new international products, specifically… Read More... →

Предприниматель и основатель Virgin Group Ричард Брэнсон опубликовал в своём блогу заметку, в которой рассказал о том, какие уроки он вынес из провалившихся проектов корпорации Virgin Group — Virgin Cars и Virgin Cola. Брэнсон также вспомнил опыт запуска авиакомпании Virgin Atlantic — по словам предпринимателя, тогда он столкнулся с трудностями, и проект чуть было не забросили.... →

For mobile carriers, the explosion of smartphone usage, particularly for bandwidth-heavy apps like video, should be a boost to their business, but in many cases network architecture and delivery proves to be too costly for them to handle heavy traffic, and they are running out of capacity in some cases. Now, a startup called Kumu Networks has built technology to improve how the use of… Read More... →

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