Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

Руководитель по коммуникациям EurekaEngine.ru Елена Луценко рассказывает о секретные методах текстовой аналитики. По прогнозам Deloitte, когнитивные технологии (текстовой анализ естественного языка, распознавание речи, нейросети и др.) будут использовать 80 из топ-100 крупнейших мировых разработчиков уже в 2016 году, что на 25% больше по сравнению с 2015 годом.  Что делать, если ваша компания не входит в топ-100? И что делать, если вы ничего не понимаете про технологии текстовой аналитики и Big Data? Коммун... →

After raising $50 million earlier this year from Fidelity, security startup Malwarebytes said that it would use some of the funding for acquisitions, and today comes some related news. The company is acquiring a startup out of France called AdwCleaner, whose product specifically tackles and removes adware and has seen a total of 200 million downloads across Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10… Read More... →

Бизнес-ангел Юлий Зегельман вышел из проекта Worklife, который разрабатывает программное обеспечение для онлайн-конференций. Стартап был куплен американским производителем сетевого оборудования Cisco. Сумма сделки не раскрывается.  Юлий Зегельман сообщил Firrma, что он инвестировал в стартап в 2015 году в ходе seed-раунда. Остальные подробности экзита он не раскрыл.  Предполагается, что решения Worklife дополнят UC-платформу Cisco Spark. Сотрудники Worklife перейдут на работу в Cisco. Продукт Worklife остан... →

Tagboard announced today that it has acquired Capture, another startup in the social media and user generated content business. Tagboard helps marketers find and create displays for social media conversation around a brand or topic. (When I covered the company a couple of years ago, I described it as a “cross platform hashtag aggregator,” which is both accurate and… Read More... →

Last week, when we reported on how PayPal has considered acquiring crowdfunding platform GoFundMe, we noted that the startup was on a growth tear and “printing money”. Today, GoFundMe is releasing some numbers that speak to just how big that is for the company right now. GoFundMe has now passed the $3 billion mark in terms of funds raised on its platform — an impressive… Read More... →

Венчурный фонд Target Global Михаила Лобанова совместно с e.Ventures повторно вложились в проект интернета вещей Smartfrog  в раунде на общую сумму $20 млн. Об этом пишет Techcrunch. Раунд состоит из $15 млн венчурных инвестиций и $5 млн предоставленных, как заемные средства. В сделке также участвовало несколько семейных офисов и Жан-Пьер Вайс (сооснователь IoT компании u-blox, который стал стратегическим инвестором в стартапе). В феврале 2016 года Target Global и e.Ventures вложили в Smartfrog$5 млн. По да... →

Today, Joy, hardware startup and resident positive emotion, announced the launch of it’s first product, the Joy Album — an interactive photo frame designed from the ground up. Joy has raised $2.5 million in seed funding from investors including Obvious Ventures, The Chernin Group, BoxGroup, and Maywic Select Investments. At first glance, the tablet-like device seems to… Read More... →

French startup Ibanfirst is launching its full-fledged banking service for companies. The startup was previously known as FX4BIZ, a sort of TransferWise for business transactions. The company just raised $11 million (€10 million) from Xavier Niel and others. Ibanfirst plans to go much further than being a foreign exchange service. The initial idea behind Ibanfirst is quite simple. Many… Read More... →

Stop procrastinating and spend a few minutes to get in your nominations for the annual Crunchies award show. It only takes a few minutes to fill out the form. Nominations will close on Thursday, November 3, 2016 so do it today. We’re looking for the input of the tech community. Who was the hottest new startup? Who launched the best new technology? Which company had the best launch video? Read More... →

Dublin and Berlin-based Internet of Things (IoT) startup Smartfrog has raised $20 million in further funding, meaning that the smart cam maker has managed to pull in $30 million in total despite only launching roughly a year ago. The latest investment breaks down into $15 million equity and $5 million debt financing. Read More... →

Сооснователь и генеральный директор ритейлера «Юлмарт» Сергей Федоринов, покинувший компанию в августе 2016 года, запустил проект по консультированию и разработке бизнес-идей для других предпринимателей. Об этом он рассказал «Деловому Петербургу».... →

А почти половина опасается, что их компании устареют через 3-5 лет.... →

Сегодня в рубрике «Стартапы» — образовательный проект Digital Banana, который позволяет ученикам поучаствовать в курсах и мероприятиях, связанных с рынком цифровых технологий. Передаем микрофон.... →

There are of course plenty of ways to learn to code online these days. But recently there’s been a trend to allow would-be developers to learn it on the go. We’ve already covered the efforts of Enki to create a ‘snackable’ mobile learning app for developers. Now a new startup, SoloLearn has appeared on the horizon, after garnering a healthy following. Today it… Read More... →

A startup called Wonder Workshop has partnered with Apple to teach kids how to code using Swift. Founded in 2012, Wonder Workshop makes toy robots, called Dash and Dot, that kids can control with programs they create using Wonder Workshop apps. Wonder Workshop apps feel more like casual games than desktop scripting tools. The apps connect to Dash and Dot via bluetooth, and automatically… Read More... →

Amid Brexit uncertainty, not least pertaining to the U.K.’s likely lack of influence on future EU data protection and sharing rules, London-based fraud detection startup Ravelin has closed £3 million in Series A funding. Read More... →

Electric Objects is announcing new ways to bring art into your home, with an affordable price tag. The New York City startup, led by Jake Levine (formerly of Betaworks), launched a Kickstarter campaign for its digital art displays in 2014, then started shipping them a year later. Levine told me he’s trying to tear down “the barrier between normal people … and art,” so… Read More... →

It’s a bit of synergy that was only a matter of time. Late last year, Fossil Group purchased Misfit for a cool $260 million. And now, just under a year later, the wearable startup, best known for its modular fitness devices, is launching a watch. To its credit, the company’s not going full-on smartwatch here. There’s not a hint of Android Wear to be found on the Phase.… Read More... →

Анастасия Постникова – старший консультант коммуникационного агентства Grayling – написала для Firrma статью о том, что представляет из себя стартап-экосистема Швейцарии.  В инвесторской среде за Швейцарией уже закрепилось неофициальное прозвище — «Кремниевые Альпы». Страна шестой год подряд занимает 1 строчку в рейтинге Global Innovation Index (по версии международной бизнес-школы INSEAD), и как на федеральном, так и на региональном уровне реализует множество инициатив, направленных на поддержку технологич... →

At the Paris Motor Show earlier this month, Renault-Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn seemed to suggest his company would do more assembling of third-party technologies than creation of their own, but a new internal startup initiative announced by the combined automaker aims to make it directly responsible for some of its most basic technologies related to connected cars and the future of mobility. The… Read More... →