Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

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... →

The robots might one day rise up and take over, but a Palo Alto startup called Knightscope has developed a fleet of crime-fighting machinery it hopes to keep us safe. Knightscope’s K5 security bots resemble a mix between R2D2 and a Dalek from Doctor Who – and the system behind these bots is a bit Orwellian. The K5’s have broadcasting and sophisticated monitoring… Read More... →

PR-директор Wikimart Евгения Лампадова ушла из компании и запустила собственное коммуникационное
агентство Lampa. Об этом она сообщила на своей странице в Facebook.  По словам Евгении Лампадовой, агентство запущено на её собственные средства:  «Юридически это коммуникационное агентство Lampa, фактически это ООО, которое просто дает мне больше возможностей заниматься тем, что мне нравится. У меня нет задачи строить миллионное по счету агентство, развивать его и т. д. и т. п. Lampa — это я и мои ресурсы, кот... →

Сегодня в рубрике «Стартапы» — сервис «33 Слона», который предоставляет арендодателям юридические услуги, страховку и помощь с налоговыми органами, а также следит за состоянием квартиры на протяжении всего срока сдачи.... →

Российский стартап iLean привлек 1,5 млн рублей от частного инвестора, имя которого не раскрывается.  Об этом Firrma сообщили в бизнес-инкубаторе ИТ-парка Набережных Челнов.  Средства пойдут на развитие продукта и его продвижение. В 2016 году компания планируют расширить географию применения своего продукта.  iLean – представляет собой мобильный ERP-терминал, с установленными инструментами бережливого производства. Устройство на базе ОС Android, влагозащищённом, ударопрочном корпусе. Сервис позволяет планир... →

Rapidly expanding car service startup Uber says it has driven its one billionth ride. Launched in June 2010, it took the company 5.5 years to reach this milestone. Uber trip number one billion took place in London on Christmas Eve. The company says that the lucky rider, Marvin, has been gifted free Uber for a year. To further commemorate this benchmark, driver Ara has been given an… Read More... →

Remember Carrier iQ? In the years before Edward Snowden’s revelations about the NSA, the name and its software became synonymous with creepy, unseen monitoring of everything that you do on a smartphone on behalf of carriers and phone makers — allegedly in the name of better user experience. Now the company appears to be no longer. TechCrunch has confirmed that AT&T has… Read More... →

Венчурный фонд Life.SREDA инвестировал в филлиппинский финтех-стартап Ayannah. Компания привлекла $1 млн в раунде А. Также в сделке приняли участие 500 Startups, лондонская венчурная компания Blue Compass и другие инвесторов. Стартап разрабатывает 2 продукта – Sendah Direct и Sendah Remit. Первый представляет собой SaaS-платформу для ритейлеров, которым предлагает такие услуги, как внутренние переводы, онлайн-кредиты для игр и другие. Sendah Remit – это SaaS-платформа для международных и внутренних переводо... →

Docker today announced that Ian Murdock, a member of the startup’s technical staff and a former Sun and Salesforce employee known for founding the Debian Linux operating system, has passed away. He was 42. A cause of death was not provided in the blog post announcing the news. Docker declined to comment. Murdock’s Twitter account […]... →

It looks like another chapter is in the works for Hem, the home design startup headed by Jason Goldberg that first emerged as a pivot from the Fab.com design marketplace in 2014. We’ve heard from multiple sources that Hem.com has been trying to sell itself and that Vitra, a high-end furniture company based in Switzerland, is currently in the frame to buy it. From what we… Read More... →

Credit and finance management platform Credit Karma, known best as the startup that offers free, no-strings-attached credit scores, has made its first acquisition. The company has acquired the makers of the mobile application Snowball, with plans to leverage the team’s expertise in mobile notifications. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, and the Snowball app will be pulled from… Read More... →

Бывшая сотрудница финтех-стартапа Pay By Touch (который привлёк более $340 млн инвестиций, а затем неожиданно для всех закрылся) рассказала, что именно, по её мнению, привело к провалу стартапа в 2008 году и почему владелец компании был вынужден пройти через множество судебных тяжб с собственными инвесторами.... →

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