Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

Microsoft is buying Talko, the mobile messaging startup founded by Ray Ozzie, Microsoft’s former Chief Software Architect until 2010. The company says today the acquisition, whose terms were not disclosed, involves the Talko technology and the team. Talko employees will now join Skype, while Talko itself is being shut down. Ozzie, however, will not be rejoining Microsoft as a part of… Read More... →

Two former Theranos employee have filed complaints so far with the Food and Drug Administration over alleged faulty test results. The latest complaint is aimed at a test for herpes – and it is the only test the FDA has so far approved blood diagnotistics startup Theranos to run using its proprietary technology. One former employee filed a complaint in September to the Centers for… Read More... →

Microsoft today announced that it has acquired technology from Talko, a startup that build a mobile-friendly team communication app. Talko will be shutting down in the next several months, according to a note on the startup’s website, and “Today we’re announcing that Talko’s been acquired by Microsoft to help fuel future innovation in Skype and […]... →

Administrate, the Scottish startup that offers a Sofware-as-a-Service for training providers, has raised a $2.5 million funding round. So far, so routine. But the company is also talking up a recent HR “innovation”: Its entire staff have moved to a four-day week, with no loss in productivity, apparently. Read More... →

Институт уже инвестировал в них 20 млн рублей, а Rusbase узнал, в обмен на какие доли... →

Gusto (formerly ZenPayroll) is looking to raise $50 million, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange commission. That’s only natural for the startup, which is increasingly competing with the well-funded — and cash burning — Zenefits. So far, the company has raised about $22.2 million of its funding round, according to that filing. It looks like General… Read More... →

The Stratos Card is about to jump in the deadpool. The company behind the universal credit card is shutting down, TechCrunch has confirmed from several sources. Founded in 2012 by Thiago Olson and Chris Bartenstein, the Ann Arbor, Michigan-based startup raised $6.63 million over three rounds of financing with the most recent being a $5.8M Venture round in October of 2014. We hear they ran out… Read More... →

Chinese tech trends are distinctly different to North America’s but today, in a move that bears parallels to WeChat-only companies, popular messaging app Kik acquired the small company behind one of the most successful apps (bots) on the Kik service. Read More... →

Стартапов с крупными инвестициями из Кремниевой долины... →

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Московский технологический институт (МТИ) проинвестирует в три проекта-участника трека Robotics: сверхпроходимое шасси AnyWalker, нейрошлем виртуальной реальности NVR и лаборатория прототипирования в области бионейросигналов BiTronicsLab. О своих планах МТИ объявил на финале федерального акселератора технологических стартапов GenerationS.  Общий объем вложений составил более 20 млн рублей. К 2017 году институт планирует вложить еще 70 млн рублей. AnyWalker — сверхпроходимое шасси, может передвигаться в любо... →

Компания занимается технологиями 3D-сканирования – к примеру, будками для создания трехмерных моделей людей в полный рост... →

Фонд развития интернет-инициатив (ФРИИ) и АО «Группа Т1», которая входит в ГК «Ренова», подписали партнерское соглашение по поиску и развитию новых проектов и команд в области «интернета вещей» (IoT). Об этом Firrma сообщили в фонде. T1 Group предоставит стартапам из акселератора ФРИИ доступ к своим технологиям и решениям. Эксперты компании будут принимать участие в развитии проектов, отслеживать их прогресс на различных этапах и делиться своей экспертизой. Решения T1 Group находятся на стыке телекоммуникац... →

CellSavers CEO Itai Hirsch was not a fan of driving to a local repair shop after he’d broken many of his phones and tablets. So he decided to take a run at building CellSavers, an on-demand repair service that’s like an Uber for smartphone repairs. To do that, CellSavers has raised $3 million in seed funding from Sequoia Israel. CellSavers connects users with technicians that will… Read More... →

Бизнес-инкубатор FasterCapital из ОАЭ пришёл на Украину, сообщает Ain.ua FasterCapital готов инвестировать в стартапы в равных долях либо с основателями, либо с другим фондом или инкубатором (при базовом подходе 50×50%). В проекты, развитие которых находится на уровне идеи, инкубатор готов вложить от $5 тысяч до $500 тысяч в зависимости от проекта. Для проектов, которые уже имеют стабильный продукт и, возможно, первую выручку, FasterCapital готов предложить от $300 тысяч до $3 млн. Инкубатор также будет пом... →

Сегодня в рубрике «Стартапы» — сервис «Экзамер», который позволяет подготовиться к ЕГЭ по индивидуальному курсу. Передаём микрофон.... →

Looking at startups from the outside, it’s easy to assume the startup game is just that, a game. A game with big winners and glorious and rapid rises to the top. Of billion-dollar valuations and worldwide conquests. Of apps serving hundreds of millions of people and liquidity to ensure glory for one’s heirs for generations to come. But entrepreneurship is not a game. Read More... →

Included within the FAST Act is a section, the Reforming Access for Investments in Startup Enterprises (“RAISE”) Act, which codifies a previously unwritten means through which startup employees, ex-employees, early investors, and other shareholders have been legally allowed to sell their shares. Read More... →

The presence of the investors – in large numbers from both the region and beyond, including Silicon Valley – at a recent RiseUp event in Cairo indicated that entrepreneurship in the Middle East is more than just a feel-good effort. There are deals to be made in Egypt and beyond. Read More... →

(The Bridge) – Infinity Venture Partners, a Tokyo-based global investment fund, organized its semi-annual startup showcasing event in Kyoto earlier this month, where 14 startups exhibited their products to investors and entrepreneurs. Hokkaido-based Agri Info Design won the top prize with their mobile app solution called AgriBus-Navi. Here’s a quick rundown of the top five winners […]... →