Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

As the market for virtual reality technology continues to grow, Apple has made an interesting acquisition that could further its role in the space. TechCrunch has confirmed that Apple has snapped up Faceshift, a startup based in Zurich that has developed technology to create animated avatars and other figures that capture a person’s facial expressions in real time. There were… Read More... →

Clique Media Group, the company behind shoppable fashion site Who What Wear, has acquired Canadian startup Wantering. Clique’s properties (which also include lifestyle site MyDomaine and beauty site Byrdie) already combine editorial content with shoppable links, but the company is planning a bigger move into commerce, starting with a partnership that will see Target selling Who What… Read More... →

We pulled together all 153 unicorns currently listed on the Crunchbase Unicorn Leaderboard and then matched them up with data provided by Glassdoor to give you the top 20 highest paying startup unicorns for software engineering jobs. In our previous report, we revealed cloud-based big data company Cloudera paid the best overall. Dropbox now takes the top spot when narrowing it down to… Read More... →

What Stripe did for easy payments, Robinhood is doing for free stock trading. This week the brokerage startup launched its platform so developer can bake its zero-commission stock trading into their products. Stop for a second and think about how big a deal this is. Before now, there were two types of stock apps. Ones that actually let you make trades but charged you a fee of around $7,… Read More... →

Another dev kit targeting developers and startups that want to build devices for the Internet of Things has launched on Kickstarter — although its maker, Imagination Technologies, is no startup, but rather an established company which licenses IP to chipmakers and counts Apple among its investors. Read More... →

Behavioral analytics startup Clarisite raised $5.5 million for its series A round led by Lazarus Israel Opportunities Fund, the startup announced today. Clarisite also announced its new CEO, Yaron Morgenstern, who will oversee the company’s international expansion. The U.S.-based VC had invested $500 thousand in Clarisite back in 2012.... →

Game financing startup Fig, which helps game developers raise money from fans, said it can now receive investments from unaccredited investors (or ordinary fans) for game-crowdfunding campaigns. Enabled by accounting regulation changes with securities laws, the change could open up a whole new set of opportunities for game startups and fans alike. Now fans will have a […]... →

Tech companies who’ve long overlooked the home lending market and as fertile ground for new business are waking up to the opportunity in the market and money — and new offerings are pouring in. Read More... →

All major banks today offer a way for customers to bank online, but this is not stopping a rush of startups emerging to build new, mobile and online-only banks from the ground up. In one of the latest developments, Atom Bank, a UK mobile banking startup and app aimed at hip, youthful consumers that has yet to launch its commercial service, is today announcing that it has closed an £82… Read More... →

Сегодня в рубрике «Стартапы» — сервис Fair & Square, который позволяет . Передаём микрофон.... →

Компания Ivideon в партнерстве с Oco group начнет продавать камеры видеонаблюдения Осо, со встроенным сервисом облачного видеонаблюдения Ivideon, в США, Великобритании и других европейских стран. Об этом Firrma сообщили в компании. Для выхода на американский рынок компания открыла в США офис с несколькими представителями, отвечающими за маркетинговую кампанию и взаимодействие с сетевыми магазинами. В Европе стартап работает через специальную агентскую компанию. Камера видеонаблюдения Осо, со встроенным серв... →

We were impressed with a company called IO at Disrupt Europe 2014 in London — the service made it feel like you were having a human conversation with a foodie friend who gives great restaurant recommendations, and not the AI-driven machine running behind the scenes. The company didn’t end up winning the Battlefield, but that didn’t stop them from making big changes since… Read More... →

Learn-to-code startup Kano is now shipping a 10.1-inch HD display to go with its keyboard plus Raspberry Pi DIY computer kit for kids. Read More... →

There’s little doubt in my mind (and industry experts and VCs I talk to) that the local on-demand delivery space will soon get messy given the number of startups entering the space and the amount of venture being thrown at the opportunity. The latest to raise capital is Spain’s Glovo. Read More... →

Фонд Юрия Милнера Digital Sky Technologies (DST) стал лид-инвестором нового раунда финансирования сервиса доставки еды из ресторанов Deliveroo. Как сообщает Financial Times, общий объем раунда составил $100 млн. В раунде также приняли участие фонды Greenoaks Capital, Accel Partners, Hummingbird Ventures и Index Ventures. По данным издания, постинвестиционная оценка стартапа могла составить $600 млн. Отчетность компании не раскрывается, но по словам представителей Deliveroo, что число ежедневных заказов выро... →

Всего в ближайшие несколько лет фонд планирует вложиться в «несколько десятков стартапов»... →

За девять лет с момента основания компания Riot Games запустила одну из самых популярных в мире игр — League of Legends. Согласно аналитике SuperData, одновременно в «Лигу» играет до 7 млн пользователей, а доходы превышают $1 млрд в год.Региональный директор Riot Games Алексей Крайнов рассказал редакции о своем опыте работы в крупных корпорациях (British American Tobaco, Adidas, «Билайн»), запуске собственного стартапа, приходе в игровую индустрию, устройстве глобального и русского офисов Riot, конкуренции ... →

Всего в раунде D сервис привлек $100 млн... →

Фонд развития интернет-инициатив (ФРИИ) намерен инвестировать 500 млн рублей в стартапы, работающие в области анализа массивов «больших данных» (big data). Об этом представитель организации Сергей Скрипников рассказал «Ведомостям».... →

The founder of bootstrapped Singapore-based social meetup app Lunch Kaki is willing to put everything on the line to turn his startup idea into a regional player — even if it means driving for Uber to make a few extra bucks. Uber is popular in Singapore, but then so is Lunch Kaki. With just $85,000 […]... →