Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

Facebook is shuttering its internal R&D division, Creative Labs, launched nearly two years ago as an effort aimed at allowing the large company the ability to act more nimbly – and more like a startup. However, like many startups, the products emerging from the Creative Labs incubator had trouble finding traction and success. Along with the closure of the group itself, Facebook is… Read More... →

Российский фонд Titanium Investments повторно инвестировал в израильский стартап MUV Interactive. Об этом сообщает «Коммерсант». Фонд дал компании  $1 млн на запуск в серию сенсорного устройства Bird. Вложения представляют собой конвертируемый займ, который пойдет на выпуск промышленной партии гаджета размером около 1 тысячи штук. Согласно данным из открытых источников, Titanium Investments уже вкладывался в MUV Interactive в марте 2014 года. Всего стартап привлек более $5 млн. Устройство Bird — носимый гад... →

Деньги российского фонда пойдут на выпуск первой партии кольца Bird, которое сможет проецировать изображения с дисплеев и управлять дронами, презентациями и домашней техникой... →

Replacing a founder-CEO is no small matter. The founder-CEO is the core around which a startup grows. Replacing that “core” is a highly divisive and hotly debated topic in startup and VC circles. Ideally, the founder-CEO takes the startup to its exit — but history shows that most founder-CEOs are replaced, voluntarily or involuntarily, within the first 3-5 years. Read More... →

New York-based SocialFlow has raised $7.5 million in Series C funding, the company tells TechCrunch. The startup, which helps media organizations including The Wall Street Journal and BBC optimize their effectiveness on social media, has closed a round led by Gefinor Capital. A competitor of HootSuite, SocialFlow works with media outlets, including TechCrunch, to ensure that articles get shared… Read More... →

Today at the TechCrunch Disrupt London Startup Battlefield, EnergyElephant presented its “energy analysis” service to a crowded hall of investors, developers and entrepreneurs. The startup, bootstrapped to date, takes in a company’s energy use information — a bill, in other words — and then provides analysis that it expects the customer to leverage into savings. Read More... →

A robot with a unique personality might sound like an oxymoron. Or science fiction. But that’s the goal of London-based startup Emotech, launching on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt London 2015 today, with a plan to crowdfund its first product, a voice-controlled robot assistant called Olly, early next year. Read More... →

Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, updated as the day unfolds. Tip us here if you have a deal to share. Andreessen Horowitz leads $10M round for on-demand developer startup Gigster Andreessen Horowitz led a $10 million investment into Gigster to help fuel the startup’s on-demand software development service, Gigster announced today. Y Combinator, SV Angel’s […]... →

An Istanbul-based startup called Twentify took the stage this afternoon at TechCrunch Disrupt London 2015 to talk about their gig-finding app Bounty, which helps people find nearby small jobs they can do for extra cash. As the winner of the TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Alley Wild Card position, the co-founders only had a few hours notice to prepare their presentation before today’s… Read More... →

Компания Dropbox объявила о прекращении работы email-клиента Mailbox и фотосервиса Carousel. Оба проекта были созданы из стартапов, которые выкупила Dropbox в 2012-2013 годах.... →

The commercial drone market is starting to gain traction. There are some obvious markets for drone usage, including real estate marketing, media and inspections. FairFleet, a Munich, Germany-based startup that’s launching out of private beta at Disrupt London today, brings together drone pilots and businesses for exactly these kinds of use cases. Read More... →

Meet YayPay, a London-based startup launching today on stage at Disrupt London in our Startup Battlefield competition. YayPay lets you automatically collect payments from your customers. And it works like magic. Read More... →

В редакцию vc.ru пришло письмо от программиста Алексея Бахирева, который ушел из петербургской компании i-Free на другое место работы, а потом понял, что сделал это зря. Он объяснил, как пришел к такому выводу.... →

Veyo Care aims to a solve a problem facing an aging global population, by helping seniors find the appropriate caregivers. The Berlin-based startup launched at TechCrunch London, with a mobile app that matches senior citizens with their ideal caretakers and lets family members keep tabs on their loved one’s status. Read More... →

“Supplier management” might not sound like the most exciting problem for a startup to solve, but Lystable might actually be doing something crucial for its customers. As businesses find themselves relying on more freelancers and vendors, Lystable helps them manage those relationships. Read More... →

Бывший PR-директор ABBYY Аюна Анджукаева стала руководителем пресс-службы ФРИИ. Об этом она сообщила на своей странице в Facebook. 25 августа пуководитель пресс-службы ФРИИ Мария Лапук 25 августа покинула свой пост. О причинах ухода не сообщалось.  Аюна Анджукаева работала PR и digital marketing консультант, является соосновательницей агентства Social Flow. О ФРИИ Фонд развития интернет-инициатив (ФРИИ) создан в марте 2013 года. Приоритетные задачи ФРИИ — финансовая и экспертная поддержка проектов в интерне... →

Klarna co-founder and CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski took the stage at Disrupt London today to discuss his payment startup and the wider financial tech ecosystem in Europe and in the U.S. Klarna isn’t a household name outside of Europe yet. The company only launched there in September, thanks to a partnership with Overstock.com. Still, Siemiatkowski, who met his co-founder when they worked… Read More... →

Andreessen Horowitz led a $10 million investment into Gigster to help fuel the startup’s on-demand software development service, Gigster announced today. Gigster provides a solution for enterprises and startups that do not have an internal team to build a platform. Clients select from a variety of templates and features to model their software, and Gigster instantly gives them […]... →

Europe is known for its high-end fashion culture and technology seems to be making it easier for the world to discover and access those much sought-after items from this section of the world. But there are differences in discovery and online shopping trends from culture to culture throughout the globe. Fashion startup founders from Farfetch, Chic by Choice and Snap Fashion came onto the… Read More... →

Российская компания N-Tech.Lab стала победителем мирового чемпионата по распознаванию лиц The MegaFace Benchmark, организованного Университетом Вашингтона. Созданный компанией алгоритм оказался самым эффективным среди более 100 решений, предложенных экспертами со всего мира, в том числе из Google. Об этом vc.ru рассказали представители N-Tech.Lab.... →