Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

Fundraising for a startup is a notoriously stressful process. Much ink has been spilled dissecting every aspect of what works when pitching a venture capitalist, and there are countless “tips” out there that promise to help close deals. But for all the attention paid to VCs, little has been paid to limited partners — the money behind the money that makes the venture world… Read More... →

Launching with a marketplace for landscaping, snow plowing, and other home care and repair services, Plowz & Mowz has raised $1.5 million from the Los Angeles-based startup studio, Science. On the heels of the firm’s successful exit from Dollar Shave Club, Science has turned to the marketplace industry for its next investment. The idea for the company stretches back nearly… Read More... →

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, an office under the Department of Homeland Security, put forward a proposal today that would allow the U.S. government to offer parole (temporary permission to be in the country) to foreign entrepreneurs starting their businesses in the United States. The proposal specifies that a startup can qualify if it was started in the U.S. in the last… Read More... →

San Francisco-based education startup StudySoup, which calls itself “a peer-to-peer learning marketplace,” announced it has raised $1.7 million in seed funding. The company works as an online study group where students can sell or purchase class notes and study guides. “We realized that a lot of students come to college on very different levels,” Sieva Kozinsky, 26… Read More... →

Mobile ad startup AppLovin is in talks with a Chinese buyer for an acquisition of around $1.5 billion, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the company. We have not confirmed the identity of the acquirer. The deal is not yet finalized and details may change. Founded in 2012 by CEO Adam Foroughi along with Andrew Karam and John Kyrstynak, San Francisco-headquartered AppLovin operates… Read More... →

На соревновании Seedstars Moscow соберутся стартапы серии seed.... →

We are often told that starting a startup on your own is madness. There are thousands of articles out there that tell you that and why why you need a co-founder. Probably solid advice, but data from CrunchBase shows a different side of the story. More than half of startups with an exit did so with just a single founder. The average is 1.72 founders. Read More... →

Startup Battlefield is back. In just a few short weeks, TechCrunch’s premiere startup competition will kick off at Disrupt SF and we’re excited to announce the judges tasked with determining which company will take up the Disrupt cup and $50,000. This year the competition features 23 young companies vying for attention and funding. Each will have 6 minutes to impress their panel… Read More... →

Sequoia-based kids educational startup Duck Duck Moose is heading to Khan Academy, to add preschool learning to the non-profit’s digital education offerings. The startup’s 21 mobile apps aimed at children ages two and up are now available for free as a part of the move, which is not technically being considered an “acquisition,” due to the way the deal was… Read More... →

mSurvey, a Kenya based startup specializing in mobile data collection, has raised seed capital as it looks to expand its survey business in partnership with retailers in sub-Saharan Africa. Safaricom, Cross Culture Ventures, and the Virgin Group’s Alpha Angels joined an investment round in the three year old business. “It’s a seed round. I can’t disclose the amount,… Read More... →

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Danish startup Spiri believes urban transportation is still massively inefficient, and it’s setting out to tackle the problem from a few different directions. First, it’s building an on-demand carpooling service, similar to the UberPOOL offering (and the one Lyft just shut down). Second, it’s going to use its own custom electric vehicles to do so. Finally, it’s using… Read More... →

Лаборатория Parabon NanoLabs воссоздала композитную модель лица преступника на основе ДНК.... →

Ирина Калашникова, руководитель проекта GoTech, рассказала Firrma, как нынешний набор конкурса отличается от предыдущих. Российские стартапы за последние три года заметно изменили свой подход к финансированию и монетизации. Такой вывод мы получили после анализа заявок на ежегодный конкурс Web Ready, который с этого года после изменения концепции выступает под брендом бизнес-интегратора . Стало больше проектов, которые развиваются на собственные средства, объем запрашиваемых инвестиций у венчурных фондов и б... →

India-based mobile wallet startup MobiKwik has landed a $40 million strategic investment from Net1, a mobile payment firm specializing in solutions for the unbanked that has been listed on the NASDAQ since 2005. Read More... →

Крупнейший в России и Восточной Европе стартап-акселератор GenerationS, организованный РВК, начинает региональный тур по сбору заявок от предпринимателей. Презентации GenerationS пройдут в 27 городах России и СНГ, среди которых Пермь, Иркутск, Красноярск, Томск, Новосибирск, Ростов-на-Дону, Казань, Уфа, Нижний Новгород, Екатеринбург, Челябинск, Самара, Алматы и Минск.... →

Бухаресту удалось вырастить новое поколение технических предпринимателей... →

London-based ticketing startup Dice, which sells mobile tickets without booking fees and with a current focus on millennials wanting to discover new bands to go see live, has closed a $6 million Series A funding round. Read More... →

  TechCrunch recently took a trip down to Los Angeles for our meetup and to check in on the growing startup scene there. One of the fast-growing businesses that’s been on our radar is Thrive Market. The online Costco-meets-Whole Foods recently raised $111 million from venture firms like Greycroft and celebrities like Demi Moore and John Legend to grow their organic foods business. We… Read More... →