Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

Kit, the newest startup to launch out of startup studio Expa in NYC, is looking to give you a way to share your own product reviews, bundled by category, with your friends and the greater community. Competing in its own way with platforms like ProductHunt and Pinterest, as well as media publishers like Cnet and Wired that help their audiences make informed purchasing decisions, Kit asks… Read More... →

A number of investors, including Joe Lonsdale’s new fund 8 Partners, Google Ventures and StartX have added $5 million in initial funding to prescription delivery startup TinyRx. Several early employees from well-known startups such as Google and Airbnb also hopped into the round. TinyRx plans to use the money to build out the business and take on bigger chain pharmacies such as Walgreens… Read More... →

GUEST: [Disclosure: Sohail Prasad is a prior investor in Zenefits, which is a recipient of a write-down. No non-public information is disclosed in this article, nor are we receiving compensation for writing this article.] Over the last few days, nearly every financial and tech publication has reported that Fidelity and Blackrock have written down their holdings […]... →

When travel startup Hipmunk launched five years ago, its big selling point was a better interface for browsing flight options. Now the company is looking to looking to help users even before they start searching for flights and hotels, through the launch of a new set of features called Hello Hipmunk. The company describes this as a “travel planning assistant.” Basically,… Read More... →

Основатель рекламной платформы AdParlor Хуссейн Фазаль опубликовал в своём блоге на Medium колонку с рассуждениями о том, какой город более привлекателен для основателя стартапа — Торонто или Сан-Франциско. Редакция vc.ru публикует адаптированный перевод заметки.... →

Сегодня в рубрике «Стартапы» — Freears, сервис для тренировки и проверки навыков менеджеров по продажам, администраторов и операторов колл-центра. Передаём микрофон.... →

Фред Кук — генеральный директор сети коммуникационных агентств Golin International, имеющей 34 офиса в разных городах — от Тайбэя до Чикаго. Помимо прочих брендов, Golin около 60 лет занимается PR-поддержкой McDonald's.Кук рассказал о последних интересных кейсах агентства, о PR-стратегии McDonald's в начале развития компании и сегодня, дал советы стартапам и молодым PR-спецалистам и рассказал о структуре организации труда в своей компании при отсутствии традиционной иерархии.... →

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Gogoro, the smart scooter startup that has raised over $180 million in funding, has picked Amsterdam as its second launch city. The company’s electric scooters started shipping four months ago in Taipei, where it is based, after a pilot program. Read More... →

Moscow Seed Fund и Биофонд РВК инвестировали в компанию «ЭкзоАтлет» 16 млн рублей. Об этом Firrma сообщили в РВК. По сложившейся практике соинвестирования, Moscow Seed Fund вложил около 10,6 млн рублей в виде займа, остальное инвестировал венчурный партнер московского фонда.  Средства пойдут на доработку первой коммерческой версии экзоскелета и вывода его на российский рынок. «ЭкзоАтлет» — это компания по разработке и производству медицинских экзоскелетов для реабилитации пациентов с параличом нижних конечн... →

Docker, the startup that has propelled the movement of packaging up application code into containers instead of more traditional virtual machines, is announcing today the launch of new software for running and managing containers on big companies’ existing infrastructure. The new Docker Universal Control Plane tool is meant to be run in companies’ on-premises data […]... →

Правительство Москвы в ноябре подпишет с сервисами вызова такси Uber, «Яндекс.Такси» уже и Gett соглашения, в рамках которых компании-агрегаторы смогут привлекать к работе только легальных таксистов. Об этом сообщает Агентство городских новостей «Москва», со ссылкой на заместителя руководителя департамента транспорта и развития дорожно-транспортной инфраструктуры Дмитрия Пронина. По данным агентства, власти Москвы уже подписали соглашение с Uber и «Яндекс.Такси», с Gett – на стадии подписания. Согласно доку... →

There is an unnamed epidemic slowly traveling through the middle of the U.S. This epidemic goes by many names, but our venture fund refers to it as “early exit disease.” This disease spreads when founders realize sub-$20 million exits. Many of these exits could have grown much larger. Instead, early exits have been quietly devastating the Midwest region’s startup… Read More... →

Cleaning startup Cleanify has raised $1.8 million in seed funding. That might not seem like much money when compared to the $50 million round that Handy just raised, or the nearly $40 million that Homejoy raised before shutting down. However, the Cleanify model is a bit different. Instead of offering its own on-demand cleaning services, Cleanify aggregates the listings of existing cleaners.… Read More... →

He’s back. TransferWise co-founder and CEO Taavet Hinrikus was already on our radar at last year’s Disrupt London, but the startup has been growing nicely since then. After raising $58 million from Andreessen Horowitz and existing investors, the company officially launched in the U.S. That’s why we are excited to announce that Taavet Hinrikus will join us on stage at… Read More... →

With Disrupt London right around the corner, we thought it’d be a good idea to check in with participants from past Startup Battlefield competitions to see what they’ve been up to since the show. Sher.ly is a SaaS-based software that essentially gives teams and telecommuters a private, project-centric cloud with the goal of giving users full control over their data. The company… Read More... →

В приложении Messenger, которое предназначено для общения между пользователями соцсети Facebook, появились первые платные стикеры. Их начал продавать сингапурский стартап PicoCandy, сообщает Techcrunch.... →

No sooner did I out Valk Fleet, Delivery Hero’s new B2B startup that lets take-outs and restaurants outsource delivery, another London competitor lands on my radar. Delivery Cube, which is currently operational in part of South London and launched before Valk Fleet, pitches itself as “B2B technology driven logistics solution”. Read More... →

French hardware startup Withings has released two smart-ish watches so far — the Activité and the Activité Pop. Today, the company is releasing a new model sitting between these two options, the Activité Steel. Read More... →

Imagine you’re 14 and in the next two years you’re going to have to make a decision about what higher education course you’ll do, if any. You go to your careers teacher, and in a depressed voice they throw some leaflets at you and head back to their bottle of whisky (ok, well, that was MY careers teacher). How much better could this picture be? Well, now a startup aims to… Read More... →