Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

Сегодня в рубрике «Стартапы» — сервис «Как там пес», который позволит хозяевам собак на время рабочего дня оставлять животных в оборудованном для них пространстве. Передаем микрофон.... →

Step by step, Sketchfab is turning into the best platform to view 3D models using a virtual reality headset. First, the company added a VR button on every browsing page, then it released apps to support all VR headsets and showcase a few models. Now, the New York-based startup is making it easier to move around 3D models. Read More... →

If you’re looking for a new way to discover great indie music without having to spend hours digging through SoundCloud or Spotify playlists, a new app called Wonder can help. The app is the mobile extension of Wonder.fm, a music site created by We Are Hunted’s co-founder Stephen Phillips, who sold his earlier startup to Twitter where it later – and briefly – served… Read More... →

Alexa continues its unremitting march across the world’s different with the addition of the August Smart Lock to its list of compatible products. The hardware startup is bringing voice control to its smart home product courtesy of Amazon’s friendly AI. The functionality is arriving for both the first and second generation of the Smart Lock by way of the Alexa app, letting users… Read More... →

For all the hype around fintech, not least in London, Monese is a startup that has pragmatism at its heart. It’s not trying to be an actual bank — in the technical, banking license sense — but does enable immigrants and expats, who might otherwise find it hard to open a bank account outside of their home country, to access core banking services. Read More... →

Deborah Anderson-Bialis, the cofounder of pregnancy-focused tech startup FertilityIQ, is coming to Disrupt SF. After spending three years and over $70,000 to get pregnant, Anderson-Bialis and her partner Jake Bilas cofounded FertilityIQ, a centralized place for people to get reviews and insight on fertility doctors. The startup has also been billed as a Yelp for fertility treatments, and… Read More... →

В 1907 году двое друзей Клод Райан и Джим Кейси собирались открыть свой бизнес по доставке почты. Первое время им приходилось заниматься выполнением разнообразных задач, таких как разовые поручения клиентов, передача сообщений пешком, покупки в аптекарских магазинах. Так они привлекали своих первых клиентов. Сейчас их компания UPS является крупнейшей корпорацией, специализирующейся на экспресс-доставке и логистике. Firrma подготовила серию историй молодых предпринимателей, каждый из которых рассказал нам о ... →

И предложили «понестись» вместе с Владом Цыплухиным и Никитой Лихачёвым.... →

Google купил стартап LaunchKit, создавший пакет инструментов для помощи разработчикам в запуске мобильных приложений. Финансовые условия сделки не разглашались. Команда стартапа присоединится к группе Google Developer Product Group. Созданные LaunchKit продукты получат статус проектов с открытым исходным кодом, поскольку покупатель в них не заинтересован. В настоящее время LaunchKit предлагает разработчикам четыре инструмента: Screenshot Builder позволяет создавать скриншоты […]... →

Редакция vc.ru продолжает публиковать резюме специалистов, желающих работать в стартапах и ИТ-компаниях (выходят по понедельникам), а также вакансии компаний, которые ищут сотрудников (выходят по четвергам).... →

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Xiaomi reveals its new Mi Notebook Air, Amazon launches its dedicated Amazon Kickstarter shop, Facebook crushes its Q2 earnings, it might be the end for helmet startup Skully, and Trump asks Russia to help hack Hillary Clinton’s email. All this on Crunch Report. Read More... →

LeadGenius announced today that it has raised $10 million in Series B funding. Formerly known as MobileWorks, LeadGenius helps customers find likely sales leads and reach out to them with automated emails. The company says revenue increased 6x in the past 20 months, with customers including eBay, Box and Weebly. LeadGenius has now raised more than $21 million in funding. The new round was… Read More... →

Nearly one year ago LiveBlends was a Y Combinator smoothie delivery startup. The company has evolved since then, raised $3.8 million in seed from various investors and switched its name to Replenish. It’s also moved away from delivery and into manufacturing a line of Keurig-like self-cleaning smoothie machines. Replenish is still in the testing phase of the product, but… Read More... →

Сегодня в рубрике «Стартапы» — сервис FlyStat, который предоставляет статистику об активности в подключенных Instagram-аккаунтах: это комментарии, лайки, число «живых» подписчиков и вовлеченность аудитории. Передаем микрофон.... →

A San Francisco startup that many people assumed was toast, Good Eggs, has raised $15 million in a new round of venture funding led by Index Ventures to expand its online, organic grocery business across the U.S. In recent years, Good Eggs tried to ramp up its eco- and farm-friendly grocery business only to face logistics problems, high costs and lagging customer satisfaction in some markets.… Read More... →

A San Francisco startup that many people assumed was toast, Good Eggs, has raised $15 million in a new round of venture funding led by Index Ventures to expand its online, organic grocery business across the U.S. In recent years, Good Eggs tried to ramp up its eco- and farm-friendly grocery business only to face logistics problems, high costs and lagging customer satisfaction in some markets.… Read More... →

As the world of DNA sequencing becomes more efficient and less expensive, a number of companies are sprouting up within the space. The latest, Phosphorus, has just raised a $10 million Series A led by FirstMark. Phosphorus is actually a spin-out from a previous genomics company called Recombine, which sold to CooperSurgical last year in a transaction valued at $85 million. Recombine, led by… Read More... →

Nestled in a valley between the two tailing ends of the Appalachian foothills, the southern city of Birmingham, Ala. seems an unlikely base of operations for a rival to San Francisco’s multi-billion dollar food delivery behemoth Instacart. But the two-year-old startup Shipt is doing exactly that, tackling not only its far better funded San Francisco-based rival, but the twin juggernauts… Read More... →

Today Big Health, which is already backed by Index Ventures, is disclosing that it has raised $12 million (£9.15m) in new funding led by Octopus Ventures. Also participating are Kaiser Permanente Ventures, Index, Sean Duffy (CEO, Omada Health), and JamJar Investments (the UK-based investment fund of the innocent drinks founders). Noteworthy is that Esther Dyson, and Peter Read are also… Read More... →