Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

Developers spend a lot of time reviewing code (between 20%-50%), even today, when code reviewing can in fact be automated much of the time. Code reviews are described as “technical debt” and some say this ‘debt’ amounts to a trillion dollars globally. Lisbon-based startup Codacy wants to kill unnecessary code reviews. And to that end it’s now raised €1… Read More... →

European car rental comparison startup — or self-styled metasearch engine — Happycar has raised a new $1.58 million round of funding. Notable backers include Global Founders Capital, the venture arm of German startup factory and e-commerce behometh Rocket Internet. Unusually, however, GFC isn’t leading the round. Read More... →

Matt Kelly, who has spent the last two-plus years as the head of product at Facebook, has resigned from the company, he announced in a Facebook post to friends and family yesterday. He tell us separately that he’s planning to travel to see friends and family and afterward, to get back in to the startup world. Kelly had been with the company since November 2009, joining the (then… Read More... →

Open source giant Red Hat is making another acquisition to build out its enterprise IT portfolio: today the company announced that it would buy Ansible, an IT automation solutions specialist that helps companies build and manage hybrid IT deployments across the cloud and on-premise solutions. The acquisition had been rumored to be in the works for a price of over $100 million. Officially,… Read More... →

Государственный фонд развития интернет-инициатив (ФРИИ) запустил новый акселератор для стартапов в сфере информационной безопасности. Курировать программу будет министерство коммуникаций и связи РФ. Об этом со ссылкой на представителей фонда 16 октября сообщило издание Firrma.... →

Фонд развития интернет-инициатив (ФРИИ) при поддержке Минсвязи РФ, совместно с компаниями «РТ-Информ» и «Ай-Теко», запустил специализированный технологический акселератор в области информационной безопасности. Об этом было объявлено на пресс-конференции фонда. В течение ближайших двух лет ФРИИ и его партнеры вложат в перспективные проекты по информационной безопасности от 0,5 до 1 млрд рублей. Проекты, показавшие наилучшую динамику в акселерации, смогут рассчитывать на seed-инвестиции ФРИИ и партнеров на сл... →

15 октября издание The Wall Street Journal выпустило исследование, посвящённое работе нашумевшего медицинского стартапа Theranos, основанного самой молодой женщиной-миллиардером Элизабет Холмс. Редакция журнала побеседовала с бывшими сотрудниками компании, которые обвинили организацию в подтасовке результатов медицинских исследований.... →

14 октября после закрытия торгов американский стартап Square подал заявку на IPO. Инвестиционный аналитик компании «Фридом Финанс» Шамиль Курамшин рассказал vc.ru о перспективах выхода компании на биржу.... →

EXCLUSIVE: Publicly traded enterprise software company Red Hat has acquired devops software startup Ansible for more than $100 million, VentureBeat has learned. Red Hat will announce the news as soon as tomorrow, a source familiar with the matter told VentureBeat. Ansible cofounder and chief executive Saïd Ziouani spent a decade at Red Hat as a vice […]... →

GUEST: If I told you that my startup, Hours, built its own crowdfunding site instead of using Kickstarter — and decided to run a private campaign  — you might think I was crazy. But that’s what we did. And it worked. We were raising funds for a team-compatible web version of our Hours app. We released […]... →

Most people get started "on the side" before going solo or founding a startup. More and more people have a side hustle going on just to make ends meet. Fact is, once you're on your own, you're likely doing one thing in order to do the next bigger and better thing. Even larger companies leverage existing lines of business in order to expand and evolve to the next level. In short, it's not where you're at, it's where you're going. Surprisingly,... →

So you’ve shot some cool video footage — congrats! But if it needs any editing, you’ve still got a lot of work ahead of you. Or you could try out a startup called VidMob, which is building a marketplace for professional video editors. The company has been beta testing its products, with plans to launch an iOS soon, and an Android app later on. Read More... →

Emergent VR, a startup that promises full video capture for virtual reality headsets like the Gear VR, has raised $2.2 million from Accel Partners, Rothenberg Ventures and Google Ventures. Emergent VR’s play is that it can build a simpler experience for users who want to capture video that can be viewed through VR devices. The three Emergent VR demos Wilkins showed me indicated that… 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. Word processing app Quip raises $30M from Greylock and Benchmark Quip is a San Francisco startup that has built a mobile-friendly application for word processing, working on spreadsheets, and chatting with colleagues. Today Quip […]... →

Сегодня в рубрике «Стартапы» — агрегатор услуг SparX, который объединяет службы помощи на дороге в единый сервис. Передаём им микрофон.... →

Wife and husband duo Victoria Ransom and Alain Chuard hit the jackpot on social. With every brand trying to figure out a Faceboook marketing strategy in 2008, the two built a startup called Wildfire that did it for them. Wildfire helped companies develop a presence, share content, run contests, and buy ads on social networks including Twitter and Pinterest. Google looking to barge into the… Read More... →

Some big news today for Quip, the mobile-first word processing and collaboration app that competes with the likes of Google Docs. The eponymous startup behind the service is today announcing that it has raised $30 million in funding — a Series B round led by Greylock with participation also from previous investor Benchmark. Along with the funding, Quip is announcing some key… Read More... →

I am writing this in Quip. And judging by the look of things, one day you might well be writing in Quip, too. Quip is a San Francisco startup that has built a mobile-friendly application for word processing, working on spreadsheets, and chatting with colleagues. Today Quip is announcing a $30 million funding round. Bret […]... →

This summer, Y Combinator created a new program called the YC Fellowship aimed at investing in early-stage startups outside of its accelerator. Today the first of the 33 companies that have been accepted has launched today. Called Clearbanc, it’s a banking service that’s specifically geared towards self-employed Americans to help them get paid faster. Founded […]... →

Проект по изучению английского языка онлайн Puzzle English первые два года развивался на личные средства своего создателя Александра Антонова, а потом на уже сформированный продукт привлек инвесторов. В своей колонке Александр попытался проанализировать, в чем разница между жизнью на инвесторские и на собственные деньги и как это отражается на работе и на продукте. До инвестиций Идея проекта по изучению английского онлайн возникла в 2011 году, когда я решил выучить английский самостоятельно и создал для себ... →