Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

Pypestream, a new startup from AdGenesis/Genesis Media co-founder Richard Smullen, is announcing that it has raised $2 million in seed funding. The round was led by Jonah Goodhart, co-founder of Moat and of early-stage investment firm WGI Group. Goodhart told me that Pypestream is trying to solve a big problem: “The call center as a model is absolutely broken.” In other words,… Read More... →

Y Combinator is creating a non-profit research lab aimed at creating technology “that shouldn’t be owned by any one company”. To accomplish this, chief executive Sam Altman says he’ll be donating $10 million to jumpstart YC Research to further innovation beyond the startup scene. Although part of the Y Combinator organization, it’s going to be […]... →

Israel has become known for its security startups, and Scalock, a company that wants to secure the burgeoning container space, announced a $4 million Series A round today. The funding was provided by Israel venture capitalists TLV partners, a new fund launched earlier this year by veterans of the Israeli VC scene, Rona Segev and Eitan Bek. The company is run by two security industry… Read More... →

The first batch of startups in Disney’s startup accelerator produced successes like the bb-8 droid from Sphero and Naritiv, a marketing platform that nabbed a deal with Snapchat. Sphero produced the bb-8 droid in anticipation of the upcoming Star Wars film, The Force Awakens. But it was a fated meeting with Disney CEO Bob Iger that gave the Sphero robotics team an idea to create the… Read More... →

When it comes to the weather, there are no lack of applications to choose from to get your information. But there is very little diversity when it comes to those apps. A new startup, called Sunshine, is looking to change all that. Using information delivered from the barometer sensor in the phone, as well as user-generated reports of local weather, the app is trying to change the way we… Read More... →

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A service that helps online shoppers save when prices drop, Paribus, has raised $2.1 million in seed funding to continue to grow its business following the startup’s participation in the Y Combinator summer program and TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2015, where it first debuted. The company’s idea is to take a process that consumers were used to managing by themselves when they shopped… Read More... →

Move Guides, the London and San Francisco startup that offers ‘talent mobility’ software in the cloud to help companies manage the relocation of their employees, has closed $15.6 million in Series B funding. Read More... →

Юлия Кожевникова из компании «Транио», вслед за Кремниевой долиной, Нью-Йорком и Лондоном, сделала для Firrma краткий путеводитель по Гонконгу – еще одному месту стартап-силы.  Гонконг — одно из самых популярных мест в мире для открытия собственного дела. В рейтинге Doing Business за 2014 год он занимает третью строчку после Сингапура и Новой Зеландии по благоприятности условий для ведения бизнеса. Помимо этого, Гонконг — одна из самых быстрорастущих стартап-экосистем мира: по информации Центра предпринимат... →

1. Если вы только начинаете бизнес, не ищите "первый круг" людей на рекрутинговых ресурсах. Главным хантером и евангелистом проекта можете быть только вы. И к вам должны прийти люди, мотивация которых сейчас НЕ НАЙТИ новую работу, а работать именно у вас, веря в ваш продукт и делая его миллиардным бизнесом. Ни один джоб борд или хантер таких людей не найдут – мы не евангелисты вашей идеи, мы ищем лучших в найм. 2. Ядро проекта (ключевые люди, принимающие основные стратегические решения) должно быть не больш... →

Российско-британский стартап Lobster, который помогает покупать и продавать фотографии пользователей социальных сетей, открыл новый раунд на ... →

Роботы будут установлены в симуляционном центре университета в Токио, где молодые хирурги будут учиться проведению операций... →

Сегодня в рубрике «Стартапы» — сервис Chat Helpdesk, позволяющий компаниям организовать чат-центр для коммуникации с клиентами через WhatsApp и SMS.... →

Armed with an idea for a startup, French natives Olivier Pomel and Alexis Lê-Quôc landed in New York City, where they launched Datadog in 2011. Four years and $53.4 million in venture capital later, the data-analytics company is now trying to find new talent as fast as it can to accommodate its ambitious growth plans. And so […]... →

Каждый день редакция vc.ru выбирает один свежий зарубежный стартап, вызвавший резонанс в профессиональном сообществе, и рассказывает о нём читателям. Сегодня в «Идеях для бизнеса» — сервис KitSplit, с помощью которого фотографы, видеооператоры или представители других творческих профессий могут сдавать в аренду своё оборудование.... →

AdmitSee, a two-year-old, 10-person, San Francisco-based startup, has just finished raising $1.8 million in seed funding to take on pricey college admissions consultants. If things work out as planned, it could be taking on LinkedIn next. AdmitSee was founded in 2013 by former University of Pennsylvania classmates Lydia Fayal and Stephanie Shyu, who’d observed — along with… 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. Code42 raises $85M to prevent company data from being held hostage Code42, a security startup that recently raised $85 million in investor funding, is focused on preventing just such a scenario. The endpoint security […]... →

Skurt, a startup that delivers rental cars to you, just raised a $1.3 million seed round from Upfront Ventures, Hipmunk CEO Adam Goldstein, Wonga founder Errol Damelin, Whisper President Mark Troughton and GoodRx Co-founder Scott Marlette. Skurt, which positions itself as doing for car rentals what Uber did for taxis, has agreements with independent car rental companies that have an excess… Read More... →

VB WEBINAR: Join us for this webinar on demand. Watch here for free. Your startup probably doesn’t have much expertise on tax compliance. Your startup should probably do something about that. Like, now. Let’s say you’re a Silicon Valley-based startup with a cool new solution for selling movie and event tickets online. Odds are, your sales efforts will start locally. […]... →

В мае 2015 года мессенджер Snapchat достиг отметки в 100 миллионов пользователей в день — это примерно десятая часть аудитории Facebook (936 миллионов), а сам стартап оценивается в $15 миллиардов. Редакция vc.ru разобралась, как менялись предпочтения аудитории соцсети и какие причины могли послужить популярности сервиса.... →