Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

Food delivery startup Zesty is rolling out its office catering service beyond San Francisco to locations throughout the Silicon Valley peninsula, and has brought on two food and hospitality executives to support its expansion. Joining Zesty as Director of Food is Nate Keller, formerly Executive Chef at Google who oversaw its growth from 400 to 400,000 employees, and was the founding executive… Read More... →

The risks for businesses associated with storing and processing the personal data of their customers are growing as data volumes continue to increase and regulators sharpen their claws over data protection. But those risks are of course just another startup opportunity. Read More... →

While it may seem like we just wrapped up in the Big Apple, TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2016 will be here before you can say “how do you do, fellow kids?” We will once again be giving college students the chance to buy deeply discounted tickets to Disrupt SF, so all you undergrad and graduate students out there can check out the hottest startup show in Silicon Valley, even on a ramen budget. Read More... →

Pattern, a year-old, Redwood City, Ca.- based startup, wants to become a kind of external brain that lightens the load of managing customer relationships for salespeople. Felicis Ventures, SoftTech VC, and First Round Capital have just furnished the company with $2.5 million in seed funding toward that end, too. You can kind of see why, given the problem Pattern is trying to… Read More... →

The on-demand transportation service continues to heat up, and today the spotlight is shining on a New York startup whose business is based primarily in Europe. Gett, a cab-hailing startup with operations across some 60 cities, is getting a $300 million investment from German car giant Volkswagen. VW plans to use the investment to spearhead its own move into ride-sharing, on-demand… Read More... →

Издание Selfmadetrip рассказало об условиях для бизнеса во Франции и перечислило основные источники финансирования в стране.... →

Фонд развития интернет-инициатив (ФРИИ) продал свою долю в сообществе по аренде вещей Rentmania основателю стартапа за 2,4 млн рублей. Об этом Firrma сообщили в компании. Фонд владел 7% в ООО «Неовента» (торговая марка – Rentmania.org). Сейчас по данным ЕГРЮЛ, 100% компании принадлежит основателю сервиса Аркадию Мешковскому.   В мае 2014 года ФРИИ вложил в проект 1,4 млн рублей. Из них 600 тысяч рублей Rentmania получила в виде оказанных услуг по обучению сотрудников, в рамках третьего набора очного акселер... →

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Education tech startup Bloomz has raised $2.3 million in seed funding for an app that connects teachers and parents, securely. The company’s app features tools that help teachers push updates about students or share photos of them from the classroom back to parents throughout the day. The app also gives educators tools to help coordinate parent-teacher conferences, classroom volunteers… Read More... →

Menu Next Door just raised $2 million (€1.75 million) from Index Ventures, Local Globe, Kima Ventures and TheFamily. The startup is all about home cooking, literally. On Menu Next Door, you can either cook for people around you or buy a menu from someone around you. I’ve heard this pitch a dozen times. “What if we could build the Airbnb of food?” Every single time, these… Read More... →

There have been many attempts to update keyboards for the digital era and speed up typing by rethinking the antique Qwerty layout. Problem is you’re going up against muscle memory, and resistance to change the habit of a lifetime. And that’s a very hard nut to crack. But a Swiss startup reckons they have done it with their Wrio keyboard. Read More... →

Юлия Кожевникова из Tranio решила «освоить» новый континет и рассказать о венчурной экосистеме одного из крупнейших городов Южной Америки.  Сантьяго-де-Чили, или просто Сантьяго — столица Чили и один из крупнейших городов Южной Америки, а также одна из лучших стартап-экосистем южного полушария. В качестве центра притяжения стартапов Сантьяго заявил о себе сравнительно недавно, в 2010 году, когда здесь стартовала государственная программа поддержки молодых компаний. Правительство страны стремится сделать гор... →

vArmour — a startup that offers security solutions specifically aimed at enterprises that run services and apps across multiple clouds — has raised $41 million in a Series D round of funding to help battle the rising problem of cybercrime, expected to cost between $500 billion and $2 trillion by 2019 to manage. This is a growth round for vArmour in more ways than one: in… Read More... →

Woomoo, the startup behind app prototyping tool POP, has been acqui-hired by Priceline. All six of the company’s employees have relocated from Taipei, where Woomoo was based, to Bangkok to work on app development for Agoda, the hotel booking website owned by Priceline. The deal’s terms were undisclosed. Read More... →

Юго-азиатский финтех-стартап Jirnexu привлек $3 млн в раунде А. Лид-инвестором сделки стал сингапурский венчурный фонд DMP VC, возглавляемый Дмитрием Левитом. Об этом сообщает издание Techinasia. Другие участники сделки: фонды Celebes Capital, NTT DOCOMO Ventures, Nullabor, Tuas Capital Partners, Anfield Equities. Частным инвестором выступил Стив Мелхиш (Steve Melhuish), генеральный директор и сооснователь онлайн-сервиса недвижимости PropertyGuru. Привлеченные средства будут направлены на рост стартапа, рас... →

С 20 по 21 мая 2016 года в Москве прошел конфотон (конференция и хакатон) «Мир без посредников», организованный группой QIWI и Бизнес-инкубатором МГУ. Первое место занял проект KAZE — платформа, объединяющая участников с любым софтом для фитнес-трекинга. Победитель получил приз — 200 тысяч рублей.  Второе место у Chat Wars — MMORPG чат-ботв Telegram. Команда получила 75 тысяч рублей.  Третьим стал «АнтиБукмекер» – сервис для ставок на спортивные и другие события на основе блокчейна. Проект получил 30 тысяч ... →

Founded by Australian brothers Travis and Shawn Pittman but relocated to Austria of all places, TourRadar, the travel tour booking site, seems to be on a roll. The startup has just closed $6 million in Series A funding, based, I’m hearing, on a major growth spurt over the last 7 months. Read More... →

Сегодня в «Идеях для бизнеса» — проект Gamaya, создатели которого намерены помочь фермерам управляться со своими посевами.... →

Malaysia-based fintech startup Saving Plus has closed a $3 million Series A round and renamed itself as Jirnexu. Read More... →

Snapchat may have first made its name in the crowded world of mobile apps with an ephemeral messaging service, but the startup and its wildly popular app are not disappearing anywhere soon. TechCrunch has learned from multiple sources that Snapchat is raising yet more financing at around a $20 billion valuation. Sources with knowledge of the deal say the social media giant is in the… Read More... →