Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

Американский миллионер, изобретатель и режиссер Говард Хьюз из биографического фильма Мартина Скорсезе был одержим самолетами. В 1928 году Говард снимал фильм о боях истребителей времен Первой мировой войны «Ангелы ада». Он очень скрупулёзно подходил к делу и тщательно прорабатывал детали картины: ездил по всей стране за облаками, искал необходимые погодные условия, нанял в команду метеоролога, чтобы снять задуманные сцены в воздухе. Съемки фильма затягивались на долгое время, и казалось, им не будет конца.... →

Американский миллионер, изобретатель и режиссер Говард Хьюз из биографического фильма Мартина Скорсезе был одержим самолетами. В 1928 году Говард снимал фильм о боях истребителей времен Первой мировой войны «Ангелы ада». Он очень скрупулёзно подходил к делу и тщательно прорабатывал детали картины: ездил по всей стране за облаками, искал необходимые погодные условия, нанял в команду метеоролога, чтобы снять задуманные сцены в воздухе. Съемки фильма затягивались на долгое время, и казалось, им не будет конца.... →

Dwnld, a build-your-own-app startup from early Pinterest investor Fritz Lanman and Alexandra Keating, has raised $12 million from Greylock Partners. Founded out of New York in 2014, the new cash influx will be used to expand its current services with new tools “centered on engagement and monetization to support more publisher verticals.” As with similar […]... →

Компания занимается разработкой голографической автомобильной навигации в дополненной реальности... →

Barcelona-based Typeform has landed a $15 million Series A round of financing. The round — a pretty sizable one for a South European startup — was led by Index Ventures, with participation from existing investors Point Nine Capital, Connect Ventures and RTA Ventures, as well as super angels including Anthony Casalena, CEO of Squarespace. Read More... →

Will the next great novel be nothing more than a series of text messages? Uh, maybe not, but there’s always room to experiment with new formats. That’s what husband-and-wife team Parag Chordia and Prerna Gupta are trying to do with their new startup Telepathic, which is launching its first app, Hooked. Read More... →

Although not on the scale of Take Eat Easy, perhaps we should chalk this up as another Belgium startup showing early momentum. Book2Meet, the meeting room booking platform, has raised a €2 million funding round. Read More... →

European pre-owned clothing startup Percentil has closed a €3.2 million Series A. Leading the round is Seaya Ventures, with participation from existing shareholder Active Venture Partners, and others. The company, which operates in Spain, France and Germany, plans to use the additional capital to increase its pre-owned clothes inventory, as well expand to two further, as yet undisclosed… Read More... →

Tapglue is a Berlin-based startup that wants to make it easy for developers to build social into their app. The company, which exits private Beta today, provides an API and mobile SDK to help take care of the heavy-lifting inherent when integrating the social graph of exiting social networks, such as Facebook, and adding social networking features of your own. Read More... →

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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).... →

Fresh meals delivered to your home weekly on a subscription basis have become a big business in recent years. Today that trend is confirmed as Rocket Internet pumps $84.7 million or 75 million Euros into HelloFresh. Prior to this the startup had raised $193.5 million. The company — billed as “wholesome home cooked meals with no planning, no shopping and no waste”, and now… Read More... →

Сегодня в рубрике «Стартапы» — сервис MyCell, который позволяет организовать хранение вещей за пределами квартиры. Передаём микрофон.... →

Hello Fresh, the Berlin-based company that delivers meal kits and recipes to subscribers, announced today that it has raised another $85 million. The company, which is a product of Germany’s Rocket Internet’s startup factory, had previously raised $149 million back in February, primarily from Rocket. This time, the round was led by Baillie Gifford, a […]... →

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 Peers.org, с помощью которого пользователи могут найти стартапы, работающие по принципу sharing economy (экономика совместного потребления) — чтобы выполнить какую-либо работу.... →

Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella today unveiled a new integration of its Cortana Analytics Suite into Salesforce, bringing natural-language voice search, predictive analytics, and dashboards. Microsoft has developed the integration in partnership with independent startup Alpine Metrics. Nadella attempted to use the new integration onstage during a demo by opening up the Cortana personal digital […]... →

Apple has reportedly acquired the San Francisco-based mapping data visualization company Mapsense. The deal was struck earlier this month, says a report by Re/code, siting several unnamed sources. Mapsense makes tools for analyzing and visualizing location data, assets that Apple can use to keep pace with Google in mobile mapping technology. Mapping and geo-location startups are hot right […]... →

A new startup promises to help mobile developers spend their ad dollars more effectively, and it has raised $3.5 million in funding Zenmarketing.io was founded by Sizhao Yang and Abhi Kumar, both former Zynga employees — Yang joined Zynga through the acquisition of MyMiniLife, which provided the foundation for the company’s hit Farmville franchise. (His MyMiniLife co-founders… Read More... →

Didi Kuadi, Uber’s dominant Chinese rival, announced a deal with ridesharing startup Lyft today that will allow the two services to share riders across continents. The apps from Lyft and Didi will hail rides for visitors in each other’s country. Each service will take payments from its own users, but Lyft will hail a Didi car for U.S. visitors in China and Didi will pull up a… Read More... →

In the time leading up to starting her next company, LearnUp co-founder Alexis Ringwald spent six months at unemployment centers throughout the San Francisco Bay Area trying to learn exactly what was holding job seekers back amid the recession. One of the things she saw was a mismatch between the kinds of customer service and entry-level skills employers wanted to see with new and untested… Read More... →