Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

Copenhagen-based Tonsser is on a mission to discover the soccer star of tomorrow. The startup has been quietly toiling away building a vertical social network aimed primarily at youth soccer players and bringing transparency to the beautiful game itself. Read More... →

How do big businesses optimize IT-driven processes? Often by hiring management consultants to cast an expert eye over digital traceries and deliver recommendations for improving core operations like logistics and production. But Munich-based b2b SaaS startup Celonis reckons software can do a better job of flagging up areas where there’s room for business optimization. Its… Read More... →

David Byttow learned just how much goes unsaid inside companies while he was running Secret. Blasting private information out publicly causes harassment, which led Secret to flame out and give investors back some of their money. But now Byttow is channeling his insight into a new startup called Bold, which he tells me is a “platform for writing long-form content at work. Use cases… Read More... →

Steve Jobs went ballistic when public shipping manifests leaked the existence of the iPhone 3G. That’s about the only time something exciting happened in the freight forwarding business. The circulatory system of the global economy is a trillion-dollar industry, yet no one really talks about it, or builds tech for it. That’s what makes freight such a massive disruption opportunity… Read More... →

Сегодня в рубрике «Стартапы» — сервис для таксопарков «Таксиграция», который объединяет данные о поездках водителя из разных агрегаторов и позволяет автоматически списывать с него комиссию и начислять платежи. Передаем микрофон.... →

Edtech startup Preply, which has built an online marketplace for finding and booking private tutors for a range of subjects, has closed a $1.3 million seed round. It supports booking of both in-person lessons in a chosen location and also remote tutoring, via a video chat. Read More... →

Венчурный фонд Target Global, управляющим партнером которого является Михаил Лобанов, Европейский банк реконструкции и развития (ЕБРР) и чешская компания Enern вложили $20 млн в варшавский медицинский стартап DocPlanner. Target Global выступил лид-инвестором. Средства пойдут на дальнейшее международное расширение и развитие программного решения. Всего компания привлекла $34 млн. Также DocPlanner объявил о слиянии со своим испанским конкурентом Doctoralia. Благодаря этому DocPlanner получит более широкий д... →

Purchasing a lottery ticket is usually a simple thing. Maybe too simple. But holding onto tickets long enough to check the numbers and redeem any winners requires more effort than many would prefer. That’s where AutoLotto comes in. The startup has created a mobile app that lets users buy, play and redeem lottery tickets all on their smartphones. More than 166,000 users have signed up on… Read More... →

Applications for the Startup Battlefield at Disrupt SF are now open. We’re looking for new, yet-to-launch startups to debut on stage in front of top investors and a massive audience. Former judges include Brian Pokorny (SV Angel), Roelof Botha (Sequoia Capital), Beth Seidenberg (Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers), Aileen Lee (Cowboy Ventures) and Jeff Clavier (SoftTech VC).… Read More... →

Conversable, a conversational commerce startup seeking to bolster relationships between brands and consumers, is announcing a partnership today with Wingstop. Users will be able to order food, inquire about potential food allergens, and look for nearby locations from within apps like Facebook Messenger and Twitter. Instead of putting APIs in front of developers, Conversable wants to power… Read More... →

iContainers, a startup with ambitions to make moving goods from warehouse to warehouse anywhere in the world as easy as booking a hotel room, closed $6.7 million in growth capital today led by Serena Capital. CEO Jaime Jimenez wants to take the Expedia model and build it out for transporting freight long distances. Right now there are more costs built into global shipping than artificial… Read More... →

As more of our day-to-day services make the shift to digital platforms, a startup that has built a customer care tool to help us through some of the pain points in mobile apps has closed a Series B round of funding. Helpshift, which provides an SDK to software companies to build a chat bridge between users of their mobile apps and their customer service teams, has raised $23… Read More... →

Opendoor, a two-year-old, San Francisco-based startup is a swing-for-the fences type of bet during a time when the most ambitious startups are suddenly less fashionable than they once were. That’s not crimping the company’s style. In fact, Opendoor, which is on a mission to make it simple to buy and sell houses online, just added another layer of risk onto its big-risk,… Read More... →

Фонд Константина Синюшина и Игоря Лутца the Untitled ventures инвестировал в российскую платформу для взаимодействия с покупателями #upnews. Об этом Firrma сообщили в компании. the Untitled получил долю в 10%. Сумма вложений не раскрывается. #upnews знакомит продавца с посетителем и помогает автоматически предложить ему необходимый товар. Платформа дает возможность заработать на сторонней рекламе, а рекламодателю покупать свою целевую аудиторию. #upnews представлена серией мобильных приложений для android-у... →

Команда образовательной онлайн-платформы Piazza опубликовала рейтинг ИТ-компаний, предлагающих стажировки студентам в 2016 году. Исследователи оценили интерес американских учащихся к компаниям. В 2016 году у учащихся упал интерес к стартапам — они предпочитают стажировку в крупных стабильных компаниях.... →

Hiri is the latest startup trying to fix email. Specifically, the Dublin-based company is targeting workplace email with an array of features that aim to nudge users to change their email behaviour for the better. For it isn’t email that is necessarily broken but the way we all use and abuse it. Read More... →

I came across Instabug when I was in Cairo in 2013. Little did I know that this plucky startup, born in the Arab Spring, would eventually make it through Y Combinator’s Winter 2016 class. Now they have gone on to raise $1.7M in a Seed round led by Accel Partners to expand beyond their original aim of mobile app bug reporting. Other prominent angel investors in the team include Amr… Read More... →

Hibob — yes we’re running that low on company names — is a new U.K. startup building out a cloud platform that helps businesses manage their people. Read More... →

Figure1, which started out as a photo-sharing app for medical professionals, has quietly added direct messaging to its platform, showing signs the startup wants to be more of a Facebook and less of an Instagram in its field. Toronto and New York-based Figure1 only allows full access to its platform to users who are verified medical professionals or students including: doctors, nurses,… Read More... →

“Sometimes I think back on that moment and think I must have been utterly insane,” Kegan Schouwenburg says with a laugh. “In retrospect, we were bringing out a new product with a new method in the medical sector, and we were going to work with doctors and sell a product through an app in an entirely new way that people have never used to buy products before.” A veteran… Read More... →