Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

GUEST: Last month, the startup world was chattering about free money, and founders and investors alike were on their toes driving growth at all costs and trying to push valuations to unprecedented heights. This week, after the Dow dropped 1,000 points to start trading on Monday, the same people are on their heels, worried the party […]... →

GUEST: The China stock market downturn and currency changes have started to impact the global market. With 50+ startups in my firm’s global portfolio and a fast growing startup of my own, I thought it would be very timely to discuss what is happening in China and it’s potential impact on startups. So I jumped on […]... →

There has been a lot of discussion about startup valuation over the past few months. Luminaries across the industry have chimed in, suggesting we’re returning to a time of irrational investment valuations hearkening back to the bubble of the late 90s. My colleagues and I at Sapphire Ventures are seeing the rise in private market valuations firsthand. The stage at which we invest, the… Read More... →

Y Combinator has named partner Qasar Younis as its inaugural chief operating officer. In this role, he’ll be responsible for managing the day-to-day affairs of the program, including demo days, Startup School, the Female Founders conference, and more. Younis has been a partner at the program since July 2014, but has been associated with it […]... →

Директор ИТ-парка Антон Грачев и представители компании ООО «Агроинновации» подписали соглашение о намерениях технопарка войти в состав учредителей ООО «Агроинновации». Об этом Firrma сообщили в ИТ-парке. Размер планируемых инвестиций и размер доли ИТ-парка не раскрываются. Планируется, что до мероприятия Kazan Startup Weekend будут также подписаны ряд соглашений о намерениях технопарка войти в состав учредителей еще нескольких стартапов. Подписанный термшит — первый этап структурирования сделки. Затем ООО ... →

Codementor, an open marketplace for code instructors, is ramping up its services with the launch of live group classes. The startup, a Y Combinator alum, also announced that it has doubled its seed funding to $1.2 million. Its new investors include Techstars Ventures, 500 Startups, and Foundry Group syndicate FG Angel. Read More... →

An unknown startup from China surprised chip engineers this week with a plan to take on Intel in server chips through a 64-core processor based on the ARM architecture. The announcement was a reminder that the biggest competition for Intel, the world’s biggest chip maker, may ultimately come from China and companies funded by the […]... →

Despite a growing number of direct-to-consumer brands, brick-and-mortar shopping still accounts for 94 percent of retail sales in the U.S. That’s why Storefront, a startup that provides brands with temporary retail space, is launching RetailGrade, a new tool that makes reaching these offline shoppers a lot more straightforward. Since launching in San Francisco in 2012, Storefront… Read More... →

BasharSoft, the startup behind leading Egyptian recruiting Wuzzuf, has spent the last 5 years surviving the turmoil of Egypt’s recent history. But it’s come through that to become a rare-commodity: An Egyptian company that has raised significant European VC cash. It’s just closed a Series A of $1.7 million from Sweden-based Vostok New Ventures and UK-based Piton Capital,… Read More... →

Velostrata, an early stage hybrid cloud startup, emerged from stealth today announcing a $14 million Series A investment. The round was led by Norwest Venture Partners and Greylock IL Partners. The company has a sophisticated hybrid cloud solution that decouples storage from compute resources, leaving the storage in place on-premises while running a virtual machine in the cloud. The… Read More... →

Intercom, a startup that says it offers businesses a “fundamentally new” approach to communicating with their customers, has raised $35 million in Series C funding. Co-founder and CEO Eoghan McCabe (pictured above) said the way that most online companies currently talk to their customers is “totally fucking broken,” with products and teams acting in isolation from… Read More... →

Startup Velostrata is today announcing a $14 million funding round. And after operating in stealth mode for more than a year, the startup is now ready to show off what it’s built: a tool companies can use to keep data stored in their on-premises data centers but do the processing work externally in public clouds. […]... →

Docady, an iOS app that lets you store and manage all your important documents, has been doing well in the App Store since its official launch in mid-July, including being featured by Apple as a ‘best new app’ for the last few weeks. And to help continue with that momentum, the Tel Aviv-based startup has just closed a $1.5 million funding round. Read More... →

Фонд инфраструктурных и образовательных программ «Роснано» выделил 150 тысяч рублей диагностической лаборатории по определению здоровья животных в рамках специального приза Летней школы Академпарка. Диагностическая лаборатория по определению качества животных стала одним из лучших проектов по направлению «биотехнологии и медицина». Проект представляет компания «Белки-Биотехнологии», оказывающая услуги по определению здоровья животных. По собственным данным, к настоящему времени разработаны и выполняются ана... →

OPINION: Asia’s startup community let out a collective sigh of disappointment just before the weekend, when Taiwan’s vision of growing a startup ecosystem in a soccer stadium fell through. In fact, the project had generated so much buzz that the South China Morning Post (SCMP) included it in a feature on the top 5 most promising Taiwan startups […]... →

Сегодня в рубрике «Стартапы» — сервис Megapost, который позволяет управлять сообществами в социальных сетях. Передаём им микрофон.... →

Каждый день редакция ЦП выбирает один свежий стартап, вызвавший резонанс в профессиональном сообществе, и рассказывает о нём читателям. Сегодня в «Идеях для бизнеса» — «умная» домашняя камера наблюдения Butterfleye, которая способна определять, что из происходящего не стоит записывать.... →

Longtime Googler Nitin Mangtani (manager for a number of products including Google Shopping) has founded a startup of his own, PredictSpring, where he’s working to help brands and retailers get up-to-speed with mobile commerce. To illustrate why PredictSpring is necessary, Mangtani pointed to numbers from comScore showing that while 60 percent of retail browsing happens on mobile… Read More... →

Mobile startup exits — that is, acquisitions and IPOs — have dropped below the number of venture capital investments (per quarter) for the first time since 2013, says a new report from Digi-Capital. The research firm says that during the past 12 months investors put a record $50 billion into 89 “mobile unicorns” worth $831 billion. Meanwhile, […]... →

Los Angeles startup HelloTech is in the final stages of raising $10 million in Series A funding, according to sources with knowledge of the deal. Madrona Venture Group is leading the round. Following a period of private beta testing, HelloTech went live about three months ago. You either call for an appointment or schedule one from the HelloTech website, then one of the company’s techs… Read More... →