Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

In its bid to keep its taxi-hailing app offering as sticky as possible, India’s Ola announced on Monday that it is partnering with some of the country’s e-commerce giants to incentivise users away from encroaching rivals like Uber. The Bangalore-headquartered startup, founded in 2010, recently raised an additional $400 million in April to expand its service into 100 […]... →

Normally when some new phone maker startup pops its head up, we sigh and maybe feel a tinge of sympathy for another young company entering a brutally competitive business. But NextBit has managed to drum up some real interest in media and mobile circles with its forthcoming phone, which it has called “the future of Android.” […]... →

It's taken awhile, but the startup world is starting to recognize the power of building an audience before building a product. That's music to our ears. That's the way Copyblogger Media grew out of a one-man blog. Back in 2012, while chronicling how that happened, Brian Clark coined the term minimum viable audience , effectively tying content marketing to the lean startup movement.... →

“We’re not trying to be the all-singing, all-dancing HR system. I don’t know how to be kickass at Payroll” says Greenhouse CEO Daniel Chait. But what his startup is kicking ass at is hiring software. It now has over 800 customers including Slack, Pinterest, and Magic Leap, almost double the 450 it had when it announces its $13.9 million Series B in March. That… Read More... →

More than 30 diverse tech startups recently attended the first-ever White House Demo Day as part of President Obama’s Startup America initiative to call attention to the low numbers of women and minority tech entrepreneurs. Obama’s call to action included new public/private partnerships that promise to provide Americans with the opportunity to “pursue their bold,… Read More... →

If you enjoy reading TechCrunch, there’s a really good chance you’d enjoy the TechCrunch Radio show on Sirius XM. Yes, that’s a real thing. John Biggs and I discuss the latest in tech news for the first half hour and then we dive right into the TechCrunch Radio Pitch-Off. Five companies have exactly 60 seconds to pitch their products to a special guest judge, John Biggs… Read More... →

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Белорусский стартап SplitMetrics, разработавший сервис для увеличения конверсии мобильных приложений, привлек инвестиции от фонда  Embria Ventures. Информацию об этом Firrma подтвердил сооснователь проекта Евгений Невгень. Сумма сделки не разглашается. Оценка компании составила $3 млн (pre-money valuation). Средства пойдут на расширение команды и укрепление позиций на рынках США и Азии. SplitMetrics планирует открыть офис в Сан-Франциско, так как большинство клиентов компании находится в Кремниевой долине. ... →

Building off the strength of a successful open source project, a new startup that provides newsfeed development and management as a service — Stream — has raised $1.75 million in its first round of funding. Read More... →

Сегодня в рубрике «Стартапы» — сервис Facemetric, который позволяет распознавать лица посетителей и анализировать клиентский поток. Передаём микрофон.... →

Каждый день редакция ЦП выбирает один свежий зарубежный стартап, вызвавший резонанс в профессиональном сообществе, и рассказывает о нём читателям. Сегодня в «Идеях для бизнеса» — сервис Moodnotes, с помощью которого пользователь может записывать и отслеживать своё ежедневное настроение. Приложение учитывает самочувствие пользователя и даёт ему рекомендации по повышению настроения.... →

Редакция ЦП продолжает публиковать резюме специалистов, желающих работать в стартапах и ИТ-компаниях, а также вакансии компаний, которые ищут сотрудников.... →

Freee, a Tokyo-based cloud accounting and payroll service that was launched in March 2013, today announced a $30 million Series C round that takes its total raised funding to date to $43 million. Existing investors in the round include DCM and Recruit Holdings, with Japan Co-Invest Limited Partnership coming on board for the first time. […]... →

As the European startup scene has matured over the last few years so too has the VC scene. But a handicap has always been the issue of follow-on funding. Gradually, however, the most successful firms have managed to raise new funds based on past successes. One such has been Lakestar, the early investors in Spotify, Skype and Facebook. Read More... →

FEATURE: Twenty-four-year-old Brian Liou was a little nervous. But he had to focus. His turn was next. Liou is the cofounder of Leada, a startup to help businesses train better data analysts, and he had a lot riding on this. After all, his company had just pivoted two weeks ago. So, no pressure. Over the past three […]... →

Can an app warn you that you might have skin cancer? Digital health startup SkinVision is using smartphone tech and vision algorithms to allow consumers to track changes to their moles. Users of its iOS and Android apps, which have been downloaded some 200,000 times since launch back in 2011, take a photo of a mole and the app then performs a visual analysis, with the aim of identifying… Read More... →

Boulder, Colorado-based Tradiv is raising a $1 million round as it gears up to launch its B2B marketplace for cannabis cultivators, marijuana infused product companies, and dispensaries. That’s right: The B2B pot ecosystem is unfolding right before our eyes. Backed by Cannabis accelerator CanopyBoulder and accelerator partner Micah Tapman, Tradiv revealed the raise in a public filing with the U.S. Securities and […]... →

Diversity in the tech industry is dismal, with white men making up the vast majority of its workforce. That being said, tech companies are aware of the lack of diversity and some are even actively taking steps to do something about it. Pinterest, for example, recently announced a new diversity initiative called Inclusion Labs, in partnership with a startup called Paradigm. As part of… Read More... →

Get ready for ad-hoc branded video networks that surface everywhere and then fade away when the demand does. One possible engine for such a new era in online video is a pedigreed startup called ViewLift. It has the modest goal of becoming a “third-party NetFlix.” Launched in January, it is a video distribution platform-for-hire. It […]... →