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В Ульяновске планируют построить центр инновационных технических решений на базе Ульяновского наноцентра. Проект будет создан совместно с израильским технологическим университетом «Технион». Об этом Firrma сообщили в Ульяновском наноцентре. Информация о инвестициях в центр и остальные подробности пока не разглашаются. Проект уже получил поддержку ведущего европейского научного центра LU LEUVEN LRD. Проект был представлен губернатором Ульяновской области Сергеем Морозовым руководству израильского технологиче... →

It may have started as a Bitcoin wallet but veteran entrepreneur Jeremy Allaire’s fintech startup Circle has since shifted focus to social payments, launching an app in Q4 last year that lets users send U.S. dollars to settle IOUs between each other, with its pitch being it makes payments as easy as firing off an SMS. Read More... →

CompareAsiaGroup, a consumer finance startup backed by Goldman Sachs Investment Partners, has appointed Sam Allen as its new chief executive officer. Allen previously worked at KKR, where he was a director on the private equity investment firm’s portfolio operations team. Read More... →

Amazon has hired nearly all of the people who worked at Orbeus, a small startup with technology for identifying items and people in photos and videos using deep learning, a type of artificial intelligence. Orbeus built an app for iOS and Android that could instantly tag photos, called PhotoTime, as well as the underlying Rekognition […]... →

Medical marijuana startup Meadow has raised $2.1 million in seed funding, a move it says will go to accelerate development of its Meadow Platform software suite and also hiring. Investors that participated in the round include David Lee, Justin Kan, Hiten Shah, Slow Ventures, SOMA Capital, Liquid 2 Ventures, and Poseidon Asset Management. In conjunction […]... →

Lydia and Slack are two charming services and I like using them. So when I learned that the two of them were having a baby together, you bet I was excited. Lydia is a French payment app, a sort of Venmo for Europe like stealth startup Cookies. It lets you instantly send and receive money with your friends without paying any fee. And it’s Read More... →

There’s a mythology to successful startup leaders, and part of it is that they can’t fail. We lionize successful entrepreneurs, and elevate those with multiple major successes to the status of minor deity: an Elon Musk, a Steve Jobs. But before the rise, there’s reality. For Gabe Leydon, that was unemployment. “I didn’t come from […]... →

Сервис позволяет клиентам размещать нативную видеорекламу в интернете... →

The advent of email tracking has caused quite a bit of ruckus, and is generally, rather creepy. A NY-based startup called One More Company made an attempt to tackle this head-on with a service called Trackbuster, but now they’re interested in something else: “enhancing emails” by adding relevant and contextual info. Yes, that does sort of strike me as doing the… Read More... →

Numerous startups now sell class passes for children’s activities, including KidPass, which announced $325,000 in seed funding in January, and Pearachute (it raised $1.2 million last month). Now, a Brooklyn-based startup named Sawyer is trying to separate itself from the little kid pack. Its very grown-up ambition: to become an OpenTable-like platform that makes it easier for… Read More... →

Американский сервис с российскими корнями по продвижению видеорекламы в мобильных приложениях и на веб площадках Virool привлёк $12 млн от фондов Menlo Ventures, Flint Capital, 500 Startups, Thomvest Ventures и Yahoo Japan. Об этом сообщает VentureBeat.... →

Платформа для продвижения видеороликов Virool, основанная россиянами, закрыла раунд А объемом $12 млн. Об этом Firrma сообщили в фонде Flint Capital, который является инвестором проекта.   В сделке участвовали Menlo Ventures, Yahoo! Japan, Flint Capital и 500 Startups. Flint Capital в рамках раунда вложил $5 млн. В 2013 году компания закрыла seed- раунд объемом $6,62 от FundersClub, Troy Carter и Farzad (Zod) Nazem, TMT Investment, DST Global Юрия Мильнера и других инвесторов. Всего компания привлекла $18,6... →

Портфельная компания DST Global Юрия Мильнера Flipkart приобрела индийскую платежную платформу PhonePe. Об этом сообщает Times of India. Сумма сделки не раскрывается. PhonePe будет развиваться как независимое бизнес-подразделение компании Flipkart. Управлять им будут бывшие сотрудники Flipkart Самир Нигам (главный заместитель  вице-президента в области инжиниринга) и Рауль Шари (вице-президент в области инжиниринга). PhonePe  разрабатывает решение, основанное на новом едином платежном интерфейсе (UPI) Нацио... →

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Video ad startup Virool has raised $12 million in Series A funding. The company works with publishers including Mashable, Adweek and The Onion. It offers what it calls an Inline video ad unit, which has already been served across more than 2,000 online properties and which creates new ad inventory by launching video ads in the middle of articles and other editorial content. Does that sound… Read More... →

Native video advertising startup Virool announced today that it sealed a $12 million investment led by Menlo Ventures, Thomvest Ventures, and Yahoo Japan. The new funding, Virool said, will be used to “further accelerate its presence in the global advertising market.” Virool’s marketing tool allows users to manage, design, and monitor their video advertising campaigns. Flint […]... →

After months of rumours that the startup was raising, Jinn, the same-hour ‘shop on your behalf’ delivery app, is disclosing $7.5 million in Series A funding, money that it plans to use to expand to more UK cities — the service is currently in central London and most recently Manchester — and to reach Southern Europe. Read More... →

AccorHotels, the Paris-based group that owns and operates thousands of hotels around the world, has acquired the U.K.’s OneFineStay, a so-called “sharing economy” startup that lets homeowners monetize their houses while out-of-town. The initial deal is worth €148M ($170 million), with AccorHotels committing a further €64m ($73 million) to grow the startup’s presence globally. Founded […]... →

Unicorn eCommerce startup Klarna and digital payments startup Modo announced a new strategic partnership this morning at Money20/20 Europe. Under the terms of this new partnership Modo will provide Klarna with its Digital Payments Hub product to speed up implementation of Klarna’s checkout solution for their worldwide e-retail partners. Read More... →