Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

Tim Attia, co-founder and CEO of Slice Labs, said there’s “a ticking time bomb” threatening the on-demand economy — namely, insurance and liability. Attia’s tackling that problem with Slice, which will offer insurance for on-demand workers and providers, starting with rideshare drivers and then homeshare hosts. The startup is announcing today that it has raised… Read More... →

Dating app Tinder is acquiring Humin the San Francisco startup which took a high-wire approach to contact management, trying to merge lots of disparate information into one contact app. Terms were undisclosed by TechCrunch understands from multiple sources that this roughly equates to an acqui-hire scenario. Tinder says it is acquiring Humin’s technology and IP, while the founders and… Read More... →

Publicly traded enterprise hardware company Brocade is announcing today that it has acquired StackStorm, a startup that built software for automating data center operations. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. StackStorm launched out of stealth mode in May 2014 and announced the release of version 1.0 of its open-source software in September 2015. The team […]... →

Publicly traded enterprise hardware company Brocade is announcing today that it has acquired StackStorm, a startup that built software for automating data center operations. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. StackStorm launched out of stealth mode in May 2014 and announced the release of version 1.0 of its open-source software in September 2015. The team […]... →

Back in 2013 I came across an intriguing startup in Berlin which had a genuinely original take on social networking (hard, even then). Sharing your mood intimately with someone had been confined largely to Snapchat. But the startup that became Taptalk wanted to mine that idea even further, with an ultra simple interface which was immediately engaging and addictive, and lent itself to long… Read More... →

Meet Stratumn, a Paris-based startup that wants to create a platform-as-a-service for developers interested in the blockchain. With Stratumn, you can build, deploy and run applications on the company’s platform, and these applications can communicate with the bitcoin blockchain. It’s like Heroku, but for blockchain developers. The company just raised $670,000 (€600,000) from… Read More... →

По результатам сделки фонд получит $5,83 млн, сохранив 16,7% в стартапе... →

В школу Vector нужен UI/UX-дизайнер, а в стартап-студию Greville Innovation Center требуется команда предпринимателей... →

Airfare prediction startup Hopper has nabbed $16 million in a round led by BDC Capital IT Venture Fund, along with existing investors Omers Ventures, Accomplice, and Brightspark Ventures. This takes the company’s total funding to $38 million. Hopper’s price-prediction algorithm serves to answer one question: Should I buy my flight now, or should I wait? […]... →

Airfare prediction startup Hopper has nabbed $16 million in a round led by BDC Capital IT Venture Fund, in addition to existing investors Omers Ventures, Accomplice, and Brightspark Ventures. This takes the company’s total funding to $38 million. Hopper’s price-prediction algorithm serves to answer one question: Should I buy my flight now, or should I […]... →

San Francisco has long been hailed the home of the tech startup — the place to be for entrepreneurs looking to lay the foundation for the next big thing. As a mobile app platform with high aspirations, we joined the mix, sharing an area code for four years with the lauded engineers of Silicon Valley and inserting ourselves into the supposed center of the tech world. It seemed like the… Read More... →

French startup Rythm, which makes a tech-infused headset it claims improves sleep quality, announced Tuesday that it’s raised over $11 million from private investors and public grants. Read More... →

Are you an undergraduate or graduate student looking to attend the best startup show in the Big Apple? Student tickets to Disrupt NY 2016 are still available for just $300. Read More... →

SoundCloud is often billed as the “YouTube for audio” because of its huge trove of user-generated music and spoken-word tracks, uploaded by some 12 million creators and now listened to by some 175 million monthly users globally. But today the Berlin-based startup is (finally) taking the wraps off a new subscription service that could turn that concept on its head — and put… Read More... →

Online interior design platform Havenly has raised $5.8 million, bringing its total Series A round of funding to $13.3 million. The round was led by Binary Capital with participation from Foundry Group and Chicago Ventures. Havenly plans to use the funding for growing the staff by 25%, further develop the technical operations on the back-end and marketing. Typically, hiring an interior… Read More... →

Sallie Krawcheck isn’t your typical startup founder. For one thing, she was the president of Global Wealth and Investment Management at Bank of America. And the CFO of Citigroup. And the CEO of Smith Barney and Sanford Bernstein before that. In fact, Krawcheck, who remains highly regarded on Wall Street, could have stayed part of the banking establishment. Instead, after being let go… Read More... →

Компания TMT Investments продала  7,1% фотобанка Depositphotos частному европейскому инвестору, имя которого не раскрывается. Сумма сделки составила $5,85 млн. Оставшаяся доля TMT Investments в  Depositphotos составляет 16,7%. По данным на 31 декабря 2015 года, TMT владела 23,85% в фотобанке. TMT Investments будет использовать вырученные от сделки деньги для своей инвестиционной стратегии. В 2011 году TMT Investments вложила в Depositphotos $3 млн. Затем, сообщалось, что компания вложит ещё $1 млн в проект.... →

Среди молодых предпринимателей чаще всего встречаются выпускники МГУ, ИТМО и МФТИ. Об этом vc.ru рассказали эксперты фонда GoTech, проанализировав участников конкурса стартапов Web&Tech Ready в 2015 году.... →

Лидерами по количеству выпускников-начинающих предпринимателей в сфере IT стали Московский государственный университет, Университет ИТМО и Московский физико-технический институт. Об этом говорится в исследовании фонда GoTech. Опрос проводился в рамках конкурса Web&Tech Ready в 2015 году среди основателей и руководителей IT-компаний. Всего в конкурсе участвовало 715 проектов из 106 городов. Анкеты заполнили 1400 человек из 209 российских и зарубежных университетов, занимающих ключевые позиции в стартапах. Ок... →

Umbo CV has raised a $2.8 million seed round for its security cameras, which use artificial intelligence to identify suspicious activity and prevent crimes before they happen. The Taipei- and San Francisco-based startup’s funding was led by AppWorks Ventures, with participation from Mesh Ventures, Wistron Corporation, and Phison Electronics. Read More... →