Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

F6S, the community and deal platform for startups, announces today that they are launching a new, invite-only membership for select startup founders. Dubbed the Alpha Card, membership includes VIP access to $1 million of free growth services for each founder. Read More... →

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Despite questions about Bitcoin’s future, a new Paris-based startup called Bitit has created a service designed to make it easier than ever for average people to acquire the virtual currency. Nicolas Katan, cofounder and CEO of Bitit, says the company’s goal is to solve two of Bitcoin’s biggest issues: accessibility and fraud. “We have a vision […]... →

Much as we love Manhattan, this year, TechCrunch decided to move our annual Disrupt NY event to Red Hook, Brooklyn, just across the East River from Manhattan. The more we get to know Red Hook, the more on target this very startup-like part of Brooklyn seems for TechCrunch. The Red Hook neighborhood around the Port Authority Cruise terminal, where we are holding Disrupt, is home to… Read More... →

Mesosphere, a startup that sells a “data center operating system” drawing on open-source tools such as Apache Mesos, today announced a $73.5 million funding round. Hewlett Packard Enterprise led the round, with participation from Microsoft, according to a statement. In addition to the new funding, Mesosphere is announcing the 1.0 release of the Marathon open-source software […]... →

Юлия Кожевникова из Tranio.com рассказывает о том, как устроена стартап-экосистема Дублина – города, который в в последние годы все активнее привлекает внимание международного венчурного сообщаства.  Когда заходит речь о европейских стартап-столицах, то в первую очередь принято говорить о крупнейших экосистемах — Лондоне и Берлине, а такие города, как Дублин, зачастую незаслуженно остаются в стороне, и в результате бизнес-сообществу о них известно не так много. Меж тем, согласно исследованию European Digita... →

We hear a lot about the Internet of Things on the consumer side. The oft trotted out example of the ‘smart’ refrigerator that tells consumers when they’ve run out of the milk, and so on. But more serious potential for IoT — and potentially seriously big wins — are likely to be on the enterprise side where connected sensors can be deployed to automate at scale. Read More... →

Венчурный фонд Life.SREDA вложил в mPOS-решение Posseple несколько сотен тысяч долларов летом 2015 года. Сделка произошла в рамках прохождения стартапом программы акселерации InspirAsia, организованного фондом в Сингапуре. О сделке Firrma рассказали в фонде. Также стало известно, что в рамках акселератора стартап Posseple заключил партнерские отношения с вьетнамским разработчиком mPOS-решения Softpay для интеграции продуктов. Для дальнейшей работы команда Posseple переехала во Вьетнам. Softpay также являетс... →

SEOUL (By Se Young Lee, Reuters) – Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, the world’s biggest maker of smartphones and memory chips, announced on Thursday that it plans to adopt a corporate culture akin to a startup, seeking to become more nimble as growth slows. Samsung’s executives will sign a pledge to move away from a top-down […]... →

Редакция vc.ru продолжает публиковать резюме специалистов, желающих работать в стартапах и ИТ-компаниях (выходят по понедельникам), а также вакансии компаний, которые ищут сотрудников (выходят по четвергам).... →

Сегодня в «Идеях для бизнеса» — стартап Blendle, который предлагает онлайн-СМИ продавать доступ к своему контенту «поштучно».... →

Kreditech — the German startup that offers loans and other financial services to consumers who have little or no credit history by using some 20,000 data points online to assess their suitability — has added another $11 million (€10 million) to its Series C round of funding. This brings the total raised by Kreditech in this round to $103 million, after first announcing $92… Read More... →

Венчурный фонд AddVenture вложил ещё 250 млн рублей в онлайн-сервис заказа уборки Qlean, сообщает «Коммерсант». До этого AddVenture инвестировал 70 млн рублей в Qlean в прошлом году. Доля фонда в компании не раскрывается. Известно, что контроль остается у основателей. Средства пойдут на региональную экспансию в города-миллионникии маркетинг. Qlean также планирует консолидировать рынок уборки в России. Сервис предлагает клининговым компаниям присоединиться к нему в формате франшизы или M&A. Qlean также намер... →

GUEST: There are many reasons to found a startup — and many reasons to work at a startup. But there’s only one reason your company got funded: Liquidity. The good news To most founders a startup is not a job, but a calling. But startups require money upfront for product development and later to scale. Traditional lenders (banks) […]... →

Degreed, a startup promising to “jailbreak the college degree,” announced today that it has acquired Gibbon. Degreed offers tools for tracking lifelong learning and earning additional credentials. Gibbon, meanwhile, is supposed to help you learn by curating and sharing playlists of learning-related content. “Hands down, Gibbon has built the most elegant tool for curating… Read More... →

Tristan Walker is becoming, if he’s not already, a household name in Silicon Valley. He’s the founder and CEO of Walker & Company Brands, the startup behind the successful Bevel razor and shaving cream products for people of color. I first spoke with Walker in December 2013, when he launched his company, while writing for Business Insider. He was in the San… Read More... →

Have you heard about Boom? Boom is a relatively new startup that’s aiming to build something pretty crazy. They’re not building an app… or a social network… or even some new gadget for the Kickstarter crowd. Boom wants to build planes. Really, really, really fast planes. Specifically, they’re trying to design and build a supersonic passenger plane that goes 2.2x… Read More... →

Emergence Capital led a $20 million investment for BetterWorks, the startup announced today. BetterWorks’s software helps enterprises to manage and track their employees progress. Some of the startups’ customers includes AOL, Airbnb, and Shutterstock. The Redwood City-based startup said that the funds from this investment will be used to “further develop its operational suite and continue to expand […]... →

22 декабря 2015 года закрылся один из первых стриминговых музыкальных сервисов Rdio. Редакция издания The Verge выяснила, что послужило причиной провала стартапа.... →

Bob Messerschmidt knows a little about health and wellness tech, having spent three years helping architect the Apple Watch platform after Apple quietly acquired his spectroscopy company, Rare Light, in 2010. (The terms were undisclosed.) Messerschmidt also knew when he left Apple to found a new company that it would again in involve smartphones. After all, he reasoned, they’re… Read More... →