Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

MicroHealth, a mobile health startup in Y Combinator’s current class, is launching today to help patients take control of their chronic illnesses. The company was started by Spanish brothers Dr. Marc Lara and Miguel Lara in 2011, who previously spent ten years researching digital health and holding clinical trials at Columbia University Medical Center. Through a disease management… Read More... →

Curiosity about the limits of machine learning led former trader, UCL academic and startup founder, Dr Tristan Fletcher, to apply techniques more typically found in normal asset class trading to the alternative and, on the surface, more chaotic arena of fine wine pricing. Read More... →

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Affirm has completed a talent acquisition of LendLayer, a startup that provides lending for accelerated learning programs like Hackbright Academy. LendLayer partnered with a number of accelerated learning schools like Coder Camps and the New York Code + Design Academy to offer payment plans for those accelerated learning programs. It’s an acqui-hire, and it’s certainly an… Read More... →

Фонды Emery Capital и Starta Capital инвестировали  $1,15 млн в компанию GeoCV, которая разрабатывает мобильное приложение для получения 3D-моделей объектов и помещений с помощью мобильных устройств с 3D-сенсорами. Об этом Firrma сообщили в Emery Capital. Раунд возглавил фонд Emery Capital. Средства будут выделены поэтапно – на данный момент компания получила $400 тысяч. Привлеченные инвестиции  пойдут на запуск тестовых продаж в США и России этой осенью и на дальнейшую разработку продукта. Приложение GeoCV... →

Сегодня в рубрике «Стартапы» — сервис для создания интернет-магазинов Shoparenda. Передаём микрофон.... →

Mobile analytics startup Amplitude is announcing that it has raised $9M in Series A funding. When we wrote about Amplitude last year, we noted that they’re trying to undercut competitors like Mixpanel with lower prices and a freemium product. Today it’s going even further in that direction with a new plan that offers Amplitude’s basic features for free, as long as… Read More... →

Fastly, a startup that offers to host static content in many places around the world in order to display it quickly to Internet users, announced today a $75 million round of funding. It’s a bit of a surprise, given that it’s been less than a year since Fastly last announced funding. But the startup continues […]... →

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Уральский федеральный университет (УрФУ) даст гранты в размере 200 тысяч рублей двум командам второй программы IT Акселератора. Об этом сообщает ТАСС. Обладателями грантов станут система управления электросетевыми активами, созданная представителями Уральского энергетического института УрФУ, и проект «Экзамус», который позволяет идентифицировать студента и проконтролировать его действия во время экзамена. Как сообщается, УрФУ планирует войти в капитал этих стартапов. IT Акселератор при УрФУ был запущен в 20... →

India’s e-commerce market is the fastest growing in Asia and expected to hit $6 billion this year. The country’s underdeveloped logistics networks needs to improve quickly, however, in order to support the volume of orders. Bengaluru-based Letstransport, one of several startups that specializes in ensuring smooth last-mile logistics, has raised $1.3 million led by Rebright Partners. Read More... →

Каждый день редакция ЦП выбирает один свежий зарубежный стартап, вызвавший резонанс в профессиональном сообществе, и рассказывает о нём читателям. Сегодня в «Идеях для бизнеса» — набор шаблонов и элементов для создания макетов с помощью Sketch и Photoshop — NOW UI Kit.... →

The Electronic Frontier Foundation released what it called a “stronger” Do Not Track setting yesterday. But what does that actually mean for your day-to-day privacy on the web? To understand it (or at least try), I got on the phone with Casey Oppenheim, co-founder and CEO of privacy startup Disconnect, who worked with the EFF to develop the new standard. Oppenheim explained that… Read More... →

Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, updated as the day unfolds. Tip us here if you have a deal to share. Koding gets $10M to speed up development with its cloud-based IDE Koding, a startup that has constructed a cloud-based integrated development environment in which developers can quickly start writing and debugging code, is announcing […]... →

Though it’s not quite an accelerator (of anything really), the White House has decided to hold its very first White House Demo Day, wherein more than 90 entrepreneurs from over 30 different companies will have a chance to share their entrepreneurial story. But, this wasn’t a typical Silicon Valley Demo Day where startup founders got up on stage and pitched to an audience full… Read More... →

Gagan Biyani, CEO Of healthy food delivery startup Sprig, will be joining us this year at Disrupt 2015 in San Francisco. In case you don’t remember, Biyani is a TechCrunch alum, having covered mobile apps for almost two years at MobileCrunch. Sprig has raised $56.7M in funding from prestigious investors such as Greylock Partners, Social+Capital, Accel Partners and Battery Ventures.… Read More... →

Today's guest on Hack the Entrepreneur founded Betterment in 2008 after working as an adviser to Wall Street's biggest financial institutions. He started Betterment in an attempt to reinvent the investment industry. It wasn't long before his vision became a reality as the company won TechCrunch's Best Startup in New York award in 2010. He is an economics graduate of Harvard University and a finance graduate of Columbia Business School.... →

Bright, a solar panel installation and distribution startup pulled in $4 million in seed money to build out its solar software and financing team. The startup launched out of the last batch of Y Combinator and began building in Mexico last year. Energy is expensive and often complicated in the country, costing upwards of $4,000 USD in hot summer months in some cases, according to the… Read More... →

People in the tech world like to talk about doing great things — but what does that actually mean for your career? If you’re serious about making a positive impact on the world, should you go work for a startup? A nonprofit? Or none of the above? 80,000 Hours is an organization aiming to help with those decisions. It’s a nonprofit in the current class of startups incubated by… Read More... →

Сегодня в рубрике «Стартапы» — сервис «Автоматизированные финансовые комплексы» (АФК), программный комплекс для МФО, кредитно-потребительских кооперативов и площадок P2P-кредитования, позволяющий автоматизировать все бизнес-процессы кредитования и перевести их в онлайн. Передаём микрофон.... →