Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

The last decade has seen a period of extremely high venture capital activity, with a record peak of investment reached in 2015. This period of high VC investments has led to many amazing new products and companies, but it also has sparked a “Hollywood” era of high spending for early-stage companies. This glitzy big-budget period in Silicon Valley and further afield led influential… Read More... →

Planning on making the trip to the Big Apple for Disrupt NY? You might as well save $1,000 in the process, but to do that you’re going to need to act quickly. Early-bird tickets to the hottest startup show in tech end on Friday, April 8. You can get your early-bird tickets here for the discounted price of just $1,995 apiece. After the 8th, tickets will increase to their final retail… Read More... →

Moving to the bright lights of Silicon Valley is the dream of every entrepreneur around the world who believes they can be the next MarkSteveElonMuskJobsZuckerberg. But it’s getting quite crowded around these parts. Housing is scarce and cars are gumming up the highways and byways. In the past, the antidote was to take the Bay […]... →

Основатель финансового сервиса «Кнопка» Евгений Кобзев написал для блога Алексея Калачникова (сооснователь проекта SaaS.ru) заметку, в которой дал пять советов начинающим предпринимателям — о том, стоит ли устраивать акции по бесплатной раздаче товара, почему важно считать деньги и нужны ли компании необщительные разработчики.... →

Индийский портал недвижимости Housing.com, инвестором которого является фонд DST Global Юрия Мильнера, поднял раунд от бывшего управляющего сервисом 99Acres.com Винита Сингха. Об этом сообщает издание e27.co. Сумма сделки и остальные условия не разглашаются. Новый инвестор Housing.com будет тесно сотрудничать с руководством компании в роли старшего консультанта. В ноябре 2014 года Housing.com привлек $100 млн от фондов SoftBank, Nexus, Helion и фонда DST Global Юрия Мильнера. Затем, уже в январе 2016 года H... →

Европейские и израильские технологические стартапы в первом квартале 2016 года привлекли 4,4 млрд евро в ходе 769 сделок, подсчитало издание Tech.eu. Это почти в полтора раза больше, чем в первом квартале 2015 года. На рост повлиял музыкальный сервис Spotify, который недавно привлёк $1 млрд на условиях займа, считают авторы исследования.... →

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).... →

Hardware is hard. Building a hardware startup is even harder. The good news is that the staggering amount of innovation in rapid prototyping, 3D printing and backend-as-a-service platforms has made hardware development move at Internet-development speeds. It’s not easy, but it is faster. Read More... →

Restaurant reservation startup Reserve announced today that it has acquired Dash. When you make a reservation through Reserve, the app already handles payment (including splitting the bill), but by acquiring Dash, it will be able to integrate with point-of-sale systems like Micros and Aloha. The company wasn’t just attracted by Dash’s payment technology. In a blog post, Reserve… Read More... →

Palaround began its life as one of what’s now many companies attempting to be the “Tinder for finding friends” – a list that now includes Tinder’s dating app rival, Bumble, in fact. But recently, the startup began rolling out a new product focused instead on bringing the Tinder swipe model to private organizations. A pivot from the earlier general purpose… Read More... →

Pre-natal genetic testing, VR drones, and fracking nanoparticles were a few of the products featured in Y Combinator’s first Virtual Demo Day. They come from the YC Fellowship, a program designed to let the startup school help idea- or prototype-stage companies, beyond the full-fledged businesses in its main accelerator. The 8-week full-time fellowship mostly offers remote guidance,… Read More... →

Managed by Q announced today that it closed a series B funding round with $25 million in its pocket. The office cleaning and managing startup, which has swept away some of the common practices of the freelance economy, was backed by GV (formerly known as Google Ventures) and Kapor Capital. “This is a hairy fund-raising environment, so we feel […]... →

betaworks doesn’t often launch games, but when they do, it tends to stick. Just take Dots, for example, which ended up spinning out of betaworks as its own game studio. Today, the startup studio is launching its second game in the form of CHKN. Imagine that Minecraft had a baby with a Tamagotchi from the 90s and you’ll have a pretty clear idea of how CHKN works. It’s a… Read More... →

Американская компания с российскими корнями Scentbird, которая продаёт пробники дизайнерских духов по подписке, привлекла $2,8 млн, сообщает TechCrunch.... →

Krablr started off as a promising real-time crab pricing engine for amateur fishermen. After a long beta period and a $5 million round with Sequoia leading the round and Scranton Angels also investing, the startup is pivoting to focus on millennials going forward. Read More... →

Some of the most influential and successful companies in the game have come out of startup studios. Just look at Giphy, Reserve, and Operator. But what makes a startup studio successful? At Disrupt NY in May, we aim to find out. Betaworks’ John Borthwick, Expa’s Naveen Selvadurai, and Human Ventures’ Heather Hartnett will be joining us for a panel called “How A… Read More... →

A co-founder and former CTO of Yammer, Adam Pisoni, quietly raised a $4.5 million first round of venture funding for his new education tech startup in January. This week, he revealed what Always Be Learning Inc., known as Abl Schools, is working on. Read More... →

Lugg, the startup that helps people with small moves, requested via an Uber-like mobile app, is this week expanding its reach into additional markets. While originally available in the San Francisco Bay Area, the company says it will now be available in Silicon Valley, from Palo Alto to Mountain View and down to San Jose. In addition, Lugg notes that all of the Costco’s and Crate… Read More... →

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Украинский фонд TA Venture, инвестор российского стартапа Carprice, принял участие в раунде А берлинского стартапа data Artisans на сумму 5,5 млн. евро. Об этом сообщается на сайте компании.  Лид-инвестором рауда стала компания Intel Capital. Другие участники сделки: Tengelmann Ventures и b-to-v Partners. data Artisans представляет собой платформу для анализа больших массивов данных. Стартап был создан компанией Apache Flink как проект Apache Incubator. Apache Flink – открытая платформу для распределения по... →