Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

A day after Finnish oline bank Holvi got acquired by BBVA, here comes yet more consolidation in Europe’s fintech landscape. Today, Atom Bank — a still stealth, online-only startup, coincidentally also backed by BBVA — announced its first acquisition: Grasp, a design and development house based out of the north of England. Terms of the deal are not being disclosed, an Atom… Read More... →

Veeqo, the Wales-headquartered company that offers e-commerce inventory software, has acquired London-based parcel delivery startup ParcelBright to bolster its shipping features. Terms of the deal remain undisclosed, though I understand the acquisition includes ParcelBright’s tech and customer base. Meanwhile, founders Daniel Lipinski and Carlos Vilhena will stay involved in the form… Read More... →

Truecaller has announced plans to merge two of its flagship apps into one as part of the Swedish startup’s efforts to create the ultimate phone call management app. If you’re new to Truecaller, the Stockholm-based company has built a solid reputation over the past seven years with its crowdsourced approach to helping users flag rogue […]... →

A New York City startup called Hero plans to replace those plastic pill organizers with a high-tech home appliance. As demonstrated for me by the Hero team, it’s easy to load your medicines, vitamins and other health supplements into the machine, then indicate the dosage you’ll need and when you’re supposed to take it. Once you’re all set up, the Hero device will… Read More... →

Posted by SamuelScott[Estimated read time: 55 minutes] No one cares about your company or product. Unless your CEO is Steve Jobs or your product is Google Glass, very few journalists and bloggers are going to write about you directly, because they're reluctant to give free press to for-profit businesses. Few people are going to share something on social media that will only help a corporation to make more money. To gain significant media coverage and launch creative campaigns that spread through the Interne... →

In a world suffering from app overload, the Y Combinator-backed startup Prompt introduces a different way to interact with services, make purchases, or even control “Internet of Things” devices – all by way of text-based interface. The application, which can be used via SMS, Slack or the web, lets you text to do things like request an Uber, change the temperature on a Nest… Read More... →

Ryan Leslie gave every fan his phone number. It’s (915) 600-6978. But instead of a million unwanted phone calls, it’s making him money and giving him deeper intelligence about his listeners than anyone in the music business. That’s why A16z’s Ben Horowitz, Betaworks, and more investors just put a $1.5 million seed round into Leslie’s startup Disruptive Multimedia. Read More... →

Data insight and management startup Zaloni announced today that it has closed a $7.5 million series A round led by Sierra Ventures. Based in Durham, North Carolina, the startup said it will use the funds to further develop Zaloni’s software and its data lake management solution. Managing director of Sierra Ventures, Mark Fernandes, will join Zaloni’s […]... →

Gross? Well, that gross idea just pulled in a $4 million Series A round from AccellFoods, existing investor Collaborative Fund and a bunch of angels including Nas and Tim Ferris. The team behind the creepy crawlies as food company previously raised $1.6 million, adding up to $5.6 million in total financing thus far. It’s the sort of weird approach that is often celebrated in startup land. Read More... →

A couple of years ago The Duke Of York in England launched his Pitch@Palace events which have become a regular, and respected fixture in the London startup scene. Today, for the first time ever, anyone will be able to watch their Startup Pitch event being broadcast live from St James’s Palace in London. As far as we know, this is a world first. Here’s the live stream:… Read More... →

In its eighth year, Startup Turkey, a gathering of 600, is one of the country’s premier startup events. Read More... →

As SoundCloud — the audio streaming startup approaching 200 million users whose catalogue is based around user-generated content — struggles with mounting losses, label licensing, and new monetizing features, it has hired an exec to tackle those challenges head on. Today the Berlin-based startup is announcing that Alison Moore has joined SoundCloud as its first chief… Read More... →

After three years, Canada’s Execution Labs has decided to shut its game startup accelerator program. Now it is transitioning to doing fewer, more custom investments in independent game studios. The effort shows that making fewer bets on more advanced startups may yield better results in the maturing $90 billion game industry. The news isn’t good for […]... →

In any conversation I have about London’s fintech space, property crowdfunding platform Property Parter is almost certain to come up. The startup which lets you invest from as little as £50 in residential property — or the so-called the ‘buy to let’ market, as it’s called here in the U.K. — has, by all accounts, been growing at a clip. Launched just over a… Read More... →

Spanish multinational banking giant BBVA has acquired yet another online banking startup in the form of Holvi, a Finnish firm that specializes in providing online current accounts and related services for “makers and doers” — small businesses, freelancers, and entrepreneurs. The news comes just over two years after BBVA paid $117 million in the U.S. […]... →

GetLinks, a Bangkok-based startup focused on helping tech companies find and hire top talent, has closed a $500,000 seed round. Read More... →

Nick Triantos was on a mission to find a job where he could help build the next big thing. That’s what drew him to SRI where he’s the managing director of its venture arm. The non-profit research firm has a storied past in technology, from creating liquid crystal displays (LCD), to eye tracking technology, the […]... →

An Austin-based venture capital firm recently offered my company $400,000 for 40 percent of its equity. This was one week before their counterpart in the Bay Area offered $2 million for 20 percent of the same company. Nothing had changed in that week, and both received the same pitch and deck in the weeks prior. Read More... →

Бывший топ-менеджер Netflix Патти Маккорд написала для издания Harvard Business Review колонку о том, почему стараться удержать сотрудников в компании, предлагая им вкусные обеды и ежедневную выпивку, — не самая эффективная стратегия. Редакция vc.ru публикует адаптированный перевод заметки.... →

Один из пионеров мобильного видеостриминга — стартап Meerkat — откажется от своей основной функциональности и превратится в социальную сеть для обмена видеоконтентом. Об этом 4 марта 2016 года рассказал генеральный директор компании Бен Рубин.... →