Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

Pluto TV, an L.A.-based video streaming startup targeting cord cutters, has just made a significant new hire: the company is bringing on Ken Parks, previously the Chief Content Officer at Spotify, to serve as Pluto TV’s Executive Chairman. Working out of New York, Parks will be tasked with leading Pluto TV’s content, distribution and monetization efforts going forward, among… Read More... →

Organic food delivery startup Good Eggs is announcing that it will be closing its operations in Los Angeles, New York City and New Orleans — every city where it has a presence, except for San Francisco. As a result, the company’s also announcing that it’s laying off nearly 140 employees, including some in its SF headquarters. In a blog post, co-founder and CEO Rob Spiro… Read More... →

Enza, a youth innovation and leadership incubator, recently held a free, five-day residential program at Stanford University for 26 youth of color to brainstorm technology solutions that address issues in their communities. So, for five days, these high school students participated in an intensive bootcamp with an emphasis on coding, business development and social justice. The program… Read More... →

Sporting giant Adidas has acquired Runtastic, an Austria-based mobile fitness startup known for its GPS fitness-tracking app of the same name. Developing….... →

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... →