Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

UrbanStems, an on-demand flower delivery startup, is expanding to Brooklyn with the promise to deliver fresh bouquets of flowers, starting at $35, within two hours of ordering. The company launched in D.C. last year, the week of Valentine’s Day, and expanded to Manhattan in December. They’ve delivered tens of thousands of bouquets, and the company reports that sales are growing… Read More... →

Streaming services like Netflix are great, but you often end up watching the same blockbuster movies showing how a white man will save the world. Meet Afrostream, a niche movie streaming service that features African and African-American content. Launching in September, this startup may have found a great underserved segment. Read More... →

Депрессия, навязчивые состояния, суицидальное поведение — частые спутники фигурантов списка Forbes... →

CredSimple, a startup building a medical credentialing database, has raised $1.5 million in seed funding to help healthcare and insurance companies manage their doctor networks. Bowery Capital led the round, with participation from Primary Venture Partners and a handful of angels. When a doctor gets a job at a new practice or hospital, he goes through a process called credentialing. It… Read More... →

Сегодня в рубрике «Стартапы» — приложение «Музыкальный Конструктор», которое позволяет создавать музыку, основанную на сэмплах Creative Commons. Передаём микрофон.... →

Here it comes, Central Europe: PragueCrunch IV! This annual celebration of all things startup is coming to your town on Friday, July 31, 2015 from 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM (CEST). We’ll be holding the event on the terrace at Střelecký Ostrov. If you’ve been to any of the previous events you’ll know it’s a good time. We have special early bird tickets available now right… Read More... →

Rusbase готовит новую встречу стартапов с инвесторами и приглашает проекты принять участие в отборе=... →

Каждый день редакция ЦП выбирает один свежий зарубежный стартап, вызвавший резонанс в профессиональном сообществе, и рассказывает о нём читателям. Сегодня в «Идеях для бизнеса» — фитнес-трекер Moov Now.Одним из основных преимуществ гаджета является то, что для измерения дневной активности он определяет положение человека в 3D-пространстве, а не количество пройденных шагов, а также способность давать советы тренирующемуся владельцу.... →

A common rule of thumb among early stage VCs is to reserve 2–3X dollars for every $1 initially invested in a startup. This is in order to maintain ownership levels in selected portfolio companies and to support them through good times and bad. Obviously, it’s not optimal to invest the same amount per company. Given the often binary returns within VC portfolios, there are usually… Read More... →

Венчурный фонд Almaz Capital повторно инвестировал в компанию с российскими корнями Cinarra Systems, которая разрабатывает технологии и сервисы для операторов беспроводного доступа и мобильной связи.  Стартап привлек $20 млн в раунде B, который возглавила японская корпорация SoftBank. Также в сделке приняла участие инвестиционная компания Siguler Guff & Company. Cinarra Systems также начала сотрудничество с SoftBank в Японии через площадку таргетированной рекламы. Компания разработала платформу, которая отк... →

Groupon, a company known for connecting consumers with local deals, has acquired a food delivery startup: OrderUp. The financial details were not disclosed. Founded in 2009, OrderUp operates in 26 states, predominately in or around college towns. The startup says it has processed more than 10 million orders. “The potential in delivery and takeout is apparent […]... →

EXCLUSIVE: Codeship, a startup that offers a web-based continuous delivery service for testing and then deploying code, is launching today a new Organizations service tier that will help companies specify exactly what each employee can do in Codeship. Also today, Codeship is announcing that more than 20,000 developers are actively using the service — twice as […]... →

There’s been some significant consolidation among the rush of on-demand cleaning and home services startups. Now one of the companies vying to end up on the top of the heap is expanding into a new category. Handy — the New York-based home services startup is active in 28 cities and has raised $64 million — is launching Handy Delivery, a delivery and assembly service,… Read More... →

Сегодня в рубрике «Стартапы» — сервис Dashboard24, который позволяет проводить комплексный анализ эффективности товарных групп и категорий для ecommerce. Передаём микрофон.... →

With Gizmodo, Peter Rojas set a state for talking about technology and gadgets like human beings. That would be a nice feat once, but he did it again with Engadget, Joystiq and gdgt. Now, he’s leaving Verizaol* for an entrepreneur-in-residence position at startup birthing matrix and investment firm betaworks. Rojas came to Aol via the acquisition of gdgt, which betaworks invested in… Read More... →

Workspot, an aptly-named virtual desktop startup, is planning to improve its tech and expand its enterprise sales team after raising $5 million in new funding led by Helion Ventures, with participation from Translink Capital and Qualcomm Ventures. 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. Zeta Interactive snags $125M from Blackstone’s GSP General Partners Marketing analytics company Zeta Interactive closed its series D round with $125 million, the startup announced today.The investment is a mix of debt and equity […]... →

Reserve, a startup that helps with restaurant reservations and payments, is adding what it says has been the most-requested feature from both diners and restaurants. The app emerged from startup studio Expa. If you’re trying to get a reservation, you specify time window and party size, and the app provides you with a list of curated partners. If it can’t get a reservation at the… Read More... →

CrocoTime — о том, какие есть возможности вдали от столицы.... →

Facebook-owned virtual reality startup Oculus has announced that it’s acquiring Pebbles Interfaces, a computer vision and depth-sensing technology company based in Israel. Pebbles Interfaces has been building technology that uses “custom optics, sensor systems and algorithms” to monitor hand-movement. “Over time, technology breakthroughs in sensors will unlock new human interaction methods in VR and revolutionize […]... →