Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

Nick Sampson, head of the startup electric vehicle company Faraday Future, spent a busy day as the title sponsor of the Faraday Future Long Beach ePrix April 2. I interviewed him standing up in the shade of a tree on a warm California afternoon before we both had to hurry off to the track where the cars would be lined up on the grid for the standing start of the Formula E race. While he… Read More... →

Сегодня в рубрике «Стартапы» — конструктор «Анкетолог», в котором можно по шаблону создать опрос, собрать ответы с помощью пользователей сервиса или на своём сайте — и получить наглядно представленные результаты. Передаём микрофон.... →

Curiously-named Australian wine site Vinomofo announced today that it’s raised its first major round of funding, $19 million (AUD $25 million), from fellow Aussie Blue Sky Venture Capital. Vinomofo says it raised the funds to expand its self-described “most epic wine site on the planet” for “wine-loving mofos” into New Zealand, the U.K., Singapore, Hong Kong, China, and […]... →

WeWork, the co-working real estate startup valued north of $5 billion, is launching WeLive, a residential rental building that offers flexible renting and a nicely packaged set of amenities. The new program launches for New York (at 110 Wall Street), the same building where WeWork has its main space in the Financial District, as well as DC, a 2221 S. Clark Street in Arlington. The spaces… Read More... →

Jay Vijayan, who spent four years years as the chief information officer of Tesla Motors, and who served as its VP of IT and business applications for a year before that, left the company in January to form his own Bay Area startup. Vijayan isn’t talking yet about that company. (This reporter reached out to him last Monday and he hasn’t responded.) But his departure comes at an… Read More... →

Meet Stae, a New York-based startup that wants to make cities and tech startups work together. Major cities are getting denser and facing bigger challenges. And yet, innovation is coming from private companies. These companies are starting to have better insights about how a city works compared to local governments. Read More... →

SPONSORED: In startup land, financing is getting harder. Valuation inflation is dissipating, and investors are demanding profitability, and fast. The pool of resources required to build a successful tech company is also larger than ever as the technology industry matures and the demand for vertical integration booms.... →

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... →