Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

Сегодня в рубрике «Стартапы» — сервис Cindicator, в котором пользователи пытаются максимально точно предугадать результаты событий, чтобы претендовать на денежные призы. Передаем микрофон.... →

Компания HBO вложилась в VR-стартап OTOY с целью использования его технологий для создания контента.... →

Обозреватель сайта Gawker Сэм Биддл ознакомился с презентацией проекта Helena, который «объединяет самых влиятельных людей в мире». Он попытался разобраться в происхождении стартапа и в его смысле, но столкнулся с трудностями. Редакция vc.ru публикует адаптированный перевод заметки.... →

Компания RedWorks разработала метод строительства зданий на Красной планете с помощью 3D-печати... →

Rinse Inc. has raised a $6 million Series A round of venture funding to pick up and clean anything in its customers’ closets. According to Chief Executive Ajay Prakash, who cofounded Rinse in 2013 with Chief Operating Officer James Joun, “We never wanted to b Uber for laundry, and don’t consider ourselves an on-demand business.” The startup provides garment care services… Read More... →

The CrunchBase Women in Venture report is the third study in our ongoing analysis of women and their participation in the startup ecosystem. This report focuses on the participation of women in venture capital and the impact that has on investments in women founders. Read More... →

Китайский ритейлер JD.сom, 9% акций которого принадлежат фонду Юрия Мильнера DST Global, инвестировал в портфельную компанию Мильнера Dada $200 млн в обмен на 47, 4% долю в компании.  По итогам сделки JD Daojia, онлайн-оффлайн подразделение JD.сom, объединится с китайским логистическим приложением Dada Nexus Ltd. JD.com выплатит деньги наличными и внедрит активы JD Daojia в компанию Dada. Новая компания станет конкурентом китайской 58 Daojia, которая доставляет местные онлайн-оффлайн услуги. Запуск компании... →

Diamanti, a startup aimed at solving the problems around balancing networking and storage requirements in the age of containers, emerged from stealth today with a new appliance and $12.5 million in Series A funding from a prestigious list of investors. Perhaps those investors — Charles River Ventures, DFJ Venture, GSR Ventures, and Goldman Sachs — liked the pedigree of the… Read More... →

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Since launching in 2012, theSkimm has built up a big audience for its email newsletter — founders Danielle Weisberg and Carly Zakin told me they have more than 3.5 million active subscriptions, with a daily open rate of 40 percent. Today the New York City startup is launching its first iPhone app, accompanied by its first major service beyond the newsletter, Skimm Ahead. For a… Read More... →

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Ведомства, включая ФБР, интересует, не обманула ли компания инвесторов и партнеров, описывая возможности своего метода анализа крови, пишет WSJ... →

In the scramble to build bots that live up to the hype, messaging app Telegram has just announced a $1M giveaway to developers to try to incentivize them to build cool stuff. The messaging startup launched its own bot platform back in June last year, long before Facebook started its photocopiers in case you’re keeping count. Read More... →

Tyba, the Spanish startup that has created a “junior recruitment market” aimed at allowing companies like tech startups to more efficiently hire university and college graduates, has seen an exit of sorts. Read More... →

After what I’m told has been a successful 6 month trial in Paris — racking up “hundreds of thousands of deliveries” — Stuart, the on-demand delivery app and platform from the founders of Sparrow and Resto-In, is seeing its official launch today. In addition to the French capital city, the service has had a shorter private test in London and is also opening its… Read More... →

A new trend in the on-demand food and delivery market seems to be monthly membership programs. Munchery, the on-demand food startup that delivers pre-made meals and ready-to-cook meals, is launching its second go at a membership program. Munchery’s new membership program, which costs $8.95 per month or $85 per year, lowers the price point for individual meals by up to 20 percent. That… Read More... →

Комиссия по ценным бумагам и биржам (SEC) и представители федерального прокурора США начали проверку медицинского стартапа Theranos, основанного Элизабет Холмс, самой молодой женщиной-миллиардером в мире. Власти США занимаются «расследованием криминала», пишет TechCrunch.... →

Компанию подозревают в обмане инвесторов... →

Piling on to Theranos woes, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California have started probing into the blood analysis startup for possible criminal activity. The microscope under which Theranos found itself for regulatory health and safety issues over the last year prompted both agencies to question operations. There… Read More... →

Sleep deprivation is the undoing of startup founders, according to Arianna Huffington. “There is this kind of founder myth that if you are a founder you can’t afford to get enough sleep,” she told me over the phone while catching a plane back to New York. “The truth is three-quarters of startups fail and if founders got more sleep they’d have a better chance… Read More... →