Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

A who’s-who of early stage investors are putting a $2 million bet that two young Northwestern grads can teach millennials a better way to eat with their new startup Spoon University. Founded by Mackenzie Barth (not a foodie) and Sarah Adler (total foodie), New York-based Spoon University is a crowd-sourced, would-be Food Network for millennials, according to Barth, who serves as the… Read More... →

Mobile shopping startup Wish — fresh off a $500 million round of funding — has made its first acquisition. The company has acquired Locket, a startup that makes lockscreen apps for Android handsets: an eponymous app that serves tailored news to your lockscreen; and lockscreen messaging app ScreenPop. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. A source estimates the price… Read More... →

Mobile shopping startup Wish — fresh off a $500 million round of funding — has made its first acquisition. The company has acquired Locket, a startup that makes lockscreen apps for Android handsets: an eponymous app that serves tailored news to your lockscreen; and lockscreen messaging app ScreenPop. Terms of the deal were not disclosed but a source close to the deal says that… Read More... →

Wish, a mobile commerce company that recently appears to have raised $500 million at a reported $3 billion valuation, has acquired Locket.... →

I’m trying hard to stay awake amid news that another new-fangled mattress startup has secured funding. This time it’s the turn of Leesa, which has raised $9 million from private equity firm TitleCard Capital, giving the young company a post-money valuation of $45 million, and off the back of $30 million in projected sales in its first year. Read More... →

В Mail.ru решили, что будет интересно попробовать поработать с молодым стартапом..... →

Affirm, the lending startup co-founded by Max Levchin, is breaking into student loans for coding, design and business bootcamps from General Assembly, Bloc, Kaplan’s Dev Bootcamp and Metis. The company, which raised $275 million this past spring, is branching out from its initial market in online retail. They were originally financing purchases at the point-of-sale online with… Read More... →

Unless you’re Jaqueline Voorheese from The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, chances are you’re not letting Uber drivers shuttle around your kids to and from school, practice, classes, etc. But that doesn’t mean there’s no need for a little transportation-based help with the little ones. HopSkipDrive, a startup that just received $3.9 million in seed funding, is looking to… Read More... →

Команда конструктора посадочных страниц «Купаж» написала для рубрики Growth Hacks заметку о том, как публикация в рубрике «Стартапы» и анализ обратной связи аудитории привели к росту проекта, а также дала несколько советов SaaS-командам.... →

EXCLUSIVE: Publicly traded human capital management software company Workday is announcing today that it has acquired Upshot, a startup that developed a mobile app that allowed users to make natural-language voice queries on data in customer-relationship management tools. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. Upshot picked up attention in 2013. Founders Thomas Kim and Joseph Turian, […]... →

Создатели сервиса для краткосрочной аренды парковок Hello Parking Крис Хугверф и Нил Ханна после закрытия стартапа в 2011 году опубликовали материал о том, как развивался проект и почему он провалился. Спустя два года Крис Хугверф написал ещё одну заметку — на сей раз, по словам предпринимателя, взглянув на проблему под другим углом.... →

Холдинг Mail.Ru Group совместно с антивирусным стартапом Virusdie запустил сервис, который позволяет пользователям системы веб-аналитики «Рейтинг@Mail.ru» проверить свои сайты. Об этом ЦП сообщили представители обеих компаний.... →

Pager has just raised $14 million to bring its on-demand doctor service to San Francisco and beyond. New Enterprise Associates, Sound Ventures, Goodwater Capital, Lux Capital and Montage Ventures all contributed to the round. In addition to the capital raised, the company welcomes former chief medical officer of Oscar Health Insurance Aran Ron to its executive ranks. With cash in hand, Pager […]... →

Eden, the YC-backed startup that offers on-demand tech help service direct to your home, has today announced the raise of $1.3 million in seed funding. Investors include Canvas Ventures, Eniac Ventures, Comcast Ventures, Maven Ventures, Y Combinator, Dylan Smith from Box, and James Beshara from Tilt (with his first angel investment). The premise behind Eden is relatively simple. Users with… Read More... →

Sysdig, a startup with cloud-based software for monitoring the performance of Linux containers for storing up application code, announced today a $10.7 million funding round. Sysdig provides a slick interface on top of the Sysdig open-source monitoring software, as well as features that make it easy for less technical people to understand what’s happening in […]... →

The floodgates are open. We are thrilled to announce that budding startups can now sign up to be part of Startup Alley at Disrupt London 2015. Disrupt London will take place December 7 – 8, and in addition to everything happening on the main stage, hundreds of early stage companies will be flooding the Alley to show off their software and hardware products to attendees. They’re… Read More... →

Сегодня в рубрике «Стартапы» — сервис Z-monitor, который помогает отслеживать государственные заказы на различных платформах. Передаём микрофон.... →

Традиционно на лето приходится основная пора отпусков. Исследования показывают, что несмотря на спад деловой активности в бизнесе, отдых сотрудников идет компаниям на пользу — после отпуска заметно повышается их эффективность. Однако стартапы зачастую не могут позволить себе длительный отдых сотрудников. ЦП предлагает читателям обсудить, что делать с отпусками в молодых компаниях — отпускать работников на несколько недель или ждать лучших времен.... →

Scotland’s FanDuel has come a long way since it spun out from news startup HubDub back in 2010. The fantasy sports operator is announcing that it has raised a whopping $275 million Series A, bringing total capital raised to $363 million and valuing the company at “over $1 billion”. In other words, chalk this up as another U.K.-based ‘unicorn’. The round, which… Read More... →

За 11 лет в качестве публичной компании Google превратилась из поискового стартапа в ИТ-гиганта. Как утверждают источники WSJ, теперь корпорации присущи проблемы, свойственные любому «взрослому» проекту. На фоне замедлившегося роста доходов и стабилизировавшейся стоимости акций, в руководстве вынуждены задумываться о повышении собственной эффективности и сокращении издержек. Обозреватель ЦП Виктор Степанов собрал ключевые способы, с помощью которых Google в ближайшее время рассчитывает улучшить свои финансо... →