Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

Boston-based startup DataRobot took in a $33 million investment led by New Enterprises Associates, the startup announced today. The machine learning startup says that with existing offices in Asia, Europe and The U.S., the investment will help fuel global sales and business development. Accomplice, Intel Capital, and IA Ventures also joined the round. DataRobot has […]... →

It’s tax season in the United States, and financial service startup Digit has launched a feature designed to automate savings from tax refunds. Working with the Duke University nonprofit CommonCents Lab, the company leverages behavioral economics and technology to help you automatically put away a predetermined amount of your tax return. According to the Internal Revenue […]... →

Artificial intelligence startup Diffbot announced today that it scored a $10 million series A round led by Tencent, Felicis Ventures, and Amplify Ventures. The Palo Alto-based company says its technology “uses computer vision and NLP algorithms to extract and structure any web page into the world’s largest structured database… with no human curation or oversight.” Diffbot’s […]... →

Компания ru-Net Леонида Богуславского повторно инвестировала в провайдера мобильных платежных услуг Payleven. Объём раунда D составил $10 млн. В сделке также приняли участие  Holtzbrinck Ventures, B Cinque, New Enterprise Associates (NEA) и MePay. Всего стартап привлек около $51 млн. На что конкретно будут потрачены средства не говорится. В компании заявляют, что в дальнейшем продолжат международную экспансию, разработку новых продуктов и привлечение новых пользователей.  Впервые Ru-Net инвестировала в Payl... →

EXCLUSIVE: When you think of hot startup communities, it is too easy to start the list at Silicon Valley and stop right there. But then you’d be missing out on a whole world of opportunity. Denmark has a community of over 240 budding “next big thing” candidates, and some incredible recent success stories, including Unity Technologies — which has […]... →

Since the Arab Spring in 2011, Tunisia’s new democracy has struggled to enact prudent economic policy to provide employment and opportunity for its young, growing population. Unemployment is currently at 15 percent, with one-third of jobless youth being university graduates. To overcome the education-employment gap, young Tunisians are taking matters into their own hands. Talented,… Read More... →

Softline Seed Fund вышел из проекта «Онлайн Патент». Об этом Firrma сообщили в фонде. Экзит состоялся в рамках посевного раунда проекта, лид инвестором которого стал фонд Starta Capital. Кроме Starta Capital в раунде приняли участие бизнес-ангелы Николай Белых и Евгений Медведников. Общий объем раунда составил $350 тысяч, лишь часть из которых пошла на выкуп доли Softline Seed Fund. Другая часть этих средств будет направлена на выход проекта на рынок США. В данный момент команда стартапа уже проходит акселе... →

Sky-Futures, the drone startup that flies drones around oil rigs and gas pipelines and analyses the resulting data to spot problems before they become a problem, has raised an additional $5.7 million. This follows an earlier $3.8 million Series A back in May. Read More... →

Earlier this month, I joined the team at Eyefluence, an eye-tracking startup, for a demo in a San Francisco office overlooking the bay. Over the course of the meeting I was walked through the process of navigating menu screens, selecting icons and whacking moles in a mini game, all with my eyes. Eyefluence CEO Jim Marggraff said his team wanted to eschew the main visual navigation… Read More... →

Сегодня в рубрике «Стартапы» — российский электроснегокат SnowRunner. Передаём микрофон.... →

The days of Square clones popping up, everywhere you looked and capitalizing on Square’s conservative approach to global expansion, are long gone. But those startups are not. And today, one of them is announcing a Series D round. Payleven, a mobile payments startup originally incubated in 2012 at Berlin’s Rocket Internet, says it has raised a $10 million growth round from a… Read More... →

Редакция vc.ru продолжает публиковать резюме специалистов, желающих работать в стартапах и ИТ-компаниях , а также вакансии компаний, которые ищут сотрудников.... →

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).... →

PRESS RELEASE: Tinyclues, the SaaS startup reinventing predictive marketing, continues to build on its success, announcing that Olivier Cuzacq has joined Tinyclues as VP Product, adding another member to its talented staff. Cuzacq, previously...... →

Мой венчурный гороскоп на 2016 год: А. Хуже уже не будет Совершенно очевидно, что ничего плохого дополнительно к тому, что у нас уже произошло на внутреннем венчурном рынке больше не случится. Размеры этого рынка схлопнутся окончательно. Кто из венчурных инвесторов и проектов мирового уровня, кто хотел уехать — уехал, кто не хотел уехать, тот остался и приспосабливается к новым и вполне позитивным обстоятельствам. В. Зато будет очень много хорошего: 1) Проекты на посевной стадии сильно подешевели Рыночная о... →

An under-the-radar startup that’s been quietly cornering the international student accommodation market for the past five years has raised $60 million from a number of high-profile investors. Launched initially as Overseas Student Living (OSL) in 2011 by an expat living in China, the web-based platform that matches students with professional landlords was rebranded as Student.com […]... →

Smart gardening startup Edyn announced today that it harvested a $2 million seed round. The Oakland, California-based startup also announced plans for an international expansion, starting with Japan. Edyn built a smart gardening system that helps plant enthusiasts to “stay connected to [their] garden” by regularly monitoring the soil and water conditions, along with temperature and […]... →

Lantern, a mental health startup that offers tools to deal with stress, anxiety and body image has raised a $17 million Series A round led by the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s venture arm with participation from previous investors such as Mayfield and SoftTechVC. UPMC Enterprises, the hospital’s venture arm, has invested large sums of money in 12 other health startups… Read More... →

CrunchBase, a service that surfaces information about startup funding, venture capital investments and people in the startup ecosystem, was spun out of TechCrunch and its parent company AOL/Verizon late last year. At the time, the new company raised a funding round led by Emergence Capital, with AOL/Verizon still holding on to a significant stake in the company. Today, CrunchBase announced… Read More... →

A startup called Pantomime came up with a nifty system of enabling people to peer into animated virtual worlds without the need to wear virtual reality headsets. And now it is adding support for VR headsets so that multiple people can be in the same VR space more easily. The new technology is very innovative when […]... →