Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

Основатель мобильной CRM-системы для бутиков Shwrum, вынужденной закрыться в 2014 году, опубликовал в своём блоге материал о том, какие ошибки он совершил при запуске компании. Построение долгосрочных планов, отождествление себя с компанией, неправильная реакция на обеды с инвесторами — малая часть того, что перечисляет автор.... →

French startup Clustree has just raised a new funding round of $2.9 million (€2.5 million) with Alven Capital and business angels. As a reminder, Clustree automagically find the right person for the right position within big companies using big data. It’s a great tool for HR departments who might not think about internal candidates and employees who might feel stuck in their jobs. Read More... →

My dad grew up on a farm. The food put on his kitchen table each night came from his family’s own garden. I grew up in the suburbs and now live in the city, and my food has almost exclusively come from a grocery store or a restaurant. My (future) children’s food will likely come from the internet and be bottled like Soylent. Edn, a stealthy startup out of Denver, is looking to… Read More... →

Norwegian startup Zwipe, which is taking aim at payment card PIN codes and passwords with an embedded fingerprint reader technology to authenticate card payments, has closed a $5 million Series B funding round. Read More... →

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Multi-channel networks like Machinima and Makers are taking care of the top 1 percent of pro YouTubers. But what about the rest of them who have honorable audiences but no support from these networks? Meet Octoly, a French startup that wants to create a marketplace for brands and the long tail of YouTubers. Read More... →

With Lululemon brushing a $7.4 billion valuation in public markets, there’s no denying that so-called “athleisure” wear is a huge business. As with any multi-billion dollar industry startup investors are looking for a piece of that action, which is why investors are pouring $7 million into the new athletic and leisure wear company Outdoor Voices. Read More... →

PubNub, the startup that has built a data network that carries messaging for apps, IoT hardware and other low-latency services, is today announcing that it has extended and closed its Series C round. The San Francisco-based company has raised $25 million, funding that it will use to sharpen its focus on Internet of Things applications and hardware as well as clean energy and social… Read More... →

Playing in the identity space, London-based Veridu is attempting to solve a problem as old as the Internet itself but also one that is increasing with the advent of the so-called sharing economy and peer-to-peer marketplaces. That is, how to ensure that an individual online is who they say they are. Read More... →

Kabbage — the online platform that loans money to businesses and individuals using a wide set of online data and algorithms to measure credit-worthiness — is growing once more. The startup based out of Atlanta has raised a Series E of $135 million, and expanded its credit facility — the money it has on hand to fulfil loans — to $900 million. Kabbage is not… Read More... →

Bracket Computing, a startup with software that companies can use to securely run their applications and store data on public cloud infrastructure, is announcing today a $46.4 million round of funding. New investors Fidelity Management and Research Co. and Goldman Sachs are participating in the round. Bracket pushes Computing Cell technology with a lightweight hypervisor […]... →

Gogoro is dealing with tragedy after an employee died in an accident while operating one of the Taipei-based startup’s electric scooters. The driver, whose full name has not been publicly released, sustained severe head injuries after crashing into a tree by the side of the road in New Taipei City on Monday afternoon. Gogoro said it is cooperating with an ongoing police investigation. Read More... →

Инвестиционный холдинг O1 Group Бориса Минца вложил около $20 млн в восемь иностранных стартапов с начала 2015 года. Как пишут «Ведомости» со ссылкой на управляющего директора холдинга – Игоря Минца – вложения в каждый проект составили примерно $2–3 млн. В стартапы были вложены деньги, полученные от основной деятельности холдинга – управления недвижимостью и негосударственными пенсионными фондами (НПФ). O1 Group инвестировал в такие проекты, как телеком-компания IHS, стартап в сфере анализа «больших данных»... →

Customer support giant Zendesk is acquiring French startup BIME Analytics for $45 million in cash. BIME Analytics is a business intelligence startup with a software-as-a-service approach. It turns data from many different sources into trends and insights. Read More... →

Publicly traded customer service software company Zendesk today announced that it has acquired We Are Cloud, the parent company of BIME Analytics, a startup with a cloud-based business-intelligence (BI) tool. Zendesk paid $45 million in the deal, according to a press release. The cloud BI space has been heating up quite a bit lately. Amazon […]... →

It’s Tuesday, which John Biggs and I refer to as TC Radio Day. And like any other Tuesday, we’ll be holding our world-renowned TC Radio Pitch-off on Sirius XM. Five companies have exactly sixty seconds to pitch their wares to a panel of expert judges, plus the audience of listeners, with a short Q&A following each pitch. At the end of the presentations, judges deliberate live… Read More... →

Though the on-demand economy is booming in major urban areas like San Francisco and New York, the southeast has yet to get a comprehensive offering that lets them access the products and services of local stores with the press of a button. Meusu aims to change all that. The New Orleans-based startup is an on-demand startup that lets contracted “runners” perform tasks or deliver… Read More... →

Khosla Ventures famously backed Gripe.io, a startup which allowed disappointed customers to complain loudly on social media about service providers that had failed them (restaurants, hotels, airlines etc). After this barrage of criticism, the brand owner was supposed give in to this assault and settle with compensation. Unsurprisingly it didn’t work and Gripe closed. A number of other… Read More... →

Blocks has been a very time getting off the drawing board — and still remains a prototype at this stage, some two years into development — but the modular smartwatch concept has finally landed on Kickstarter, in what the U.K.-based startup is hoping will be the last push to get their idea to market. Read More... →

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