Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

Каждый день редакция ЦП выбирает один свежий зарубежный стартап, вызвавший резонанс в профессиональном сообществе, и рассказывает о нём читателям. Сегодня в «Идеях для бизнеса» — система учёта посетителей Envoy, которая привлекла $15 млн инвестиций от фонда Andreessen Horowitz.... →

Фонд «Сколково» и сингапурский акселератор HaxAsia запустили совместную акселерационную программу для hardware-проектов в Москве и Сингапуре. Об этом Firrma сообщили в фонде. Цель программы — подготовить и развить проекты от прототипов до готовых продуктов, довести их до этапа массового производства или выпуска пилотной партии, а также тестирование потребительского спроса через краудфандинг на IndieGoGo и Kickstarter. Акслерационная программа пройдет в два этапа — в Москве и в Сингапуре. Первая часть програ... →

Immersive headsets continue to lift off company drawing boards, in the hopes of powering a new wave of virtual reality in the consumer space — whether it’s the Facebook-owned Oculus Rift, Sony’s Project Morpheus, Microsoft’s Hololens or HTC-Valve’s Vive, to name a few VR devices in the works (some others: FOVE, Razer… the list goes on). Dutch startup… Read More... →

We’ve just learned that New Enterprise Associates led a $12.5 million round for endpoint security company Barkly. The startup announced the raise today, bringing its total funds to $17 million since it was founded in 2013.  In a canned statement, Barkly revealed that it will use the funds to recruit new talent and drive product development.... →

Envoy, the startup behind an iPad app designed “to kill the lobby sign-in book” — as we reported last year when it landed $1.5 million — is perhaps not one that you’d associate with such fundraising. But the San Francisco-based company has indeed landed $15 million, which was provided by bit-hitting investment firm Andreessen Horowitz (A16z). Read More... →

French startup studio eFounders just raised $6 million from Fotolia co-founder Oleg Tscheltzoff to build its next batch of software-as-a-service startups. So far, eFounders is behind five startups that are now independent — Mailjet, Textmaster, Mention, Front and Aircall. Pressking has been sold, and two startups are in the works — Illustrio and Tipi. With today’s funding… Read More... →

Givesurance, a startup that helps users donate a cut of their insurance premiums to charity, is launching out of beta today. Users provide Givesurance with the name of their insurance company, policy number, state, and expiration date. Givesurance then returns up to 5 percent of all monthly insurance payments in the form of a donation credit, which users can donate to the charity of… Read More... →

Known for its on-demand phone repair services, startup iCracked has even bigger ambitions. The company is on its way to being a full-service consumer electronics sales service, and it’s starting by automating the entire smartphone trade-in process, from contract renewal to data transfer. “There’s going to be a day where you press a button and an iTech shows up, delivers you… Read More... →

Meet Ily, a brand new take on personal communication between family members. Ily is a new connected device for your home as well as a smartphone app. Developed by New York-based startup Insensi, Ily doesn’t try to reinvent the wheel. This all-in-one communication box does a few things really well, and makes sense for all family members, from kids to grandparents. “When I was working… Read More... →

Envoy, a company that provides an iPad-based sign-in system for office reception desks, has raised $15 million from a single funder: Andreessen Horowitz. Office reception desks might seem like a dry topic for a startup, but Envoy has seen enviable uptake among hot Silicon Valley companies — and well beyond. Customers include Airbnb (its first customer), Pandora, Heroku, […]... →

Snowflake Computing, a startup that has built data warehouse software based in the Amazon Web Services cloud, announced a new $45 million funding round and made its software generally available. Snowflake made a big splash when it came out of stealth mode in October with $26 million in funding and a superstar chief executive, Microsoft […]... →

Wayook, the Spanish on-demand cleaning startup, has quietly raised its first funding round: a modest €640,000 from Axon Partners Group. The investment closed a few weeks back but went mostly under the radar, which is synonymous of Wayook as a whole. Read More... →

Сегодня в рубрике «Стартапы» — поисковик Lazerto, который дает возможность создавать свои тематические поиски и использовать смарт-команды. Передаём микрофон.... →

Startups that help people send money to each other or pay for goods and services online have been growing like weeds, fuelled by consumer demand, increasingly ubiquitous connected devices to make and receive the funds, and VCs eager to profit from their growth. Now a startup that has built technology to power fintech startups is raising some money of its own. Currency Cloud, a UK-based… Read More... →

Offpeak, a Malaysia-based restaurant booking startup, has raised a Series A round of $800,000 led by Gobi Partners. The company will use its new capital to expand into Southeast Asian cities, starting with Bangkok, and find more restaurant partners. Read More... →

Yoichi Wada will focus on startup Shinra Technologies.... →

Каждый день редакция ЦП выбирает один свежий зарубежный стартап, вызвавший резонанс в профессиональном сообществе, и рассказывает о нём читателям. Сегодня в «Идеях для бизнеса» — гаджет Fliike, физический счётчик лайков на Facebook.... →

With its high smartphone penetration rate, extremely speedy broadband, and government support, South Korea’s startup ecosystem is one of the most notable in Asia. SparkLabs, one of Seoul’s top accelerators is hoping its fifth batch will produce new success stories (alumni include online beauty product retailer Memebox, another one of Korea’s top-funded startups). Read More... →

It seems that even the stars have come to rest on Casper beds. The 14-month-old startup has just closed on $55 million at a $550 million valuation to expand its business. But almost as impressive as the sky-high numbers are the big Hollywood names that have come down from the firmament and are throwing their money (if not their muscle) behind the company. Read More... →

When thinking of business “turnaround,” names like McDonald’s and Samsung come to mind as they struggle to navigate the changing market and waning consumer interest. Yet, a business at any stage of growth may require a turnaround or ‘pivot’ on its core strategy. This is a concept with which many startup founders are familiar. Read More... →