Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

GUEST: With funding from the government, a population of young people willing to take risks, and the birth of several incubators, Portugal is seeing an explosion of startups.... →

My life changed when I got a job at a startup. I was 19 years old and had just finished my first year at the University of Michigan. By some stroke of luck I managed to land a software engineering internship at a venture capital-backed startup called UpTo. Located in downtown Detroit, I actually stayed on with them on and off throughout most of college. Read More... →

You could test your blood for health related disease in the comfort of your home soon. Theranos, the startup that only requires a few drops of blood to test for hundreds of different health-related diseases, received approval from the Food and Drug Administration to test for herpes simplex 1 outside of the lab. The FDA granted Theranos the ability to test using its proprietary finger-prick… Read More... →

Earlier this year a London-based cyber security incubator called CyLon opened its doors. Now Europe is getting a pro-privacy bootcamp program, with bootstrapped Romania-based VPN startup CyberGhost this week kicking off a search for startups wanting support to build privacy tech. Read More... →

Hello my friend, and welcome back to another episode of CrunchWeek. We’re glad that you are with us today. This time ’round the round white table red chairs Drew Olanoff, Sarah Lane, and your humble servant discussed three of the week’s largest stories: The massive spike in technology earnings, Reddit’s never-ending issues regarding content and Internet trolling, and,… Read More... →

Luna had a successful crowdfunding campaign earlier this year, raising more than $1 million for a mattress cover that adjusts temperature, tracks your sleep and connects to other devices. Now the company is sharing more news. It’s part of the current class of startups at incubator Y Combinator, and it has also raised $1.3 million in funding from private investors — roughly the… Read More... →

This week, a Bay Area founder was taken aback when an engineer being recruited by his startup asked for both its cap table and information regarding the liquidation preferences of its venture backers. The candidate presumably “worked somewhere where he discovered that these things matter,” says the founder, who asked not to be named in this story. Though the startup is still… Read More... →

UrbanStems, an on-demand flower delivery startup, is expanding to Brooklyn with the promise to deliver fresh bouquets of flowers, starting at $35, within two hours of ordering. The company launched in D.C. last year, the week of Valentine’s Day, and expanded to Manhattan in December. They’ve delivered tens of thousands of bouquets, and the company reports that sales are growing… Read More... →

Streaming services like Netflix are great, but you often end up watching the same blockbuster movies showing how a white man will save the world. Meet Afrostream, a niche movie streaming service that features African and African-American content. Launching in September, this startup may have found a great underserved segment. Read More... →

Депрессия, навязчивые состояния, суицидальное поведение — частые спутники фигурантов списка Forbes... →

CredSimple, a startup building a medical credentialing database, has raised $1.5 million in seed funding to help healthcare and insurance companies manage their doctor networks. Bowery Capital led the round, with participation from Primary Venture Partners and a handful of angels. When a doctor gets a job at a new practice or hospital, he goes through a process called credentialing. It… Read More... →

Сегодня в рубрике «Стартапы» — приложение «Музыкальный Конструктор», которое позволяет создавать музыку, основанную на сэмплах Creative Commons. Передаём микрофон.... →

Here it comes, Central Europe: PragueCrunch IV! This annual celebration of all things startup is coming to your town on Friday, July 31, 2015 from 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM (CEST). We’ll be holding the event on the terrace at Střelecký Ostrov. If you’ve been to any of the previous events you’ll know it’s a good time. We have special early bird tickets available now right… Read More... →

Rusbase готовит новую встречу стартапов с инвесторами и приглашает проекты принять участие в отборе=... →

Каждый день редакция ЦП выбирает один свежий зарубежный стартап, вызвавший резонанс в профессиональном сообществе, и рассказывает о нём читателям. Сегодня в «Идеях для бизнеса» — фитнес-трекер Moov Now.Одним из основных преимуществ гаджета является то, что для измерения дневной активности он определяет положение человека в 3D-пространстве, а не количество пройденных шагов, а также способность давать советы тренирующемуся владельцу.... →

A common rule of thumb among early stage VCs is to reserve 2–3X dollars for every $1 initially invested in a startup. This is in order to maintain ownership levels in selected portfolio companies and to support them through good times and bad. Obviously, it’s not optimal to invest the same amount per company. Given the often binary returns within VC portfolios, there are usually… Read More... →

Венчурный фонд Almaz Capital повторно инвестировал в компанию с российскими корнями Cinarra Systems, которая разрабатывает технологии и сервисы для операторов беспроводного доступа и мобильной связи.  Стартап привлек $20 млн в раунде B, который возглавила японская корпорация SoftBank. Также в сделке приняла участие инвестиционная компания Siguler Guff & Company. Cinarra Systems также начала сотрудничество с SoftBank в Японии через площадку таргетированной рекламы. Компания разработала платформу, которая отк... →

Groupon, a company known for connecting consumers with local deals, has acquired a food delivery startup: OrderUp. The financial details were not disclosed. Founded in 2009, OrderUp operates in 26 states, predominately in or around college towns. The startup says it has processed more than 10 million orders. “The potential in delivery and takeout is apparent […]... →

EXCLUSIVE: Codeship, a startup that offers a web-based continuous delivery service for testing and then deploying code, is launching today a new Organizations service tier that will help companies specify exactly what each employee can do in Codeship. Also today, Codeship is announcing that more than 20,000 developers are actively using the service — twice as […]... →

There’s been some significant consolidation among the rush of on-demand cleaning and home services startups. Now one of the companies vying to end up on the top of the heap is expanding into a new category. Handy — the New York-based home services startup is active in 28 cities and has raised $64 million — is launching Handy Delivery, a delivery and assembly service,… Read More... →