Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

Grishin Robotics — международная инвестиционная компания, созданная гендиректором Mail.Ru Group Дмитрием Гришиным для того, чтобы способствовать развитию массовой персональной робототехники по всему миру. Недавно компания сделала свою крупнейшую инвестицию — в американскую компанию littleBits, разработчика платформы для изучения электроники и прототипирования новых устройств.ЦП пообщался с директором по развитию Grishin Robotics Валерией Комиссаровой, которая рассказала о рынке робототехники, причинах его р... →

Startups around the world are snapping up funding to solve an important problem: how to eat healthy, delicious meals with the least possible amount of effort. The latest is Jakarta-based meal delivery service Berry Kitchen, which just raised a $1.25 million Series A led by Sovereign’s Capital, with participation from East Ventures. Read More... →

Rakuten — Japan’s answer to Amazon with e-commerce investments that stretch from digital media and e-commerce marketplaces through to social media and even transport apps — is making another acquisition to expand its holdings in the area of fashion. The company has acquired Fits.me, a startup founded in Estonia and now headquartered in London that develops “virtual… Read More... →

Каждый день редакция ЦП выбирает один свежий зарубежный стартап, вызвавший резонанс в профессиональном сообществе, и рассказывает о нём читателям. Сегодня в «Идеях для бизнеса» — платформа DataWallet, которая платит пользователям за то, что они раскрывают личную информацию брендам.... →

Ameyo, a Gurgaon-based startup that makes software for customer support and sales centers, has raised a Series A of $5 million from Forum Synergies. The company, which already has customers throughout Asia, the Middle East, and Africa, plans to use the capital to expand into the United States. Read More... →

Posted by Leveragist It was pure joy and exhilaration as I monitored the traffic in real-time. Traffic coming in from all over the world. It felt freakin' AWESOME! 5,680 visitors on that first day... on a site that was less than a year old. It almost felt like I'd won the lottery, except I'd known it was going to happen. Not with 100% certainty, but I'd had enough confidence it was going to happen that I upgraded my server at the last minute. I'd heard enough horror stories about sites crashing due to an un... →

U.S.-based VC firm 500 Startups is launching a new accelerator program in Southeast Asia that is designed to help companies in the region that have raised money take their business to the next level. Read More... →

Японский концерн Rakuten купил 100% акций эстонской компании Fits.me, которая занимается развитием виртуальных примерочных. Сумма сделки не раскрывается. Руководитель проекта Джеймс Гамбрел останется на посту генерального директора. Планируется, что Rakuten выделит работу Fits.me в отдельный сервис, который будет заниматься развитием технологий электронной коммерции. Компания будет работать с такими клиентами как Thomas Pink, Hugo Boss и QVC. В октябре 2014 года сервис виртуальных примерочных Fits.me привле... →

Начальник управления инновационного развития ПАО «РусГидро» – партнера стартап-конкурса GenerationS – Олег Калинко объясняет, как в корпорации устроен процесс управления инновациями.  Инновации для «РусГидро» – это не только производственные технологические решения, но и инновации в информационных технологиях, развитии человеческого капитала и бизнес-процессах. Эти четыре направления ключевые для нас, мы постоянно ищем новые решения в этих областях и готовы работать со стартапами, которые их разрабатывают. ... →

It’s no secret that most startups fail. What’s a bit less obvious is that most startup accelerators also fail. While a few top-tier programs get the cream of the crop unicorns of the future, the hundreds of others struggle to attract teams that will produce the investment-grade companies on which their models so depend. Read More... →

Believe it or not, it’s been 10 years since Google bought Android Inc., a startup that was quietly building software for cell phones. Rich Miner, a cofounder of Android Inc. and now a general partner at Google Ventures, tweeted early this morning that today is the 10-year anniversary of the deal. “People thought we were […]... →

The past three months have redefined the education technology market among startup companies. Concerns about free content from YouTube and educational nonprofits, as well as user engagement and retention, were beginning to sour investors on the opportunity afforded by providing for-profit education to the lifelong learning sector. Read More... →

U.S. startup Invi reckons there’s space for one more messaging app play. Not a little one either. Co-founder Iddo Tal sees a gaping hole in the market for a North America-focused messaging platform giant to flourish — and, he hopes, become a global marketplace for content distribution. Such stuff startup dreams are made on. Read More... →

Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, updated as the day unfolds. Tip us here if you have a deal to share. TrapX Security catches a $9M round Security startup TrapX Security announce today that it closed a series B round led by Intel Capital and Liberty Israel Venture Fund. The $9 million round will […]... →

We’d been hearing that Steve Huffman, a co-founder of Reddit who also co-founded flight and hotel search startup Hipmunk, is currently being considered for the CEO job at Reddit. Now that move is confirmed. Huffman’s appointment follows turmoil at Reddit following the firing of Victoria Taylor, a community manager that the Reddit community relied on, last week. Alexis… Read More... →

Consciously or not, there’s a kind of deal we make when we use many online services — in exchange for free access, we accept ads and give up some of our personal data. Now a startup called DataWallet is planning to make that exchange a little more rewarding, with real cash. Brands often want access to this kind of personal data, and DataWallet founder and CEO Serafin Lion Engel… Read More... →

Lucas Carlson, the chief innovation officer at publicly traded telecommunications company and cloud provider CenturyLink, is leaving the company next week, VentureBeat has learned. The departure comes two years after CenturyLink acquired Carlson’s startup, AppFog. He’ll spend his last day at the company next week, a source familiar with the matter told VentureBeat. CenturyLink has […]... →

Bolt is a San Francisco-based startup that makes electric motorbikes. The bikes are handmade in a small garage on the edge of town and come with the same type of lithium-ion batteries used in Teslas. Co-founder Nathan Jauvtis grew up riding and assembling motorcycles and bikes, but he really liked the idea of building his own bike – one that would be clean and easy to ride. He started… Read More... →

iTech Capital вложился в BitFury – стартап, который развивает инфраструктуру платежной системы Bitcoin.... →

There’s been a lot of talk in venture circles lately about “signaling risk” and seed-stage investments. The gist: When earlier backers are high-profile venture firms, and these firms decide not to participate in a startup’s next round, it hurts the company’s ability to raise a Series A round. Although this concern isn’t exactly new, recent numbers… Read More... →