Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

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... →

Athens, Greece-based mobile survey platform Pollfish has closed a Series A funding round of $2.5 million. The round was led by Odyssey Investment Partners, PJ Catalyst, Woodside Group and several unnamed angel investors. It brings total funding to $2.8 million since the company was founded in n 2013. Pollfish says the new capital will be used for continued U.S. expansion. Read More... →

While Greece and its creditors continue to play a game of chicken, a startup out of Germany putting a big data spin on the business of loaning money is raising a large round of funding. TechCrunch has learned that Kreditech, an online finance startup that loans money to consumers who have little or no credit rating, is raising around $110 million in a Series C round of funding at a… Read More... →

Сегодня в рубрике «Стартапы» — мобильное приложение TouchBag, которое помогает собрать чемодан в дорогу. Передаём микрофон.... →

Muere la revolución. Spanish smartphone maker Geeksphone has confirmed it’s stepping out of the mobile making game almost six years after founding a startup business to build handsets for an enthusiast community of geeks looking for something a little different to mainstream smartphones. 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» — сервис Cups, который предлагает предоплаченную подписку на кофе в независимых кофейнях и местных заведениях.... →

Splunk announced this evening it had purchase Caspida, a Palo Alto startup that uses machine learning techniques to help identify threats from inside and outside the company, for $190 million, The deal has already closed, the company reported. Splunk helps companies deal with the onslaught of machine data coming from IT systems using data science techniques and automation to make sense of it. Read More... →

Disrupt SF is right around the corner, and spots in the Startup Alley are filling up fast. If you want to get in on the action, now is the time to get your act together and sign up. Startup Alley is one of the best parts of Disrupt. In the Alley, hundreds of companies proudly display and discuss their technology to enthusiasts eager to hear their story. For three days, software and hardware… Read More... →

Disney just announced the second batch of companies that will participate in the Disney Accelerator. The program will again be a three-month mentorship period powered by Techstars, and each company will receive up to $120,000 in investment capital. While some of us doubt the benefits of a corporate accelerator, companies from the first batch have reached some impressive milestones, with all… Read More... →

Publicly traded log analytics company Splunk announced today that it has acquired Caspida, a cybersecurity startup, for a total of $190 million. “Splunk customers now have out-of-the-box user behavioral analytics to help detect, respond to and mitigate these threats,” Splunk said in a statement on the news. Caspida built tools that rely on machine learning […]... →

Ангел и основатель компании SmartHub Богдан Яровой рассказывает о свободном графике бизнес-ангела, просторе для творчества и финансовых преференциях венчурного рынка ранних стадий. Богдан насчитал целых семь причин стать отчаянным инвестором ранних стадий. Причина 1. Внутренний рост За 20 лет работы в банке я прожил все фазы развития этого сектора: от чистого адреналина на старте до построения хорошо систематизированного бизнеса. К сожалению, теперь в этой индустрии основное внимание уделяется не развитию, ... →

Фонд iTech Capital инвестировал в стартап BitFury, специализирующегося на поддержке криптовалюты. Это первый случай, когда российский фонд вкладывается в биткоины. Это первый случай, когда российский фонд вкладывается в биткоины.  Общий объем инвестиций составил $20 миллионов. В раунде также приняли участи фонды DRW Venture Capital и Georgian Co-Investment Fund. По словам представителя фонда Алексея Тельнова, iTech Capital возглавил раунд. BitFury – одна из компаний, которая обеспечивает работу технологии B... →

Last year’s $500 million acquisition of DeepMind by Google undoubtedly put Artificial Intelligence (AI) squarely in the minds of investors and media alike. So much so that there’s a tendency to re-badge any tech comprising of algorithms and machine learning as AI. However, regardless of where that line starts and stops, Munich-based Neokami claims it’s the real deal. Read More... →

PSafe, the leading antivirus player in Brazil, is announcing a $30M Series D to take its security and privacy app suite to the rest of Latin America. Read More... →

Some things are just so awesome you have to do them. Like Snakes on a Plane (although that turned out badly) or jumping in a pool of jello. Or, apparently, making a mini desktop shipping container for your Docker containers. Inveterate hacker, identity researcher, and startup founder Dick Hardt has launched a project on Kickstarter […]... →

Представители двух западных компаний — консультационного агентства Undercurrent и разработчика сервиса по управлению аккаунтами в социальных сетях Buffer — рассказали изданию Quarz, как руководство проектов решило раскрыть размеры зарплат сотрудников и как это помогло в развитии двух организаций.... →

Команда стартапа насчитывает 14 человек, половина их которых – маркетологи, еще треть - программисты. В Берлин на время акселерационной программы поехали только основатели. .... →

This afternoon I got on a call with GoCardless CEO and co-founder Hiroki Takeuchi to hear the startup’s pitch and catch up on its latest $1 billion milestone. We also talked candidly about what it’s like when two of your co-founders leave, and the moment GoCardless pivoted to become the success and fintech darling it is today. Read More... →

It’s proving to be a busy week for big-hitting VC firm Tiger Global in India. It led a $100 million investment in music streaming service Saavn, put up media startup News In Shorts’ $20 million Series B raise, and today it led a $10.2 million round for medical service Lybrate. Read More... →