Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

Венчурный партнер фонда Runa Capital Олег Чельцов инвестировал в платформу найма инженеров Talent.io, которая на днях привлекла $2,2 млн. Эта сделка стала четвертой в активе бизнесмена за последние 4 месяца.  В марте этого года Чельцов инвестировал в международный сервис онлайн-бронирования профессиональных специалистов StarOfService (SoS), который привлек €1,1 млн. Раунд возглавили фонды Kima Ventures и Point Nine Capital. В начале июня Чельцов, в числе инвесторов Дэви Кестенса (Davy Kestens), Мишель Мейер... →

Busy sales people want to spend their time interacting with customers, not taking care of administrative work. That’s where PandaDoc comes in, a startup that helps automate creation of quotes, proposals and contracts. Today it announced a $5 million investment led by Altos Ventures with additional participation from TMT Investments and other unnamed investors. The announcement… Read More... →

Over the last decade of so, Paul Lee had enjoyed a nice career as a venture capitalist. Last year, an idea began to nag at him, though, and in November, he left his job of several years, as an investor at Lightbank in Chicago, to pursue it with two other former Lightbank colleagues, Ryan Jeffery and Kathryn Saluke, and their friend Arman Ghosh. The fruit of their labor: nine-month-old Roniin,… Read More... →

Акселератор «Сталь» открывает первый в Москве крупный коворкинг, оборудованный для «железных» стартапов.... →

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. WeWork raises a hefty $433M funding round Coworking space startup WeWork today disclosed a $433.9 million funding round in a new document on file with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The valuation of […]... →

Language-learning startup Babbel has raised $22 million to help expedite product development and expansion across the Americas. Today’s announcement takes the company’s total known funding past the $30 million mark, including $10 million raised in 2013, though it did raise a “significant” undisclosed amount way back in 2008. The latest round was led by new investor […]... →

Создатель закрывшегося в 2010 году сервиса для управления личными финансами Wesabe Марк Хедланд написал заметку в своём блоге, в которой рассказал о том, почему проекту пришлось прекратить свою деятельность, и какие уроки он для себя извлёк.... →

Apester is announcing that it has raised $8 million in Series A funding. We wrote about the company back when it was a social game startup called Qmerce. Now it offers tools for online publishers to create polls, surveys, personality tests and video quizzes, then embed them in their articles. Read More... →

There is now a subscription service for just about anything, and feminine hygiene products are no exception. There is HelloFlo, Le Parcel, Juniper and the list goes on and on. But scheduled deliveries does not a great service make. Lola, a new startup that just picked up $1.2 million in seed funding, is looking to differentiate not through merely scheduling deliveries, but by enhancing… Read More... →

French startup VideoStitch just raised $2.25 million from Alven Capital for its video editing software solution. This isn’t your average video editing software, as the company is able to output a live 360 feed using multiple action cameras, making it perfect for virtual reality headsets. Read More... →

Сегодня в рубрике «Стартапы» — проект «Национальная телерадиологическая сеть», который позволяет получить удалённую консультацию врача-радиолога. Передаём микрофон.... →

Confluent, the startup providing commercial support for and building tools on top of the Apache Kafka open-source software, announced today a $24 million funding round. The news comes just eight months after Confluent spun out of LinkedIn with $6.9 million in tow. Apache Kafka, officially described as a distributed high-throughput publish-subscribe messaging system, has become […]... →

The open source Kafka real-time stream data service was incubated at LinkedIn over five years ago. Since then, Kafka has become an official Apache open-source project and the original developers left LinkedIn last year to launch Confluent, an enterprise startup that — unsurprisingly — focuses on Kafka. Read More... →

London-based anti-fraud and fintech startup Salviol has raised €6.5 million in a Series A round led by Orange Growth Capital — money it plans to use to expand its European and international operations, and to drive sales. Read More... →

Yesterday, the New York Times published a smart landscape piece about the growing ubiquity of angel investing in Silicon Valley, where everyone with money wants to pour at least some of it into a startup – preferably one that has already received the blessing of a better-known investor or ten. In fact, the crux of the piece was whether startups are now accepting checks from too many… Read More... →

Каждый день редакция ЦП выбирает один свежий стартап, вызвавший резонанс в профессиональном сообществе, и рассказывает о нём читателям. Сегодня в «Идеях для бизнеса» — сервис HackPack, который позволяет найти редакторов, фотографов, корреспондентов по всему миру.... →

I’m running another competition for a startup to live for a year for free in my Kansas City FiberHouse. When I bought my house in Kansas City in 2013, I announced my intentions clearly. “I’m not going to be living in it. Instead, I’m going to let entrepreneurs live / work in it. Rent free. […]... →

Coworking space startup WeWork today disclosed a $433.9 million funding round in a new document on file with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. That’s higher than the $400 million figure the Wall Street Journal reported last month. Hat tip to Dan Primack at Fortune for tweeting a link to the filing, which does not […]... →

So this happens to pretty often: I pull up an online video that I want to watch, only to be taken aback when I realize that it’s 10 or 20 or 30 minutes long. It’s particularly frustrating when there’s just one section or just one quote that I’m looking for. I end up skipping around trying to find that one bit — not exactly a great experience. A new startup is… Read More... →

QuickFire Networks launched its QuickFire TV platform at Disrupt SF 2014 during Startup Battlefield. Perhaps best described as a Pied Piper-esque solution for video, QuickFire TV is a custom hardware and software platform that reduces video file sizes and upload times so individuals and companies can get their videos out faster. Read More... →