Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

Getsafe, the digital-first insurance startup that initially launched with an app for home contents insurance, has closed $30 million in Series B funding. Swiss Re, the reinsurer giant, led the round. Existing investors, including Earlybird and CommerzVentures, also participated. Getsafe has raised a total of $53 million to date since being founded in May 2015. […]... →

Like a lot of startups, Aarmy faced some big challenges when the pandemic forced widespread shutdowns in March. Up until then, Aarmy was offering in-person fitness classes from its locations in New York and Los Angeles. Trey Laird, who founded the startup with trainers Akin Akman (chief fitness officer) and Angela Manuel-Davis (chief motivation officer), […]... →

Aurora Innovation, the autonomous vehicle startup backed by Sequoia Capital and Amazon, has reached an agreement with Uber to buy the ride-hailing firm’s self-driving unit in a complex deal that will value the combined company at $10 billion. Aurora is not paying cash for Uber ATG, a company that was valued at $7.25 billion following […]... →

Do people want their at-home fitness to come in video game form? The incredible popularity of games like Ring Fit Adventure suggests yes. London-based startup Quell thinks it’s just the beginning for this genre, and they’ve raised a $3M seed round to help prove it. At the core of Quell’s gameplay is the “Gauntlet” — a […]... →

Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners, the investment firm which spun out of Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs to fund and develop the next generation of infrastructure, has unveiled its latest project — Reslia, which focuses on upgrading the efficiency and reliability of power grids. Through a $20 million equity investment in the startup OhmConnect, and an $80 million commitment […]... →

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Tecton.ai, the startup founded by three former Uber engineers who wanted to bring the machine learning feature store idea to the masses, announced a $35 million Series B today, just seven months after announcing their $20 million Series A. When we spoke to the company in April, it was working with early customers in a […]... →

Образовательная платформа Coursera рассматривает вопрос о проведении IPO в 2021 году, рассказали источники Bloomberg, знакомые с ситуацией. Сама компания не комментирует эту информацию. Основанная в 2012 году Coursera сотрудничает с более 200 университетами, которые выкладывают на платформу свои курсы, а также ведут сертификацию и выдают дипломы. По собственным данным, на платформе более 4600 курсов и 76 млн учащихся. Пандемия коронавируса вызвала резкий рост интереса интереса к платформам дистанционного из... →

Программа стоит около 700 тысяч рублей, но победителям конкурса компенсируют больше половины стоимости.... →

Международный оператор Telenor в конце ноября спешно продал стартап Tapad на четверть дешевле, чем приобрел его всего четыре года назад. Партнёрам не удалось построить ни одного из тех совместных направлений, которые задумывались, а выручка упала ниже, чем была до сделки. Сооснователь Segmento Роман Нестер разобрался в том, почему это произошло.... →

French startup Luko has raised a $60 million Series B funding round (€50 million). The round is led by EQT Ventures, with existing investors Accel, Founders Fund and Speedinvest also participating. Some angel investors with a background in insurance and technology are also investing in the startup, such as Assaf Wand, the co-founder of Hippo […]... →

Founder Mike Cagney is always pushing the envelope, and investors love him for it. Not long sexual harassment allegations prompted him to leave SoFi, the personal finance company that he cofounded in 2011, he raised $50 million for new lending startup called Figure that has since raised at least $225 million from investors and was […]... →

Zephr has raised $8 million in a new funding round led by Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments (owned by media giant Bertelsmann). The London-headquarteed startup’s customers already include publishers like McClatchy, News Corp Australia, Dennis Publishing and PEI Media. CEO James Henderson told me via email that rather than creating “a monolithic product that tries to […]... →

Shared electric moped startup Revel said Friday that it will shut down its service in Austin later this month. The startup’s CEO and co-founder Frank Reig didn’t place the entire blame on the COVID-19 pandemic, which has caused ridership to fall across shared micromobility services as well as public transit, for the company’s decision. Instead, […]... →

When Salesforce bought Slack earlier this week for $27.7 billion, it was in some ways the end of a startup fairytale. Slack was the living embodiment of the Silicon Valley startup success fantasy. It started as a pivot from a game company, of all things. It raised $1.4 billion, went from zero to a $7 […]... →

Fintech startup Revolut is launching its own acquiring solution. With this move, the company is competing directly with Stripe, Adyen, Braintree or Checkout.com. This is an in-house product and not just a fresh coat of paint on an existing solution. As a reminder, Revolut already offers business accounts. It lets you send and receive international […]... →

Travel-стартапы, которые завоевывают рынок... →

Travel-стартапы, которые завоевывают рынок... →

Сбер и известный акселератор 500 Startups уже в третий раз запускают совместный проект Сбep500. Rusbase пообщался с Натальей Магидей, руководителем акселератора Сбер500, и узнал, чего ждать от этой волны, какие проекты интересуют Сбер и как пандемия повлияла на работу акселератора.... →

Маниш Пиюш работал в 14 странах, но решил вернуться в свой родной город Ранчи. Он видел, что бизнес в Индии концентрируется на масштабных задачах и не решает базовые, а в малых населенных пунктах наблюдается утечка квалифицированных кадров. В 2019 году Маниш Пиюш и Адитья Кумар запустили проект по производству и доставке качественного молока и молочных продуктов. Уже через полгода стартап Puresh Daily вышел на точку безубыточности.... →