Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

Куйбышевская железная дорога в партнерстве с Yandex.Cloud и YellowRockets открыли первый онлайн-хакатон для решения технологических задач и улучшения сервисов РЖД. Об этом Rusbase рассказал представитель платформы Yandex.Cloud.... →

Продюсирование книги — это тоже стартап: в основе каждого литературного проекта лежит новая идея, которую нужно донести до целевой аудитории. И точно так же успех зачастую зависит от крутизны вашей команды. Лана Басаргина и Муслим Чеченов, совладельцы агентства по изданию и промотированию бизнес-бестселлеров Bookwings, рассказывают, почему передумали набирать штатных сотрудников и чем хороши независимые специалисты.... →

Российский стартап Adnetic привлек $80 тысяч от бизнес-ангелов клуба Angelsdeck и инвесторов предыдущих раундов. Сделка была проведена в формате конвертируемых займов. Об этом Rusbase рассказал представитель Angelsdeck.... →

В конце сентября «дочка» Сбербанка «Цифровые технологии» получила 5% в ООО «Умный житель», следует из данных Kartoteka.ru. Гендиректор «Умного жителя» Константин Попов подтвердил “Коммерсанту” инвестиции от Сбербанка. В пресс-службе Сбербанка добавили, что инвестировали 6 млн руб. Стартап «Умный житель» был запущен в 2016 году. По данным «СПАРК-Интерфакса», выручка сервиса по РСБУ за 2019 год составила 15,2 млн рублей, чистая прибыль— 8,9 млн рублей. В 2019 году компания приняла участие в акселераторе Сберб... →

Bradley Tusk has become known in recent years for being involved in what’s about to get hot, from his early days advising Uber, to writing one of the first checks to the insurance startup Lemonade, to pushing forward the idea that we should be using the smart devices in our pockets to vote. Indeed, because […]... →

Synthetaic is a startup workign to create data — specifically images — that can be used to train artificial intelligence. Founder and CEO Corey Jaskolski’s past experience includes work with both National Geographic (where he was recently named Explorer of the Year) and a 3D media startup. In fact, he told me that his time […]... →

For all of the investors preaching that augmented reality technology will likely be the successor to the modern smartphone, today, most venture capitalists are still quite wary to back AR plays. The reasons are plentiful, but all tend to circle around the idea that it’s too early for software and too expensive to try to […]... →

This morning Root Insurance, a neo-insurance provider that has attracted ample private capital for its auto-insurance business, is targeting a valuation of as much as $6.34 billion in its pending IPO. The former startup follows insurtech leader Lemonade to the public markets during a year in which IPOs have been well-received by investors focused more […]... →

Montreal-based YPC Technologies today announced that it has raised a $1.8 million seed round. Led by Hike Ventures and Real Ventures, the funding includes participation from Toyota AI Ventures and Uphill Capital, among others, designed to help the company pilot its kitchen robotics technology. Toyota’s funding came as part of the company’s “Call of Innovation,” […]... →

Index founders, Xavier Pladevall and Eduardo Portet, have been friends since they were small children in the Dominican Republic. Both came to college in the U.S., and last year the two decided to launch a startup to help non-technical users build business intelligence dashboards without coding. Today they get to keep building on that dream […]... →

Stampli, a collaborative invoice management software company, introduced a payments product today called Stampli Direct Pay. The startup launched back in 2015 with a mission to simplify invoice management through collaboration (and a dash of AI). Interestingly, Stampli said it was uninterested at the time in providing a payments product alongside its collaborative suite, focusing […]... →

Gowalla is coming back. The startup, which longtime TechCrunch readers will likely recall, was an ambitious consumer social app that excited Silicon Valley investors but ultimately floundered in its quest to take on Foursquare before an eventual $3 million acquihire in 2011 brought the company’s talent to Facebook. The story certainly seemed destined to end […]... →

Usually, databases about companies have to be painstakingly updated by humans. Soleadify is a startup that uses machine learning to create profiles for businesses in any industry. The first of the company’s products is a business search engine that keeps over 40 million business profiles updated, currently used by hundreds of companies in the USA, […]... →

College graduates this year (and perhaps in the near-term) have been looking for work in what is one of the most challenging job markets in a decade due to the coronavirus and its impacts on the economy and how people can interact with each other. Today, a startup that’s helping them with that job hunting […]... →

В бизнесе есть своя «Уловка-22»: чтобы развивать проект, нужно привлекать высококвалифицированных специалистов, однако нанять их не получается, пока бизнес не достигнет определенных высот. Что может предложить неизвестный стартап тем, кто уже успел поработать в крупных корпорациях?... →

В России вырастет объем вложений со стороны бизнес-ангелов, такой прогноз высказал управляющий директор фонда Никита Ряузов в ходе конференц-кола. "Для России мы прогнозируем увеличение инвестиций со стороны ангелов и небольших инвесторов более чем в 2 раза по количеству сделок и инвестиций, со стороны корпоративных фондов - на 50%. Тенденции первого полугодия 2020 года подтверждают начало такого процесса", - сказал он.  "ЭкспоКапитал" в 2021 году планирует запустить второй венчурный фонд, ориентированный н... →

Tiliter, an Australian startup that’s using computer vision to power cashierless checkout tech that replaces the need for barcodes on products, has closed a $7.5 million Series A round of funding led by Investec Emerging Companies. The 2017-founded company is using AI for retail product recognition — claiming advantages such as removing the need for […]... →

One big technology by-product of the Covid-19 pandemic has been a much stronger focus on online education solutions — providing the tools for students to continue learning when the public health situation is preventing them from going into physical classrooms. As it happens, that paradigm also applies to the business world. Today, a startup out […]... →

Eat Just, the plant-based food startup, is launching a new Asian subsidiary through a partnership with Proterra Investment Partners Asia. The agreement includes building Eat Just’s first factory in Asia, which will be based in Singapore. As part of the deal, Proterra, which focuses on agri-tech, will invest up to $100 million in the facility, […]... →

A startup that is aiming to digitize millions of neighborhood stores in Bangladesh just raised the country’s largest Series A financing round. Dhaka-headquartered ShopUp said on Tuesday it has raised $22.5 million in a round co-led by Sequoia Capital India and Flourish Ventures. For both the venture firms, this is the first time they are […]... →