Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

Kentaro Kawamori and Jason Offerman, the co-founders of new startup Persefoni, which aims to make carbon reporting easier for large corporations, know a few things about carbon emissions. The two men met at Chesapeake Energy Corp., an Oklahoma City-based energy company focused on oil and gas extraction that ranks as one of the biggest polluters […]... →

Jelani Memory, an entrepreneur and father, had been wanting to write a kids book for years. While in the midst of raising a Series B round for his startup Circle Media, he started to feel burned out and wanted to start doing something more creatively fulfilling, Memory told me. That’s what led Memory to create […]... →

Commercial electric vehicle startup Xos Trucks has raised $20 million, funding it will use to ramp up production ahead of potential new demand fueled by a landmark emissions rule adopted by California that will require more than half of all trucks sold in the state to be zero-emissions by 2035. The startup, which was formerly […]... →

SkyDeck Spring 2020 Cohort Contributor UC Berkeley SkyDeck is the startup accelerator of the University of California at Berkeley. We are members of the UC Berkeley SkyDeck startup accelerator spring 2020 cohort — the first to attend remotely. Many of us were looking forward to visiting Berkeley because one aspect of SkyDeck is a focus […]... →

Chamath Palihapitiya, the founder of Social Capital, does not do minority investing anymore. If he finds a startup he likes, he just buys it outright. The billionaire co-founded Social Capital in 2011, and seven years later, he pivoted the investment firm into a technology holding company. The transition wasn’t one that the investors hired into […]... →

Launch startup Skyrora had a successful test launch of its Skylark Micro rocket from Iceland on Sunday, with the rocket achieving its highest ever altitude at a height of 26.86 km (just under 17 miles). The four meter (13 foot) sub-orbital rocket took off from a mobile launch site at Iceland’s Langanes Peninsula that was […]... →

Quell is positioning itself as a kind of low-cost take on Peloton (less than 1/10th the price, it notes). You might too, if you were in the London-based startup’s place. With the stationary bike-maker’s value skyrocketing amid COVID-19 lockdowns, fitness startups are all the rage — heck, just look at Lululemon’s recent Mirror acquisition. A […]... →

The uptick in robotics funding continues this week with a big round for Calgary, Alberta’s Attabotics. The warehouse fulfillment startup announced a $50 million Series C, led — interestingly enough — by the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board, Canada’s largest pension plan. It’s a pretty hot moment for robotics and automation investing, as more industries […]... →

Казахстанский технопарк Astana Hub приглашает стартапы и IT-компании из стран СНГ. Проекты смогут пройти акселерационную программу, зарегистрировать компанию в качестве участника технопарка и получить инвестиции. Об этом Rubase рассказали в пресс-службе Astana Hub.... →

Canoo, the Los Angeles-based electric vehicle startup, has struck a deal to merge with special-purpose acquisition company Hennessy Capital Acquisition Corp., with a market valuation of $2.4 billion. The announcement Tuesday marks the fourth time this summer that an electric vehicle company has skipped the traditional IPO path and instead taken the company public through […]... →

A 20-month-old startup in India founded by a group of banking veterans that has built a mobile-first credit card and is improving the experience users have with credit cards has secured $10 million in a new financing round. Pune-based FPL Technologies’ $10 million Series A financing round was funded by Matrix Partners India, Sequoia Capital […]... →

Российский венчурный фонд Aintrigud, специализирующийся на инвестициях в food-стартапы, рассказал о новой сделке. Он вложил €60 тысяч в компанию Go Food, развивающий бренды Octa, Granolife и Foodtobegood. Об этом Rusbase рассказали в пресс-службе фонда.... →

Стартап Sensorium Corporation, занимающийся технологиями виртуальной реальности, с момента своего запуска в 2018 году привлек от инвесторов $100 млн, говорится в заявлении компании. Sensorium был основан при поддержке бизнесмена Михаила Прохорова, отмечает компания. Иван Никитин, руководитель отдела исследований и разработок в Sensorium, сообщил Business Insider, что миллиардер был соучредителем компании. По словам Никитина, в числе инвесторов есть и сам Прохоров, он негласно сделал взнос еще в 2018 году, н... →

What early-stage startup founder wouldn’t love to have a crystal ball? Especially now with a pandemic wreaking economic uncertainty across industries in every corner of the world. We don’t have mystical powers, but we do have the next best thing, and it’s available exclusively to early-stage founders exhibiting in Digital Startup Alley at Disrupt 2020. […]... →

Lana, a new startup based in Madrid, is looking to be the next big thing in Latin American fintech. Founded by a serial entrepreneur Pablo Muniz, whose last business was backed by one of Spain’s largest financial services institutions, BBVA; Lana is looking to be the all-in-one financial services provider for Latin America’s gig economy […]... →

Microsoft’s new Flight Simulator is a technological marvel that sets a new standard for the genre. But to recreate a world that feels real and alive and contains billions of buildings all in the right spots, Microsoft and Asobo Studios relied on the work of multiple partners. One of those is the small Austrian startup […]... →

Small and medium businesses have been some of the hardest hit in the coronavirus pandemic, and in many cases that has had a knock-on effect on the companies that provide services to them. Now, a startup that built a whole business around loaning money to SMBs has been acquired by a giant in the world […]... →

Предприниматель и бывший владелец баскетбольного клуба Brooklyn Nets Михаил Прохоров инвестировал средства в стартап виртуальной реальности Sensorium. Это произошло на момент запуска проекта в 2018 году. На данный момент компания уже привлекла около $100 млн. Об этом сообщает пресс-служба Sensorium.... →

It’s possible to raise VC funding even if you haven’t built a real product, according to Charles Hudson, founder and managing partner at seed-stage firm Precursor Ventures. It’s just very, very difficult. I interviewed Hudson during TechCrunch Early Stage, our virtual event for startup founders. He gave a short talk titled “How to sell an […]... →

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