Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

Инвесткомпания Leta Capital объявила финансовые итоги работы своего первого фонда LETA Capital Limited. Фонд был сформирован в 2012, объем сделанных инвестиций составил $15 млн. За время работы фонда его IRR (Internal Rate of Return – внутренняя норма доходности) по уже выплаченным средствам  составил 11% годовых в долларах, при этом в портфеле фонда остаются растущие и ликвидные компании, поэтому срок работы фонда в конце 2019 года был продлен на два года. В течение этого периода Leta Capital намерена реал... →

Unacademy, one of India’s fastest growing education startups, has just received the backing of a major technology giant: Facebook. The social juggernaut has participated in the four-year-old Indian startup’s Series E financing round, sources familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. General Atlantic is leading the round, the size of which is about $100 million, the […]... →

Продолжение серии блиц-интервью с российскими венчурными инвесторами.... →

Основатель Watts Battery Юрий Власов создал переносной источник энергии, который сравнивают с изобретением Илона Маска. Сейчас его компания — единственный российский стартап, получивший международный сертификат B Corp, подтверждающий соответствие строжайшим критериям в области социальной ответственности и защиты окружающей среды. Юрий рассказал Rusbase, с чего все начиналось и как стартап из России вышел на международный уровень.... →

Patreon, a platform for creators to earn monetary support from fans, is busting out the checkbook. The startup isn’t playing VC quite yet with newly-launched Patreon Capital but they are hocking non-equity cash advances (loans!) for Patreon customers in need of some extra cash for big creative rollouts. Patreon has already made about a dozen […]... →

A new startup called Arize AI is building what it calls a real-time analytics platform for artificial intelligence and machine learning. The company is led by CEO Jason Lopatecki, who has also served as chief strategy officer and chief innovation officer at TubeMogul, the video ad company acquired by Adobe. TubeMogul’s co-founder and former CEO […]... →

Back in 2018 OurPath emerged as a startup in the UK tackling the problem of diabetes. The company helped customers tackle the disease, and raised a $3m round of funding by combining advice from health experts with tracking technology via a smartphone app to help people build healthy habits and lose weight. Now rebranded as […]... →

Toronto-based telecommunications startup Kepler Communications surprised many recently when it revealed plans to establish its own satellite assembly and base the operation in its own hometown instead of contracting the work to an existing manufacturer. It might seem a perplexing and unnecessarily costly choice at first, but I spoke to Kepler CEO and co-founder Mina […]... →

“I don’t feel good about that. That sucks” Chrys Bader-Wechseler reflects when asked about the bullying that went down on the anonymous app Secret he co-founded in 2013. After $35 million raised, 15 million users, and a spectacular flame out two years later, the startup was dead. “Since I left secret I feel alive and […]... →

Video editing startup InVideo has new funding and a new product. The San Francisco-headquartered company bills itself as the easiest way for anyone to create professional-quality videos, using a drag-and-drop interface, along with a library of templates and stock photos and videos. The resulting videos can then be optimized for Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and other […]... →

Robotic process automation — the ability to automate certain repetitive software-based tasks to free up people to focus on work that computers cannot do — has become a major growth area in the world of IT. Today, a startup called Aisera is coming out of stealth that has taken this idea and supercharged it, by […]... →

TC Early Stage SF goes down on April 28, and we are getting pretty damn excited about it! The show will bring together 50+ experts across startup core competencies, such as fundraising, operations and marketing. We’ll hear from VCs on how to create the perfect pitch deck and how to identify the right investors for […]... →

In the wake of the $5.3 billion sale of banking API provider Plaid to Visa — a deal generally lauded as intelligent for the larger company — fintech became an even hotter part of the venture capital and startup landscape. While companies in the broad fintech and finservices spaces were already attractive bets for private […]... →

As we all saw in Oscar-winning short film Hair Love, black hair is beautiful but it’s also notoriously difficult to manage. One of the first hair memories Naza founder and CEO Natanya Montgomery has is of her mom brushing her hair into three afro puffs on the top of her head. When she was seven, […]... →

Air mobility startup Volocopter will be working together with on-demand transportation, food delivery and payments company Grab on a feasibility study around air mobility in Southeast Asia. The joint study is part of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed by the two companies that covers exploration of the potential deployment of air taxi services in […]... →

Блокчейн-проект позволяет проводить мультивалютные транзакции.... →

28 февраля состоится конкурс питчей от школы стартапов RUSSOL. Победители получат грант в 150 тысяч рублей, который они смогут потратить на обучение в весеннем потоке школы. Участие в питче бесплатное.... →

Новое десятилетие тянет за собой эволюционные изменения в том числе и в сфере поиска профессионалов. Характер трансформаций в отношениях между работодателем и специалистом вполне просматривался в тенденциях последних лет. Сооснователь фонда Admitad Invest и руководитель стартап-студии Admitad Projects Максим Волохов уверен, что в двадцатые наибольшая опасность для бизнеса кроется в экономии на профессионалах. Иными словами, талант требует достойной оплаты и внимательного, не шаблонного отношения к компетен... →

Cape Town based startup Zindi has registered 10,000 data-scientists on its platform that uses AI and machine learning to crowdsolve complex problems in Africa. Founded in 2018, the early-stage venture allows companies, NGOs or government institutions to host online competitions around data-oriented challenges. Zindi opens the contests to the African data scientists on its site […]... →

The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive it every Saturday in your inbox. Hello again — or perhaps for the first time. This is Kirsten Korosec, senior transportation reporter at TechCrunch and your host here at The Station. This weekly […]... →