Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

Online coding bootcamp Lambda School is the latest startup to announce layoffs, writing in a blog post that it’s made the “difficult decision” to cut 19 staff from roles across the company. The eight members of its executive team, including CEO and founder Austen Allred, are also taking a 15% pay cut, it said. Today […]... →

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Africa focused payment startup PalmPay will waive transfer fees in Nigeria and offer direct payouts to customers who have contracted COVID-19 in the West African country. The venture — that launched in 2019 backed by China’s Transsion —  has created the PalmPay Support Fund. The initiative will start with 100 million Naira (≈ $300K) and […]... →

Swiggy is cutting about 1,000 jobs, most from its cloud kitchen division as India’s top food delivery startup scales back some of its businesses in response to the coronavirus pandemic that has drastically affected millions of firms. In a statement, the Bangalore-based startup said it was “evaluating various means to stay nimble and focus on […]... →

There is no shortage of coverage about the sprawling entertainment industry. There is a shortage of coverage for die-hard fans of reality TV shows, according to Kate Ward and Lindsay Mannering. That opening in the market why the two — former colleagues at the women’s website Bustle, where Ward was the founding editor-in-chief and and […]... →

There is massive momentum in fintech right now: regulations are finally opening up, APIs are more widely available than ever before, and there is a sense that existing products — both financial and technical — are just not doing the job that consumers and financial professionals demand. With excitement like that, fintech has unsurprisingly seen […]... →

В мире 240 млн спортсменов, которым устройство поможет контролировать свой результат прямо во время заплыва, отмечают в компании.... →

Disruptor Beam, the mobile gaming startup behind Star Trek Timelines, has a new name and a new business. It’s now calling itself Beamable, and it’s selling a set of tools to help game developers add commerce and social functionality to their titles. The company’s direction became clear earlier this year when it sold Timelines to […]... →

Augmented reality has seen plenty of hardware failures, but investors are still interested in the platform’s potential to help consumers solve niche problems. Form has been building AR-enhanced swim goggles that allow swimmers to track their pace, distance and stroke rate on a miniature heads-up display inside the goggles. The Vancouver startup tells TechCrunch they’ve […]... →

Env0, a startup that wants to help companies bring some order to delivery of Infrastructure as Code, announced a $3.3 million seed investment today and the release of the Beta of the company’s first product. Boldstart Ventures and Grove Ventures co-led the round with participation from several angel investors including Guy Podjarny of Snyk. Company […]... →

Фонд LETA Capital выпустил рекомендации для своих портфельных фондов, а также для других участников рынка. В Leta IT в частности советуют сократить выплаты топ менеджменту стартапов, в том числе уменьшить объем компенсаций и перенести часть выплат на более позднее время. Также можно трансформировать бонусную программу для сотрудников  за счет механизма ESOP (Employee Stock Ownership Plan - корпоративной социальной программы, которая дает возможность сотрудникам стать владельцами акций компании). Также в  LE... →

Во время экономического кризиса потребители не могут часто менять гардероб и больше ценят циклические бизнес-модели.... →

Стартап закрыл очередной раунд в разгар экономического спада.... →

Венчурный фонд LETA Capital опубликовал свод антикризисных правил и рекомендаций, призванных помочь стартапам преодолеть наступающий экономические кризис, сохранить свою эффективность и найти новые возможности для развития и трансформации бизнеса.... →

Среди стартапов, чей бизнес неожиданно быстро растер на фоне пандемии оказались не только создатели ПО для телеконференций. Bloomberg сообщает, что акции американского стартапа Flir выросли на 16% после того, как Amazon заявил, что будет устанавливать термальные сканеры компании в своем дочернем предприятии Whole Foods. При этом Amazon не называл, кто будет поставщиком оборудования, инвесторы "додумали" это самостоятельно, так как  сегмент термальных сканеров сравнительно небольшой. Flir  - крупнейший произ... →

Сервис для автоматизации колл-центров Dasha AI запустил голосового помощника, который звонит сотрудникам по утрам и спрашивает об их самочувствии. Об этом в фейсбуке рассказал сооснователь компании Арам Харди.... →

Vestiaire Collective just closed another big round of funding in the middle of an economic crisis — the round closed in early April. The startup raised $64.2 million (€59 million) and the company has raised over $240 million over the year according to CrunchBase. Vestiaire Collective operates a marketplace of pre-owned fashion items. Users can […]... →

A lot of startups have answered the call for more personal protective equipment (PPE) and other essentials to support healthcare workers in their efforts to curb the spread and impact of COVID-19. One of those is direct-to-consumer 3D-printed eyewear brand Fitz, which is employing its custom-fit glasses technology to build protective, prescription specs to frontline […]... →

Building a startup is hard enough. But COVID-19, our generation’s worst plot twist, gives new meaning to uncertainty and stress. No one had “pandemic” on their early-stage startup’s radar, which begs the question: How do you move your business forward in unprecedented times? It’s a huge challenge, and we’ve worked hard to find a way […]... →

This week in space was pretty active, with some startup news – including timing for a historic first – as well as scientific discoveries and innovation in the time of lockdown. Who better than NASA to demonstrate how science can get done remotely, since the agency is used to conducting experiments from millions of miles […]... →