Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

In a telling sign of the state of bike sharing, Mobike, a once red-hot startup that attracted billions in investment capital, is closing down all international operations and putting its sole focus on China. On Friday, Mobike laid off its operations teams in APAC, which entailed more than 15 full-time employees and many more contractors […]... →

Serial Box, a startup bringing back the tradition of serialized fiction, has raised $4.5 million in seed funding. The company actually disclosed the funding last week, when announcing a partnership to produce stories about Marvel characters, but it’s sharing more details about the round — namely, the fact that it was led by Boat Rocker […]... →

Healthcare in the United States is so complicated that even employees with good benefits might have a hard time navigating their options. HealthJoy wants to help with a health benefits platform that uses AI to answer questions. The Chicago-based startup announced today that it has raised $12.5 million in Series B funding led by U.S. […]... →

During its earnings report yesterday afternoon, Okta announced it intends to acquire Azuqua, a Bellevue, Washington workflow automation startup for $52.5 million. In a blog post announcing the news, Okta co-founder and COO Frederic Kerrest saw the combining of the two companies as a way to move smoothly between applications in a complex workflow without […]... →

Salesforce is celebrating its 20th anniversary today. The company that was once a tiny irritant going after giants in the 1990s Customer Relationship Management (CRM) market, such as Oracle and Siebel Systems, has grown into full-fledged SaaS powerhouse. With an annual run rate exceeding $14 billion, it is by far the most successful pure cloud […]... →

PolyAI, a London startup founded by experts in the field of “conversational AI” — including CEO Nikola Mrkšić who was previously the first engineer at Apple-acquired VocalIQ — has raised $12 million in Series A funding to deploy its tech in customer support contact centres. The round was led by Point72 Ventures, with participation from […]... →

A blockchain-based mobile voting app called Voatz is getting put to the test again. The city of Denver revealed today that it has agreed to implement a mobile voting pilot in its May municipal election using the four-year-old, Boston-based startup’s technology. It will be offered exclusively to active-duty military, their eligible dependents and overseas voters […]... →

David Mayman has a vision for personal aviation that he’s spent the past dozen years and millions of his personal fortune chasing. He hasn’t accepted the convention that jetpacks were just a misguided fantasy for the future; his company, Jetpack Aviation, has been building them and he’s been zooming around in publicity-grabbing stunts in a […]... →

As the streaming world continues to grow, startups are looking to take advantage of the opportunity and grab a slice of the pie, and indeed create new revenue models around it entirely.  Camelot, a YC-backed startup, is one such company. Camelot allows viewers to place bounties on their favorite streamers, putting a monetary value on […]... →

A San Francisco-based startup just raised $15 million to solve the complicated problem of transit infrastructure in urban environments. Remix was founded by Tiffany Chu, Dan Getelman, Danny Whalen, and Sam Hashemi in 2014 following a project they built during their Code For America fellowships. The $15 million Series B round was led by Energy […]... →

Motif, the startup using machine learning to develop investment strategies for consumers and institutional investors, and Goldman Sachs, one of the world’s leading investment banks, have launched new technology-driven indices to power a series of co-branded exchange traded funds. “All these [current] indices are built with humans doing research to go in and figure out […]... →

фонд ранних стадий Pulsar Venture Capital объявил о создании квот для компаний, в числе основателей которых не меньше половины — женщины. По словам организаторов, при соответствии критериям отбора такие команды получат преимущества в очном туре программы акселерации технологических компаний.  У женщин-фаундеров будут бонусы при отборе анкет: они получат возможность принять участие в питч-сессии на Российском венчурном форуме в Kazan Expo, отдельный стенд на мероприятии и главное — приоритет в распределении ... →

Spill, the London-based startup that offers a message-based therapy app to help improve workplace well-being, has picked up £650,000 in seed investment. The round is backed by Passion Capital, Seedcamp and a number of angel investors, including Made.com founder Julian Callede and Urban co-founder Jack Tang. Founded a little over a year ago by Calvin […]... →

ФРИИ и фонд «Сколково» продолжают набор кандидатов в акселератор Build UP для стартапов, разрабатывающих решения для строительства, продажи и эксплуатации недвижимости. Акселерационная программа пройдет совместно с ведущими московскими девелоперскими и строительными компаниями: «Галс-Девелопмент», «Донстрой» и ФОДД.... →

Сервис ботов для малого и среднего бизнеса TimeAdge стал новым героем рубрики «Фандрайзинг». Стартап хочет привлечь 2 млн рублей, заявляя, что проект окупится за 15 месяцев. Если вы ищете инвестиции или проект для вложений, заходите также в наш сервис Pipeline, где инвесторы знакомятся со стартапами.... →

Money talks in the startup community, especially when SoftBank comes knocking with the megabucks of its Vision Fund. Despite the public outcry around the firm’s dependence on money from Saudi Arabia in the wake of that country’s assassination of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, deal flow for Softbank’s Vision Fund appears to be back to […]... →

Wine buying is daunting for most people, whether it’s online or off a menu or in an aisle filled with so many brands that it’s hard not to buy the same products time after time, just to stay sane. Therein lies the opportunity for Bright Cellars, a nearly four-year-old, 40-person Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based startup that sells […]... →

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TechCrunch is profiling great startup lawyers wherever they may be working — and that includes within new companies built from the ground up around tech. Today, we’re interviewing Jared Verzello of Atrium. While even the most old-line of law firms have begun integrating document automation and analysis software, Atrium started that way. Around two years […]... →

Венчурный фонд Ad.ru последние полтора года развивал новую стратегию инвестирования в стартапы, в результате которой предложил рынку новый продукт для оценки проектов и принял решение участвовать в сделках только в качестве соинвестора. Об этом Rusbase рассказал директор по развитию бизнеса Ad.ru Александр Пустовит.... →