Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

TechCrunch’s Disrupt events are known for big launch announcements, like the first public rollout of Dag Kittlaus’ Siri-killer Viv, as well as ground-breaking interviews with the top figures in the start-up and technology world, like Marc Benioff, Vitalik Buterin, Diane Greene, Ann Wojcicki, and hundreds more. Those interviews and TechCrunch’s storied Startup Battlefield,… Read More... →

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Geniac, the London-based startup that provided an “office as a service” for small and medium-sized businesses, is soon to enter the deadpool. Read More... →

S&P Global announced today that it will acquire Kensho, a Cambridge, Massachusetts startup that has concentrated on artificial intelligence and analytics for big financial institutions. The total value of the deal is $550 million in a mix of cash and stock. Kensho, which counted S&P Global as a client/partner and an investor, launched in 2013 and has raised $67.5 million, according… Read More... →

Magic Leap still hasn’t released a product, but they’re continuing to raise a lot of cash to get there. The Plantation, Florida-based augmented reality startup announced today that it has raised $461 million from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s sovereign investment arm, The Public Investment Fund. The Saudi Arabian fund contributed $400 million of the raise, with… Read More... →

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It seems that everyone agrees that meetings are a time suck. There have been many attempts to use technology to make it easier to organize and run them, but Voicera, a Bay area startup, is attacking the problem from a different angle. It wants to make it simpler to record meetings and pull out action items automatically using artificial intelligence. Today, it announced a $20 million Series… Read More... →

Atom Bank, the startup based out of Durham, England that operates a mobile-only bank targeting consumers between the ages of 18 and 34, has raised another big round of funding. The company today announced another £149 million ($206 million) in funding to double down on its existing business — focused currently on savings accounts, mortgages and small business loans — as well as… Read More... →

Елена Абрамова из Puzzle English узнала у 7 предпринимателей, поднявших раунд, как надо отвечать на сложные вопросы инвесторов.  7 стартаперов:  Александр Антонов, CEO и основатель платформы по изучению английского языка Puzzle English  – около 30 встреч с представителями разных фондов – осенью 2014 получили $500 тысяч инвестиций от SOLventures и Genezis Technology Capital Аркадий Мешковский, CEO и основатель сообщества по аренде вещей Rentmania – в 2014 в ФРИИ получили деньги на верификацию сервиса Рубен Б... →

TechCrunch is proud to bring Startup Battlefield Europe to Paris in partnership with VivaTech, which takes place on May 24th – 25. Thousands of founders, business leaders, investors, academics, students, and media will descend on the Paris Expo Porte de Versailles to see the future of tech. And TechCrunch will be there searching for the first winner of Startup Battlefield Europe. It… Read More... →

Венчурный инвестор Александр Румянцев приобрел 10% в стартапе Utverdil.ru. Это бизнес-портал, который предлагает инженерам работу, а промышленным предприятиям - сервис для организации бизнеса. Об этом Firrma рассказали в компании. Полученные инвестиции планируется потратить на разработку новых разделов, дизайн и продвижение сайта. Сам инвестор рассчитывает на 10-кратный рост проекта в течение 3 лет.... →

Powerful tools, amazing talent and endless dollars flowing from eager investors makes today an amazing time to start tomorrow’s technology companies. Curious and ambitious founding teams are putting their skills to work toward solving real-world problems. Here’s how to build hard value while avoiding common pitfalls in nine exciting startup categories that will brighten our future. Read More... →

Airbnb is bringing on Greg Greeley, Amazon’s current VP of Prime & Delivery Experience, Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky wrote in a blog post today. His first day at Airbnb will be March 18. At Airbnb, Greeley will be responsible for leading the home-sharing startup’s Homes unit. The Homes unit entails Airbnb’s standard offering as well as its recently-launched Plus offering, which… Read More... →

What’s better than building a company in a fast growing industry? Building a service provider for all the other companies in that fast growing industry. While Mighty started as a plaintiff financing platform it’s shifted to a a software company that’s building an “operating system for legal and medical founders”. Essentially the startup has created a CRM-like… Read More... →

Dropbox first appeared on the startup scene with its debut at Y Combinator Demo Day way back in the summer of 2007. Since then, the company has grown to hundreds of millions of users and to a value of more than $10 billion dollars — putting it in a cherry position for a much-anticipated initial public offering. But how did this cloud storage company take on the world, beating out so… Read More... →

Dropbox first appeared on the startup scene with its debut at Y Combinator Demo Day way back in the summer of 2007. Since then, the company has grown to hundreds of millions of users and to a value of more than $10 billion dollars — putting it in a cherry position for a much-anticipated initial […]... →

Ahead of a big fundraising to fuel its mobile ambitions, “free” mobile service startup FreedomPop is taking an unexpected strategic side-road to expand into a completely different area: financial services. The company is licensing its customer conversion platform to Prudential, which plans to use it to up-sell existing customers to more of its products. FreedomPop itself is not… Read More... →

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Сервис трансграничной доставки товаров Grabr привлек $8 млн в раунде А. Об этом пишет Venturebeat. Сделку возглавил Foundation Capital. Также участниками раунда стало несколько бизнес-ангелов, среди которых исполнительный директор Facebook Хавьер Оливан и инженер Square Гокул Раджарам. О Grabr Grabr – сервис доставки товаров, запущенный Дарьей Ребенок и Артемом Федяевым в апреле 2016 года. Позволяет заказывать товары из любой страны мира, доставляют их обычные люди, которым с товаром «по пути». В приложении... →

As work in the digital domain becomes increasingly portable, a slew of (mostly young) professionals have taken to the skies and seas to travel the globe while clocking in and collecting their directly deposited paychecks. These digital nomads now roaming the world may look like they’ve got it made — mid-century modern decorated workspaces dotting the world’s most desirable… Read More... →