Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

Media executives sometimes say that their companies are like a startup — but in the case of This Old House, that’s actually kind of true, since Time Inc. sold the 40-year-old brand (best known for the home improvement TV show of the same name) Eric Thorkilsen and TZP Growth Partners less than two years ago. Thorkilsen, who now serves as CEO of This Old House Ventures, has a… Read More... →

The blockchain is the buzziest thing on the internet these days and now MIT professor and godfather of the Human Genome Project George Church wants to put your genes on it. His new startup Nebula Genomics plans to sequence your genome for under $1,000 (the current going rate of whole genome sequencing) and then add your data to the blockchain through the purchase of a “Nebula… Read More... →

Hey startup world, get ready for the biggest, most ambitious TechCrunch Disrupt event ever. Disrupt, the world’s top technology and startup event, will take place in San Francisco on September 5-7, 2018, and it’s about to level-up in a big way. This is the one tech event you do not want to miss, and tickets are on sale now. For starters, as we mentioned late last year,… Read More... →

Because there are not enough ways to get around major cities and campuses, Spin is working to launch stationless electric scooter-sharing. These aren’t the electric scooters you see in San Francisco, operated by Scoot Networks. These are essentially electrified Razor-like scooters that can go up to 15 mph and cover 18 miles on a single charge. “Spin’s mission is to… Read More... →

Attentive is coming out of stealth today with the announcement that it’s raised $13 million in Series A funding. The company was founded by Brian Long and Andrew Jones. They previously founded TapCommerce, a mobile ad startup that was acquired by Twitter for a reported price of $100 million. Long and Jones both worked at Twitter for a couple of years before leaving to start something… Read More... →

Подборка интересных рекламных стартапов, растущих на просторах калифорнийского оазиса технологий... →

Блокчейн-стартап Faceter сообщил о привлечении $10 млн за 20 секунд pre-ICO. В компании заявляют, что успех связан с падающим рынком и условиями, в которых «множество стартапов потерпели неудачу при ICO». Faceter — разработчик ПО для видеонаблюдения с компьютерным зрением на основе «туманной сети» (fog network), построенной на мощностях майнеров. Согласно White Paper, с которой ознакомился корреспондент Firrma, 1000 токенов FACE стоят 0,0872 ETH. Проект интегрирован с блокчейн-платформой Ethereum, указано... →

Основатель сервиса рекомендаций по видеоиграм RAWG Гаджи Махтиев объяснил, почему ему не нравится идея провести ICO своего стартапа.  Нет стартапера, который не думал и не примерял возможность выхода на ICO со своим проектом. Сову на глобус скучнее натягивать, чем примерять на проект возможности, которые обещает выход на ICO. Плюсы ICO очевидны. Я не стану их повторять. Минусы не очень видны и вот о них как раз хочется рассказать, поделиться своими «страхами» и обменяться впечатлениями, мыслями и пройти пуб... →

PR-специалист и инвестор Маша Дрокова вышла из AI-стартапа NtechLab. Как сообщили Firrma в компании, долю Дроковой выкупили основатели. Сделка состоялась осенью 2017 года.  Дрокова стала инвестором NtechLab в 2016 году. Детали ее вхождения в стартап никогда не раскрывались. В пресс-службе NtechLab не прокомментировали причину ухода Дроковой из капитала компании. Напомним, в мае 2017 года NtechLab привлек $1,5 млн от фонда Impulse VC и группы частных инвесторов, среди которых первый заместитель гендиректор... →

Сервис юридических консультаций «Правовед» запустил на своём сайте робота-юриста для бесплатных онлайн-консультаций, рассказали vc.ru в компании.... →

Директор по стратегии и анализу Mail.Ru Group Александр Горный каждый день рассказывает о примечательных проектах.... →

The Indian food delivery startup Swiggy has raised $100 million in its latest round of funding. Led by the global investment and media conglomerate, Naspers, with participation from the Chinese e-commerce company Meituan-Dianping, the investment is an indicator that the Indian technology market is hitting its stride. The company said that it will use the funding to introduce new products… Read More... →

Studio, a startup that delivers coaching, music and competition to treadmill runners’ smartphones and smartwatches, is getting a boost from treadmill maker Life Fitness. Studio founder and CEO Jason Baptiste explained that through this partnership, Studio’s classes will be available on Life Fitness treadmills in gyms, starting with the ones that are equipped with the… Read More... →

Notation Capital, the NY-based pre-seed fund that launched in 2015, has just picked up a fresh $27 million in capital to invest in to super early stage startup sin the NYC area. The fund is called Notation II, and it’s still run by Nick Chirls, who led seed investment at betaworks and helped build Alphaworks, and Alex Lines, an architect at betaworks who contributed to products like… Read More... →

Flux, the London fintech startup founded by former early employees at Revolut, has deepened its partnership with U.K. challenger bank Starling to add Flux-powered loyalty points to Starling’s mobile banking app. It builds on earlier Flux integration that sees Starling support item-level digital receipts powered by Flux and supported merchants (to date, this includes all 111 EAT stores in… Read More... →

In the online gaming world, virtual reality has already been used by some of the top streamers to engage with their audiences, but there’s not much return for what the personalities have to give up. They have a bulky headset obscuring their faces and viewers aren’t getting anything more than the 2D representation of what the streamer is seeing. Vreal is aiming to get more out of… Read More... →

Highfive, a startup that’s building an integrated software and hardware video conferencing solution, today announced that it has raised a $32 million Series C round, which brings the Redwood City-based company’s total funding to $77.4 million. The lead investor for this round was Dimension Data, a major global technology integrator and managed services subsidiary of Japan’s… Read More... →

French startup Cityscoot announced a $50 million round of financing yesterday (€40 million). RATP Capital Innovation and Inventure Partners are leading the round, with existing investors Caisse des Dépôts and LeasePlan also participating. Cityscoot operates an electric scooter-sharing service in Paris and plans to expand to other cities in France and Europe. You can now find around… Read More... →

It’s been more than a year since the well-funded startup Cyanogen announced that it would shut down its mobile OS development, and since pivoted to self-driving technology. Yet we’re still seeing some fallout among the companies that had pinned their hopes on the original plans of that shooting star. Wileyfox, a smartphone maker that was one of the earliest companies to build a… Read More... →

Фонд Inventure Partners вложился во французский стартап Cityscoot. Как сообщает Techcrunch фонд стал одним и из двух лид-инвесторов раунда на $50 млн (40 млн евро). Другим лид-инвестором раунда стал фонд RATP Capital Innovation. Также в сделке приняли участие действующие акционеры стартапа –  Caisse des Dépôts и LeasePlan. Cityscoot – сервис аренды скутеров в Париже и окрестностях. Он предоставляет порядка 1600 скутеров, которые можно арендовать по принципу каршеринга. В ближайшее время сервис начнет работу... →