Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

WorldRemit, a London-based startup with some 2 million users that offers a quick way for people to send money to each other with a focus on developing markets, has raised more funds to help it take on the likes of Western Union in the remittances market, estimated by the World Bank to be worth some $596 million globally this year. The company has picked up $40 million — a Series C… Read More... →

Инвестиции предоставит в том числе фонд Phystech Ventures... →

Фонд планирует вложить в лучшие проекты от $100 тысяч до $1 млн.... →

Inflect, a startup that wants to make it easier for businesses to buy their own internet infrastructure, today announced that it has raised a $3 million seed funding round. The service, which is still in preview, provides business with the necessary data to make their purchasing decisions when they go out and look for their own data center space, networking services and exchange… Read More... →

PerceptIn’s been operating mostly behind the scenes since launching in March of last year. Even so, the company has managed to raise a decent chunk of change in its mission of helping improve robotic vision. The startup’s raised a total of $11 million in all, including a seed round of ~$2 million last year and an $8 million Series A in 2017. Read More... →

Блокчейн-платформа VRT World, с помощью которой разработчики контента для VR получат доступ к системе Full Body Tracking VR, объявила о привлечении $350 тысяч от группы частных инвесторов в сентябре этого года в рамках закрытого pre-ICO. Об этом Firrma сообщил представитель проекта. Привлеченные средства были направлены на доработку технологии full body tracking, открытие первой тестовой площадки – VR парк, разработку фирменного стиля проекта и парков, маркетинг и закупку оборудования для парка. Сейчас ком... →

Пять российских стартапов из разных сфер рассказывают о своем нелегком пути привлечения первых инвестиций.  Лориана Сардар, сооснователь каршеринга BelkaCar: Первый раунд мы поднимали два года. Параллельно инвестировали собственные деньги и брали займы, чтобы создавать продукт. В итоге нашли отличного инвестора – швейцарский фонд Bryanston. Нам не надо было убеждать их в потенциале каршеринга, задача была – доказать, что инвестировать нужно именно в нас. На закрытие сделки, от момента due diligence до подп... →

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

Регулировать рынок криптовалют предлагают поручить саморегулируемой организации (СРО). Такую инициативу выдвинул экспертный совет при комитете Госдумы по финансам, который состоит из депутатов Госдумы, представителей Минфина, Минэкономразвития, Росфинмониторинга, ФСБ, МВД, Сбербанка, ВТБ и др. Предварительно предлагается принять закон, определяющий понятия криптовалюты, блокчейна и ICO. Об этом сообщают «Известия», которые ознакомились с протоколом заседания. Идею рамочного регулирования новой отрасли на з... →

Lagos based online real estate startup ToLet.com.ng acquired Jumia House Nigeria for an undisclosed amount. Jumia House is a subsidiary of the continent’s lone tech unicorn — Pan-African e-commerce giant Jumia.com. ToLet and Jumia House Nigeria will merge platforms under the new name PropertyPro.ng. The $1.2 million Series A startup was able to buy part of a $1 billion company… Read More... →

Jinn, the London on-demand delivery startup that shut down and was put into administration after being unable to pay creditors, has found a buyer for some of its assets. Read More... →

Apple’s played a central role in podcast since its earliest days — heck, even the term was borrowed from its big hardware product at the time. But the company’s marketshare appears to have eroded somewhat as players like Google and Spotify have entered the market, reportedly down from 70-percent of podcast downloads in 2015 to 55-percent in 2017. That’s still not a… Read More... →

Amagi, a startup trying to rethink the way TV broadcasters deliver their content, is launching in the United States. As a TV viewer, you may not see any big issues with the current broadcast infrastructure, but Amagi says satellite delivery is expensive, time-consuming and limits a broadcaster’s ability to customize their content to different geographies. In contrast, the… Read More... →

Startups participating in the Startup Battlefield have all been hand-picked to participate in our highly competitive startup competition. They all presented in front of multiple groups of VCs and tech leaders serving as judges for a chance to win €42,000 and the coveted Disrupt Cup. After hours of deliberations, TechCrunch editors pored over the judges’ notes and narrowed the list down… Read More... →

Конспект лекции венчурного инвестора Александра Румянцева.... →

A peer-to-peer payment app that works similar to Venmo from startup Lydia in France now works with Apple Pay (a feature originally announced in July), making it possible to spend your balance from the app wherever MasterCard and Apple Pay are accepted. It’s a neat use of Apple Pay to make it possible to do mobile payments without requiring that a users have a credit card – and it… Read More... →

Swedish lock maker Assa Abloy completed its acquisition of August Home this week. The deal, first announced back in October, has the U.S.-based smart lock startup rolling into the world’s largest lock maker, though the company says it will continue to operate as a somewhat independent entity under the much bigger brand. Read More... →

Revolut is merging traditional banking and cryptocurrency to let you buy, sell, trade, and hold Bitcoin, Litecoin, and Ether alongside 25 world fiat currencies. The $90 million-funded mobile banking startup is trying to erase the divide between old and new money. Revolut‘s CEO Nikolay Storonsky announced on stage today at TechCrunch’s Disrupt Berlin conference that… Read More... →

Coronet, a startup that launched as part of the TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield competition in New York City in 2015, announced the release of the latest version of its cloud security product aimed at SMBs today. The new system introduces a layer of autonomy which lets IT or security personnel define a set of rules and the system takes care of the rest without any additional intervention.… Read More... →

Kespry, the industrial drone startup, announced a fresh infusion of cash today in the form of a $33M Series C. It brings the total raised to over $61M across the the three rounds. While today’s investment was led by G2VP, it also included some strategic investors with Shell Technology Ventures, Cisco Ventures and ABB Ventures joining in. Shell comes on board as Kespry tries to expand… Read More... →