Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

Nobody likes corporate trainings. Nobody. In fact one of life’s puzzles that eludes me most is how a person could enjoy corporate trainings enough to spend their time designing and running them. Perhaps only with distain for the status quo can a startup create something that people not only don’t hate, but find helpful. The idea for Butterfly, founded by David Mendlewicz, Simon… Read More... →

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Most real estate agents are commission-based and incentivized to focus on the big sales. That results in inefficiencies for lower class home buyers, who may have to wait longer to view properties and receive less guidance on paperwork. A Miami-based startup called Home61 has been working on a solution for this category of buyers and renters, which it refers to as the “other 80%.”… Read More... →

Gobble, a 15-minute meal kit delivery service, has raised $15 million in Series B growth financing from Khosla Ventures, TechCrunch has confirmed. Khosla Ventures led the round, along with participation from previous investors A16z, Trinity Ventures and Initialized Capital. Gobble came out of Y Combinator in 2015, around the same time many DIY meal kit services started to falter. For a while,… Read More... →

Earnest, a well-funded fintech startup with bold ambitions to create a modern financial institution, is selling to the student-loan company Navient for $155 million in cash. The WSJ was first to report the news. The exit isn’t so great for Earnest’s investors. They’d plugged roughly $320 million in cash and debt into the company, which was initially centered around… Read More... →

In China, where content laws are far more restrictive and penalties for defying government proscriptions on content are far more severe, new social media giants and telecom providers like Musical.ly, Live.me, China Mobile Communications, Thunder, and China Unicom have moved away from employing human censors to deploying a technology from the young Guangzhou-based startup Tuputech. Read More... →

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Фонд венчурных инвестиций Emery Capital вложился в лондонский стартап PremFina. В своем первом инвестиционном раунде компания привлекла $36 млн, сообщает Bloomberg. В раунде, помимо Emery Capital, участвовали фонды Rubicon Venture Capital, Thomvest и Talis Capital. PremFina, основанная в Лондоне, разрабатывает программное обеспечение в сфере страхования. Софт компании позволяет связать страховых брокеров с их клиентами, а также предоставить последним кредитную линию. По словам основателя и исполнительного д... →

You’ll find image recognition technology in almost every kind of consumer service you would use today — like Facebook, Google, or any number of other apps — but Yann Fleureau is hoping that he can build a whole business off of its increasing success in healthcare. Fleureau hopes that his startup, Cardiologs, can use image recognition to analyze an EKG and detect potential… Read More... →

In Arabic, Indian or Eastern cultures where people can’t really have an open dating profile, the traditional Tinder/Happn/Bumble/Badoo etc dating apps don’t work too well as they are based on images. It turns out chat bots may be the way forward in these markets if a recent VC investment is anything to go by. NearGroup, a chatbot allowing users to connect with like-minded people… Read More... →

Estonian startup Taxify just opened in Paris. It’s a ride-hailing company that is offering lower prices and taking a lower cut on each ride. This way, customers end up paying less and drivers make more or less as much money. There are so many transportation companies in Paris that it’s hard to keep track of all them. But two players seem to be standing out — Uber and… Read More... →

UK-based insurance giant Aviva has announced it’s buying a majority stake in robo investment startup, Wealthify. Read More... →

Nick D’Aloisio, who previously founded news summary app Summly, which he famously sold to Yahoo aged 17 for a reported $30 million, has raised funding for a new stealthy startup that promises to help you find and instantly chat to an expert on a range of topics. Read More... →

Посевной венчурный фонд Константина Синюшина и Игоря Лутца the Untitled ventures проинвестировал российский стартап в области искусственного интеллекта для интернет-ритейла одежды Tardis.AI в обмен на 10% долю в компании. Об этом Firrma рассказали в фонде. Полученные средства компания направит на доработку продукта и коммерческие внедрения. Сейчас Tardis уже произвел первое внедрение продукта в интернет-магазин Kupivip.ru.  Tardis – система рекомендации оптимального размера и прогноза посадки для покупателе... →

Фонд развития интернет-инициатив (ФРИИ) инвестировал 100 млн рублей в компанию «Инфобис», которая разрабатывает систему учета и оперативного контроля над ходом сельхозработ «Агросигнал». Об этом пишет «Коммерсант».  По итогам сделки ФРИИ получит 20% компании после первого транша на 40 млн рублей и еще 10% — после второго на 60 млн рублей. Совладельцы компании Павел Линник (40%), а также Андрей и Владимир Коршуновы (по 30%) пропорционально уменьшат свои доли. «Агросигнал» работает по модели SaaS. Компания пр... →

Mobile rewards startup Kiip isn’t limited to mobile devices anymore. The company is launching its first integration on Amazon’s Fire TV. Co-founder and CEO Brian Wong said Kiip was actually approached by its launch partner, the developer of the trivia game QuizTix, who asked if Kiip could build an ad and reward experience for smart TVs. And that’s what Wong’s team has done. Read More... →

Кипрский фонд Embria Ventures Group вложил $2 млн в видеочат Connect. Об этом Firrma рассказал владелец фонда и основатель стартапа Игорь Монахов. Часть средств пошла на выкуп долей партнеров Монахова и ГК «Эмбрия», которые помогали создавать стартап. Сегодня владельцами компании Cnnct, зарегистрированной на Кипре, является он и команда разработки. Остальные инвестиции пойдут на развитие проекта, в том числе на покупку технологий, рассказал Монахов. Connect — это видеочат с автоматическим подбором собеседни... →

Earlier this week, a small startup called Init.ai announced that it soon would be discontinuing its service — a smart assistant for customer representatives to parse and get better insights from their interactions with users, as well as automate some of the interactions — because the team was (according to a notice on the site) “joining a project that touches the lives of… Read More... →

Стартап предлагает управлять деньгами с помощью Telegram.... →