Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

SpaceX releases a fail video showing all of its explosions, marijuana delivery startup Eaze raises $27 million, Nestlé buys a majority stake in Blue Bottle Coffee and BTC China is suspending trading. All this on Crunch Report! Read More... →

Healthy, well-aligned teeth shouldn’t just be for the wealthy. Candid, a direct-to-consumer teeth alignment company, aims to make straight teeth more accessible and more affordable than braces and Invisalign. Candid, which 3D prints its FDA-approved aligners, is designed for people who need mild to moderate orthodontic work. It costs $1,900 upfront or $99 per month over two years,… Read More... →

DoorDash is announcing the acquisition of Rickshaw, a Y Combinator-incubated startup that helps businesses offer same-day delivery by connecting them to a courier network and managing the logistics. DoorDash has been developing a similar platform called Drive, which allows customers to use DoorDash’s network to make deliveries beyond DoorDash’s consumer website and app.… Read More... →

SparkLabs Group, which claims to be the largest startup accelerator group in Asia, is stepping into agricultural tech with a new program created in partnership with the New South Wales Department of Primary Industries. Called SparkLabs Cultiv8 and based in Orange, Australia, the accelerator will start in the second quarter of 2018. Read More... →

French startup Alan is trying the impossible by reinventing health insurance and life insurance. The company just launched its mobile app on iOS and Android. You can now send a bill, say that you’re at the hospital and contact Alan directly from the app. This alone is a big change compared to usual health insurance. For instance, when you’re spending the night at the hospital… Read More... →

Two years ago, at the age of 34, Tammy Sun decided to freeze her eggs. Though larger tech companies like Apple and Facebook had started offering this service as a perk to retain female talent, it was not something Evernote, whom Sun worked for at the time, provided. So several shots, doctors visits and $30,000 out of her own pocket later she got the idea to make the process easier and more… Read More... →

Product Hunt is hoping to make it easier for those who create products to market those products as well. Today, the platform where people vote up or down on startup products is launching a suite of tools for creators to generate demand for the products they make with a new suite of tools called Ship. There’s already a lot of tools out there to help founders and creators market on the… Read More... →

Компания CardsMobile запустила b2b-приложение «Кошелёк» в Казахстане. Об этом Firrma сообщили в компании. Сервис «Кошелёк для бизнеса» ориентирован на торговые сети, магазины, кафе, рестораны, развлекательные центры, салоны и т.д. Программа позволяет торгово-сервисным предприятиям регистрировать в программе лояльности новых клиентов. Сервис предусматривает общение бизнеса с клиентом внутри мобильного приложения. Казахстан стал первым зарубежным рынком, на который вышел сервис. Партнером нового проекта высту... →

Commercial real estate can be a lucrative investment, but it can be hard to come up with the money to buy a stake in the first place. That’s the idea behind RealtyShares, a platform which pools together debt and equity investments for apartments, office buildings and retail centers. Now the San Francisco-based startup has gained enough traction to find another big investment for itself. Read More... →

What if you could accurately predict the resale value of a home before buying it?  A startup called HouseCanary claims that its data can help you with that. Touting a system that can forecast a sale price within 2.5%, co-founder and CEO Jeremy Sicklick told TechCrunch that Eric Schmidt, Kobe Bryant and other well-known names are betting on his startup because they believe it will make… Read More... →

The cannabis industry has lit up in the last year, including weed delivery startup Eaze, which just raised $27 million in Series B financing and claims a 300 percent year-over-year increase in gross sales. But the weed delivery startup has come under scrutiny recently for burning through at least $1 million in cash per month. In contrast, other software-based pot delivery startups like Meadow… Read More... →

Adam Braun, a consultant-turned-educational non-profit founder, will say he’s had a lot of good fortune that’s helped him position himself in a way to see the education system from a birds-eye view — and hopes he can help address the problem of student debt with a venture-backed startup. That’s why Braun, with his experience at Bain and then at Pencils for Promise,… Read More... →

As we continue to see a proliferation of wireless connected devices make their way into the mainstream consumer electronics market, there has been growing attention on a key issue that will be central to making all these devices work: efficient power supplies, and specifically practical battery systems. Today, one of the startups that’s hoping to lead the conversation on how this will… Read More... →

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Фонд Altair VC вышел из бостонского стартапа Mobee. Об этом Firrma сообщил управляющий партнер фонда Игорь Рябенький.  Экзит связан с объединением Mobee с компанией Quad Analytix. Объединенная компания будет названа Wiser Solutions, которая станет аналитической платформой для розничной торговли. Кроме денег, Altair VC также получил долю в объединенной компании.  Как рассказал собеседник Firrma, Altair VC инвестировал в стартап Mobee в 2015 году в ходе раунда А. Его возглавил Flint Capital, для которого объе... →

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Flint Capital выкупил доли инвесторов ранних стадий в своем портфельном проекте WalkMe почти за $2,5 млн. Сейчас доля Flint Capital в стартапе составляет меньше 5%. Об этом Firrma рассказал  управляющий партнер фонда Дмитрий Смирнов.  WalkMe, основанная в Тель-Авиве, разрабатывает облачную платформу для бизнеса с интерактивным управлением и подсказками на экране в мобильных и веб- приложениях корпоративных клиентов. Первые инвесторы были из Израиля.   Летом 2015 года фонд вложил в стартап $4 млн. Тогда фон... →

Investors may not be done shoveling money into Magic Leap’s augmented reality ambitions quite yet. The Plantation, Florida-based startup is reportedly in talks with Singapore-based Temasek Holdings to raise upwards of $500 million, valuing the AR company at around $6 billion, Bloomberg reports. Sources also told Bloomberg that Magic Leap will likely begin shipping devices to a… Read More... →

Бостонский стартап Mobee из портфеля международного фонда Flint Capital под управлением Дмитрия Смирнова объединился с калифорнийским стартапом Quad Analytix, создав новую компанию Wiser Solutions, Inc (аналитическая платформа для розничной торговли «все в одном») . Mobee, базирующийся в Бостоне, собирает пользовательские данные при помощи краудсорсинга через смартфоны. Quad Analytix, основанная в Сан-Матео (Калифорния), переводит данные электронной торговли в действие для брендов и розничных продавцов. В ... →

To the uninitiated, startup fundraising can be confusing. And even some of the resources designed to be approachable for the newcomer often raise more questions than they answer. So we’ve launched a series called “A Startup Takes Flight” to simply explain the dynamics of fundraising and deal terms. Read More... →