Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

Инвестиционный холдинг SDVentures вышел из BitFury,  получив доходность более 40% на вложенные средства. Об этом Firrma сообщили в фонде. Начиная с 2013 года напрямую и в составе партнерского фонда iTech Capital, SDVentures инвестировал около $20 млн в BitFury. Фонд вкладывался в стартап в форме конвертируемого займа и сейчас проект погасил свои обязательства перед инвестором. BitFury – продукт обеспечивает работу технологии Blockchain, на основе которой работают криптовалюты, в том числе и биткоины. SDVent... →

Startup Alley at Disrupt Berlin 2017 is the premier exhibit hall for international cutting-edge tech startups. If you aspire to show your stuff alongside hundreds of other early-stage companies, you absolutely can — we’ll even tell you how you can do it for free. But you must act quickly, because you have only until October 13 to submit your application. Read More... →

Редакция vc.ru продолжает публиковать резюме специалистов, желающих работать в стартапах и ИТ-компаниях (выходят по понедельникам), а также вакансии компаний, которые ищут сотрудников (выходят по четвергам).... →

As the startup tech scene blossoms in Australia, despite challenges like a small pool of local institutional investors and natural threats like the predatory Dropbear, one of the key components of its success has been the development of its national incubator and accelerator programs. One of the best of the bunch is Startmate, which is announcing their third cohort on Monday. Founded in… Read More... →

Машины берут на себя рутинную работу.... →

U.S. startup investors were good at putting capital to work this past quarter. They weren’t as good at getting it back. Read More... →

After the iPhone X, iPhone 8 and ARKit launches, it’s clearer than ever that Apple owns the four waves of augmented reality. But Google’s launch of ARCore has the startup CEOs, corporates and VCs Digi-Capital works with confused (not to mention Facebook Camera Effects). While there are technical/performance differences between the platforms, they’re more alike than different… Read More... →

Три стартапа разделили 6 млн рублей.... →

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... →

В список входит российская компания... →

Результаты исследования об удаленной работе... →

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... →

Носки этой фирмы носит премьер-министр Канады... →

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... →