Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

De-cloaking today is a new startup from two of the founders of defunct food delivery company Take Eat Easy. Dubbed Cowboy, the company is building a new electronic bicycle that it claims will address issues that have historically stopped e-bikes from becoming a “fully fledged mobility solution”. Read More... →

While one on-demand delivery startup expands this week, another is contracting a bit. TechCrunch has learned and confirmed that Postmates has let go of all of its city managers, as it centralizes some of its operations at its headquarters in San Francisco. The total number of people affected by the move is 15 across markets like Boston, Denver, Las Vegas, Nashville, New York, Philadelphia,… Read More... →

Благодаря технологиям еда из насекомых станет доступнее... →

Tim Junio knew as a high school student that he wanted to join the CIA. He even wrote as much in his college application to Johns Hopkins University, where he would go on to nab both his undergraduate and master’s degrees before heading to the University of Pennsylvania to complete his PhD. (Hungry for more education, he then spent a year at Stanford on postdoctoral research.) Along the… Read More... →

Firrma поговорила с управляющим партнером азиатского фонда АФК «Система» – Sistema Asia Fund – Андреем Теребениным о венчурной экосистеме Индии и об особенностях индийских стартапов. У вас за 1,5 года публичных сделок немного. Я насчитал четыре-пять. Это намеренная стратегия или в Индии нет подходящих проектов сейчас? Сделок сейчас пять, сейчас шестую закрываем. Практически за два года работы. Что мы планируем, ну, наверное, две сделки закроем до конца года, судя по «пайплайну». Мы работаем так, как считаем... →

As Amazon continues to expand its retail muscle beyond its own e-commerce portal, there’s been some activity among startups and businesses hoping to develop systems that can help others compete better with it. Deliv, a “crowdsourced” same-day delivery startup that currently partners with some 4,000 retailers to help them offer same-day delivery services to rival those of… Read More... →

Проходит в Нью-Йорке и рассчитана в том числе на тех, кто только хочет внедрить блокчейн... →

Стартап занимается доставкой готовых продуктовых наборов с рецептами.... →

Венчурный биотех-фонд Primer Capital инвестировал в разработку препарата для пациентов со множественной миеломой компании «Гемофарм». Средства будут направлены на реализацию доклинических исследований. Об этом Firrma рассказали в фонде. Сумма инвестиций и полученная в стартапе доля не раскрываются. Разрабатываемый «Гемофармом» препарат представляет собой гуманизированное антитело с высокой противоопухолевой активностью и низкой токсичностью. «Мы рассчитываем, что доклинические исследования подтвердят высок... →

Magic Leap, an AR company best known for raising money, still owes consumers a product, or at least the hint of one. Thanks to a newly-released patent filing, we now have a new look at an old prototype that could be a guiding force for the direction of the $4.5 billion startup’s product design. The design, which credits Magic Leap’s design head Gary Natsume as the inventor,… Read More... →

Launching a product and company from scratch is hard, as fresh-faced entrepreneurs and Kickstarter successes often learn to their chagrin. And it turns out even heavy hitters like Andy Rubin and his mobile startup Essential have unpleasant lessons to learn — in this case, about how even a small detail like a mailing list configuration can put your entire company at risk. Read More... →

Booze delivery startup Thirstie is adding a new twist to its model — it’s working directly with alcohol brands, starting with Dom Perignon, to offer on-demand delivery. When we wrote about Thirstie back in 2015, the startup allowed consumers to buy alcohol from nearby stores that already made deliveries. Co-founder and CEO Devaraj Southworth said Thirstie will continue to offer… Read More... →

It’s a brand new day for Uber, the transportation startup that has been caught up in a whirlwind of drama ranging from sexual harassment and culture issues to an absence of C-level leaders to a lawsuit with Waymo. At an all-hands meeting today, Uber employees met their new leader: Dara Khosrowshahi, the former CEO of Expedia, who discussed a number of things, including how Uber should… Read More... →

Disrupt San Francisco is less than three weeks away, and registration is open for startups looking to showcase their product or company to thousands of people on the Disrupt floor. According to Crunchbase, startups that exhibited in Startup Alley at Disrupt SF 2016 raised more than $35 million in seed and Series A funding post-Disrupt. You don’t want to miss this chance. Read More... →

Adwerx is a well-known advertising and re-targeting network for real estate agents (though if you’re not in that line of business, chances are you’ve never heard of it, of course). The Durham, NC-based company today announced that it has raised a $4.3 million funding round led by Grotech Ventures, with participation from Bull City Venture Partners and Alerion Ventures. Read More... →

In the age of eyes glued to phones, trivia is one of my favorite past-times. And as such, we’ll be bringing the TechCrunch Trivia Throwdown to the Disrupt SF After Party on Tuesday, September 19. While Disrupt SF is an action-packed three days of A-list speaker panels and startup mania, it’s pretty important to find time to unwind and relax when the day is done. The TC Trivia… Read More... →

As blockchains begin to gain in popularity, a need is developing to enable them to communicate with one another. That would require a networking infrastructure to facilitate that communication, and that’s precisely what Nuco, a Toronto-based startup is trying to do with the release of the Aion blockchain network today. Nuco CEO Matthew Spoke says that while each network is ultimately… Read More... →

Domuso, a property management system and payment portal that lets tenants in sticky situations pay late rent over time, has raised $3.1M in funding. This brings the total amount raised for the startup, which was part of the Techcrunch Disrupt NY 2017 Battlefield competition, to $5.8M. The concept for Domuso is straightforward – there are certain life events that sometimes get in the way… Read More... →

One of the big issues with the smart home is that so many of the country’s tech lovers aren’t living in homes. Dwelo is designing large-scale smart home solutions built for renters living in apartments. The startup’s system allows building owners to integrate things like smart locks, lights and thermostats into their units while renters are given a Dwelo app and hub that… Read More... →

Before Uber poached Dara Khosrowshahi to serve as its CEO, he facilitated a $26 million series B round in hotel startup ALICE as CEO of Expedia. The idea with ALICE is to bring technology to the outdated hotel industry by offering up a system to run hotels on a single platform. This round brings ALICE’s total funding to $39 million and makes Expedia the startup’s majority… Read More... →