Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

As automakers ramp up their connected car initiatives, a company that has built a solution to link vehicles up to mobile networks globally has raised a significant round of funding from a group of investors that includes Audi and Qualcomm. Cubic Telecom, a startup out of Dublin, Ireland, that has built a virtual networking solution that lets cars (and other devices) automatically connect to… Read More... →

Фонд развития интернет-инициатив (ФРИИ) инвестирует 15 млн рублей в облачный сервис для ресторанов и поставщиков DocsInBox. Сервис автоматизирует работу с документами и процесс закупки товаров. Об Firrma сообщили в фонде.   Стартап DocsInBox участвовал в десятом акселераторе ФРИИ в 2016 году. Фонд вложил в сервис 2,1 млн рублей. Сегодня стартап сотрудничает с сетями ресторанов «Хлеб Насущный», «FARШ», «Китайские новости», «Токио Сити», «Академия», «РИС». Всего у сервиса более 1,5 тысяч клиентов ресторанного... →

Silicon Valley venture firm Social Capital plans to help startups go public without the dreaded IPO process. And it’s something different than what Spotify is doing.  Social Capital is creating a shell company known as a “SPAC” that exists solely to merge with a startup. These types of transactions are not rare outside of the venture world but have little precedent with… Read More... →

Now is the time for startups to engage in strategic planning so that future liquidity needs will be met. This article discusses market trends and how debt financing and other protective measures can engineer optionality that can help a startup not only survive, but potentially thrive during a period of financial distress. Read More... →

Swiss startup Dacuda’s 3D scanning division was acquired by Magic Leap in February, but it seems the company’s founder, Michael Born, is just getting started with computer vision. He and three others who didn’t go over to the much-hyped and intensely secretive AR company have formed a new one: PXL Vision AG, focused on real-time image classification and Read More... →

“How much money does it take to get a startup off the ground?” Entrepreneurs and venture capitalists are faced with this question all the time, and the only right answer — it depends — is also the least satisfying. For any particular startup to succeed, it might take a lot of outside funding or very little. It’s contingent on the business a team is trying to build. Read More... →

Most people are overpaying for car or home insurance, but many don’t know by how much or even how to compare different plans or carriers. That’s where Gabi comes in. The startup, which has raised $2.6 million in funding, wants to help users find the best, least expensive home and car insurance plans. Read More... →

О перспективах робототехники на примере одного из самых известных стартапов отрасли.... →

Square Roots is unusual startup incubator. Sure, the people who participate are entrepreneurs — but they’re also farmers, growing food in hydroponic farms housed inside long, metal containers. Founded by executive chairman Kimbal Musk (brother of Elon Musk, and board member at SpaceX, Tesla and Chipotle) and CEO Tobias Peggs (former CEO of Aviary), Square Roots launched a year… Read More... →

Even in many podcasting circles, Art19 isn’t exactly a household name. The startup has largely operated behind the scenes, without much in the way of active promotion. Even so, the companies that have enlisted its hosting and ad technologies are among some of media’s largest. The New York Times, Vox and iHeartMedia all take advantage of its services, which are akin to something… Read More... →

Finland-based ICEYE is launching a constellation of microsatellites with the aim of helping provide a view form space where traditional imaging cannot, with images delivered within a few hours using a technology that is typically very expensive and difficult to deploy. The startup uses something called synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) to observe Earth even through clouds and in darkness, and… Read More... →

As IP networks continue to grow and become ever more complex, and people become ever more dependent on them staying up all the time, a startup that is building software tools to help administrators keep networks running has landed a round of funding. Forward Networks — a startup that only emerged from stealth last November and has built a platform aimed at service providers and… Read More... →

Сооснователь стартапа Артём Лаптев о том, как собрать $250 тысяч, потратив в сто раз меньше денег.... →

История одного стартапа.... →

Основатель сервиса для изучения иностранных языков LinguaLeo и образовательного портала LeveL90 Айнур Абдулнасыров приобрел 20% в «Венчурном Акселераторе». Об этом Firrma сообщили в компании. Ранее в проект в равных долях вложились частный инвестор Александр Румянцев и его партнер Андрей Тамбовцев. Сумма сделки сторонами тогда не разглашалась. Сейчас, по словам Румянцева, вхождение в проект Абдулнасырова осуществлялась путем увеличения капитала компании на 20%.  Всероссийский «Венчурный Акселератор» создан ... →

The growth of digital payments and banking in China, where it has become mainstream and spawned numerous on-demand industries, is inspiring companies to pursue similar opportunities across. Indonesia, the world’s fourth largest population and Southeast Asia’s largest economy is a primary focus for many. Beyond bigger players such as Alibaba, which has a joint fintech venture… Read More... →

Хотя раньше главной угрозой считались финтех-стартапы.... →

Calling all startup fans in Sub-Saharan Africa: TechCrunch is heading your way. We will be in Nairobi on October 11 to  host Startup Battlefield in partnership with Facebook! Keep reading to see what we’ve been up to. Since we last posted, the TechCrunch team has been hard at work arranging what is going to be a fantastic event. We reviewed over 700 applications and we are down to… Read More... →

Jim Clark just can’t quit starting companies. The billionaire cofounder of Silicon Graphics, Netscape Communications Corporation, myCFO, Healtheon, and Shutterfly, moved to Florida roughly 16 years ago to dive into the Miami real estate market. Now Clark, a native Texan, who’d dropped out of high school, is back with a new tech startup: CommandScape, a 24-person, home-automation… Read More... →

Google Maps on Android and iOS now has a new transportation option. If you’re living in a country where French startup BlaBlaCar operates, you can now open the BlaBlaCar app and book a ride straight from Google Maps. Google isn’t adding a new tab just for BlaBlaCar. Instead, BlaBlaCar appears as a new option in the public transportation tab. For instance, if you’re looking… Read More... →