Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

Postmates, the $600 million 35-minute delivery startup that lets you purchase restaurant food and other items from merchants through its app, today makes more than three million deliveries each month across its footprint in the U.S., according to the company. Now, as it looks to hit $1 billion in revenues by 2018 from its network of 100,000 delivery people in 200+ cities, the startup is… Read More... →

We stopped by Andy Rubin’s Playground in Palo Alto to check out a new autonomous cart from Canvas Technologies. The startup aims to replace existing fixed and expensive factory infrastructure, like conveyor belts, with its lightweight and adaptable, computer vision-powered, cart. Taking advantage of complex sensor fusion, Canvas’ carts can work in tandem to create maps of dynamic… Read More... →

John Foraker, who led the well-known organic food brand Annie’s for 17 years, is working on a new organic food startup in Berkeley, according to both his LinkedIn account and a recent report in the Star Tribune of Minnesota. General Mills bought Annie’s for $820 million in 2014. Foraker was supposed to stay for one year. He stayed on for three, but told the Star last month that… Read More... →

French startup Streamroot just raised $3.2 million from Partech Ventures, Techstars Venture Capital Fund, Verizon Ventures* and R/GA. The company is taking advantage of WebRTC to make video streaming much cheaper. When you’re watching a video on YouTube or Netflix, those companies send a video file to your device from their servers. It’s a straightforward, one-way transaction between… Read More... →

StatMuse, the sports statistics database that can be queried using natural language inquiries, just announced that it’s become the second startup accepted into the NFL Players Association’s accelerator. As a refresher the accelerator, called The One Team Collective, was built to help smaller startups get access to player licensing rights in return for equity. We first wrote… Read More... →

Издание Coindesk опубликовало отчет, в котором подвело итоги второго квартала 2017 года в индустрии ICO. Несмотря на ужесточение регулирования криптовалют, период с апреля по июнь 2017 года стал самым успешным кварталом в истории ICO.... →

За первые три месяца 2017 года компаниям удалось привлечь всего $36 млн.... →

Drive.ai is going to be operating some of its test fleet on Lyft’s open platform, which Lyft created to help carmakers and self-driving tech companies build and deploy autonomous vehicles in the real world, and to eventually serve as on-demand ride hailing vehicles. Drive.ai is a startup that has deep roots in Stanford University’s Artificial Intelligence Lab, with an approach… Read More... →

India-based OYO, a startup that pioneered and popularized the concept of budget hotel networks, has closed $250 million in new funding led by SoftBank’s Vision Fund. The startup was founded in 2013 by Thiel Fellow Ritesh Agarwal, now aged 24, and the concept centers around standardizing the quality of India’s wildly-differentiated affordable hotels, and providing some structure… Read More... →

Венчурный фонд FinShi Capital продал более $9 млн токенов за первые сутки ICO. Токены фонда торгуются по курсу 1 FINS = $1. В первые два дня для покупателей действует скидка 5%. Всего было выпущено 60 млн токенов. Об этом Firrma рассказали в фонде. Первичное размещение монет началось 6 сентября и продлится до 6 октября, или до достижения главной цели — привлечения $50 млн. Собранные средства пойдут на инвестиции в блокчейн и финтех стартапы. Токены FinShi Capital будут обеспечены долями фонда в стартапах. В... →

Airobotics, a startup building autonomous drones for the enterprise sector that do not require humans to get involved in any aspect of operating them, has picked up $32.5 million in funding to expand its business into defense and homeland security, and to expand its business globally. The Series C round was led by BlueRun Ventures China, with participation also from Microsoft Ventures… Read More... →

Илья Осипов, серийный предприниматель, создатель стартапов Nn.ru, birzha.ru и приложения Numbuster, несколько лет назад перебрался в Сан-Франциско. Специально для Firrma он написал колонку-предостережение для тех российских предпринимателей, которые думают о переезде в Долину.  Говорят, что дельфины часто помогают утопающим добраться до берега, подталкивая их и помогая в правильном направлении. Но это рассказывают только те, кто выбрались, те кого дельфины толкали в открытое море – никому ничего не расскажу... →

В рамках мероприятия можно получить консультации от экспертов.... →

VizEat, the European “social eating platform” that connects travellers and local hosts around authentic food experiences — such as dining in a local’s home, cooking classes, and food tours — has acquired EatWith, a similar startup headquartered in San Francisco. Read More... →

Госкорпорация «Роскосмос» запустила венчурный фонд, который будет заниматься созданием малых спутников, а также разработкой легких ракет-носителей. Об этом в интервью ТАСС рассказал гендиректор госкорпорации Игорь Комаров. По его словам, венчурный фонд будет способствовать запуску малых космических аппаратов и различных сервисов на основе получаемых спутниковых данных, разработке легких ракет-носителей, активному вовлечению студенческих коллективов, инновационных центров для создания сервисов и тех продукт... →

Five months after abandoning its proposed purchase of Monsanto’s precision planting subsidiary due to anti-trust concerns, agricultural equipment giant Deere and Company announced that it will spend $305 million to acquire ag-tech startup Blue River Technology. Founded in 2011 and based in Sunnyvale, Blue River develops machine learning technology for precision farming and counts… Read More... →

Upload, the virtual reality startup at the center of a sexual harassment and wrongful termination lawsuit filed earlier this year, has settled the case with its former employee and is aiming to put the ensuing damage behind it. The lawsuit, filed against the startup and its co-founders by former director of digital and social media Elizabeth Scott, alleged that the company had sought to create… Read More... →

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As apps like WhatsApp, Facebook and Viber gear up to let businesses use their messaging apps to speak with their customers, there is a parallel track of development happening outside those walled gardens. A startup that has built an open service — sitting outside any specific messaging app — to let businesses communicate with customers by text, has raised a notable round of… Read More... →

Стартап для оценки эффективности продаж People.ai привлек $7 млн инвестиций. Средства в проект вложили инвесторы Airbnb и Snapchat, сообщает Ain.ua.... →