Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

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... →

Проекты, которые прокачали имидж российского EdTech... →

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... →

A couple of years after participating in TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield, YayPay is raising $5.3 million from QED Investors, Birchmere, Fifth Third Capital, as well as 500 Fintech Fund, Aspect Ventures, Gaingels, Techstars and Zelkova. YayPay is trying to optimize the workflows in your company’s finance department. In particular, too many mid-sized companies waste a ton of time… Read More... →

A federal circuit appeals judge ruled today that Uber must hand over the due diligence report it commissioned ahead of its acquisition of self-driving truck startup Otto. Alphabet’s self-driving car division Waymo will now be able to receive this key document, which Waymo has argued likely contains information pertinent to its allegations that one of its former engineers, Anthony… Read More... →

Heptio, the startup founded by Kubernetes co-founders Craig McLuckie and Joe Beda, today announced that it has raised a $25 million Series B funding round led by Madrona Venture partners. Lightspeed Venture Partners and Accel Partners also joined in this round, which comes less than a year after the company’s $8.5 million Series A round. Read More... →

Affectiva, the startup that spun out of the MIT Media Lab several years ago with tools designed to understand facial emotions, announced a new cloud API today that can detect a range of emotion in human speech. When we speak, our voices offer subtle and not so subtle cues about our emotions. Whether our voices are tight or loud or soft can give valuable clues about our feelings. Humans can… Read More... →

Компания Tabula Sense, разрабатывающая и производящая мебель со встроенной электроникой, привлекла 20 млн рублей от частного инвестора за 30% компании. Об этом Firrma рассказал основатель проекта Андрей Рогозин. Имя инвестора не раскрывается. Tabula Sense разработала «умный» стол со встроенными гаджетами. Разработка продукта началась летом 2015 года, старт продаж — в октябре 2016 года. «Концепция нашего проекта — это мебель со встроенной электроникой. Мы стартовали с монопродуктом — на тот момент у нас был... →

Zomato, the global restaurant guide and food on-demand service, has made an acquisition to shore up its delivery business on home turf after it completed a deal for Runnr. The acquisition has been rumored since May and is much-anticipated, as Zomato CEO Deepinder Goyal himself acknowledged in an announcement. The all-stock deal was previously pegged at $40 million by Indian media, but… Read More... →

One dozen days. That’s how much time you have left to apply for the Startup Battlefield at Disrupt Berlin 2017. If you want to introduce your early-stage company to the world, there’s no better place to do so than from the Startup Battlefield main stage. It’s the premier launching pad for startups, as Battlefield alumni — like Mint, Dropbox, Yammer and Tripit —… Read More... →