Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

The benefits of Amazon’s $13.7 billion acquisition of Whole Foods more or less went live this week, with price cuts out the wazoo as well as a bunch of Amazon Echo devices available for sale in stores. With this massive move into grocery chains and the obvious branding play, as well as tangential benefits like suddenly getting access to hundreds of locations with fresh ingredients that… Read More... →

Habito, a London startup that is bringing the entire mortgage process online, has raised £18.5 million in Series B funding. Atomico, the European VC firm founded by Skype’s Niklas Zennström, led the round. Read More... →

Alright, European TechCrunch fans, time to listen up — we’ll soon be releasing our final batch of Disrupt Berlin 2017 tickets at the deeply discounted rate of two for the price of one. Yes, you read that right. If you act now, you can score not one but two whole Disrupt tickets for the price of one. That’s half off tickets to an event best described as the hottest startup… Read More... →

At our TechCrunch China event in June we discussed the bright future that Hong Kong’s startup scene has, despite some big challenges. This week the country passed a notable milestone as it got its first $1 billion valued startup, better known as a unicorn. The company in question is GoGoVan, a logistics on-demand provider that connects van drivers and customers for transporting goods. Read More... →

Last month, Social Finance, or SoFi, a startup centered around the refinancing of student loans, was sued by an employee. The senior operations manager who filed the lawsuits, Brandon Charles, says he was wrongfully terminated for reporting sexual harassment of female colleagues by their managers, as well as for outing several managers who he claims improperly recorded loans in order to… Read More... →

Проект представляет собой образовательную экосистему по запуску IT и VR-проектов, включающую круглосуточные рабочие пространства для 150 человек.... →

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Google расширила список стран, представители которых могут участвовать в акселераторе Launchpad Accelerator. Набор открыт в 20 новых странах, включая Россию.... →

Startup Alley is at the center of TechCrunch’s Disrupt events, and this year at Disrupt Berlin (4-5 December) we are going to feature some of the top startups in Europe. We are looking for 30 outstanding startups to participate in one of our featured pavilions, so exhibit your startup and attend Disrupt Berlin for free. Here’s how the program works. TechCrunch is seeking… Read More... →

Startup Battlefield applications for Disrupt Berlin are now open. TechCrunch is hunting for innovative startups to launch on the famous Disrupt stage this December. Read More... →

Strivr Labs, a virtual reality training startup with some big partners, including Walmart and the NFL, has added some new talent to the team. The company has hired a new CFO and CTO to help the company expand as it adds more customers excited about the prospect of training employees and specialists using immersive virtual reality video. Nathaniel Jewell will be joining as the company’s… Read More... →

Компания Acronis, работающая в области защиты данных в гибридных облачных хранилищах, назначила Гайдара Магданурова на должность глобального директора по маркетингу. В новой должности он будет отвечать за все маркетинговые активности, развивать узнаваемость бренда компании, определять позиционирование продуктов и услуг для партнеров и заказчиков, разрабатывать и реализовывать стратегию формирования спроса на продукты и услуги компании, а также анализировать потребности заказчиков из различных сегментов и ка... →

Star Wars and Sphero were a match made in heaven. The company had spent a few years in relative startup obscurity when Disney came along with the design for a new droid. The resulting BB-8 remote control device changed the company’s fortunes overnight. With The Last Jedi a few months away, the companies are looking to recapture the magic with another brand new, spherical droid and the… Read More... →

Первые «единороги», которые провели ICO на Ethereum... →

Московская биржа зарегистрировала программу биржевых облигаций серии БО-001 компании CarMoney на 10 млрд рублей. Об этом Firrma рассказали в стартапе. В сентябре CarMoney планирует провести размещение первого выпуска биржевых облигаций в рамках программы (ей присвоен идентификационный номер 4-00321-R-001P-02E). Предварительный объем первого выпуска составит 300 млн рублей. Ориентир ставки купона — на уровне 17%-17,1% годовых, с ежемесячной выплатой. Максимальный срок обращения облигаций в рамках программы с... →

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... →