Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

Bunch, a newly-launched startup operating out of Berlin, is aiming to be something akin to a “Google Analytics for company culture”. It offers a SaaS to let companies and company teams quantify internal company culture, and then use this data as the basis to screen job candidates to help ensure that they will also be a good fit. Read More... →

Fraud detection is a huge problem for retailers and the banking industry. But as companies fortify their defenses against fraudsters, the criminal element finds new weaknesses to exploit. The latest tactic has been phone spoofing, and fraud at the call center itself. Helping to ward off the  latest wave of fake accounts is Next Caller, a Y Combinator-backed startup based in New York. Read More... →

Skidos, an edtech startup based in Copenhagen after relocating its HQ from New Delhi, offers an SDK to help games developers turn casual games into “learning apps”. Read More... →

Athelas is launching a low-cost, blood diagnostics device today made for testing certain diseases like the flu, bacterial infections and cancer in the comfort of your home. Tanay Tandon founded the startup in 2014 at the tender age of 17 to develop a smartphone device that could detect malaria through blood samples. That idea proved difficult but the idea of ease and mobility stuck with… Read More... →

Партнерский материал Бизнес-школа СКОЛКОВО совместно с Zimin Foundation* проводит открытый конкурс грантов «Предпринимательский прорыв года». Победители конкурса получат шесть грантов на обучение в Стартап Академии СКОЛКОВО на сумму от 300 000 до 500 000 рублей. Гранты покрывают до 80% стоимости обучение. К участию в конкурсе приглашаются молодые российские предприниматели, основатели перспективных бизнес-проектов. Прием заявок — до 10 сентября, старт обучение — 28 сентября 2017. Номинации конкурса: – AgroT... →

Редакция vc.ru продолжает публиковать резюме специалистов, желающих работать в стартапах и ИТ-компаниях (выходят по понедельникам), а также вакансии компаний, которые ищут сотрудников (выходят по четвергам).... →

Reddit’s first employee has taken over the reigns as CTO of the popular internet company. Chris Slowe was the company’s founding engineer when he joined the team in 2005. Slowe joined Reddit after getting to know co-founders Alexis Ohanian and current-CEO Steve Huffman in Y-Combinator’s first batch where he was serving as the founder of a different startup at the time.… Read More... →

Machine intelligence startups are the black sheep of the startup world. The new kids on the block are challenging investors to do their technical homework and differentiate themselves in intentional ways. Y Combinator joined a growing list of investors offering exclusive services to these companies in a specialized AI track for its latest S17 batch of startups. In the competitive world of… Read More... →

You may remember that time I decided to do whatever startup Journy told me to do during my trip to Berlin with my mom. Well, I mostly stuck to that plan and we had a really good time. Here’s a quick recap. Journy is designed to function somewhere in between a high-end travel service and a DIY approach to jetsetting. For $25 a day, Journy will act as your personal concierge for your… Read More... →

I’ve seen, of late, a tendency for young, intelligent men (and sometimes women, although this is primarily a male phenomenon) to fight back against the inequity of the startup ecosystem by joining political movements that are far right of Libertarianism. This tendency, one borne out of helplessness and frustration, is also defined by a certain mindset: that the world owes them success. To… Read More... →

Being a clean-tech startup amidst today’s uncertain political priorities and tightening R&D budgets is like being on a rollercoaster where the loops keep getting bigger and bigger and have no end in sight. But surprisingly, this hasn’t stopped many clean energy startups bursting with outside-of-the-box ideas and innovations waiting to be taken to market. However, with a 50%… Read More... →

Пиар-консультант Дина Мостовая рассказала о том, как устроен рынок польских медиа и как следует общаться с журналистами, если вы хотите, чтобы о вашем стартапе написали местные СМИ.  Ко мне пришел технологический стартап за пиаром в Польше. Ранее с этой страной я не работала, а значит, пришла пора изучить здешний рынок медиа и пиара. Что в таком случае надо делать? Идти в поля! Я прилетела в Варшаву на две консультации: одна с местной журналисткой, а другая – с пиарщицей. Сегодня Катерина Сапожникова расска... →

Two former Googlers are guaranteeing workers in the tech industry that they get interviews with their dreamer employers thanks to artificial intelligence. The past year or so has seen AI deployed to tackle a broad range of issues, and with their startup Leap.ai, ex-Google engineers Richard Liu and Yunkai Zhou believe it can be used to crack the hiring conundrum in tech. As things stand now… Read More... →

Победитель получит безвозмездный грант размером 1 млн рублей.... →

«Аукциону добрых дел» Booncity получил 1 млн рублей в рамках конкурса стартапов Usmanov Challenge. Об этом говорится на странице конкурса в соцсети «Вконтакте». Booncity – это сервис, который позволяет выиграть на аукционе множество интересных лотов, как например, живые встречи с известными людьми. Деньги, собранные на аукционах, идут на благотворительность. Проект зарегистрирован как ООО «Какаду Паблишинг». Единственным учредителем и гендиректором является Сергей Солдатенко.  Конкрус Usmanov Challenge был ... →

Возможно, эти средства вложил сам Маск.... →

Elon Musk wants to connect your brain directly to a computer, and investors are ready to make that science fiction a reality. Musk’s startup Neuralink has raised the $26.96 million of a technically still-open funding round that could grow to $100 million, according to a new SEC filing. However, Musk himself tweets that Neuralink is no longer raising cash. Neuralink is not raising… Read More... →

Price comparison websites for insurance products have been around for many years. However, typically, people buy from these based just on price, with zero customisation based on the person. What’s required is a much more tailor-made service, changing the culture from strictly price-only focused to the “best cover for you”. That’s the pitch of UK startup Sherpa, which… Read More... →

Real estate tech startup Amitree is making life easier for real estate agents, which it hopes will make life even easier for the homebuyers they work with. The company has raised $7 million to grow its Folio assistant for real estate agents.  Read More... →

Руководитель отдела маркетинга и инвестиций в компании Realogic Сергей Романов проанализировал для Firrma поток входящих запросов от стартапов и указал на распространенные ошибки стартаперов.  С момента, когда в апреле 2017 года Realogic объявили о полноценном старте инвестиций в стартапы, мы начали получать заявки от разных проектов. Сегодня мы хотим рассказать о том, какие проекты приходят к нам на почту в папку «входящие», какие из них мы начинаем рассматривать и почему, какие проекты отсекаются сразу и ... →