Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

Red Hat, a company best known for its enterprise Linux products, has been making a big play for Kubernetes and containerization in recent years with its OpenShift Kubernetes product. Today the company decided to expand on that by acquiring CoreOS, a container management startup, for $250 million. The company’s core products includes CoreOS, a Linux distribution and Tectonic, a… Read More... →

Директор по стратегии и анализу Mail.Ru Group Александр Горный каждый день рассказывает о примечательных проектах.... →

Платформа синхронного перевода для мероприятий SPEAKUS прошла отбор в акселерационную программу StartUP Kazakhstan. О этом Firrma рассказали в стартапе. Проект получил более $30 тысяч в виде беспроцентного займа от GVA Alatau Fund. $11,5 из этой суммы будет выплачено услугами акселератора. По условиям сделки заем может быть конвертирован в привилегированные акции компании. После окончания акселерации стартап может получить еще $100 тысяч за 7% в американской компании, которая будет создана.  Облачный сервис... →

As Pinterest increasingly tries to sell itself as a startup specialized in computer vision that it plugs into visual discovery, it’s continuing to pick up additional pieces to help continue to build that out. Today, the company said it is hiring former Google computer vision research lead Chuck Rosenberg, who was previously at Google for 14 years. Pinterest sees more than 300 million… Read More... →

Heptio holds a special place in the Kubernetes startup ecosystem. Its co-founders are, after all, two of the co-founders of the Kubernetes project. Heptio has raised millions, but it was never clear what their business plan looked like beyond offering training and professional services. It’s becoming clearer now, as the company today announced the launch of the Heptio Kubernetes… Read More... →

Want to put your money in something like a 1955 Porsche or 1985 Ferrari but don’t have hundreds of thousands of dollars to spend? Meet Rally Road. The New York-based startup lets investors buy a real equity stake in a classic car for as little as $50. The company just closed a $2.9M seed round led by Columbus Nova with participation from Social Leverage and other angel… Read More... →

The SoftBank Vision Fund has struck again. This time, it’s investing $300 million in on-demand walking and dog care startup Wag. Wag has also brought on Hilary Schneider, formerly of identity theft protection company LifeLock, to serve as the company’s new chief executive officer. Wag, which launched back in 2015, offers on-demand walking and boarding for pups. The startup… Read More... →

It’s crunch time for TrackR, that startup that lets you use an app to find items like keys, wallets and bags that have been tagged with its small Bluetooth-based tracking devices. TechCrunch has learned and confirmed that the company has laid off a substantial proportion of its staff, as it seeks to sharpen its focus amid a wider market contraction for item-tracking businesses. The… Read More... →

A startup called Cake has an ambitious plan to take on incumbents like Chrome and Safari to build a better browser for mobile devices. The company announced this morning it has raised $5 million for those efforts from Peak Ventures, Pelion Ventures and Kickstart Seed Fund. Cake was founded in late 2016 in Provo, Utah by Jase Bosarge, who had originally developed technologies and a… Read More... →

Mammoth Media has raised a $13 million Series A funding to create what it calls “entertainment experiences for the mobile-first generation.” Mammoth isn’t not the first startup to pitch itself as reinventing entertainment for smartphones, but for the most part, that message has come from gaming companies. Co-founder and CEO Benoit Vatere said he wanted to take the… Read More... →

Французский стартап Wonder.Legal использует возможности искусственного интеллекта для создания юридических документов без участия живого оператора, или юристов.... →

Фонд развития интернет-инициатив (ФРИИ) запустил 14 акселератор, в котором примут участие 25 команд. Программа стартовала 25 января и рассчитана на три месяца, сообщили vc.ru представители организации.... →

Ken Chenault, the outgoing CEO of American Express, is quickly building a platform in the startup world. Chenault announced plans to leave his position as the head of Amex last October, ending a 17-year run, and this month he’s bagged a trio of top positions within the tech/startup world. Facebook appointed him to its board on January 18, last week Airbnb said he’s joining its… Read More... →

22 получат инвестиции от фонда, еще три проекта пройдут акселерацию за свой счет... →

It’s not often you see a single venture capital firm investing $50 million in a Series A round. These usually involve a much smaller number spread across a variety of investors, but Accel saw something in BrowserStack, a mobile and browser testing platform, that’s a bit too successful to warrant the usual early-round startup label. BrowserStack has built a huge market with over… Read More... →

По итогам 14 набора акселератора ФРИИ инвестиции от фонда получит 21 стартап. Во ФРИИ называют сумму, направленную на развитие каждого из проектов, — 2,5 млн рублей. 1,1 млн рублей компания получит услугами акселератора. В обмен на инвестиции стартапы отдают фонду 7% своей компании. В одну из компаний ФРИИ инвестирует 1,1 млн рублей услугами акселерации и получает 3% компании. Три компании проходят программу без привлечения инвестиций и за свой счет. Об этом Firrma сообщили в фонде. В рамках 14 акселератор... →

As Uber works on trying to find a more profitable path ahead for its transportation-on-demand service, it has sold off one of its units that sat peripherally to that business. Fair, the car leasing startup that announced debt and equity funding of up to $1 billion in October, has acquired the active leasing portfolio of Xchange Leasing, a service Uber first established in 2015 to lease new… Read More... →

Компания Stafory, разработавшая автоматизированный сервис по поиску сотрудников «Робот Вера», вышла на рынок ОАЭ. В ближайшие 1,5 года стартап планирует набрать более 25 тысяч сотрудников в Объединенных Арабских Эмиратах. Об этом Firrma сообщил представитель компании. Stafory заключила сделку с многопрофильным холдингом Arloid Group, который имеет офисы в Дубае, Сингапуре, Западной Европе и России. Эта компания предлагает решения по автоматизации крупнейших бизнесов и государственных институтов. На момент... →

French startup Spendesk just raised $9.9 million (€8 million) from Index Ventures with Michael Benabou, Laurent Asscher and Showpad cofounders Louis Jonckheere and Pieterjan Bouten also participating. Spendesk is a service that combines prepaid cards with an expense report solution. After signing up, each employee receives a personal card. Companies can top up their global Spendesk account… Read More... →

As more and more startups aim to 3D scan the world, the question of what consumers will actually care about enough to bring into the digital world is a tough one to answer. For most people, a home will be the biggest investment they make in their lives, so SF-based Hover is theorizing that’s the place to start. Hover is a computer vision startup that allows consumers to easily create… Read More... →