Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

Венчурный фонд ранних стадий и бизнес-акселератор Pulsar Venture Capital начал отбор проектов на экспортноориентированную акселерационную программу для техногических компаний. Финалисты акселерационной программы получат инвестиции до 8 млн рублей от акселератора и организаторов программы. В отличие от предыдущих лет в 2018 году отбор проводится в три трека акселерационной программы: 1. Блокчейн-технологии и ICO (Blockchain Tech), работа со стартапами, занимающимися интеграцией блокчейн-технологий в различ... →

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

SmartHR, a startup helping Japanese employers run HR and staffing smarter — because that’s of course its name — has raised a JPY 1.5 billion ($13.3 million) Series B round led by 500 Startups Japan. The startup is perhaps comparable to the likes of Zenefits and Gusto in the U.S. — it aims to drag Japanese HR departments into today’s digital era. “In Japan… Read More... →

After selling his social virtual reality startup to Microsoft in October, Eric Romo, the co-founder of AltspaceVR is joining the competing social VR team at Facebook as its Product Director where he will be “exploring how VR can help communities connect.” “It wasn’t an easy decision, but I left AltspaceVR with confidence that the team is well-placed to continue… Read More... →

A startup that’s operating in stealth mode raises an almost stunning amount of money before it releases the product. Investors write outsize checks to the outfit because of the other people involved in it, but before you know it, poof, the company is imploding, and the capital is gone. It’s a story that industry watchers know well at this point. Clinkle — the payments… Read More... →

Coinbase just announced they’re hiring Tina Bhatnagar as VP of Operations and Technology to lead all operational teams at Coinbase and GDAX. But perhaps most relevant right now is the fact that her responsibilities will include overseeing the fast growing startup’s customer service division. It’s no secret that Coinbase is in need of some help with it comes to support and… Read More... →

Payroll provider ADP said it is acquiring WorkMarket, a startup that specializes in workforce management software that operates across a wide range of employees and contractors, for an undisclosed sum. The software aims to create a kind of unified interface for managing an extended workforce that can include a variety of workers with different employment status, from contractors and… Read More... →

Cargo, a startup that wants to let every rideshare driver open their own convenience store in their car, has just raised $5.5M in a round it’s calling seed preferred financing. Over the summer we covered the company’s $1.75M seed round, at which point they were just getting started. Now they have 2,500 cars on the road in NYC, Chicago, Boston and Minneapolis, with 20,000 driver… Read More... →

Cabify, the Madrid-based startup that competes with the likes of Uber and 99 in Latin America as well as the Iberian peninsula, has closed out another round of funding as competition continues to heat up in the on-demand transportation sector. Cabify’s parent company Maxi Mobility has raised $160 million at a valuation of $1.4 billion, the company confirmed to TechCrunch today. The Series… Read More... →

Rocket Lab is hoping to fill a niche for small payload orbital launches with its house-built Electron rocket and private launch facility – and now it’s one step closer to full commercial operations. The startup managed its second test flight (via Space) for its Electron booster – this time making it all the way to orbit, where it deployed some of its first ever customer… Read More... →

As food delivery hopefuls like Deliveroo and Amazon get more involved in the making of food themselves, Uber’s food delivery branch Uber Eats has made an acquisition that could see the company also producing more of the product it’s bringing to its customers. Ando — the delivery-only ‘restaurant’ founded by Momofuku chef David Chang — announced today that it… Read More... →

As people become more aware of how their data is used — and abused — in our digital world; and regulations (like GDPR in Europe) are leading more organizations to implement better data protection policies, a startup that is hoping to protect that data found in images — by making it impossible for algorithms to read it — has raised a seed round to help it bring its… Read More... →

ViViDoctor, a healthtech startup out of Brussels that offers teleconsultations with doctors, has raised €400,000 in seed funding as it continues to sell its service into hospitals. The company enables patients to consult with doctors and other specialists online, including via video conference. Read More... →

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

Moscow Seed Fund и компания «Ом» вложили 12 млн рублей в сервис по продаже электронных билетов Tiwo. Сколько проинвестировала каждая из компаний не раскрывается. Об этом Firrma сообщили в Moscow Seed Fund. Инвестиции будут направлены на разработку функционала сервиса и развитие полноценной платформы-агрегатора мероприятий по всей России. Tiwo — платформа, на которой можно купить билеты на крупные развлекательные и деловые мероприятия Москвы: концерты и конференции в Крокус-Сити Холле, стадионе «Олимпийски... →

Как правильно пиарить IT-стартапы и что делать, если бюджета нет, а пиара хочется?... →

California is home to two very different innovation worlds. For the readers of TechCrunch, there is the familiar excitement of the startup world, with startups working on longevity and age extension, rockets to Mars, and cars that drive themselves. Hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs, engineers, and product managers are building these futures every day, often on shoestring budgets all in… Read More... →

Директор по стратегии и анализу Mail.Ru Group Александр Горный о судьбе проектов из рубрики «Стартап дня».... →

“The consensus is that because blockchain is so niche and it’s mostly early adopters who come from tech and finance, that it’s actually less diverse than those industries that are already struggling to be representative of the population at large,” Raine Revere, co-founder of blockchain education startup Maiden, told me on an episode of the CTRL+T podcast. In… Read More... →

After nearly a year, venture capitalists nabbed their first U.S. acquisition for more than a billion dollars. And it wasn’t a tech startup. Nor was it a company on the list of known unicorns. And it had nothing to do with blockchain. Read More... →