Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

Beatrice Kim is suing her former employer, the performance management software startup BetterWorks, and its CEO Kris Duggan for allegedly assaulting her in a sexual manner during a company retreat. The lawsuit also implicates BetterWorks, regional VP Matt Hart, and VP of People Operations Tamara Cooksey for allowing sexual harassment in the workplace and not taking action against Duggan after… Read More... →

Американский стартап по производству соковыжималок Juicero сократит 25% персонала. Об этом пишет Fortune со ссылкой на внутреннее письмо гендиректора компании Джеффа Данна сотрудникам.... →

theMednet launched out of Y Combinator earlier this year to bring physicians a sophisticated platform for finding the best in treatment research, starting with cancer. It has now raised $1.5 million in seed to help it reach even more of those physicians. The funding comes from Endure Capital, Lumia Capital, The Hope Foundation, the Bonnie J. Adario Lung Cancer Foundation and a bunch of… Read More... →

Редактор издания Vox Тимоти Ли о том, почему молодые технологические компании либо не растут, либо продают свой бизнес.... →

Why would Uber buy a team that builds Snapchat competitors? To make its driver app feel more human. Uber has acqhired Swipe Labs, the social product studio run by Marwan Roushdy. He and a selection of engineers from the dozen-person startup will join Uber to work on the driver experience within the driver earnings team. Over the past 4 years it had raised $8.2 million and built four apps… Read More... →

Most Econ 101 classes start with an explanation of fixed and marginal cost in the context of factories. The factory is the principal fixed cost — expensive and permanent. Canvas wants to smash this assumption of expensive, inflexible, factories by replacing infrastructure with autonomous vehicles. The Boulder-based startup is announcing its first product this morning — an… Read More... →

Services like Instapaper and Pocket are often used by consumers to save longer news articles they don’t have time to immediately read, and both services offer some form of narration for people pressed for time. However, a startup called Audm believes that there’s a better way to turn long-form journalism into audio content that’s actually enjoyable to listen to – by… Read More... →

Grab, the Uber rival in Southeast Asia that operates across seven countries, is reportedly in talks to raise up to $2 billion from Japan-based SoftBank and China-based Didi Chuxing, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing sources. The funding would reportedly value Grab at more than $5 billion, which would make it the most valuable startup in Southeast Asia. SoftBank is the telecom giant that… Read More... →

A few months ago I wrote about a little startup called Collectly going after the big, inefficient  debt collection industry by using modern tools to ease the process for debtors while also increasing the amount of money recovered. Based on some early traction, the company has raised $1.9 million in seed funding to grow its nascent business. Read More... →

История российского предпринимателя Николая Сторонского, который уехал в Англию и создал стартап для платежей без комиссии Revolut.... →

В завершающей подборке стартапов, составленного управляющим партнером фонда the Untitled Ventures Константином Синюшиным по итогам конкурса Go to RetailTech, рассматриваются три проекта в сфере онлайн-торговли.  Digital Data Manager Специализированное решение для интернет-магазинов, позволяющее устанавливать десятки маркетинговых систем в один клик при помощи единого API. DigitalDataManager позволяет единожды настроить сбор данных в унифицированном виде, а затем автоматически перенаправлять их в десятки мар... →

Procrastinators rejoice — the application deadline for Startup Battlefield, Disrupt SF 2017 has been extended until Monday, July 17 at 12 pm PT. That means you have two extra days to do whatever it takes to give your early-stage startup a shot at presenting on the main stage at Disrupt SF and compete for the $50,000 prize and the Disrupt Cup. Read More... →

Основатель Future Fintech Алекс Форк и инвестор Алексей Воронин заявили о запуске проекта ICO Lab Ecosystem, который является одновременно акселератором для проектов на блокчейне и краудфандинговой платформой. Также компания будет управлять портфелями токенов инвесторов. В числе других основателей ICO Lab — британские предприниматели Тим Кэмпбелл и Хазэм Ал Нaкиб. Об этом Firrma рассказали в компании. ICO Lab — мультиплатформенная система, которая помогает перспективным стартапам со всего мира выйти на ICO... →

Венчурный инвестор Александр Румянцев вложится в онлайн-площадку GrapTil.com, которая помогает покупать и продавать загородную недвижимость при помощи технологии «Открытый Дом». Инвестор получит 10% долю в компании. Об этом Firrma рассказали в стартапе. Сделка будет закрыта в ближайшие дни. Инвестиции планируется направить на внедрение системы для проведения сделок с недвижимостью на базе blockchain-технологии и масштабирование проекта. GrapTil.com — сервис, который определяет рыночную стоимость дома и про... →

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We’re excited to bring our illustrious startup competition, the Startup Battlefield, to Nairobi, Kenya later this year. And we’re giving you a one-week extension to apply. The Battlefield will feature several prominent startups from the region, each vying to be crowned the most promising startup in sub-Saharan Africa. Don’t miss out. Read More... →

Коротко о том, как принять участие и зачем это делать.... →

Back in March at Google’s Cloud Next conference, the company announced plans to run its own machine learning startup competition side-by-side with Data Collective and Emergence Capital. Four months later,  ten startups, pulled from a pool of 350+ applicants, presented on stage at Google’s Launchpad space in San Francisco. The startups vied for three prizes — a choice each… Read More... →

Insticator is announcing that it has raised $5.2 million in Series A funding. The startup allows online publishers to add quizzes, polls and other interactive elements (either created by Insticator or by the publisher themselves) to their stories. They then make money from those widgets by then running ads in them, too. Other startups trying to do something similar include Playbuzz and Qzzr… Read More... →

Just seven months after announcing a $20 million Series B, Pendo, a platform to help businesses better understand their customers, has closed a new $25 million Series C led by Meritech Capital Partners. The North Carolina-based startup has been growing at a rapid clip — ballooning to 106 employees across offices in San Francisco, New York and Raleigh. Meritech’s Rob Ward will be… Read More... →