We’ve written about a number of air purifiers before, but Sprimo is taking a different approach — instead of trying to clean all the air in the room, it creates a personalized stream of clean air for individual users.
El desarrollo de la inteligencia artificial cada vez está más presente en nuestras vidas y con el paso del tiempo su presencia irá en aumento gracias al impulso que actualmente están aportando los gigantes tecnológicos. Precisamente, ayer Facebook anunció oficialmente en su conferencia anual de desarrolladores F8 la llegada de los bots a Messenger, pero ¿qué es un bot y para qué sirve?, ¿cuándo surgieron?, ¿qué compañías los fabrica?, ¿podrán reemplazar a las aplicaciones de mensajería? ¿por qué se han puesto de actualidad?, etc.
Un total de 43 inversores invierten en la energética, que pretende desarrollar el negocio nacional mediante un sistema de franquicias y expandirse internacionalmente. La compañía gallega fue Premio Empresario del año 2014 en Pontevedra y Premio Cantábrico Excelente 2015 a la mejor empresa de eficiencia energética.
La plataforma de crowdequity (crowdfunding de inversión) Crowdcube ha cerrado una ronda de inversión de 228.620 euros para Vagalume Energía, una consultora energética integral especializada en proyectos de autocons
With over 2,500 attendees expected at this year’s ASU GSV Summit in San Diego from April 18-20, we ran the company exhibitor list through the CB Insights database — thanks to our Bulk Search tool — to help you target the right companies and people.
Affirm, the alternative lending site started by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin, has raised a $100M Series D led by fellow PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund.
The all equity round, which was confirmed to TechCrunch by the company, also included participation from existing investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Spark Capital, Khosla Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, and Jefferies.
As culturing bacteria becomes more accessible, we’re seeing more technologies use their unique characteristics to create smart devices, such as temperature-adaptive clothing and bacteria-powered robots. Glowee, a Parisian startup, believes bacteria could also provide an alternative to electric lights.
Leartiker zentro teknologikoak, Lea-Artibaiko Landa Garapen Elkartea, MIBA pentsu-enpresa eta Barroeta eta Txori Errota gaztandegiekin elkarlanean, gatz-ura oinarri hartuta sortu duen produktua sortu du, GAXURE.
El centro tecnológico Leartiker, en colaboración con Lea-Artibaiko Landa Garapen Elkartea, MIBA y las queserías de Barroeta y Txori Errota han creado GAXURE, un producto derivado del lactosuero.
In cooperation with TIM Consulting, Fraunhofer IAO conducted an online survey from July to September 2015 on the use, challenges and success factors of roadmaps in everyday company operations. An excerpt of its key findings is given in a publicly available infographic.
Roadmaps are an important tool for company planning. Particularly in the areas of technology, product and strategy planning, they enable companies to integrate complex interrelationships in a clearly structured fashion. To find out more about the use, challenges and success factors of roadmaps, Fraunhofer IAO partnered with TIM Consulting to conduct a survey of companies in a wide variety of sectors, including mechanical and systems engineering, automobile production, and service and equipment vendors.
Figure 1 shows venture capital commitments — the amount of money that the industry has invested in startup companies measured in inflation-adjusted dollars — from 1980 to 2014. The dotted line in the figure is the five-year moving average.
Since the venture capital bubble burst in 2001, the trend in venture capital commitments has been largely downward, with a slight rise in the pre-financial crisis period. The most recent year data are available, 2014, shows an uptick, reversing the downward trend in the moving average.
