Cette récompense accordée par le TiE Silicon Valley a été remise à seulement 50 entreprises parmi les milliers de participants mondiaux. Soutenue par le bureau de commercialisation de l'Université de Waterloo (WatCo) Tyromer Inc. a été lancé il y a cinq ans pour commercialiser l'invention du professeur en Génie Chimique de l'Université de Waterloo Costas Tzoganakis. Cette technologie décompose chimiquement -dévulcanise- le caoutchouc des pneus afin de le rendre réutilisable.
There's a cyclicality to fundraising. Certain sectors rise quickly and become competitive while others decline. I've been wondering about the state of the market. First, which sectors are in vogue now in Seed investing and Series A investing? Second, is there a delay between the sectors attracting seed capital and Series A capital? In other words, do seed investors see trends before VCs do?
The chart above shows the trends in the seed investment market. This data is Crunchbase data filtered for the largest 20 or so sectors from 2010-2013. Each graph shows the fraction of relevant seeds in a particular segment over time.
San Diego-based Edico Genome has raised $10 million in Series A financing to commercialize the specialized processor technology it has been developing to slash the time and cost of genome mapping.
Last November, Felix Lindner came very close to shutting down the power supply of Ettlingen, a town of almost 40,000 people in the south of Germany.
"We could have switched off everything: power, water, gas," Lindner, head of Berlin-based Recurity Labs, an IT security company, said.
Fortunately for residents, Lindner's cyber attack on its energy utility, Stadtwerke Ettlingen, was simulated. But he revealed how easy it was to hack into the utility's network through its IT grid, which gave him access to its control room.
nterprises really dig customer research. At least, they dig it enough to pour money into the effort.
Cloud-based customer intelligence platform Vision Critical just raised an additional $16 million in a round led by Georgian Partners, who now has an equity position in the company.
X-rays, MRIs, and CT scans often are at the center of medical diagnoses, but in digital form, they’re usually very large and hard to transmit.
An Phoenix, Arizona company called DICOM Grid has developed a cloud-based service that eases that pain, providing a way to share images among clinicians and patients without violating any HIPAA privacy laws.
The platform uses a couple of cool proprietary technologies to deliver images quickly and securely. The first is a streaming function that allows clinicians to begin viewing images while they’re still coming down from the cloud.
Con el propósito de mejorar la experiencia de los usuarios, la red social ELKARBIDE ha incorporado recientemente nuevas funcionalidades.
Así, se ha incorporado la posibilidad de filtrar contenidos. A través de esta nueva funcionalidad, el usuario podrá filtrar las diferentes entradas de blog, documentos o eventos de los grupos a los que esté suscrito, a través de tres criterios.
El BOPV publica hoy la resolución de LANBIDE-Servicio Vasco de Empleo, por la que se procede a la publicación de la convocatoria de ayudas destinadas a la contratación en prácticas de personas jóvenes desempleadas en centros de trabajo de empresas vascas situados en el exterior.
El nexo adjunto permite acceder al texto de la resolución:
In a few short years, social technologies have given social interactions the speed and scale of the Internet. Whether discussing consumer products or organizing political movements, people around the world constantly use social-media platforms to seek and share information. Companies use them to reach consumers in new ways too; by tapping into these conversations, organizations can generate richer insights and create precisely targeted messages and offers.
The food delivery startup space is getting hot, crowded and very well-funded. Within the 'food & drink' category, Postmates has ranked neck-and-neck with Seamless.