Sentences with phrase «top tech startups»

The program, founded by Paul Graham, Jessica Livingston and others back in 2005, is known for giving seed money and 3 - month boot campsto top tech startups.

Whether they dropped out or stuck it out, going to college more than paid off for today's top tech startup billionaires — higher ed skeptic and Stanford alum Peter Thiel included.

Not exact matches

Launched in 2009 by three Yale alums — Mahbod Moghadam, Tom Lehman, and Ilan Zechory — and refined during a stint with the well - known startup incubator Y Combinator, the company was completing the details of a massive $ 40 million funding round by one of the top investors in tech, a piece of news they had agreed to announce as part of a profile on Business Insider.

Martin decided to give up the top role at the company he founded, wearable tech startup Nymi, to become its Chief Technology Officer instead.

But those attending TechCrunch's annual gala for Silicon Valley's top tech companies took notice of how the workplace messaging startup accepted its Fastest Rising Startupstartup accepted its Fastest Rising StartupStartup award.

The staggering growth rates of this year's Fast 50 — the average of the top five was a record - smashing 43,000 % — reflects how high - tech startups have evolved in the face of austerity.

Perth technology company APE Mobile has made it into the shortlisted top 5 in the 2014 - 15 OzAPP Awards, which seek the most innovative tech startup companies from the Asia Pacific region.

A video demonstration of Shazam's AR tech, which AR startup Zappar helped build, shows that when users hover their phones over a Shazam logo, the logo triggers their phones to display digital graphics on top of the design.

From a pure sound bite perspective, though, the tech bros and startup kings will have a hard time topping 2013.

«These new figures show tech startups in the U.K. are accelerating their hiring efforts and can offer exciting high - growth opportunities combined with top salaries,» Andrew Hunter, co-founder of Adzuna.co.uk, said.

Startup Weekend, university pitch competitions, an open - office - hours block, and our own reverse job fair, Tech Jobs Under the Big Top, are just a few of the ways we get to meet entrepreneurs, lots of entrepreneurs.

In major tech hubs like Silicon Valley, startups have to compete with the likes of Google, Facebook and Apple for top talent.

«No surprise, most of the now - public tech giants are investing in and buying OTHER tech startups and unicorns to stay on top of their game.

In 2017, all eyes will be on London, Paris, Berlin, and Munich — the top European cities for tech startups according to recent data from CBRE, a global real estate research firm.

In this live virtual executive roundtable, you'll: * Learn what entrepreneurs need to do to get noticed by top VC firms * Look at the most active venture capitalists in tech today * Discover the biggest mistakes made by foundering startups * Identify the weaknesses that are keeping you from becoming the next unicorn Speakers: * Ton van't Noordende, Venture Partner, Keadyn * Jon Cifuentes, Cofounder Research and Operations, All Turtles * Matthew Zeiler, CEO, Clarifai * Stewart Rogers, Director of Marketing Technology, VentureBeat

C100 Charter Members include some of the most successful Canadians working in some of the most important tech companies in the Silicon Valley, include startups CEOs, top executives of companies such as Apple, Cisco, EA, eBay, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Oracle, and venture investors representing more than $ 8 billion in capital.

There's a reason Skyword is based here — Boston is a tech hub, thanks to a number of startup incubators and top universities.

But don't take my word for it — Forbes» Christopher Steiner cited St. Louis as «The Right Way To Build a Tech City,» the city was ranked as the top startup city by Popular Mechanics in 2015, the fastest growing startup city by Business Insider and the «new startup frontier» by FiveThirtyEight in 2016.

Of the many tech hubs examined, 10 rose to the top as the hottest American cities to launch a tech startup from right now.

After building a reputation for helping startups scale, Scott was approached by tech accelerator Capital Innovators, one of the nation's top 10 accelerators, to lead operations.

Michael was named one of 20 People to Watch in 2014 in Atlanta by Creative Loafing, has been awarded Top Up - and - Coming Entrepreneur at TiECON Southeast 2013 and 2010 Mobile Marketer of the Year by the Tech Marketing Awards and is a frequent speaker on startups.

Refocusing its outbound efforts to solely target consumers, financial tech startup Blooom has laid off nearly a third of its staff and a top executive has resigned.

One of the area's top startups, finance tech firm Blooom has landed a significant round of financing to accelerate its online tool to boost users» retirement savings.

She was named as one of Nova Scotia's top 10 young entrepreneurs in 2012, she sold her first business in 2014, she was named as a Forbes Influencer in 2016, and, in 2017, she made the difficult decision to close down her venture - backed tech startup after 3 years in operation.

Juwai.com recently made it onto a list of top 18 readers» favourite startup stories in 2014 — alongside taxi app giant, Didi Dache — reports Tech in Asia (25 December... Leer más >

Two women - led startups from Austin are among the top ten finalists in the nation for the sixth Women Startup Challenge: Emerging Tech.

Silicon Valley, London, NYC: Startup Genome Data Reveals How The World's Top Tech Hubs Stack Up Last year, we covered an ambitious collaborative R&D project called «Startup Genome,» created by three young entrepreneurs, Bjoern Herrmann, Max Marmer, and Ertan Dogrultan.

See the top celebrity investors in tech startups, and the lessons we've learned from them.

ZeroUI and its smart interaction robotic kit «Ziro» received top honors at the recent TiE50 Silicon Valley awards program that named just 50 companies as «most innovative tech startups» from a pool of more than 7,000 nominees from 28 countries.

TECH CRUNCH - Feb 10 - DeNa, one of Japan's top mobile Internet company, has invested in Korean startup VCNC to turn its couples app Between into an open platform for third - party developers.

Tech Stars Ignighter a new camp that hand - picks the top ten of the best adult dating service group out of four hundred entries each year receive startups.

A global race to automate stores is underway among several of the world's top retailers and small tech startups, which are motivated to shave labour costs and minimize shoppers» frustrations, such as waiting for cashiers.

With a lot of gumption and the assistance of FG Press, I set up guest posts and interviews on top blogs and podcasts, a Twitter battle with a tech celebrity, reviews and blurbs from real life startup CEOs, partnerships with blue chip organizations like TechCrunch and Techstars, and more.

In addition, my business experience has allowed me build sustainable organizations as well as to best understand how to search, vet, and hire top management talent; most recent examples include The Hackerati and InDorse Tech, my last two startups in NYC.

Top stories include: CLOC to open Euro chapter — big news for inhouse legal teams & their tech vendors + Peppermint has a bout of growing pains + the Insider launches legal tech startup initiative — who's hot & who's not?

Doing things differently was top of mind at the conference, where lawyers, startups and legal tech enthusiasts came together to talk about how technology is changing the legal industry.

He'll be joined by other top names in tech, including Slava Rubin, Founder of IndieGoGo and Scott Case, CEO of Startup America.

Welcome to the latest issue of the Legal IT Insider newsletter — June 2016 # 294 — TOP STORIES INCLUDE: Linklaters to drop Tikit Carpe Diem & switch to Intapp Rekoop + roadtest AI options + Legal Tech startups say they are under threat from Brexit + DLA Piper signs up with AI outfit Kira Systems: «We're trying to be ahead of the curve!»

At CodeX I heard a number of legal tech startup CEOs talking about the difficulty of convincing top machine - learning scientists (for example) to work on legal projects.

The World Blockchain Summit Nairobi will also host the regional finale of Startup World Cup, a global competition that brings together the top startups, VCs, entrepreneurs and world - class tech CEOs.

Xiaomi finished 2014 as the world's most valuable tech startup with a valuation of $ 45 billion after raising $ 1.1 billion in funding, topping Uber's $ 41 billion valuation on $ 1.2 billion in funding.

He served as Chief Product Officer at Knowre, an ed - tech startup that was named one of World's Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Education by Fast Company.

Lisa is a mentor to several European hardware Startups, and has been named one of the top 100 most influential people in wearable tech worldwide.

The tech giant has reportedly begun to back blockchain startups, which gives them access to top talent in the field.

Dallas, TX — February 16 - 18, 2018 — With 35 top - notch speakers and 50 + exhibitors from the bitcoin, ethereum and altcoin worlds, plus talks from ICOs and blockchain startups, this conference will dispel the rumors that it is too late to invest in cryptocurrencies and blockchain tech.

The Ontario Pension Board and wealth advisory firm Glenmede Trust, both of which already have a stake in the firm via venture capital (VC) investments, are among new investors to put $ 30m (# 24.2 m) into the startup, which specialises in high - calibre tech and sales jobs for top companies such as Facebook and Uber.

Biron was an Executive Recruiter for top pharmaceutical companies and tech startups before he founded Career Sidekick.

Silicon Valley is the nation's largest tech hub, a top - performing venture capital market and one of the most prominent locations for startups.

In addition to working with some of the top brands in real estate, I've done marketing, content development and PR for rising startups in the social, mobile and ad tech industries, as well as AARP.

RealtyShares raised another $ 10 million in startup funding this year on top of $ 20 million in prior funding from tech startup heavyweights like Menlo Ventures and Union Square Ventures.