Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

An app that has the needs of modern-day parents in mind, Winnie, has now raised $4 million in additional seed funding in a round led by Reach Capital. Other investors in the new round include Rethink Impact, Homebrew, Ludlow Ventures, Afore Capital, and BBG Ventures, among others. With the new funds, Winnie has raised $6.5 million to […]... →

RRE Ventures has raised $265 million for its latest fund. The firm was founded back in 1994, and this is its seventh fund (eighth if you include a separate “opportunity” fund for making follow-on investments). Exits in the last few years include Bitly (acquired by Spectrum Equity), Business Insider (acquired by Axel Springer) and TapCommerce […]... →

ФРИИ инвестирует 20 млн рублей в платформу безкассовых покупок Pay-Z. По итогам сделки фонд увеличит свою долю в компании до 24%. Ранее ФРИИ уже инвестировал в Pay-Z 2,5 млн руб. Стартап успешно прошел 14 Акселератор ФРИИ, запустившийся в начале этого года. В рамках акселератора ФРИИ обычно получает 7% акций компании в обмен на инвестиции.  Сервис позволяет посетителям супермаркетов сканировать в приложении штрих-коды товаров, которые хочет купить, тем самым добавляя их в онлайн-корзину. Оплата производится... →

India’s PolicyBazaar, which runs a digital insurance business of the same name and a lending marketplace called PaisaBazaar.com, is the latest company to join SoftBank’s $100 billion Vision Fund after it announced a new funding round of over $200 million. The deal was led by the Vision Fund with participation from existing investors including InfoEdge, the company […]... →

15 июня 2018 года открылся прием заявок в корпоративный акселератор Taxcom Startup College, адресованный перспективным ИТ-проектам «предпосевной/посевной» стадий, разрабатывающим инновационные продукты и решения в одном или нескольких сегментах рынка xTech, — включая финансовые (FinTech), регуляторные/надзорные (RegTech/SupTech) и страховые (InsurTech) технологии. Предпочтение будет отдаваться проектам из Москвы и Московской области. Организатором акселератора выступает Taxcom Venture Capital — корпоративны... →

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Фонд Юрия Мильнера DST Global возглавил раунд инвестиций в компанию Swiggy. Стартап получил $210 млн и был оценен в $1,2 млрд. Также в раунде инвестиций приняли участие холдинг Naspers и хедж-фонд Coatue. Swiggy был основан в Бангалоре в августе 2014 года предпринимателем Срихарша Мажети и меньше чем за четыре года добрался до капитализации более миллиарда долларов. В начале этого года другой индийский сервис доставки еды Zomato получил инвестиции от китайской группы  Ant Financial и был оценен в $1,1 млрд.... →

Urban Airship has raised $25 million in Series F funding. The company started out as a platform supporting push notifications, but has since expanded to include other marketing channels like email, SMS, mobile wallets and voice assistants. The goal is to be the platform managing messaging and unifying customer data across all these channels. Altogether, […]... →

The online language school market is continuing to heat up, and a startup that connects native English speakers with an audience of students spanning China and 35 other countries for live language tutorials, is helping fan those flames. VIPKID, based out of Beijing, today announced that it has raised $500 million in funding — a […]... →

As we inch closer to building increasingly autonomous cars, the complexities that these vehicles will present as programmable hardware are increasing, with some 250 applications ranging from cameras to navigation controls to weather sensors running on a typical high performance system today. Now, a startup that is building a system to help optimise that and […]... →

India’s food delivery race is hotting up after Swiggy, one of the startups vying for pole position, landed $210 million in new capital for expansion and joined the billion-dollar startup unicorn club. The investment is led by existing backer Naspers, the media conglomerate famous for an early bet on Tencent in China, and new investor DST […]... →

Mighty Bear, a game studio startup that grew out of King.com’s former office in Singapore, has landed new funding as it readies its debut title for smartphones. The startup was founded by four former King.com staffers — Simon Davis, Fadzuli Said, Benjamin Chevalier and Saurabh Shukul — after the gaming giant closed its Singapore office — inherited […]... →

How can you be sure an image wasn’t Photoshopped? Make sure it was shot with Truepic. This startup makes a camera feature that shoots photos and adds a watermark URL leading to a copy of the image it saves, so viewers can compare them to ensure the version they’re seeing hasn’t been altered. Now Truepic’s […]... →

French startup Tiller has raised a $13.9 million Series B round (€12 million) from Ring Capital. Omnes Capital and existing investors 360 Capital Partners also participated in today’s funding round. The company has been working on a cash register that works better than your clunky touchscreen from ten years ago. Tiller is working on a […]... →

Email marketing startup Stensul is announcing that it has raised $7 million. Stensul spun out of founder and CEO Noah Dinkin’s previous company FanBridge. Dinkin explained via email that the startup isn’t competing with the big email service providers — in fact, it integrates with ESPs including Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Oracle Marketing Cloud, Adobe Marketing […]... →

GoFundMe, the popular service for raising money for causes with some $5 billion raised to date, is expanding its platform to serve more community efforts: today the company is launching GoFundMe Team Fundraising, which lets groups of people collectively raise money for a single effort. The idea is that it will make it possible for […]... →

We are living in the information age, but that doesn’t mean that we have all the time in the world to ingest everything that we want. A startup that is aiming to help with that has raised a round of funding to grow its business. Blinkist, a Berlin-based startup that presents condensed versions of non-fiction literature […]... →

Recruiting is one of the latest industries to get a data science makeover through companies like Hired and Triplebyte, but the former hopes to turn it into a subscription business just like other enterprise software companies — and has raised a new pile of funding to do that. Hired looks to serve as a one-stop […]... →

The News Lens launched in 2013 as an independent news site for Taiwanese readers disenchanted with the country’s tabloid-ridden media. Now it has 9 million monthly unique readers, offices in Taipei and Hong Kong and just announced it has raised a Series C. The Taipei-based startup did not disclose the exact amount of the round, […]... →

Health and wellness has been one of the biggest categories for development in the tech industry, with huge range of wearable devices and connected equipment being built to track how we are moving and helping us stay fit. Now, a startup whose app offers users a selection of audio-based, personal-trainer-led workouts that also monitors users […]... →