Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

Fintech startup Jefa has raised a $2 million seed round to build a challenger bank with a product specifically designed for women living in Latin America and the Caribbean. The company has managed to attract 115,000 women on its waitlist and participated in TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield last year. Investors in Jefa include The Venture Collective, […]... →

По данным исследования CB Insights, мировые инвестиции в mental health tech в 2020 году составили почти $2 млрд — на 60% больше, чем в 2019 году. При этом только в первой половине 2021 года инвесторы вложили в стартапы в области ментального здоровья больше $2 млрд, а второй квартал показал рекордные результаты: $1,3 млрд.  Такие цифры во многом объясняются мегараундами: например, американская компания Cerebral в июне привлекла $127 млн по оценке $1,2 млрд, что сделало стартап «единорогом». Cerebral помогает... →

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It’s always been a slight puzzle why AngelList never really properly took off in Europe, especially when, a few years ago, there was such a dearth of funding options for poorly served European startups. But the reasons are fairly simple when you look at them. For starters, the US tech industry boomed in the last […]... →

Japanese space startup Astroscale has raised $109 million in a new Series F round of financing, brining the company’s total funding raised to date to $300 million. The company specializes in on-orbit servicing technology, designed to help reduce the amount of debris that exists in operating orbital altitudes, and also to extend the life of […]... →

Венчурный инвестиционный фонд Volvo Cars Tech Fund вложился в израильский стартап Spectralics, занимающийся оптическими технологиями. Инвестиции позволят Volvo стать первым автопроизводителем, который получит доступ к многослойному тонкому оптическому индикатору (MLTC).... →

As many of the top cryptocurrencies seem to temporarily stabilize near all-time-highs, users looking to speculate on tokens that are a bit more volatile are searching across exchanges to find deals. Amsterdam-based startup TabTrader has been capitalizing on this search with a platform that aggregates prices and token availability across dozens of exchanges. While other […]... →

Стартап «Твое место» сдает кухонные пространства в аренду отдельным поварам и целым командам. Резиденты получают доступ к оборудованию и профессиональному инвентарю, круглосуточное обслуживание, а также возможность пользоваться единой системой приема заказов.  Подавляющее большинство клиентов — небольшие команды, которые хотят открыть первую точку или запустить доставку в новом районе, не вкладывая средства в строительство собственных помещений. Стартап повторяет бизнес-модель британской Karma Kitchen, кото... →

Last year, fintech API infrastructure players came into the African tech scene, ushering in Plaid-like services to businesses and developers. And the attention on these companies, particularly from venture capitalists, spiralled into this year, with each significant player raising large seed to Series A rounds. OnePipe, a fintech API company with a different play from […]... →

Kenya’s economy is powered by informal businesses, which contribute 33.8% to the country’s GDP and provide 83.4% of the total employment outside of small-scale agriculture, data from the country’s bureau of statistics shows. The contribution of these enterprises is pivotal to the country’s economy yet they remain underserved by traditional banking institutions making it hard […]... →

Blume Ventures said on Wednesday it has raised $105 million in the first close of its fourth fund, less than two years after finalizing its previous fund, as investment activity intensifies in the world’s second largest internet market. The 11-year-old firm, one of the largest Indian venture funds, said it expects its new fund to […]... →

Arc is not even a year old and the electric boat startup has attracted investment from top VC firm Andreessen Horowitz, entertainment industry big wigs and now a $30 million raise led by an early Tesla executive who led the automaker’s early manufacturing efforts. The $30 million Series A was led by Greg Reichow, the […]... →

Despite Apple and Facebook investing billions into a “metaverse” future, in recent years there’s been a distinct drop-off in venture deals for startups focused on finding opportunities in augmented reality. Many VCs who have been burned by investments in large-scale efforts like Magic Leap now see the near-term spoils of augmented reality tech as opportunities […]... →

Создатели называют новый проект средним между «акселератором, венчурным фондом и комьюнити».... →

UK-based digital therapy company ieso announced a $53 million Series B round on Tuesday. The round is the funding the company needs to move in a brand new direction: creating more intuitive autonomous text therapy.  In other words, A.I. trained on thousands of hours of real-life therapy that can provide personalized sessions, over chat.  ieso […]... →

Suborbital, the company behind the open source Atmo WebAssembly-centric project for building scalable server applications, today announced that it has raised a $1.6 million seed round led by Amplify Partners. A number of angel investors, including Jason Warner (former CTO of GitHub), Sri Viswanath (CTO of Atlassian), Tyler McMullen (CTO of Fastly), Jonathan Beri (founder […]... →

Travel and tourism are slowly starting to move again in the wake of Covid-19 crashing over the world and sending us to shelter in place. Today a company focused on experiences — museum visits, skydiving, local cooking classes and more — is announcing a round of growth funding on the back of seeing its own […]... →

As more companies adopt low-code/no-code tools to build their line-of-business applications, it’s maybe no surprise that we are now seeing a new crop of services in this ecosystem that focus on keeping these tools secure. These include Tel Aviv-based Zenity, which is coming out of stealth today and announcing a $5 million seed funding round. […]... →

Streetlogic wants to help e-bike riders have a safer experience on the road. The company announced a $2.1 million pre-seed raise, as well as the launch of its flagship product, a surround-view camera that can predict front, side and rear collisions and notify riders in order to prevent accidents. Starting Tuesday, customers in the U.S., […]... →

Only a few months ago, Vercel, the company behind the popular Next.js framework for front-end developers, announced a $102 million Series B funding round that took its valuation to $1.1 billion. Today, it’s announcing a $150 million Series C round that puts its valuation at $2.5 billion. The round, which brings Vercel’s total funding to […]... →