Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

Nigeria-based Mobility-as-a-Service platform Treepz (formerly Plentywaka) has acquired Ugabus, a Ugandan bus company that aggregates inter-city bus operators. While the terms of the deal were not disclosed, Onyeka Akumah, CEO and co-founder of Treepz, told TechCrunch that the acquisition was funded with a recent $1.5 million raise that acted as an extension to a previous […]... →

Berlin-based Jina.ai, an open-source startup that uses neural search to help its users find information in their unstructured data (including videos and images), today announced that it has raised a $30 million Series A funding round led by Canaan Partners. New investor Mango Capital, as well as existing investors GGV Capital, SAP.iO and Yunqi Partners […]... →

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Онлайн-школа английского языка Novakid с основателями-россиянами впервые провела ребрендинг. В изменения фирменного стиля компания вложила $100 тысяч: разработан новый логотип, слоган, новая цветовая палитра. В Novakid считают, что инвестиции окупятся кратным ростом узнаваемости на мировом рынке и повышением лояльности пользователей.... →

Switzerland-based privacy tech startup, Nym Technologies, which is trying to commercialize an old idea for privacy-centric infrastructure (mixnets) by combining it with buzzy crypto incentives, has closed $13 million in Series A investment from Andreessen Horowitz’s crypto-focused fund, following a $6M raise we covered back in the summer (also loosely pegged as a Series A). […]... →

Flytrex, the Israeli startup working with Walmart, Chilli’s, and others in North Carolina in pilots for a drone-based delivery service targeting suburban consumers, has picked up $40 million in funding to continue developing its hardware and software, and more business partnerships, as it awaits regulatory nods to expand its service to more markets in the […]... →

Стартапы уже 8 лет привлекают инвестиции в рамках соглашения SAFE, — инструмента, разработанного юристами Y Combinator. Недавно эта мода дошла до СНГ. В чем особенность SAFE и как его правильно использовать? Рассказывает управляющий партнер венчурного фонда QPDigital Николай Шаповалов, в прошлом — руководитель департамента Data Science в «Сбере».  QPDigital — венчурный фонд, инвестирующий в проекты на ранних стадиях развития: от pre-seed до раунда А. В центре внимания фонда стартапы, занятые в сферах цифров... →

An electric vehicle is, essentially, just ‘software on wheels’, and requires lots of moving parts, not physical but, of course, virtual. That software needs to continually optimize the performance, efficiency, and safety of the EV it’s running. But a problem has arisen: Not enough auto-makers unpack their software for others to help improve it. So, […]... →

Party Round is building software that it hopes will make the process of raising early-stage corporate capital far simpler than it is today. And the company just used its own service to raise $7 million. A host of names took part in the, well, party round, including Alexis Ohanian’s Seven Seven Six fund, Anish Acharya from […]... →

The drug development space is continuing to attract more and more investment. On Thursday, another major player Generate Biomedicines announced a $370 million Series B round.  Generate Biomedicines is touting an platform-based approach to drug development, but with its own spin: a focus on proteins.  Generate’s thesis is simple: rather than making connections between targets […]... →

Cybersecurity platform Expel, which specializes in threat detection and response, today announced that it has raised a $140.3 million Series E funding round co-led by Alphabet’s independent growth fund CapitalG, which also led the company’s $50 million Series D round in 2020, and Paladin Capital Group, which led Expel’s Series A round in 2016. New […]... →

Let’s say you’re a YouTube star — honestly, it’s not impossible, given that now, some estimate that over 20,000 YouTubers have at least 1 million subscribers. You’re going to monetize through YouTube ads, probably, but you might also sell merch, run a Patreon membership, or write a subscription-only newsletter. More and more startups like Fourthwall […]... →

Platforms that bring more automation to the working environment, and platforms that are empowering more people to get involved in building tools to help themselves work, have equally seen a huge rise in usage in the last year and a half. Today, a company that ties both of those trends together — with a no-code […]... →

Stytch, an API-first passwordless authentication startup, has secured $90 million in Series B funding, pushing the company over the $1 billion valuation line. The investment, led by Coatue Management LLC with participation from existing investors Benchmark Capital, Thrive Capital and Index Ventures, comes just four months after Stytch raised $30M Series A at a valuation […]... →

Doorvest this morning announced a $39 million funding event, including $14 million worth of equity financing and a $25 million credit facility. The latter makes sense given the startup’s business model, namely helping consumers buy and manage rental properties. M13 led the round (not to be confused with M12, Microsoft’s venture arm, or M25, the […]... →

Software for hardware design is all the rage in the VC funding world these days. Following recent rounds from Flux and Bild, nTopology just announced a sizable series D of $65 million. The funding round led by Tiger Global (who else) brings the New York-based firm’s total funding to $135 million. Existing investors Root Ventures, […]... →

Cortex, a startup that helps engineering teams get improved visibility into the Rube Goldberg machine that is their microservices architecture and improve their overall development practices around it, today announced that it has raised a $15 million Series A funding round led by Tiger Global and Sequoia Capital, which led the company’s $2.5 million seed […]... →

Сервис для помощи в написании текстов на английском  Grammarly привлёк деньги от инвестиционных компаний Baillie Gifford, General Catalyst, BlackRock и других. Компания планирует потратить деньги на увеличение команды, разработку новых продуктов и развитие ИИ-технологии, сообщает TechCrunch. Оценка капитализации компании в данном раунде составила $13 млрд. Сервис на основе искусственного интеллекта ищет орфографические, грамматические ошибки и ненужные слова в текстах на английском языке. По собственным да... →

Warsaw-based Packhelp has been riding the boom in ecommerce and on-demand delivery to scale a business that helps even the smallest brands wrap their wares in eye-catching custom packaging, while counting giants like H&M and UberEats among its customers, too. Since being founded back in 2015 — launching its custom packaging design platform in 2016 […]... →

Grammarly, the popular auto-editing tool for writing, has raised $200 million in funding at a $13 billion valuation from new investors including Baillie Gifford and funds and accounts managed by BlackRock, among others. The company plans to use the investment to accelerate product innovation and team growth. “We believe this funding round is a great […]... →