Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

Главное из разговора основателя компании Арсена Томского с Forbes.... →

Сентябрь не принес российскому рынку громких заголовков — объем самой крупной сделки составил лишь $2,9 млн. Столько привлекла российско-французская AI-платформа для работы с данными о товарах Brandquad. С десяток стартапов получили до $1 млн на развитие, среди них — сразу несколько TravelTech-проектов.  В этом материале рассказываем о главных сделках на российском рынке за прошедший месяц.... →

Реальность такова, что лишь немногие проекты получают финансирование от бизнес-ангелов и венчурных фондов. Согласно Forbes, только 1% стартапов привлекает венчурные инвестиции, больше половины из них (57%) финансируются за счет личных займов и кредитов, по данным Fundable. Алексей Алексанов, сооснователь и партнер венчурного фонда Cabra VC, ментор в акселераторах Y Combinator и 500 Startups в Сан-Франциско, рассказал, что же объединяет успешные кейсы. Алексей является инвестором и ментором уже более 15 лет.... →

The adoption of telehealth services has boomed in the pandemic — with usage up 38-fold since January 2020, according to a report by McKinsey. While a lot of the attention has been on companies that are building the communications layer between consumers and clinicians, there are also a wave of companies building devices to expand […]... →

Founded in 2019, Singapore-based Greywing was created to help ship operators and other members of the maritime industry make critical decisions. It includes tools for crew change management, predictive reporting of potential risks like piracy and pandemic-related travel restriction updates. Today Greywing announced the launch of a new solution that will help vessel operators track […]... →

Сейчас на BNPL (buy now, pay later, англ. «покупай сейчас, плати позже») приходится всего $97 млрд — это 2% рынка мирового потребительского кредитования (данные 2020 года). Но эти сервисы переживают взрывной рост и привлекают значительные инвестиции. О трендах на рынке BNPL — в переводе материала Protocol.... →

Vlad Novakovski co-founded Lunchclub in 2017 as a way to improve professional networking. In 2020, the company made a large push toward videos (thanks, COVID) and eventually saw enough traction to raise a $24.2 million Series A at a valuation above $100 million. Nicole Quinn from Lightspeed Ventures lead the raise. We’re thrilled to have […]... →

Copper Banking, a digital banking service aimed at teens, announced today it has raised a total of $13.3 million in seed funding. PSL Ventures, an arm of Pioneer Square Labs, led a $4.3 million raise for Seattle-based Copper last year and an additional $9 million this year. Other investors in the fintech startup include Clocktower […]... →

A startup called Matter, which aims to build a better reading app for today’s internet, is launching out of private beta testing and announcing the close of its $7 million Series A, led by GV (formerly Google Ventures.) The app enters a space where technologies for saving articles to read later, like Instapaper and Pocket, […]... →

Increasingly, companies are being encouraged by governments to engage in carbon accounting, but of course, only a small number of companies actually do. Even those probably count only 10% of their emissions because they don’t account for the emissions of their supply chain, which, when looked at, probably accounts for 90% of their total emissions. […]... →

Marc Lore, who earlier this year stepped down from his role as Walmart’s head of U.S. e-commerce, is now backing a new startup in the e-commerce space called Wizard. Lore has taken on the roles of co-founder, chairman of the board and investor in Wizard, a B2B startup in the “conversational commerce” space which believes […]... →

«Финвижн» получит долю в 20% в рамках допэмиссии. Инвестиции направят на разработку новых сервисов.... →

Wayve, a U.K.-based self-driving startup that is notable for its use of deep learning and cameras rather than more-costly Lidar and other sensors to guide vehicles, is gearing up for its next stage of development with a strategic backer in its pocket. Today Ocado — the online grocer that also powers online grocery systems for […]... →

If there’s a sector that has seen the biggest uptick in the number of startups and venture capital in emerging markets since the start of last year, it has to be the digitization of mom and pop stores. Today, a new activity takes us to Morocco, where YC-backed company Chari just raised a $5 million […]... →

As investors look to diversify their holding amid exceptionally top-heavy traditional asset markets, more tech-enabled platforms are popping up to make the case for their alternative investment platform of choice. Masterworks, a startup that sells fractionalized shares of paintings and other works by famous artists, has achieved a unicorn valuation as it looks to corner […]... →

Vlad Novakovski co-founded Lunchclub in 2017 as a way to improve professional networking. In 2020, the company made a large push toward videos (thanks, COVID) and eventually saw enough traction to raise a $24.2 million Series A at a valuation above $100 million. Nicole Quinn from Lightspeed Ventures lead the raise. We’re thrilled to have […]... →

Appsmith, which provides open source software that helps companies quickly build internal applications, announced an $8 million Series A round of funding this morning. Unlike some upstart tech companies that we have seen in the internal application market, Appsmith doesn’t sport a no- or low-code approach. Instead, Appsmith targets traditional developers with its service, which […]... →

Both Anchor and Descript have made their names as being among the most significant Podcast creation platforms of recent times, but hoving into the rear-view mirror recently has been Podcastle, an all-in-one platform that can cover off recording, production and publishing, all on the one platform. It’s now raised $7 million in an early-stage funding […]... →

Sure, an insurance infrastructure startup, announced today that it has closed on $100 million in Series C funding at a $550 million valuation. New York-based Declaration Partners and European growth investor Kinnevik co-led the financing, which also included participation from WndrCo and existing backers W. R. Berkley and Menlo Ventures. The round brings the Santa […]... →

Chile’s Buk, which has developed a human resources management platform for Latin American companies, announced today that it has raised $50 million in a Series A funding round that values the company at $417 million. There are a few notable things about this financing. For one, it represents one of the largest (if not the) […]... →