Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

Dat Bike, a Vietnamese startup with ambitions to become the top electric motorbike company in Southeast Asia, has raised $2.6 million in pre-Series A funding led by Jungle Ventures. Made in Vietnam with mostly domestic parts, Dat Bike’s selling point is its ability to compete with gas motorbikes in terms of pricing and performance. Its […]... →

As a greater share of the transportation market becomes electrified, companies have started to grapple with how to dispose of the thousands of tons of used electric vehicle batteries that are expected come off the roads by the end of the decade. Battery Resourcers proposes a seemingly simple solution: recycle them. But the company doesn’t […]... →

Cybersecurity training startup Hack The Box, which emerged originally from Greece, has raised a Series A investment round of $10.6 million, led by Paladin Capital Group and joined by Osage University Partners, Brighteye Ventures, and existing investors Marathon Venture Capital. It will use the funding to expand. Most recently it launched Hack The Box Academy. […]... →

Ethical investing remains something of a confusing maze, with a great deal of ‘greenwashing’ going on. A new UK startup is hoping to fix that with the launch of its new app and platform for retail investors. Clim8 Investhas raised $8 million from 7pc Ventures (early backers of Oculus, acquired by Facebook),  British Business Bank […]... →

Memic, a startup developing a robotic-assisted surgical platform that recently received marketing authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, today announced that it has closed a $96 million Series D funding round. The round was led by Peregrine Ventures and Ceros, with participation from OurCrowd and Accelmed. The company plans to use the new […]... →

EcoCart, a company pitching consumers on ways to offset their carbon emissions for free at select merchants (with a browser extension!) has raised $3 million in financing from Base10 Partners. Brands pay the company a commission to drive traffic to their websites under a standard affiliate marketing model and EcoCart uses a portion of the […]... →

The Zebra, an Austin-based company that operates an insurance comparison site, has raised $150 million in a Series D round that propels it into unicorn territory. Both the round size and valuation are a substantial bump from the $38.5 million Series C that Austin-based The Zebra raised in February of 2020. (The company would not […]... →

Холдинг семьи Гуцериевых «Сафмар Финансовые инвестиции» планирует провести IPO своей лизинговой компании «Европлан». Источники не уточняют параметры размещения, однако один из них говорит, что речь идет о Московской бирже. Компания может быть оценена на уровне 36 млрд рублей. Впервые IPO лизинговой компании прошло в декабре 2015 года. Тогда были размещены 25% минус 1 акция компании, а сам «Европлан» оценили в 13,1 млрд рублей. Чистая прибыль компании по итогам 2015 года составляла 1,4 млрд рублей. Через год... →

Africa’s fintech space has gained proper attention over the past few years in investments but it is not news that startups still battle with offering high-quality products. However, they seem to be doing quite well compared with traditional banks that face challenges like legacy cost structures and a major lack of operational efficiency. Appzone is […]... →

Британский сервис экспресс-доставки продуктов Jiffy привлек $3 млн от фонда Baring Vostok, рассказал  основатель стартапа Артур Шамалов. Представитель  Jiffy — онлайн-сервис для экспресс-доставки продуктов за 15 минут, работающий на британском рынке. По словам Артура Шамалова, первый dark store запущен в Лондоне 5 апреля, к июню в городе планируется открыть десять таких точек. Инвестиции от Baring Vostok пойдут в том числе на расширение зоны работы сервиса. В начале марта Jiffy уже привлек $3,6 млн от ряда ... →

“Most of the startups I give advice to about how to raise venture capital shouldn’t be raising venture capital,” an investor recently told me. While the idea that every startup isn’t venture-backable might run counter to the narrative to the barrage of funding news each week, I think it’s important to double click on the […]... →

Practically every film production these days needs some kind of visual effects work, but independent creators often lack the cash or expertise to get that top-shelf CG. Wonder Dynamics, founded by VFX engineer Nikola Todorovic and actor Tye Sheridan, aims to use AI to make some of these processes more accessible for filmmakers with budgets […]... →

Shorthand, the Australian startup behind a no-code platform that allows publishers and brands to create multimedia stories, has raised $10 million Australian (just under $8 million U.S.) from Fortitude Investment Partners. CEO Ricky Robinson told me via email that this is Shorthand’s first institutional round of funding, and that the company has been profitable for […]... →

Bucky Moore, a partner at Kleiner Perkins, gives founders tactical advice on the process of raising a Series A round.... →

Венчурный фонд Fuel for Growth подготовил аналитический отчет о мировых инвестициях в сфере foodtech за первый квартал 2021 года. Сумма инвестиций увеличилась по сравнению с 2020 годом с $7,19 млрд до $9,38 млрд. Лидером по количеству сделок стал Китай, впервые обогнав США. В отчете учитывались ангельские инвестиции, посевные раунды, инвестиции, выданные в акселераторах и инкубаторах, а также вложения от фондов на ранних и поздних стадиях за первый квартал 2020 и 2021 годов.  Всего за первые 3 месяца 2021 г... →

French startup Vybe has raised a $2.9 million funding round (€2.4 million) to build a challenger bank for teens. The company is currently testing its product with a soft launch. Users get a Mastercard payment card paired with an e-wallet. Each Vybe account comes with its own IBAN so that users can send and receive […]... →

Realworld has a big vision — founder and CEO Genevieve Ryan Bellaire told me her goal is “simplifying adulthood.” And the New York startup has raised $3.4 million in seed funding to make it happen. Apparently that’s something Ballaire struggled with herself in her early twenties. Despite being a lawyer with an MBA, she said […]... →

Sophie Zhou Novati worked as a senior engineer at Facebook and then Nextdoor, where she struggled to hire great engineers for her team. Frustrated, she decided to try training engineers to meet her team’s hiring standards by mentoring at a local coding bootcamp. After two and a half years of mentoring on nights and weekends, […]... →

The pandemic upended the way people shop for their everyday needs, including groceries. Online grocery sales in the U.S. are expected to reach 21.5% of the total grocery sales by 2025, after leaping from 3.4% pre-pandemic to 10.2% as of 2020. One business riding this wave is Mercato, an online grocery platform that helps smaller […]... →

There’s an “uber for everything” these days and now there are “Ubers for personal chefs”. Just take a look at PopTop or 100 Pleats for instance. Now in London, there is Yhangry (which brands itself as the appropriately shouty YHANGRY). This is a “private chef parties at home” website, and no doubt an app at […]... →