Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

Remote working has become the norm in many offices around the world this year, as organizations do what they can to help contain the rapid transmission of Covid-19 by reducing in-person interactions between workers. That’s also meant a renewed focus on how companies manage employees who have never worked in the office, and might even […]... →

JumpCloud, the cloud directory service that debuted at TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield in 2013, announced a $75 million Series E today. The round was led by BlackRock with participation from existing investor General Atlantic. The company wasn’t willing to discuss the current valuation, but has now raised over $166 million, according to Crunchbase data. Changes in […]... →

Tailscale has raised a $12 million funding round. Accel is leading the round with Heavybit and Uncork Capital also participating. The company is building a better corporate VPN by leveraging a modern protocol and focusing on ease of implementation. A VPN, or a virtual private network, is an encrypted tunnel between two devices. Many companies […]... →

The African continent is currently one of the fastest-growing regions when it comes to mobile growth, and financial technology companies that are building services to meet that rapidly-expanding market are getting a lot of attention. In the latest development, Kuda, a startup out of Nigeria that operates a popular mobile-first challenger bank for consumers and […]... →

This morning Hopin, a startup that provides online events software, announced that it has closed a $125 million Series B round of capital. The new funds come mere months after Hopin raised a $40 million Series A this summer. According to Hopin CEO Johnny Boufarhat, the new capital was raised at a $2.125 billion valuation, […]... →

Berlin-based micro-mobility startup Tier has raised a significant Series C round of $250 million. SoftBank Vision Fund 2 is leading the round, which proves that the Vision Fund team is still focused on high-risk, high-potential bets. As a reminder, SoftBank has invested in many late-stage funding rounds through its Vision Fund team. Portfolio companies include […]... →

Подконтрольная АФК «Система» Cosmos Hotel Group планирует вложить более 3 млрд руб. в расширение сети собственных отелей в Карелии. За эти деньги компания рассчитывает превратить подконтрольную ей гостиницу «Шуйская Чупа» в люксовый санаторий и создать еще два объекта на севере региона, в городах Сегежа и Беломорск. Группа рассчитывает окупить инвестиции за 10–12 лет.  Российская туристическая индустрия оказалась одной из самых пострадавших за период пандемии. По данным мониторинга отраслевых финансовых пот... →

Xpressbees, an Indian logistics firm that works with several e-commerce firms in the country, said on Monday it has raised $110 million in a new financing round as online shopping booms in the world’s second largest internet market. The Pune-headquartered startup’s Series E financing round was led by private equity firms Investcorp, Norwest Venture Partners […]... →

The election is over, but not without a hitch or two. Some voters in Georgia and Ohio had to use paper ballots after hand sanitizer leaked into voting machines — an unexpected casualty of the pandemic. And a slew of robocalls across a number of swing states urged voters to “stay safe and stay home,” […]... →

As part of its latest stunt, MSCHF, a venture-backed creative studio that’s smarter and more audacious than most, is poking a little fun on the venture industry itself and perhaps publications like TechCrunch too. The startup has spun out a rather simplistic app into a separate company and raised an undisclosed amount of seed funding […]... →

Great Jones is expanding into a new area of the kitchen, with what co-founder and CEO Sierra Tishgart described as the startup’s biggest launch since it released its first products two years ago. Ahead of launching the new bakeware line tomorrow, Great Jones is announcing that it has raised $1.75 million in new funding. The money […]... →

As 5G slowly moves from being a theoretical to an active part of the coverage map for the mobile industry — if not for consumers themselves — companies that are helping carriers make the migration less painful and less costly are seeing a boost of attention. In the latest development, Cellwize, a startup that’s built […]... →

Группа компаний ICT Group планирует инвестиции в бизнес, финансируемый венчурным капиталом. Для вложений привлекательны компании с передовыми технологиями в здравоохранении, строительстве, транспорте и логистике. Об этом Rusbase рассказали в пресс-службе ICT Group.... →

SoftBank Group сообщила, что ее убытки от инвестиций в технологический сектор составили $1,3 млрд. Эти инвестиции были частью стратегии компании по диверсификации портфеля после того, как на счетах банковской группы скопилось слишком много наличных средств. В результате было принято решение вложить часть из них в акции big tech компаний. По состоянию на конец сентября у SoftBank было около $16,8 млрд в акциях Amazon, Google и Facebook.  ... →

Singapore-based Nektar.ai, a productivity platform for sales teams, has raised $2.15 million in seed funding. Founded earlier this year, Nektar has been working in stealth mode with five companies, and has plans for an early adopter release before a public launch by the end of 2021. Its seed round was led by Nexus Venture Partners, […]... →

Spain’s All Iron Ventures (AIV), an investor in b2c marketplaces and ecommerce plays, has closed its first fund with commitments totalling €66.5 million (~$79M) — which it touts as one of the largest first fund raises in the country.  Capital committed to the fund by its parent Group’s founding partners and other investors brings its […]... →

Vimeo has raised $150 million in new equity funding, announced in conjunction with the third quarter earnings of its parent company IAC. In a letter to shareholders, IAC CEO Joey Levin said the company has “begun contemplating spinning Vimeo off to our shareholders.” “Given Vimeo’s success, and investor adulation for the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) category generally, […]... →

ByteDance, the company behind the social media sensation TikTok, is in talks to raise another $2 billion before the initial public offering of a large chunk of its international businesses on the Hong Kong StockExchange, according to a Bloomberg report. The new financing would give the Chinese tech powerhouse a valuation of $180 billion, according […]... →

No-code is the name of the game in enterprise software, and today a startup called Ushur that has built a platform for any business to create its own AI-based customer communication flows with no coding required is announcing some funding to help fuel its growth. The startup has picked up $25 million in a Series […]... →

The race is on to build more efficient chip technology for faster and less power-intensive computing, and today an innovative startup that’s built one solution based on in-package optical interconnect (optical I/O) technology is announcing a round of growth funding from a number of strategic investors that speaks to how its approach is getting traction. […]... →