Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

Фонд венчурных инвестиций Rusnano Sistema, созданный совместно АФК «Система» и РОСНАНО, и Фонд развития интернет-инициатив инвестируют 110 млн рублей в российский стартап Texel. Компания развивает технологию компьютерного зрения в сфере fashion retail, позволяющую покупателю примерять одежду онлайн, а продавцу — увеличить конверсию и снизить издержки, связанные с возвратами одежды. Технология решает проблему различия размерных сеток у производителей одежды, а также ошибок при проведении замеров сантиметрово... →

As Slack ramps up its investment in Asia, Toss Lab, the South Korea-based creator of enterprise collaboration platform JANDI, is preparing to become a more formidable rival. The startup announced today that it has raised a $13 million Series B led by SoftBank Ventures Asia, the early-stage venture arm of SoftBank Group. Participating investors also […]... →

We’re seeing a gradual expansion of national regulations that require data from SaaS applications to be stored locally, in the country where it’s sourced and used. Today a startup that’s built a service around that need — specifically, data residency-as-a-service — is announcing some funding to continue building out its company amid strong demand. InCountry, […]... →

Bambuser is a name that you may not have heard in a while, but the Stockholm-headquartered company is announcing today that it’s raised $45 million in new funding this year, with $34.5 million of that amount raised during the pandemic. Bambuser’s history goes back more than a decade (the first TechCrunch coverage appeared in 2008). […]... →

PicnicHealth, the startup that’s looking to give patients a way to manage their care in one place and pharmaceutical companies access to patient records for real world data, has just raised $25 million in financing to grow its business. Founded in 2016 by a former international development worker and Crohn’s Disease patient, Noga Leviner, PicnicHealth’s […]... →

Hazel Health was founded five years ago to provide telemedicine services to children in public schools. Launched by a former Apple software engineer and serial entrepreneur, Nick Woods, and named after one of Woods’ children, Hazel Health has grown to work with school districts responsible for 1.5 million children, and has raised $33.5 million to […]... →

Oliver Zahn began his professional career studying the stars. The founder of Climax Foods, a startup that’s using data science to replace animal proteins with plant-based substitutes, spent years at the University of California at Berkeley with his eyes fixed firmly toward the heavens before taking up with Pat Brown and Impossible Foods as the […]... →

The COVID-19 pandemic has proven a significant catalyst for robotics investments, as companies look to invest in automation. Utah-based Sarcos Robotics bucks the trend a bit, however, as the purveyor of a technology designed to augment an existing human workforce, rather than replacing a significant chunk through automation. Today the robotic exoskeleton creator announced a […]... →

Data protection and data privacy have gone from niche concerns to mainstream issues in the last several years, thanks to new regulations and a cascade of costly breaches that have laid bare the problems that arise when information and data security are treated haphazardly. Yet that swing has also thrown up a whole series of […]... →

2 сентября состоится онлайн-встреча представителей московской туриндустрии с Владимиром Варнавским, основателем и генеральным директором компании VResorts. Спикер расскажет, как VR-технологии трансформируют туризм, и даст советы о том, как тревел-стартапу привлекать инвестиции.... →

This one is unusual: Laird Superfood, a five-year-old, 100-person, Sisters, Ore.-based startup that was cofounded by famed surfer Laird Hamilton and which makes plant-based packaged beverage products, filed today to raise up to $40 million in an IPO. We’d reported on this company early last year in large part because it had attracted backing from […]... →

Reinvent Technology Partners, a new special purpose acquisition company formed by famed investor and serial entrepreneur Reid Hoffman, Zynga founder Mark Pincus and veteran hedge fund manager Michael Thompson, filed Monday for a $600 million initial public offering. The SPAC was formed by Hoffman, Pincus and Thompson, formerly of BHR Capital, with the intention of […]... →

With Dorian, co-founder and CEO Julia Palatovska said she’s hoping to empower fiction writers and other storytellers to create their own games. The startup is announcing that it has raised $3.15 million in seed funding led by March Capital Partners, with participation from VGames, Konvoy Ventures, London Venture Partners, Michael Chow (co-creator of the Twitch […]... →

As a business model, SaaS has expanded to epic size. A number of major SaaS companies filed to go public last week, and there are now thousands of SaaS startups growing all around the world. That scale makes it easier for banks and financial institutions to offer tailored solutions to this market around everything from […]... →

Ростелеком» договорился о партнёрстве c компанией в сфере информационной безопасности, системным интегратором «Элвис-плюс», рассказали изданию vc.ru участники сделки. Оператор приобретёт 49% в компании, 51% останется у президента и основателя компании Александра Галицкого. «Элвис-плюс» сохранит независимость, отметили в «Ростелекоме». Сумму сделки, которую планируют закрыть в ближайшие месяцы, стороны не раскрывают. «Ростелеком» планирует инвестировать 4 млрд рублей в технологии кибербезопасности за три год... →

Крупнейший в Индии ритейлер Reliance Retail договорился о покупке компании Future Group, управляющей сетью офлайн-супермаркетов за  $3,4 млрд. Сделка позволит Reliance получить контроль над примерно третью оффлайновых магазинов в Индии. По данным Boston Consulting Group, в 2019 году сектор ритейла в Индии составлял 700 млрд, а к 2025 году его объем должен вырасти до $1,3 трлн. При этом продажи через интернет составляют только 3% от общего объема рынка. Сделка Reliance затруднит экспансию Amazon и Walmart на... →

Преакселератор Национальной технологической инициативы в Пермском крае принимает заявки на участие в программе. Стартапы смогут получить инвестиции до 300 млн рублей и поддержку экспертов. Дедлайн — 14 сентября.... →

The global legal services industry was worth $849 billion dollars in 2017 and is expected to become a trillion dollar industry by the end of next year. Little wonder that Steno, an L.A.-based startup, wants a piece. Like most legal services outfits, what it’s offering is a variety of ways for law practices to run […]... →

At TechCrunch Disrupt, our Startup Battlefield competition this year looks to be fiercer than ever, judging by the applicants. That’s actually saying something, considering the game-changing brands to emerge from our stage over the years, including Cloudflare, Dropbox, Vurb, Mint, GetAround, Fitbit, Yammer and more. Altogether, Startup Battlefield participants have gone on to raise $9 […]... →

Box has always been a bit of an enigma for Wall Street and perhaps for enterprise software in general. Unlike vendors who shifted tools like HR, CRM or ERP to the cloud, Box has been building a way to manage content in the cloud. It’s been a little harder to understand than these other enterprise […]... →