Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

E-commerce has boomed this year, with more businesses and shoppers than ever before turning to websites and apps as a safer, socially distanced alternative during the current global health pandemic. Today, a startup that has built a platform to help individual companies and brands design better websites is announcing a round of growth funding to […]... →

Posted by NicoleDeLeonPeople around the world are having important discussions about systemic racism, overt and covert bias, and how we can all do better. Understanding the problem is the first step. To get a sense of conditions within the SEO community, we asked people to take our Diversity and Inclusion in SEO survey as part of our ongoing project to study the state of SEO. Due to the subject matter and the way we reached out, our respondents were not a snapshot of the industry as a whole. We were very p... →

На Московской бирже начались торги акциями  «Совкомфлота». Компания привлекла в результате размещения около 42,9 млрд рублей. Это  первое крупное IPO российской компании на Мосбирже за 3 года. В ходе размещения на долю розничных инвесторов пришлось около 15% спроса. В частности, через сервис «ВТБ Мои Инвестиции» в IPO «Совкомфлота» приняли участие более 40 тыс. розничных инвесторов. По словам главы наблюдательного совета Мосбиржи Олега Вьюгина, частные инвесторы приобрели акций «Совкомфлота» на 6 млрд рубле... →

While many companies are using chatbots and other forms of automation to manage their communication with customers, Boston-based Tone is betting that humans will remain a key part of the equation. “The traditional models of bots and humans is, ‘Hello, I’m a bot, now you get to battle with me finally get to a human,’” […]... →

One of the broader trends of the pandemic has been the unbundling of Zoom with startups pulling out a feature or two and designing entire products centered around a specific vision of remote work. One of the more tempting product ideas has been the development of the omnipresent always-on video workspace where managers can always […]... →

Chargebee, which helps businesses set up and manage their billing, subscription, revenue operations and compliance, said on Tuesday it has raised $55 million in a new financing round as it looks to accelerate its expansion in global markets. The new financing round, a Series F, for the San Francisco-headquartered firm was led by Insight Partners […]... →

Dialpad, the business-centric voice, video and contact-center service, today announced that it has raised a $100 million Series E funding round led by OMERS Growth Equity. Andreessen Horowitz, Google Ventures, ICONIQ Capital and Work-Bench also participated. The company says its valuation is over $1.2 billion after it has now raised a total of $245 million. […]... →

Ÿnsect, the startup building the world’s most high tech bug colony, have added $224 million in equity and debt to an already impressive $148 million cash haul as it looks to commercialize its business. Investors backing the company include the Los Angeles-based investment firm Upfront Ventures and the FootPrint Coalition, an investment vehicle financed by […]... →

Even as close to 1 billion debit cards are in use in India today, only about 58 million credit cards are in circulation in the world’s second most populous nation. According to industry estimates, between 30 million to 35 million people in the country today have a credit card. Part of the reason why the […]... →

For Quantum cryptography and simulation to become real, the technology requires high-performance light-emitting and light-detecting components that operate at the single-photon level and at ambient temperature. One of the few companies operating in this rarified arena is Nu Quantum, the quantum photonics company, is a spin-out from the University of Cambridge. It’s now raised a […]... →

Compliance automation isn’t exactly the most exciting topic, but security audits are big business and companies that aim to get a SOC 2, ISO 207001 or FedRamp certification can often spend six figures to get through the process with the help of an auditing service. Seattle-based Strike Graph, which is launching today and announcing a […]... →

Акселератор — один из способов для стартапа обрести крылья. Если посмотреть на финансовую часть вопроса, большинство предпринимателей запускают проект, опираясь на свои сбережения (63%). Часть ищет инвестиции — в 2019 году в российские стартапы вложили 11,6 млрд рублей. Чуть больше трети сделок заключается в рамках акселераторов. Они срабатывают как ускорители: путь, который стартап проходит самостоятельно за 8-12 месяцев, здесь занимает 2-3 месяца. Но иногда поддержка не нужна. Оксана Погодаева, управляющи... →

Companies that have leveraged technology to make the procurement and delivery of food more accessible to more people have been seeing a big surge of business this year, as millions of consumers are encouraged (or outright mandated, due to Covid-19) to socially distance or want to avoid the crowds of physical shopping and eating excursions. […]... →

Cooler Screens, which replaces the glass doors in store cooler aisles with interactive digital displays, is announcing that it has raised more than $80 million in Series C funding. The startup has now raised more than $100 million in funding. The latest round comes from Verizon Ventures (Verizon owns TechCrunch), Microsoft’s M12 venture fund, Great […]... →

Российский сервис для автоматизации рекрутинга FriendWork привлёк $2,5 млн инвестиции от Prytek совладельца «Технониколь» Игоря Рыбакова и Андрея Яшунского, пишет издание vc.ru. Компания направит привлечённые инвестиции на развитие облачной системы управления кандидатами и сотрудниками. FriendWork в 2012 году основал Александр Красс. Среди клиентов FriendWork — Skyeng, Zoon, Selecty и другие. Аудитория сервиса насчитывает более 4000 HR-директоров, утверждают в Prytek. Услуги сервис предоставляет по подписке... →

For the past four years, Swedish startup Einride has captured interest, investment and even a few customer contracts for its unusual-looking pods — electric and autonomous vehicles that are designed to carry freight. But progress in developing, testing and validating autonomous vehicles — particularly ones that don’t even have space for a driver and rely […]... →

SPACs, or special purpose acquisition companies, are all the rage right now, and people are emerging from all corners to raise them. Among the latest entrants — and someone who might be of interest to Silicon Valley watchers — is Emil Michael, a former Uber executive and top lieutenant to former CEO Travis Kalanick. Earlier […]... →

For several years, blockchain technology has been touted as a way to verify the sale of property. Any kind of property. And so entrepreneurs busily began the process of trying to create a startup that could complete a property deal on the blockchain. One that stood out from the start was Propy which was started […]... →

As smoke from fires chokes the skies Western U.S. and pollution chokes much of the world, air quality has become yet another issue for civilization to address. Industrialization and natural disasters wrought by climate change are spewing more toxic matter into the air, and governments around the world are racing to monitor what the combination […]... →

Yaw Aning, named Malomo, the service he launched for small businesses to turn their order-tracking services into branded customer experiences, as a tribute to his mother, who was a small business owner herself. “Malomo” means flowers in Swahili and it was the name of Aning’s mother’s small soap making business which she built over the […]... →