Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

With the pandemic playing havoc with children’s education EdTech startups have been on a roll. A new fundraising seems to come almost every week at this point. Today it’s Novakid’s turn. This EdTech startup is yet another ‘learning English as a second language for children’ startup. But it at least has a chance among the […]... →

Российско-британская образовательная компания MEL Science, которая создает наборы для проведения научных опытов с применением технологии виртуальной реальности, в раунде В привлекла инвестиций на сумму $14 млн. Инвесторами раунда выступили Mubadala Investment Company, Channel 4 Ventures, Российско-китайский венчурный фонд и другие фонды. Стартап направит полученные деньги на поддержку спроса на собственные научные подписки. Новый раунд финансирования позволит развивать и масштабировать существующие продукты... →

DevOps continues to get a lot of attention as a wave of companies develop more sophisticated tools to help developers manage increasingly complex architectures and workloads. In the latest development, Databand — an AI-based observability platform for data pipelines, specifically to detect when something is going wrong with a datasource when an engineer is using […]... →

French startup Ankorstore has raised a $29.9 million Series A round (€25 million) with Index Ventures leading the round. Existing investors GFC, Alven and Aglaé are also participating. Ankorstore is building a wholesale marketplace that connects independent shop owners with brands selling household supplies, maple syrup, headbands, bath salts, stationery items and a lot more. […]... →

Infogrid, an IoT startup which can retrofit an existing building to make it ‘smart’, has raised $15.5 million. The Series A funding round was led by Northzone with participation from JLL Spark, Concrete VC, The Venture Collective, Jigsaw VC, an unarmed real estate investment group, and an unnamed large international asset owner, although one report […]... →

This morning Salut, an app-based service that allows fitness trainers to host classes virtually, announced that it has raised $1.25 million in a new financing event. The round was led by Charles Hudson, an investor at Precursor Ventures. Founder Matthew DiPietro, formerly of Twitch, told TechCrunch that Salut soft-launched in mid-September, with a wider release […]... →

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff that tracks the latest big news, chats about the coming week, digs into some recent funding rounds and mulls over a larger theme or narrative from the private markets. You can […]... →

Производстводитель цифровых сельскохозяйственных ферм «Сити-фермер» получил инвестиции от технологической компании IBS. Сумма привлеченных средств не раскрывается. Об этом сообщает пресс-служба фонда «Сколково», где стартап является резидентом кластера биомедицинских технологий.... →

Компания «Сити-фермер», резидент кластера биомедицинских технологий Фонда «Сколково», получила инвестиции от компании IBS. Сумма привлеченных средств не раскрывается. «Сити-фермер» занимается производством и обслуживанием цифровых сельскохозяйственных ферм. Каждая из них представляет собой модульный объект, который легко возвести и масштабировать в зависимости от потребностей заказчика. Управление основными процессами фермы (полив, вентиляция, освещение, увлажнение и т.д.) происходит полностью в дистанционн... →

Food delivery apps have been a big deal this year for consumers stuck at home and unable (or unwilling) to go to restaurants or grocery stores; and for investors who are eyeing the opportunity to back rising stars to help them grow. Today came the latest development in that story: HungryPanda, which makes a Mandarin-language […]... →

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Primer, the U.K. fintech that wants to help merchants consolidate their payments stack and easily support new payment methods in the future, has raised £14 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Accel, who I understand were quite proactive in persuading Primer to take the VC firm’s money. The young company wasn’t […]... →

Желание масштабировать бизнес понятно — выход на новые рынки может стать отличным драйвером роста. Но зачастую планы международной экспансии так и не воплощаются в жизнь, потому что приоритетом для основателей является доведение компании до операционной прибыли до того, как закончатся инвестиции. Если же ваша компания уже доказала финансовую успешность, бизнес-процессы отработаны, а концепция понятна (за рубежом есть запрос на ваш продукт или услугу) и воспроизводима (ее можно повторить на новом месте без у... →

With COVID-19 making commuters switch to bikes, and cities wanting cleaner air, the e-bike revolution is only just getting started. Further evidence of this is the news that today British e-bike manufacturer FuroSystems has closed its first institutional venture funding round of £750,000 with participation by TSP Ventures and European impact investment bank, ClearlySo, as […]... →

With $90 million in deposits and $18.25 million in new financing, HMBradley is making moves as the Los Angeles-based entrant into the challenger bank competition. LA is home to a growing community of financial services startups and HMBradley is quickly taking its place among the leaders with a novel twist on the banking business. Unlike […]... →

U.S. challenger bank Current, which has doubled its member base in less than six months, announced this morning it raised $131 million in Series C funding, led by Tiger Global Management. The additional financing brings Current to over $180 million in total funding to date, and gives the company a valuation of $750 million. The […]... →

F3, an anonymous Q&A app targeting Gen Z teens which blends a Tinder-style swipe-to-friend gamification mechanic, Stories-esque rich media responses and eye-wateringly expensive subscriptions to unlock a ‘Plus’ version that actually lets you see who wants to friend you — has raised a $3.9M seed round, including for a planned push on the US market. […]... →

Supply chains used to be one of those magical elements of capitalism that seemed to be designed by Apple: they just worked. Minus the occasional salmonella outbreak in your vegetable aisle, we could go about our daily consumer lives never really questioning how our fast-fashion clothes, tech gadgets, and medical supplies actually got to our […]... →

Back in 2018 Day One Ventures launched in Silicon Valley specifically designed to be both a VC and an investor that would also lead marketing and communications for its portfolio. Two years on, Day One has invested in numerous startups to do just that and has today filed with the SEC its new $52.5M fund. […]... →

Consumer drones have over the years struggled with an image of being no more than expensive and delicate toys. But applications in industrial, military and enterprise scenarios have shown that there is indeed a market for unmanned aerial vehicles, and today, a startup that makes drones for some of those latter purposes is announcing a […]... →