Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

La Jolla, Calif.-based Fulcrum, a job placement company for technical projects, has raised $1 million in a seed round of funding from the local technology investment firm Greatscale Ventures along with several private co-investors, the company said. The company has what it calls a fully compliant service for hiring freelancers onto technical projects that had […]... →

Uncapped, a London headquartered and Warsaw-based startup that wants to provide “revenue-based” finance to growing European businesses, is officially launching today and disclosing that it has raised £10 million in funding. The capital is a mixture of equity funding and debt (money it can use for lending), and sees the fintech company backed by Rocket […]... →

Ockam, a two-year-old, Bay Area-based company that’s selling tools to developers to they can establish an “architecture for trust” within their connected device applications, has raised $3.2 million in seed funding, including from Core Ventures, Okta Ventures, SGH Capital, and Future Ventures. This serverless platform for IoT development is being led by CEO Matthew Gregory […]... →

Новый год – один из самых долгожданных периодов в году, к которому многие готовятся сильно заранее, а другие – прямо накануне. Mail.ru Group и ResearchMe провели совместное исследование и узнали, как и когда пользователи рунета покупают подарки к празднику, как меняется их поведение в сети и в каких товарных категориях растут инвестиции рекламодателей в преддверии […] Сообщение Перед Новым годом рекламодатели на треть увеличивают затраты на продвижение появились сначала на Searchengines.ru.... →

Венчурный фонд RTP Global Леонида Богуславского инвестировал в сингапурский медицинский стартап Zenyum. В раунде на $13,6 млн также приняли участие Sequoia India, Seeds Capital, TNB Aura и другие инвесторы. Zenyum был основан в 2018 году. Стартап производит невидимые брекеты при помощи 3D-печати и предлагает планы лечения, контролируемые сетью ортодонтов и стоматологов. Штат компании насчитывает больше 100 человек. Zenyum работает в Сингапуре, Гонконге, Малайзии и Таиланде. Полученные инвестиции стартап нам... →

French startup Foodvisor has raised a $4.5 million funding round after generating 2 million app downloads. Agrinnovation is leading the round and various business angels are also participating. I covered Foodvisor last month, so I’m not going to describe the app once again. In a few words, the startup uses deep learning to enable image […]... →

French startup Forest Admin has raised a $7 million Series A round from Notion Capital and Runa Capital. The company lets you build back end admin panel so that your team can track and manipulate data from a single interface. Forest Admin integrates with your database and third-party services you might already use, such as […]... →

The market for second-hand clothes — the “circular economy” as it’s sometimes called — has been on the rise in the last several years, fuelled by economic crunches, a desire to make more responsible and less wasteful fashion choices, and a wave of digital platforms that are bringing the selling and buying of used clothes […]... →

Argentina’s Ualá became the most recent Latin American fintech to receive a growth-stage funding ($150 million) from Asian investors, Tencent and Softbank.  This marks Tencent’s second round of investment in Ualá, the first coming in April 2019. Tencent also invested $180M in Brazil’s leading neobank, Nubank in 2018. With Ualá, Tencent and Softbank will join a […]... →

Every day, people slog over inputting date from invoices and other forms. So instead of using traditional Optical Character Recognition (OCR) extraction software, you could apply a new form of machine learning to documents to speed up the process. That’s the thinking behind Rossum’s technology, which uses ‘Cognitive Data Capture’ to teach computers to understand […]... →

Amazon helped pioneer and now dominates the online marketplace business model, where a variety of merchants post items for sale on its platform for billions of consumers to discover and buy them. Today, a London startup that’s taken that idea but is applying it to a far more curated set of retailers and goods has […]... →

Big bucks are pouring to get you through chaotic traffic on Indian roads. Bounce, a Bangalore-based startup that operates over 17,000 electric and gasoline scooters in three dozen cities in India, has raised about $150 million as part of an ongoing financing round led by existing investors Eduardo Saverin’s B Capital and Accel Partners India, […]... →

Jason Sherman, founder and CEO of TapRm (pronounced “taproom”), says it’s time for beer-lovers to do more of their shopping online. It’s an industry that Sherman knows well, having worked as an attorney at Anheuser Busch and at the alcohol giant’s ZX Ventures incubator. He said it was through the job that he began wondering […]... →

Companies may soon be able to raise capital through a direct listing.... →

Gorgias, a startup offering artificial intelligence tools for customer service and support, is announcing that it has raised $14 million in Series A funding. Co-founder and CEO Romain Lapeyre told me that the startup (whose name is pronounced “gorgeous”) is taking advantage of a broader shift as brands are looking to sell directly to consumers, […]... →

Why are we all trapped in enterprise chat apps if we talk 6X faster than we type, and our brain processes visual info 60,000X faster than text? Thanks to Instagram, we’re not as camera-shy anymore. And everyone’s trying to remain in flow instead of being distracted by multi-tasking. That’s why now is the time for […]... →

Kasada, an anti-bot startup we profiled earlier this year, has raised $7 million in its Series A led by In-Q-Tel, the non-profit venture arm of the intelligence community. The Sydney and Chicago-based company helps to fight online bots using its proprietary anti-bot platform Polyform. Bots don’t just pummel websites with junk traffic to try to […]... →

Собираетесь привлечь инвестиции в проект? Но действительно ли они вам нужны? Ирина Яшина, управляющий портфелем фонда the Untitled ventures, в первой части серии о построении стартапа рассказала, каким проектам необходимы инвестиции, и объяснила, какие трудности могут вас ждать после привлечения финансирования.... →

Nigerian founder Sim Shagaya is back with a new startup —  uLesson — that has raised a $3.1 million seed round led by TLcom Capital. The venture is integrating mobile platforms, SD cards, culture-specific curriculum and a network of tutors to bridge educational gaps for secondary school students in Nigeria and broader Africa. Founded in […]... →

Yulu, a Bangalore-based electric bike sharing platform, which maintains a partnership with Uber said today it has won the backing of one of the country’s largest automaker firms. The two-year-old startup said it has entered into a strategic partnership with Bajaj Auto, which has also funded Yulu’s $8 million Series A financing round. As part […]... →