Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

Looks like there’s still money to be made in news aggregation — at least according to the investors backing the news app SmartNews. The company is announcing the close of a $92 million round of funding at a valuation of $1.2 billion. The funding was led by Japan Post Capital Co. and ACA Investments, with […]... →

The world has gotten so much faster. Amazon has made two-day shipping the standard and same- or next-day shipping commonplace. And that doesn’t even include the collection of on-demand players who can get us everything from groceries to alcohol to services like concierge storage and in-home cleaning with the press of a button. But the […]... →

Northzone, the European VC firm that’s probably best-known for being an early backer of Spotify, has raised a new $500 million fund, which it claims was oversubscribed and will reach its final close imminently. Dubbed “Northzone IX,” the new fund pretty much represents business as usual for Northzone and will be used to invest primarily […]... →

Инвестиции были выделены в рамках сотрудничества с акселератором Winno. Moscow Seed Fund выделил 2,8 млн рублей. Проект Tango Vision создает платформу для умных зданий и городов. В основе решения лежит карта здания, к которой привязываются бизнес системы и датчики внутри здания. Потребители решения – владельцы объектов с большой проходимостью людей из разных сфер: бизнес – центры, стадионы, гостиницы, музеи, экспоцентры и ритейлеры. Анализ взаимодействия двойника с посетителями позволяет делать здание «друж... →

14 ноября сервис привлёк $200 млн от Accel — это одна из крупнейших сделок за всю историю венчурного фонда.... →

«Тинькофф Инвестиции» запустили акцию, в рамках которой пообещали в подарок каждому новому клиенту брокерской платформы «одну ценную бумагу крупной компании стоимостью до 10 тысяч рублей». Об этом говорится в сообщении компании.... →

Акционерный конфликт вокруг «Юлмарта» может завершиться переходом онлайн-ритейлера в руки кредитора, владельца Петербургского нефтяного терминала Михаила Скигина. Как выяснил "Коммерсант", для этого Дмитрий Костыгин и Август Мейер, которые сейчас совокупно контролируют 61,5% компании, сначала приобретут долю третьего совладельца Михаила Васинкевича. После этого ритейлеру также понадобятся внешние инвестиции на сумму 9 млрд рублей, чтобы выйти на прибыльность по итогам 2022 года. Конфликт между акционерами «... →

The problem of how to find the potential treasure trove hidden in millions of pounds of trash is getting a high-tech answer as investors funnel $16 million into the recycling robots built by Denver-based AMP Robotics. For recyclers, the commercialization of robots tackling industry problems couldn’t come at a better time. Their once-stable business has […]... →

Venture capital is just one of many options to finance your business, typically the most expensive. The broader question is: what type of capital should you raise, and from whom?  ... →

Back in September, endurance events marketplace Let’s Do This (a YC alumni) raised a $5m seed round from a number of US investors, including Olypmic star Usain Bolt and tennis star Serena Williams. As much as I’d like to get excited, this is slightly par for the course for a lot of sports-oriented startups which […]... →

Компания не нуждалась в деньгах, но решила заручиться поддержкой ради «агрессивного» роста.... →

Peanut, an app that began its life as a match-maker for finding new mom friends but has since evolved into a social network of more than a million women, announced today it has closed on $5 million in new funding and is expanding its focus to reach women who are trying to conceive. The round […]... →

More than 50% of residential apartments and other real estate properties in Jakarta are currently vacant, according to official estimates. A startup that is attempting to make it easier for tenants to rent these properties in Jakarta and other places in Indonesia said on Thursday that it has closed a new financing round. Travelio has […]... →

Big changes are afoot for Wire, an enterprise-focused end-to-end encrypted messaging app and service that advertises itself as “the most secure collaboration platform”. In February, Wire quietly raised $8.2 million from Morpheus Ventures and others, we’ve confirmed — the first funding amount it has ever disclosed — and alongside that external financing, it moved its […]... →

Freshworks, a company that makes a variety of business software tools from CRM to help desk software, announced a $150 million Series H investment today from Sequoia Capital, CapitalG (formerly Google Capital) and Accel on a hefty $3.5 billion valuation. The late-stage startup has raised almost $400 million, according to Crunchbase data. The company has […]... →

Flying cars are fine – but why use a car when you can have a motorcycle instead? YC-backed startup JetPack Aviation wants to answer that question with the world’s first flying motorcycle, a personal aircraft dubbed ‘The Speeder,’ a name that Star Wars fans will surely appreciate. Now, JetPack has raised a seed round of […]... →

Convoy, the digital freight network that connects truckers with shippers, has raised $400 million in a Series D funding round as it aims to scale its business amid an increasingly competitive market. The funding round brings Convoy’s post-money valuation to $2.75 billion. The round was co-led by Generation Investment Management and previous Convoy investor T. […]... →

Объемы электронной торговли в России непрерывно растут, эксперты называют грандиозные цифры: от 1,3 трлн рублей в 2018 году до 3,5 трлн к 2024-му. Казалось бы: возможности для старта бизнеса огромные, однако реальность такова, что львиная доля пирога достается крупнейшим игрокам (в основном маркетплейсам), на чьей стороне и экспертиза, и инвестиции, и лучшие кадры, и огромная лояльная аудитория. Новичкам на рынке приходится непросто, и именно поэтому в России насчитывается всего 2000 онлайн-магазинов с коли... →

Plum, the U.K.-based “AI assistant” to help you manage your money and save more, has raised $3 million in additional funding — money it plans to use for further growth, including European expansion. The London company has also quietly launched its app for Android phones, adding to an existing iOS app and Facebook Messenger chatbot. […]... →

Xpeng Motors, the Chinese electric vehicle startup backed by Alibaba and Foxconn, has raised a fresh injection of $400 million in capital and has taken on Xiaomi as a strategic investor, the company announced. The Series C includes an unidentified group of strategic and institutional investors. XPeng Motors Chairman and CEO He Xiaopeng, who also […]... →