Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

In this week's newsletter: Y Combinator has a new president, DoorDash raises $600M and startups go on acquisition sprees.... →

Livekick, a startup that gives customers access to one-on-one personal training and yoga from their home (or hotel room, or elsewhere), is announcing that it has raised $3 million in seed funding. The company was founded by entrepreneur Yarden Tadmor and fitness expert Shayna Schmidt. Tadmor said that with all his travel for work, his […]... →

ГК «Кировский завод» – одна из крупнейших российских промышленных компаний машиностроительного совместно с инвестикомпанией Pulsar Venture Capital запускают акселератор для проектов в сфере в AgTech, промышленного интернета вещей, сельскохозяйственного машиностроения, технологий энергоэфективности и энергоучета и BigData. В рамках программы стартапы внедрят свои продукты в производство Кировского завода. По итогам самые сильные команды получат предложения о сотрудничестве и инвестиции до 200 миллионов рубле... →

In many large cities across Africa, motorcycle taxies are as common as yellow-cabs in New York. That includes Lagos, Nigeria, where ride-hail startup Gokada has raised a $5.3 million Series A round to grow its two-wheel transit business. Gokada has trained and on-boarded over 1000 motorcycles and their pilots on its app that connects commuters […]... →

Just ahead of the launch of the Apple Card, a startup that has its own take on modernizing the credit card industry, Zero, is announcing the close of its $20 million Series A. The new round of funding was led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA), and brings Zero’s total raised to date to $35 million, […]... →

Hunters.ai, a Tel Aviv-based startup that built an AI-based threat hunting solution, today announced that it has raised a $5.4 million seed funding round led by YL Ventures and Blumberg Capital. Threat hunting has traditionally been a rather manual practice, where analysts try to actively identify potential threats to their systems. This has always been […]... →

Investment in LA tech startups is on the rise.... →

Оcнователь сервиса знакомств Badoo Андрей Андреев объявил о раздаче ангельских инвестиций молодым предпринимателям из России.... →

Beautystack, the London startup that’s creating a beauty professional booking app with heavy focus on social, has quietly picked up £4 million in seed funding led by Index Ventures. The company had previously raised pre-seed funding from LocalGlobe (led by Suzanne Ashman) and counts David Rowan (ex-Wired), Julien Codorniou (Facebook Workplace) and Audrey Gelman (The […]... →

While Android and iOS have locked up the market for smartphone operating systems, a feature phone platform that has the distinction of being the world’s third biggest mobile OS is announcing a hefty round of funding to continue its expansion. KaiOS, which makes the OS that powers devices like Nokia’s feature phones and Jio’s devices […]... →

Loot, the digital current account aimed at students and millennials, has called in administrators after appearing to have run out of cash. According to sources, the U.K. fintech was unable to raise additional funding in time after a potential sale to banking giant RBS fell through. Intriguingly, Royal Bank of Scotland Group indirectly owned a […]... →

Artemis, the ag-tech startup formerly known as Agrilyst, today announced that it has raised an $8 million Series A funding round. The round was co-led by Astanor Ventures and Talis Capital, with participation from iSelect Fund and New York State’s Empire State Development Fund. With this, the company, which won our 2015 Disrupt SF Battlefield […]... →

Главные проблемы, основные ниши работы, портрет среднего основателя и другие выводы исследования «Стартап барометр», в котором приняли участие более 500 стартаперов.... →

Принадлежащий Mail.ru Group сервис для стримеров Donation Alerts начал тестировать платформу Boosty.to, которая позволит независимым авторам создавать платную подписку на контент. Boosty.to предполагает ежемесячные платежи потребителей контента автору, который определяет уровни подписки, их наполнение и стоимость доступа. Платформа будет зарабатывать на комиссии в 7%, в которую также входит комиссия платежных систем, для автора сервис будет бесплатным. Инвестиции в запуск в компании не раскрывают. Крупнейши... →

Александр Галицкий — венчурный инвестор и предприниматель, основатель компании «Элвис-плюс», а в советские годы — один из главных конструкторов в НПО «ЭЛАС». Вместе с коллегами считается разработчиком технологии VPN, позже выкупленной компанией Sun. В 2008 году Галицкий основал венчурный фонд Almaz Capital для вложений в компании на ранних стадиях развития (в портфеле фонда — инвестиции в «Яндекс», Acronis, Parallels и CarPrice). Rusbase поговорил с инвестором о работе фонда и последних сделках, а также узн... →

Tired of noisy music venues where you can hardly see the stage? SoFar Sounds puts on concerts in people’s living rooms where fans pay $15 to $30 to sit silently on the floor and truly listen. Nearly 1 million guests have attended SoFar’s more than 20,000 gigs. Having attended a half dozen of the shows, […]... →

Biofourmis, a Singapore-based startup pioneering a distinctly tech-based approach to the treatment of chronic conditions, has raised a $35 million Series B round for expansion. The round was led by Sequoia India and MassMutual Ventures, the VC fund from Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company. Other investors who put in include EDBI, the corporate investment arm […]... →

Consumer VR might not have taken off in the mainstream but it’s still fun to use, and it’s even more fun to use in groups. There is more of an arcade renaissance for VR going on right now, as well as location-based multi-user VR experiences. That’s the premise behind Munich-based HolodeckVR which is using proprietary […]... →

The best salespeople like to pride themselves on having both a sixth sense when it comes to closing a deal, and a healthy amount of persuasive magic to get a sale over the line. Now, a startup that says it can help any salesperson be like those top people, and help those top people be […]... →

Многие фаундеры слишком увлекаются процессом разработки и забывают, что, для того чтобы получить инвестиции, недостаточно открыть стартап в актуальной отрасли – необходимо привести его в юридическое соответствие. Наталья Пушкарская, руководитель практики по оказанию услуг для состоятельных частных лиц O2 Consulting, рассказывает о направлениях high-tech , которые будут интересны инвесторам в этом году.... →