Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

Bump, the Y Combinator-backed marketplace for streetwear, is announcing that it has raised $7.5 million in Series A funding. Bump’s Jack Ryder told me that even before starting the company, he and his co-founder Sam Howarth were active in buying and selling streetwear and sneakers — but he admitted that it took several tries before […]... →

BentoBox, which helps restaurant owners build mobile-friendly websites, has raised $16.4 million in Series B funding. This might not seem like the biggest opportunity, particularly since consumers are connecting with restaurants in so many other places online — reading reviews on Yelp, making reservations on OpenTable, ordering delivery on GrubHub and so on. But founder […]... →

Publicly traded sensor technology developer, FLIR Systems, is investing in a strategic round of funding for the outsourced drone imaging company, DroneBase. The two companies are also partnering to provide FLIR’s thermal imaging technology and training services to DroneBase’s stable of pilots. Terms of the investment were not disclosed. “Our investment in DroneBase helps expand […]... →

Defy founders Trae Vassallo and Neil Sequeira have upped the ante.... →

Участие в международных конференциях может принести не только новые знакомства, но и контракт с инвестором. Однако, чтобы «не упустить крупную рыбу», нужно понимать, как принято вести дела в конкретной местности. Егор Гурьев, CEO и основатель Playkey, рассказывает о том, как стартаперам не запутаться в различиях менталитета и привлечь инвестиции.... →

С помощью приложения Яндекс.Денег теперь можно самостоятельно инвестировать деньги в ценные бумаги и иностранную валюту. В основе нового сервиса — инвестиционная платформа компании «БКС Брокер». Новая услуга доступна идентифицированным пользователям Яндекс.Денег с российским гражданством. Чтобы ею воспользоваться, нужно в приложении Яндекс.Денег открыть раздел «Инвестиции БКС» и создать брокерский счет. После этого можно вкладываться в ценные […] Сообщение В приложении Яндекс.Денег появился биржевой брокер ... →

Tunisia based private equity firm Africinvest has teamed up with Cathay Capital — a global private equity firm based in Paris — to launch a new Africa tech fund with a target raise of $168 million. Details are still forthcoming, but the Cathay Africinvest Innovation Fund will focus primarily on series A to C stage […]... →

ShopBack, a Singapore-based startup that offers cashback and consumer rewards in Asia Pacific, has closed a $45 million round led by new investors Rakuten Capital and EV Growth. Founded in 2014, the startup had been relatively under-the-radar until late 2017 when it announced a $25 million investment that funded expansion into Australia among other things. […]... →

Labelbox, a provider of services to create, manage, and maintain data sets for machine learning applications, has raised $10 million in a new round of funding. The financing came from Gradient Ventures, Google’s AI-focused venture fund, with participation from previous investors, Kleiner Perkins, First Round Capital, and Sumon Sadhu, an angel investor. Labelbox manages the process […]... →

Indian social commerce startup GlowRoad announced today that it has raised a $10 million Series B. The round was led by CDH Investments, a Chinese investment firm, with participation from returning investor Accel Partners. GlowRoad’s last funding, a $2 million Series A led by Accel, was announced in September 2017, a few months after it […]... →

Mobile shopping startup Dote is announcing $12 million in new funding, as well as a new feature called Shopping Party. Founder and CEO Lauren Farleigh said her initial goal was to create “a truly native mobile experience” that made it “easy to check out across a lot of different stores.” Over time, recommendations from social […]... →

In its second year, All Raise plans to go far and wide to support women on both sides of the table.... →

Cashfree, an India-based startup that specializes in making corporate banking services more accessible and easier to use, has closed a $5.5 million Series A round. The deal is led by Korea’s Smilegate Investment with participation from Y Combinator, the U.S. accelerator program that Cashfree graduated from in 2017. The startup previously raised an undisclosed seed […]... →

Новым героем рубрики «Фандрайзинг» стал якутский стартап Vedroid. Команда разработала промышленного моющего робота, который, по заявлениям компании, может заменить до пяти уборщиц. Стартап хочет привлечь 20 млн рублей в обмен на 5-7% долю в проекте. Если вы ищете инвестиции или проект для вложений, заходите также в наш сервис Pipeline, где инвесторы знакомятся со стартапами.... →

Leadfeeder, a Helsinki-based startup that helps B2B companies generate new leads from website analytics, has closed a €3.1 million in series A funding. Leading the round is Dutch growth capital firm Endeit Capital, with Finland’s Superhero Capital and Vendep Capital participating. The Finnish company says the new capital will be used to further develop its […]... →

We recently noted that SoftBank’s Vision Fund has stepped up its deal-making in Asia this year, and today it added a new company to its roster: travel services platform Klook. Hong Kong-based Klook announced today that it has raised a $225 million round led by the Vision Fund with participation from existing investors. The deal […]... →

The San Francisco-based startup Branch International, which makes small personal loans in emerging markets, has raised $170 million and announced a partnership with Visa to offer virtual, pre-paid debit cards to Branch client networks in Africa, South-Asia, and Latin America.  Branch—which has 150 employees in San Francisco, Lagos, Nairobi, Mexico City and Mumbai—makes loans starting at […]... →

Klaviyo, a Boston-based email marketing firm founded in 2012, went about building its email marketing business the old fashioned way. First it built a profitable company, then it went looking for funding to accelerate the growth. Today, it announced a massive $150 million Series B with the entire sum coming from Summit Partners. The company […]... →

Just 5 months after announcing £85 million in Series E funding, Monzo is already gearing up to raise additional funding, which would almost double its valuation. As reported in the Sunday Times yesterday, the U.K. challenger bank is close to raising £100 million in further funding in a new round led by an unnamed U.S. […]... →

Loan platform Kabbage — which offers quick assessment and approvals for small business loans using machine learning algorithms that pull data from dozens of sources — has closed another large securitization as it continues to grow its operations. The company said has closed an asset-backed securitization of $700 million, which it says it the largest transaction […]... →