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Sequoia Capital is looking to raise a $5 billion investment fund. The legendary Silicon Valley venture firm, known for its stellar investment returns, is in the early stages of raising its next global growth fund. Recode’s Kara Swisher first reported the news of the fund. She’s hearing that Sequoia is targeting $5 to $6 billion. We’re hearing that right now it’s… Read More... →

China’s Didi Chuxing, the country’s top ride-hailing company, said today that it has raised $4 billion in new capital to support a range of new initiatives including international expansion. The company has already raised $13 billion from investors that include Alibaba, Tencent and Apple, and it said that this newest round of funding will go towards developing its artificial… Read More... →

Chip, the chatbot app that plugs into your bank account and lets you automatically save for a rainy day, has raised nearly £1.1 million on equity crowdfunding platform Crowdcube. The fund raise, which is part of a larger £2.4 million funding round, forms part of plans for the London-based startup to apply for a banking license so that it has more flexibility regarding the kinds of products… Read More... →

Passport, company that’s managing much of the technical aspects of how people pay to use public transportation resources in cities like London, Miami, and Los Angeles has just raised $43 million. The money, from Bain Capital Ventures, will go to help the company expand its payment and transaction services nationally and internationally as cities and states wrestle with how new… Read More... →

Основной владелец медиагруппы C-Media (в нее входят городской онлайн-гид Timeout и сайт о кино Film.ru — прим. Firrma) Олег Чамин приобрел 25% в российской платформе «Хочу в кино», на которой люди могут найти спутника для совместного похода в кино. Об этом Firrma сообщил основатель «Хочу в кино» Владислав Потехин. Полученные инвестиции будут направлены на масшатабирование проекта и маркетинг. Виджеты для поиска спутника «Хочу в кино» будут добавлены на сайты Film.ru и Timeout.ru. Сумма сделки не разглашае... →

Firrma по заказу РВК в партнерстве с НАБА и VC.ru представляет очередной ежегодный рейтинг бизнес-ангелов – самых активных частных венчурных инвесторов в России. Как мы считаем 1. Кто такой ангел? Главный критерий для нас: для человека венчурные инвестиции должны быть бизнесом и работой. Кроме того, инвестирование должно быть регулярным, поэтому мы немного ужесточили критерии: в этом году порог отсечения опять – не менее 2 венчурных сделок за последние 12 месяцев. Кроме того, чтобы человек попал в рейтинг,... →

Фонд Runa Capital повторно инвестировал в стартап в сфере искусственного интеллекта  DigitalGenius, в который ранее вложилась Маша Дрокова. DigitalGenius привлек $14,7 млн. Раунд возглавил фонд Global Founders Capital, также в сделке участовали MMC Ventures, Paua Ventures и текущие инвесторы Salesforce Ventures, Runa Capital, RRE Ventures, Lumia Capital, Compound и Lerer Hippeau Ventures. Инвестиции будут направлены на развитие: компания планирует нанять 60 новых сотрудников. Всего компания привлекла $26 ... →

If you go to any company’s website these days, you’re probably starting to see some chat functionality more and more often — and for good reason, as it’s a quick way for those companies to get in touch with their potential customers. And Sendbird, which launched in February this year out of Y Combinator, has tried to quietly begin eating up this space by giving… Read More... →

Convercent, a company that provides ethics and compliance software to businesses, today announced that it has raised a $25 million funding round led by Rho Ventures. Additional investors include Sapphire Ventures and Tola Capital. The idea behind Convercent is to give businesses the tools to, in MBA-speak, “operationalize ethics.” In practice, this means that the companies mines… Read More... →

Dgraph is an increasingly popular open-source distributed graph database that uses a version of Facebook’s GraphQL as its default query language. Today, the company announced that it has raised $3 million in funding from (this includes a $1.1 million seed round raised last year). In addition, the company announced that its flagship database has hit the 1.0 stage. Read More... →

On the heels of Lemonade raising $120 million from Softbank for its new “peer-to-peer” spin on insurance services, another company aimed at disrupting the insurance market is announcing a major round of its own. Bima, a Munich-based startup that builds and sells “microinsurance” services for low-income consumers in Africa, Asia and Latin America, has raised $96.6 million… Read More... →

When DigitalGenius participated in the TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield competition in New York City in 2015, there weren’t a lot of companies working on AI and machine learning. Today, it’s become much more commonplace, and the company announced a $14.75 million Series A. Global Founders Capital led the round. MMC Ventures, Paua Ventures and several other unnamed new investors… Read More... →

Этот способ поднять инвестиции популярен из-за проблем с венчурным капиталом и любви к «быстрым деньгам».... →

There’s been a slew of new European VC fund raises over the last few months, including mostly recently Seedcamp, Balderton, and Brighteye Ventures, but now we can add Inventure to the list. The Nordic VC firm is announcing a new fund to invest in seed-stage and early-stage startups in the region. Read More... →

Инвестиционный фонд Altera Capital увеличил долю в компании Group-IB, которая заниматся борьбой с киберпреступлениями, с 10 до 25%, сообщают «Ведомости». Фонд выкупил 15% компании у одного из акционеров. По словам представителя Group-IB, свои доли продавал менеджмент компании. Сумма сделки не раскрывается. По словам представителя Altera Capital, фонд нарастил доли, видя перспективы отрасли и компании. Другой инвестор компании — фонд Run Capital основателя Qiwi Андрея Романенко, в сделке не участвовал. Ему... →

AxleHire, a last-mile logistics startup that facilitates deliveries for companies like HelloFresh, Freshly, Sunbasket, La Boulangerie and others, has raised $4.3 million from Acorn Pacific, RGA Ventures and others. AxleHire, which started back in 2015, is doing over 150,000 shipments per month and bringing in $750,000 in monthly revenues. By April, AxleHire expects to hit $1.5 million in… Read More... →

Springboard is a platform that helps people advance their tech skills, and ultimately career. Today it took a step further to realizing its own potential after it landed a $9.5 million Series A round to develop specialisms. I wrote about the U.S.-based service nearly two years ago when it was just starting out and it had gobbled up a $1.7 million seed round. Then, Springboard had brought… Read More... →

В 2018 году компания планирует подписать контракты в России и на Ближнем Востоке, пишет Axios... →

It’s probably no surprise that billionaire Richard Branson is going to be taking a more active role in Virgin Hyperloop One, considering the company adopted the “Virgin” moniker after Branson’s global co. became a key backer earlier this year. Now, Axios reports that he’ll be made chairman of the company, as it takes on an additional $50 million in funding to help… Read More... →