Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

Белорусская компания «Зубр капитал», под управлением которой находятся фонды прямых инвестиций SMH и Zubr Capital Fund I, проинвестировала порядка $10 млн в кипрскую Lagembor Holdings Ltd., объединяющую белорусские активы Softline. Об этом пишут «Ведомости» со ссылкой на представителей «Зубра» и IT-компании. Полученная доля инвесторами не раскрывается. По информации вице-президента Softline по инвестициям Елены Волотовской, речь идет о блокирующем пакете.  Полученные средства пойдут на развитие белорусског... →

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Inflect, a startup that wants to make it easier for businesses to buy their own internet infrastructure, today announced that it has raised a $3 million seed funding round. The service, which is still in preview, provides business with the necessary data to make their purchasing decisions when they go out and look for their own data center space, networking services and exchange… Read More... →

CrossCut Ventures, a Los Angeles-based seed investment firm has just closed its fourth (and largest) fund with $125 million in new cash. It’s been a long road for the firm’s three co-founders, who have been investing in Los Angeles since 1997. In that time they’ve seen the city’s technology scene evolve in fits and starts, but now, with companies like Snap, Dollar… Read More... →

PerceptIn’s been operating mostly behind the scenes since launching in March of last year. Even so, the company has managed to raise a decent chunk of change in its mission of helping improve robotic vision. The startup’s raised a total of $11 million in all, including a seed round of ~$2 million last year and an $8 million Series A in 2017. Read More... →

Health2Sync, a Taiwan-headquartered company that offers a diabetes tracking service, has closed a $6 million Series B round aimed at expanding its business in Japan and other markets in Asia. Health2Sync launched at the TechCrunch Hardware Battlefield at CES 2014 and it essentially offers a smarter way to track and manage diabetes. Using a connector cable, Android and iOS devices can be… Read More... →

Пять российских стартапов из разных сфер рассказывают о своем нелегком пути привлечения первых инвестиций.  Лориана Сардар, сооснователь каршеринга BelkaCar: Первый раунд мы поднимали два года. Параллельно инвестировали собственные деньги и брали займы, чтобы создавать продукт. В итоге нашли отличного инвестора – швейцарский фонд Bryanston. Нам не надо было убеждать их в потенциале каршеринга, задача была – доказать, что инвестировать нужно именно в нас. На закрытие сделки, от момента due diligence до подп... →

Lyft just announced that it has added an additional $500 million to its most recent funding round, a $1 billion raise announced in October. The now-$1.5 billion round includes participation from Fidelity Management & Research Compant as well as the Ontario Teacher’s Pension Fund. Lyft’s post-money valuation as of this add-on raise is now $11.5 billion, with the expanded round… Read More... →

Smartphones have made flipping through photo albums a relic of the past. It’s easy to peruse and share a digital photo archive, but some people miss looking through photos while sitting next to family and friends. At least that’s what motivated serial entrepreneur Alan Chan to create Joy, a smart photo album. He says that he realized “family photo-sharing is broken”… Read More... →

Have you ever bought something only to see it go on sale the next day? It may seem like bad luck, but you’re often still entitled to get that discount. Some retailers and credit card companies will even guarantee price drop refunds for up to 90 days. But it can be a hassle to keep track of price changes and to follow through and get your money back.  A handful of sites have been… Read More... →

Pi Charging, the company that won at TechCrunch Disrupt SF with its wireless charging tech, has closed a series A round of $11.4 million dollars. They disclosed the news for the first time while updating the audience at Disrupt Berlin on their progress since winning in SF. For those who might’ve missed it: Pi Charging is building a device (the namesake Pi Charger) that lives on your… Read More... →

Проект Universa Blockchain Александра Бородича вошел в консорциум Blockchain.aero, который занимается развитием городской авиации, объединяя производителей, поставщиков услуг и разработчиков ПО. Universa Blockchain присоединится к формированию модели сети городской авиации и системы с управляемой производительностью. Об этом Firrma рассказали в Universa. Консорциум Blockchain.aero планирует направить все детали работы аэротакси в блок-цепь: от качественных характеристик транспортного средства, координации ... →

The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged Canadian crypto company PlexCorp with violating securities laws by selling up to $15 million in an initial coin offering (ICO). ICO’s have seen explosive growth over the past year as fledgling companies have used them raise more than $3 billion in capital through various cryptocurrencies. However, experts have warned they can present… Read More... →

Raising a Series A is hard for a founder. Especially when you consider they’re usually doing it for the first time, while the VCs on the other side of the table are essentially professional negotiators getting pitched and doing deals every day. So to help give founders a leg up Justin Kan’s new legal tech startup Atrium is launching a program to help founders become better… Read More... →

There has been a veritable explosion of connected devices that people are using these days to interact with apps and the internet, from smartphones and computers, to cars, watches, home speakers and refrigerators. Now a startup out of Berlin called Contentful has raised $28 million to position itself as the platform to manage how all that information is delivered via a set of APIs. The Series… Read More... →

Code.org, the non-profit organization that aims to increase access to computer science education, has raised $12 million in philanthropic funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Infosys Foundation USA  and PricewaterhouseCoopers. The announcement came as part of a Computer Science Education Week kickoff event in San Mateo. Meanwhile, eight states, 76 school districts and 102… Read More... →

Инвестиционный фонд AD.RU вложит по $100 тысяч в победителей онлайн-конкурса Dating Contest среди стартапов в сфере знакомств . Об этом Firrma сообщил представитель фонда. Заявки на участие принимаются до 17 декабря. Участие в онлайн-конкурсе Dating Contest бесплатное. Отборочный тур продлится с 30 ноября по 17 декабря и по его результатам будет выявлено до 30 лучших проектов. До 22 декабря проекты встретятся с экспертами. Победители будут известны 25 декабря: они получат $100 тысяч от фонда AD.RU, поддерж... →

Onefootball founder and CEO Lucas Von Cranach, whose popular football app now has 25 million fans in 200 countries around the world, confirmed on stage today at TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin 2017 that his company has raised more funding — including both an unreported Series B and C round. This would bring the startup’s total raise to date to over the $20 million publicly reported.… Read More... →

Партнерский материал В этот раз форум «Экосистема инноваций», который РВК устраивает в Сочи каждый год, по сути посвящен вопросу, что из себя представляет венчурный рынок страны сегодня и куда он будет двигаться дальше. Именно поэтому практически все круглые столы «заняли» венчурные инвесторы самый разных стадий – от бизнес-ангелов до фондов фондов и корпоративных фондов. По итогам первого дня вполне можно сказать, что они очень четко сформировали понимание и проблем, и точек роста, и рисков, и сильных стор... →

Social media has become critical to the online publishers. It drives a lot of traffic and helps brands build a following. But it also means that a lot of the engagement happens on another platform, like Twitter or Facebook, instead of the actual news site. New York-based Spot.IM saw an opportunity to help businesses from Time Inc. to NBC build out a better comments section, in order to… Read More... →