Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

Switchee, an IoT startup based in London, has raised £1.3 million in “pre-Series A” funding for its smart thermostat and accompanying cloud-based service. However, unlike consumer offerings, such as Nest, Hive or Tado, the company’s product is targeting large landlords, initially within the social housing sector. The idea is to help social landlords both tackle […]... →

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Marley Spoon, the meal kit subscription service that competes with the likes of Blue Apron and HelloFresh, has filed for an IPO in Australia. The Berlin-headquartered company is aiming to raise 70 million Australian Dollars (approximately $53m), and has chosen to list on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) in part because Australia is one of […]... →

ОАО РЖД вложит 300 млн рублей в фонд  Skolkovo Ventures. На данный моменнт одобрены инвестиции в две компании, разработки которых применимы для внедрения в железнодорожной монополии. Один проект занимается видеоаналитикой и контролем производственных процессов, другая компания на базе технологий дополненной реальности позволяет проводить удаленно пусконаладку сложного оборудования. В октябре 2017 года Объединенная авиастроительная корпорация объявила о планах вложить Skolkovo Ventures до 300 млн руб. 31 мая... →

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The long-term future of transportation might see less people owning cars, but today a lot of private vehicles are still on the road, and now a startup that’s building a multi-faceted marketplace to help fix them has raised some funding. Caroobi, a Berlin company that connects individuals with mechanics, and mechanics with parts suppliers, has […]... →

Scooter startup Bird, which is headquartered in Venice, Calif., is looking to expand into Europe, according to a new job posting. The job is for a general manager based in Europe to lead up market management and “raise the opportunities and concerns of the market and set the priorities that will grow Bird in your […]... →

Петербургский сервис доставки товаров из сетевых магазинов iGooods привлек 123 млн руб лей в рамках очередного раунда финансирования, рассказал  управляющий сервисом Григорий Кунис. В капитал проекта вошли фонд SOL Ventures основателя Delivery Club Левона Оганесяна и его партнеров Сергея Опарина и Станислава Шохора, экс-партнеры фонда Quadriga Capital Russia Криштоф и Петра Вайзе, Райнхард Коляйк и Ольга Мещерина, инвестор первого раунда Андрей Бровцинов и несколько частных инвесторов.  Сервисы, предлагающи... →

When we last left Packhelp they had raised €350,000 to build a business out of custom packaging. Their original hunch – that companies wanted cool, custom packaging for their products – was correct and now they’ve gone back to the VC trough for €2 million. The round, raised from Speedinvest x, PROFounders, and Market One […]... →

For the longest time, chips were a little bit boring. But the revolution in deep learning has now opened the market for startups that build specialty chips to accelerate deep learning and model evaluation. Among those is Israel-based Hailo, which is building deep learning chips for embedded devices. The company today announced that it has […]... →

10% Happier, an app offering a series of meditation courses designed especially for those who think it’s all a bit of crock, has raised $3.7 million in new funding. The round brings the company’s total raise to date to $5 million. The app is now one of many operating in the self-care space, where meditation […]... →

Coya, a Berlin-based insurance startup, has raised $30 million in new cash as investors around the world continue to see opportunities in modernizing the insurance industry. Founded by two early employees at the European credit and risk assessment unicorn startup Kreditech (which raised EUR110 million from the Naspers subsidiary PayU) and two seasoned executives from […]... →

On the heels of payment processing startup Adyen pricing its IPO in Europe to raise $1 billion, another startup working in the area of digital payment processing has raised a significant growth round. Marqeta, a startup out of Oakland that works with businesses for payment-card related services, including instant card-based payments and issuing their own branded […]... →

It’s not often you get the words “Lisbon”, and “$360 million” in the same sentence when it comes to startups, but that’s exactly what’s happening today with the news that OutSystems — a player in low-code rapid application development which is based between Atlanta, London and Lisbon — has raised $360 million in an investment […]... →

If you thought price comparison type online marketplaces were a done deal, you’re clearly mistaken. Motorway, a new startup from the team behind Top10 — the mobile and broadband comparison site that exited to uSwitch in 2011 — are back again, and this time they want to make it infinitely easier to sell your used […]... →

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WeWork is setting its sights on Southeast Asia, but that isn’t stopping local rivals from building up there business. In Indonesia, EV Hive — a co-working brand first started by a VC firm — has pulled in $20 million for expansion as its U.S.-based rival increases its focus on Indonesia. The company was founded in […]... →

We already knew that veteran venture capitalist Fred Destin had teamed up with podcaster-turned-VC Harry Stebbings to raise a fund of their own, but now more details have emerged, including that the new VC firm has reportedly achieved its first closing. According to my sources, Stride.VC — as the VC is to be called — […]... →

French startup Lendix has raised a new funding round of $37 million (€32 million). With this new influx of cash, the startup has one goal in mind. It wants to become the leading lending marketplace of Continental Europe. Idinvest and Allianz are leading the round, with CIR SpA (De Benedetti’s holding firm) also participating. Existing […]... →

ФРИИ представила обзор рынка прямых и венчурных инвестиций в 2017 году. Firrma приводит основные тезисы доклада.   Венчурная индустрия в целом падала начиная с 2013 года. Объем фондов прямых инвестиций (PE) и VC фондов сократился с $26,3 млрд в 2013 году до $21,2 млрд в 2017 году (стр 10). Средний объем инвестиций за тот же период упал с $12,2 млн в 2012 до $6,9 млн  (стр 24).  Основным фактором, повлиявшим на снижение инвестиционной активности, авторы доклада называют "относительную недоступность зарубежны... →