Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

Today Google announced a new labeled dataset of human actions taking place in videos. That may sound obscure, but it’s a big deal for anyone working to solve problems in computer vision. If you’ve been following along, you’ve noticed the significant uptick in companies building products and services that act as a second pair of human eyes. Video detectors like Matroid,… Read More... →

There’s a huge funding round from one of the top local services companies in China. Meituan-Dianping, a company formed by a multi-billion dollar merger in 2015, said today that it has raised a $4 billion Seres C round from a group of investors led by existing backer Tencent. Others involved include Sequoia, GIC, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Trustbridge Partners, Coatue, IDG,… Read More... →

Banks face an increasingly crowded battlefield in the fight for millennial customers. Not only do they have to compete with services like Venmo, but many messaging apps are adding their own peer-to-peer payment services. Tel Aviv-based startup PayKey thinks it has the solution with a smartphone keyboard that lets bank customers access financial services without having to log onto a banking app. Read More... →

Ride-hailing company Lyft has raised a new $1 billion funding round, putting its post-money valuation at $11 billion total. The round was led by Alphabet’s CapitalG, its growth-focused investment fund, and CapitalG partner David Lawee will join Lyft’s board as part of the transaction. Lyft shared the news in an official blog post, and noted that it has run over 500 million rides… Read More... →

Snaps has raised $6 million in Series A funding for what it calls its Conversational Marketing Cloud. By that, it’s referring to a suite of tools that allows businesses to to promote themselves through messaging. CEO Christian Brucculeri said Snaps is differentiated by its “write once and deploy everywhere approach,” allowing marketers to build things like chatbots and… Read More... →

Свердловский венчурный фонд вложил более 22 млн рублей в разработчика хирургических инструментов и титановых имплантов для нейрохирургии — компанию ООО «Зибус». Об этом Firrma сообщили в фонде. Полученные средства будут направлены на запуск производства на территории особой экономической зоны «Титановая Долина», которая расположена между двумя промышленными городами Свердловской области – Нижним Тагилом и Верхней Салдой. Пока была произведена только опытная партия изделий. Как уточнили в фонде, технический ... →

The furniture rental industry is stuck in the last. Current options involve old-school companies like CORT where most of the inventory will make your apartment look like a dorm room, or a place like Rent-A-Center where you’ll almost certainly pay many times what the item is actually worth. Enter Feather, a company trying to breathe some life into the aging industry by letting… Read More... →

Инвестиционный директор фонда Life.SREDA Игорь Песин написал статью, в которой проанализировал ситуацию на рынке ICO. Firrma публикует сокращенную версию материала.  Блокчейн существует с 2008 года (с момента рождения биткоина) и особенно активно обсуждается последние 4–5 лет, причем не только в стартаперской и венчурной сферах, но уже и на уровне корпораций, банков, регуляторов и правительств. Но действительно ли блокчейн индустрия в 2012–2016 годов являлась настолько успешной и крупной, насколько было соз... →

Movinga, the European platform for house removals that was seemingly written off last year, continues to perform what appears to be an impressive turn around. The Berlin-headquartered startup has closed a new funding round of up to €22 million led by Santo Venture Capital, the venture arm of the Strüngmann family office, with participation from existing backers Earlybird Venture Capital… Read More... →

Duo Security raises $70 million, a close look at Apple’s self-driving car, Snapchat’s Halloween costume and Abu Dhabi’s state fund is doing business in San Francisco. All this on Crunch Report! Read More... →

Источники оценивают размер инвестиций в сумму до $1 млн.... →

Since Issac Asimov first laid out the three laws of robotics in 1942, human safety has been the number one concern of the inventors, innovators and futurists that have pondered our place in the age of robots. But for robots to be able to ensure human safety, those robots have to be able to see humans and recognize them as humans. That’s where Veo Robotics comes in. The Cambridge,… Read More... →

Бизнес-ангел Любовь Симонова дала несколько рекомендаций стартаперам, которые хотят привлечь деньги.  Пока есть время, решила чуток написать. Так вот, дорогие мои читатели, меня часто спрашивают, а что главное надо рассказывать, презентовать. Все зависит от того, каковы ваши цели и задачи, и цели и задачи инвестора или партнера, к которому вы приходите. Первое – какую проблему вы решаете и как она решается сейчас (или не решается), и как вы ее собираетесь решать. Второе – а в чем ваш продукт. Что вы предлаг... →

Thanks to the Internet, you can order regular deliveries of everything from clothing to razors to geeky memorabilia. With Bespoke Post, you’re not just limited to one type of products — it ships its customer “box of awesome” that could be focused on style, travel, alcohol or something else entirely. Co-founder and CEO Rishi Prabhu explained that the goal is to curate… Read More... →

Despite a continuing economic crisis, Brazil’s technology startups are continuing to attract cash and financing, with the mobile personal financial service GuiaBolso raising $39 million in fresh funding. Readers outside of Brazil can think of the company as a combination of U.S. services like Mint, CreditKarma, and Lending Club, all rolled into one. That GuiaBolso has emerged as a… Read More... →

Duo Security is today announcing its Series D funding round that puts the company in unicorn status. The company raised $70 million led by Meritech Capital Partners and Lead Edge Capital at a valuation of $1.17 billion. This funding round brings the company’s total amount raised to $119 million. This round included new investors, Index Ventures and Workday, that latter of which joins as… Read More... →

Венчурный фонд Sistema VC стал соинвестором раунда в €1 млн в британскую компанию DataSine, которая разрабатывает технологию на стыке машинного обучения и психометрии для построения личностного портрета клиента финансовой организации. Лид-инвесторов раунда выступил международный фонд Cathay Capitals, также в сделке принял участие британский фонд Force Over Mass. Об этом Firrma рассказали в Sistema VC. Полученные инвестиции будут использованы для развития бизнеса, включая расширение состава команды, увеличе... →

Revelo, a job marketplace that puts the responsibility on companies to contact candidates, has raised $4.6 million in its latest financing. The company, unlike traditional job boards, puts high-end, high-profile Brazilian job seekers at the center of the search, and makes companies reach out to them. Its latest round was led by Valor Capital, the Latin American-focused venture capital fund,… Read More... →

E-commerce and digitally-based financial transactions have consistently been one of the biggest and most lucrative areas of the tech world, and today a commerce startup out of Canada is laying down its claim to be among the significant players in the field. Lightspeed POS, which provides point of sale, accounting, inventory management, purchasing analytics, and other related services to… Read More... →

BuddyGuard, the Berlin startup behind the Flare AI-powered home security camera, has raised €3.4 million in new funding, money it plans to use to ramp up marketing of the newly-launched device. Leading the round is German electrical specialist Bachmann Group, with participation from over 20 unnamed angel investors across Europe. Read More... →