Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

Pointy​,​ ​an Irish start​ ​startup​ ​that​ lets ​local​ ​retailers put their stock online so that they can be discovered via search engines, has raised $6 million in Series A funding. The round is being led by Frontline Ventures, alongside Paul Allen’s Vulcan Capital, Draper Associates and a number of notable angel investors. Read More... →

ICOs — or initial coin offerings — are emerging as a route for startups to raise money from a wide pool of investors through cryptocurrency networks. Now, one of the biggest and best-known accelerators in the world is mulling a way to use cryptocurrency networks and the blockchain to help get more people involved in backing their cohorts, according to its president. “We… Read More... →

The fintech revolution continues apace, and while many startups are hoping that newer and better tech will help them take business away from traditional banks, today a company has received a large round of funding to help those incumbent institutions better compete. 10x Future Technologies is a startup that has built a ground-up platform that incorporates machine learning, cloud services… Read More... →

The music industry has been struggling with the best way to manage digital rights and to make sure that artists get the money they’re due for the songs they write for decades. These days there are tons of companies that are trying to solve the problem of managing, monitoring, and paying musicians for the songs they make. The latest entrant into this competitive marketplace is HAAWK,… Read More... →

Holly Maloney McConnell has joined the venture firm General Catalyst Partners as a managing director, operating out of its Boston office. McConnell joins the firm from North Bridge Growth Equity, a 23-year-old firm that put on ice plans to raise an eighth fund in 2015 as several partners moved on; McConnell was a principal with the firm, which was rebranded last month as Guidepost Growth Equity. Read More... →

Electric scooter maker Gogoro has closed a massive $300 million Series C round to expand its service. The company has sold scooters in its native Taiwan since 2015, and it Europe it offers them on a short-term rental basis. That’s in Berlin, Germany, and Paris, France, where Gogoro provides a combined 1,600 scooters for an on-demand sharing service that’s operated by… Read More... →

Luno, a bitcoin wallet and exchange based out of Singapore, is riding the crypto wave into Europe after it closed a $9 million Series B round for market expansion. The funding was led by new investor Balderton Capital, with participation from existing backer Digital Currency Group. South Africa’s AlphaCode — also a new arrival on the cap table — joined the deal which… Read More... →

This summer the TC team took a brief trip to Shenzhen, where I met Wells Tu, whose company TimeKettle has made an earpiece that translates spoken Chinese to English and vice versa in near real time. Having created a functioning prototype (it isn’t vaporware; we tried it, as you can see above) he and the team are now heading to Kickstarter to raise the money for their first run of the… Read More... →

Moscow Seed Fund совместно с частными инвесторами вложил 12 млн рублей в сервис GetShop.TV,  который позволяет покупать товары с экрана телевизора при помощи пульта. Об это Firrma рассказали в пресс-службе Московского фонда содействия развитию венчурных инвестиций (Moscow Seed Fund). Сейчас технология работает в онлайн-кинотеатрах. В IV квартале 2017 года компания планирует запустить технологию для эфирного телевидения на федеральных каналах. Зрители, использующие в качестве приемного устройства приставки о... →

There’s no shortage of startups building their brands around AI for enterprise. And within the enterprise, few spaces are as competitive as AI-powered voice analytics. TalkIQ is the latest company in the space to carry home a large round of financing with promise. With $14 million in Series A funding, the TalkIQ team is hoping its proprietary tech stack and engineering-heavy team will… Read More... →

Incorta, the startup that wants to make big data analytics faster by eliminating the need for data warehouses, has raised a $15 million Series B led by new investor Kleiner Perkins. Existing investors GV and Ron Wohl, former executive vice president of applications development at Oracle, also participated. Read More... →

Посевной венчурный фонд Константина Синюшина и Игоря Лутца the Untitled ventures инвестировал в российский стартап Hello Baby. Об этом Firrma рассказали в фонде. Сумма сделки не раскрывается. Полученная в проекте доля также остается неизвестной. Инвестиции будут использованы для дальнейшей разработки и маркетинга проекта на американском рынке. Проект Hello Baby имеет веб- и мобильную версию. На сервис могут быть загружены четыре вида контента: видео, аудио, фото и текст. Основная монетизация строится на е... →

iZettle, the startup based out of Sweden that competes against the likes of Square and Paypal to provide card transaction services from smartphones and tablets, is adding a little more money to its coffers today, specifically to ramp up in emerging technologies like artificial intelligence. The company has announced that it has received €30 million ($36 million) funding from the European… Read More... →

Have you ever gotten a gift card for a store you don’t shop at? Or have you made a purchase and don’t know what to do with the remaining balance? It turns out you can sell and trade unwanted or partially unused gift cards on a marketplace called Raise. If you don’t want a Starbucks gift card, you can sell it or get one for Macy’s. They also have iTunes, Sephora and… Read More... →

Funnel, a startup headquartered in Stockholm that sells a SaaS to help companies analyse the effectiveness of online marketing spend across multiple channels, has raised $10 million in Series A funding. London VC Balderton Capital led the round, with participation from existing investors including Industrifonden and Zobito. Read More... →

Well, GoCardless co-founder and CEO Hiroki Takeuchi knows how to work a non-denial denial. When I interviewed him a few weeks ago for an extensive profile piece we ran yesterday, he wouldn’t be drawn on if the hot London fintech was raising a new round. Today, the company is announcing $22.5 million in new funding. Read More... →

Mail.Ru Games Ventures, профильное игровое инвестиционное подразделение Mail.Ru Group, объявило о выделении посевных инвестиций в размере 800 тыс. евро для российско-финского разработчика Panzerdog. Как сообщает пресс-служба компании, финансирование позволит команде завершить разработку мобильного шутера Tacticool. Ранее Panzerdog привлек предпосевные инвестиции от финского семейного фонда Aii Capital, одним из владельцев которого является старший советник Президента Фонда […]... →

Финтех-компания SimpleFinance (ООО МКК SimpleFinance), специализирующаяся на кредитовании малого и среднего бизнеса, привлекла инвестиции от японского фонда SBI FinTech Fund (входит в SBI Investment). Об этом сообщает компания. Размер инвестиций стороны не разглашают. SBI FinTech получит место в совете директоров SimpleFinance и примет участие в управлении дальнейшим стратегическим развитием. SimpleFinance направит привлеченные средства на выдачу новых кредитов.  В конце июня SimpleFinance выпустила евроо... →

French startup Younited Credit is building the biggest crowdlending platform in continental Europe. The company just raised $47.8 million (€40 million) to launch in new countries, work on new product features and more. Younited Credit is currently live in France, Spain and Italy as a consumer-facing product. Consumers can borrow anything between $1,200 and $48,000 (€1,000 and €40,000)… Read More... →

If you think that too many VCs these days are playing it safe and only looking to back sure bets rather than moonshots and more ambitious ventures, take a look over at what’s going on in Boston. The Engine, based out of MIT and Cambridge, has raised a $200 million fund to back and help incubate startups working on “tough tech” — new challenges in areas… Read More... →