Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

Commercial real estate can be a lucrative investment, but it can be hard to come up with the money to buy a stake in the first place. That’s the idea behind RealtyShares, a platform which pools together debt and equity investments for apartments, office buildings and retail centers. Now the San Francisco-based startup has gained enough traction to find another big investment for itself. Read More... →

What if you could accurately predict the resale value of a home before buying it?  A startup called HouseCanary claims that its data can help you with that. Touting a system that can forecast a sale price within 2.5%, co-founder and CEO Jeremy Sicklick told TechCrunch that Eric Schmidt, Kobe Bryant and other well-known names are betting on his startup because they believe it will make… Read More... →

Adam Braun, a consultant-turned-educational non-profit founder, will say he’s had a lot of good fortune that’s helped him position himself in a way to see the education system from a birds-eye view — and hopes he can help address the problem of student debt with a venture-backed startup. That’s why Braun, with his experience at Bain and then at Pencils for Promise,… Read More... →

Фонд Altair VC вышел из бостонского стартапа Mobee. Об этом Firrma сообщил управляющий партнер фонда Игорь Рябенький.  Экзит связан с объединением Mobee с компанией Quad Analytix. Объединенная компания будет названа Wiser Solutions, которая станет аналитической платформой для розничной торговли. Кроме денег, Altair VC также получил долю в объединенной компании.  Как рассказал собеседник Firrma, Altair VC инвестировал в стартап Mobee в 2015 году в ходе раунда А. Его возглавил Flint Capital, для которого объе... →

The facial recognition system built into the iPhone raises plenty of questions. Can I fool it with a photo? (No.) Will it work if I’m sleeping and someone puts my iPhone up to my face? (It shouldn’t, unless you sleep with your eyes open.) Who better than Apple’s Craig Federighi to answer all these burning questions? No one — no one except for a fake Craig Federighi… Read More... →

Investors may not be done shoveling money into Magic Leap’s augmented reality ambitions quite yet. The Plantation, Florida-based startup is reportedly in talks with Singapore-based Temasek Holdings to raise upwards of $500 million, valuing the AR company at around $6 billion, Bloomberg reports. Sources also told Bloomberg that Magic Leap will likely begin shipping devices to a… Read More... →

Going beyond the bounds of our planet is the future. Elon Musk wants to take us to the moon and the likes of SoftBank want to use satellites orbiting the world to solve global connectivity. That explains why Infostellar, a platform that enables antenna sharing to enable better communication for satellites and space crafts, exists and also why it has raised $7.3 million to build out… Read More... →

To the uninitiated, startup fundraising can be confusing. And even some of the resources designed to be approachable for the newcomer often raise more questions than they answer. So we’ve launched a series called “A Startup Takes Flight” to simply explain the dynamics of fundraising and deal terms. Read More... →

A couple of years after participating in TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield, YayPay is raising $5.3 million from QED Investors, Birchmere, Fifth Third Capital, as well as 500 Fintech Fund, Aspect Ventures, Gaingels, Techstars and Zelkova. YayPay is trying to optimize the workflows in your company’s finance department. In particular, too many mid-sized companies waste a ton of time… Read More... →

Offering to gate the smorgasbord of personal content that lives on a mobile device behind a face biometric inevitably raises lots of security questions, even as always on face-scanning tech being housed in a smartphone raises privacy concerns… Read More... →

If you’re in a big city like New York City, you’re probably used to walking around the block away from where you live to the corner shop and picking up a jug of milk or some dishwashing detergent. But Paul McDonald (who says he has not lived in New York), who was at Google for more than 13 years, wants to collapse that distance between walking to that store to pick something up… Read More... →

Heptio, the startup founded by Kubernetes co-founders Craig McLuckie and Joe Beda, today announced that it has raised a $25 million Series B funding round led by Madrona Venture partners. Lightspeed Venture Partners and Accel Partners also joined in this round, which comes less than a year after the company’s $8.5 million Series A round. Read More... →

Международная компания с российскими корнями Target Global запустила новый венчурный фонд объемом €100 млн, пишет «Коммерсантъ». Инвестиции предназначены в основном для зарубежных проектов.... →

Участники могут получить инвестиции от ФРИИ и партнеров.... →

How’s this for a prediction: “Camera media will be bigger than TV.” That’s according to Camera IQ CEO Allison Wood. By “camera media” she means filters, lenses and other augmented reality effects — Wood told me she’s been studying AR and camera effects for years, including a stint as an assistant professor at the Pratt Institute. Last year,… Read More... →

Фонд развития интернет-инициатив (ФРИИ), Hearst Shkulev Digital и Tribuna Digital объявили о запуске совместной акселерационной программы. Стартапы смогут провести продуктовые исследования и тестировать новые рекламные форматы на базе медийных площадок Hearst Shkulev Digital и Tribuna Digital. Также партнеры готовы запускать совместные пилоты и помогать с дистрибуцией продукта (промо на медиаплощадках и продажами через партнеров) в обмен на долю от выручки. Об этом Firrma рассказали в пресс-службе ФРИИ. ФРИ... →

Southeast Asia-based fashion marketplace Zilingo has closed an $18 million Series B funding round led by Sequoia Capital India and Burda Principal Investments. Zilingo was founded less than two years ago by ex Sequoia analyst Ankiti Bose (CEO) and former Yahoo engineer Dhruv Kapoor (CTO). The basic vision is to help Southeast Asia’s thriving independent fashion sellers and… Read More... →

Сервис «Яндекс.Такси» поддержит создание новых таксопарков в рамках запущенной партнерской программы «Мой таксопарк», сообщает РБК со ссылкой на представителя компании.  Участник  программы должен будет вложить 3 млн рублей. По мнению представителя сервиса, этих денег хватит на создание таксопарка из десяти новых автомобилей, взятых в лизинг. Сервис выделит каждому таксопарку персонального менеджера и обеспечит льготные условия на лизинг и страховку. Скидки на покупку машин для таксопарков — партнеров серви... →

Eevo‘s goal, in the words of co-founder and CEO Alejandro Dinsmore, is “democratizing the creation and delivery of immersive experiences.” In other words, the Brooklyn startup aims to help publishers and other content creators build virtual reality experiences for smartphones without making a big investment. In fact, to use Eevo’s “Composer,” they only… Read More... →

Autonomous vehicle startup Zoox is in talks with Japanese investment firm SoftBank to raise more funding. We’ve confirmed the news, which was first reported by Axios.  We’re hearing the discussions are in the early stages and nothing has been finalized, but that SoftBank has been interested in Zoox for a while. The startup is also talking to other unnamed potential investors.… Read More... →