Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-themed podcast. This week Matthew Lynley, Katie Roof, and myself — Alex! — sat down with Micah Rosenbloom, an investor with Founder Collective to sit down and chew over the week’s news. We managed to not talk about Uber this episode, which was a welcome respite from the last few months during which we… Read More... →

Фонд Timeweb Ventures будет вкладываться в проекты посевной стадии, работающие на unit-экономике... →

Инвестиции в сервис к концу года превысят 1 млрд рублей... →

You’d think all the business models around on-demand taxis and cars had been invested, but straight out of Siberia comes another one. Ride-hailing app inDriver has raised a $5 million Series A round from Russian venture fund LETA Capital. They aim to use this cash to launch inDriver in India, the USA and Canada, where the service will of course compete with Uber, Lyft and Ola Cab. How… Read More... →

French startup Streamroot just raised $3.2 million from Partech Ventures, Techstars Venture Capital Fund, Verizon Ventures* and R/GA. The company is taking advantage of WebRTC to make video streaming much cheaper. When you’re watching a video on YouTube or Netflix, those companies send a video file to your device from their servers. It’s a straightforward, one-way transaction between… Read More... →

India-based OYO, a startup that pioneered and popularized the concept of budget hotel networks, has closed $250 million in new funding led by SoftBank’s Vision Fund. The startup was founded in 2013 by Thiel Fellow Ritesh Agarwal, now aged 24, and the concept centers around standardizing the quality of India’s wildly-differentiated affordable hotels, and providing some structure… Read More... →

Венчурный фонд FinShi Capital продал более $9 млн токенов за первые сутки ICO. Токены фонда торгуются по курсу 1 FINS = $1. В первые два дня для покупателей действует скидка 5%. Всего было выпущено 60 млн токенов. Об этом Firrma рассказали в фонде. Первичное размещение монет началось 6 сентября и продлится до 6 октября, или до достижения главной цели — привлечения $50 млн. Собранные средства пойдут на инвестиции в блокчейн и финтех стартапы. Токены FinShi Capital будут обеспечены долями фонда в стартапах. В... →

Innoviz, a company making LiDAR sensors to support the development and deployment of autonomous driving, has raised a new $65 million in Series B funding, from strategic partners and leading auto industry suppliers Delphi Automotive and Magna International, along with other investors. The vote of confidence from Magna and Delphi is especially noteworthy, however, because both stand ready to… Read More... →

As apps like WhatsApp, Facebook and Viber gear up to let businesses use their messaging apps to speak with their customers, there is a parallel track of development happening outside those walled gardens. A startup that has built an open service — sitting outside any specific messaging app — to let businesses communicate with customers by text, has raised a notable round of… Read More... →

Tenka Labs co-founder John Schuster is no stranger to walking friends through building gadgets using Arduino, an open-source hardware controller — except they might be great software engineers, but not understand the actual circuitry. But Tenka Labs, which builds simple kits that help young students create small gadgets with the use of motors and other bits that connect to legos, is… Read More... →

Axonius wants to help enterprises manage their fast-growing number of mobile, compute and IoT devices that now use their networks and in the cloud. The idea here is to provide these companies with a single platform that allows them to see which devices are active on their networks and control them. This, in turn, enables enterprises to plug potential security holes. Read More... →

«Сколково венчурные инвестиции» и «Некоммерческое партнерство развития финансового рынка РТС» во время Восточного экономического форума (ВЭФ) 2017 подписали соглашение об организации криптобиржи. Об этом сообщают РИА Новости, со ссылкой на генерального директора «Сколково венчурные инвестиции» Василия Белова. «Поскольку речь идет о криптовалютах, то это не классическая биржа со зданием, расчетными счетами и так далее. Фактически, […]... →

Facebook has set the pace for how social networks can grow their advertising revenues by leveraging advances and ad tech and the information that they collect about users and their interests through the social graph. Now LinkedIn — the career-focused social network owned by Microsoft with some 500 million registered users — is hoping to step up its game in ads and ad tecch, too.… Read More... →

Turo has a new strategic partner in automaker Daimler, with ties solidified through both an investment by Daimler in the car sharing startup, and through the acquisition by Turo of Croove, Daimler’s own Turo-like subsidiary. The funding is part of a new $92 million Series D round raised by Turo, which was also led by South Korean giant SK Holdings, in addition to Daimler, and which… Read More... →

Дочерняя компания «Сколково» — «Сколково венчурные инвестиции» и «Некоммерческое партнерство развития финансового рынка РТС» подписали соглашение об организации криптобиржи во время Восточного экономического форума (ВЭФ). Об этом РИА Новостям сообщил генеральный директор «Сколково венчурные инвестиции» Василий Белов. «Фактически мы с коллегами из РТС создаем проект, направленный на привлечение криптоинвестиций в высокотехнологичные компании», — уточнил Белов. «Сколково венчурные инвестиции» планирует в тече... →

Во Владивостоке запущен Дальневосточный фонд развития и внедрения высоких технологий. Главные инвесторы проекта — ООО «УК «Роснано», АО «Российская венчурная компания» и Фонд развития Дальнего Востока (ФРДВ) — подписали соглашение о создании фонда на Восточном экономическом форуме (ВЭФ) 6 сентября. Об этом сообщает пресс-служба ВЭФа. «По сути, это фонд венчурных инвестиций. Его целевая задача — две группы проектов: венчурные проекты с объемами до 100 млн рублей каждый и проекты с объемом прямых инвестиций ... →

Российский фонд прямых инвестиций (РФПИ) вновь заявил о намерении инвестировать в сервис «Яндекс.Такси» на фоне сообщений о создании совместного предприятия с Uber. Об этом сообщает «Интерфакс» со ссылкой на слова главы РФПИ Кирилла Дмитриева. Финансовыми подробностями Дмитриев не владеет, так как РФПИ изучает сделку в новой «конфигурации с Uber». Как уточняет глава фонда, «речь идет о миноритарной доле». Напомним, в июне российско-китайский инвестиционный фонд, созданный РФПИ и China Investment Corporation... →

Event Pop, a two-year-old digital ticketing startup from Thailand, has raised a $1.6 million Series A round to expand its product and move into new markets. The round was led by Thai investors InVent, a subsidiary of the parent of operator AIS, and Kasikorn Bank’s $30 million Beacon fund. Event Pop had previously raised $500,000. One of its backers is millionaire businessman Ittipat… Read More... →

One day after China’s decision to ban ICOs pending an investigation, Hong Kong — the country that is a special administrative region of China — has voiced concern at the growth of ICO fundraising. ICOs, which involve the sale of newly issued crypto coins to raise money, are said to have brought in $1.6 billion in funding for companies so far this year, according to… Read More... →

Aifloo, a Swedish startup that combines hardware sensors and AI to offer a ‘smart wristband’ to help care for the elderly, has raised €5.1 million in new funding. The Series A round is led by EQT Ventures. Read More... →