Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

EcoFlow, a Chinese hardware firm developed by former JDI engineers that sells portable power stations, has pulled in a Series A round of over $4 million ahead of the imminent launch of new products and an international sales expansion. The Shenzhen-based company has taken an interesting route. Founded in 2016, the startup burst on to the […]... →

$4.5 billion-valued ride-sharing startup Go-Jek may be busy in Southeast Asia, where it is aiming to step into the gap following Uber’s exit, but that isn’t stopping it from looking at opportunities elsewhere in the world. Over in Bangladesh, motorbike-taxi hailing service Pathao has announced that it raised a “pre-Series A” investment led by Go-Jek. […]... →

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Российский венчурный фонд Impulse VC вложился в платформу монетизации рекламы Appodeal. Фонд выступил лид-инвестором раунда на $8 млн. Об этом сообщает Venturebeat. Привлеченные инвестиции будут направлены на расширение исследований и разработку новых продуктов, а также расширение штата. В частности, компания нанимает людей в новый офис в Минске. Appodeal — стартап из Сан-Франциско с российскими корнями. Разработал платформу монетизации рекламы. Appodeal имеет более 100 сотрудников, в настоящее время собрал... →

DocuSign priced its IPO Thursday evening at $29 per share, netting the company $629 million. It was a better price than the e-signature company had been expecting. The initially proposed price range was $24 to $26 and then that was raised to $26 to $28. The price gives the company a valuation of $4.4 billion […]... →

In an era where we can buy whatever we want from wherever we want nearly in the blink of an eye, loyalty, rewards and membership programs have become a major lever in capturing repeat consumer spend — Amazon Prime perhaps being one of the most successful examples. Now, a company that has built up shopping […]... →

IFTTT, a startup that was an early mover in API integrations by creating a platform for people to write easy scripts to connect different apps to each other (the name stands for “if this, then that”), is announcing another $24 million in funding to take its business deeper into areas like enterprise and IoT services. […]... →

Партнерский материал Александр Ткаченко, управляющий партнер фонда 2be.lu, рассказал о работе фонда, о венчурном рынке Европы и о том, надо ли российским стартапам переезжать на Запад. Расскажите о наиболее успешных портфельных проектах вашего фонда. У нас сейчас 14 проектов. Один из весьма успешных стартапов – это Ventrata (The Ticket Group) – online-платформа для распространения билетов на туристические достопримечательности. Мы проинвестировали в компанию на самой ранней стадии, в декабре 2017 года. Они ... →

Revolut, the London-based fintech that offers a digital banking account and sprawling set of other financial services, is disclosing that it has raised a whopping $250 million in Series C funding, less than three years since launching. The new round, which gives the company a $1.7 billion post-money valuation — a five-fold increase in under […]... →

Few people get into coding because they enjoy debugging, but since there’s no such thing as perfect code, issues inevitably pop up. Israeli startup Rookout is tackling one aspect of this by helping developers track down issues in production code without forcing developers to do any additional coding to write additional tests and re-deploy their […]... →

If your company lets you expense the nicest hotel when you travel, why wouldn’t you? But what if you got to split the savings with your employer by selecting a less expensive hotel? A New York-based startup called Rocketrip believes most employees will opt to save companies money if they are incentivized to do so. It’s built […]... →

Елена Абрамова из Puzzle English, попросила нескольких стартаперов и инвесторов российского происхождения рассказать об особенностях привлечения венчурных денег в Долине.  Момент истины или когда искать инвестора   Кирилл Елизаров, основатель интерактивного телевидения DIN TV Forums: «У каждого фонда своя специализация. Одни инвестируют в проекты, связанные с медициной, био-инжинерией, разработкой лекарств и вакцин. Другие работают только с программным обеспечением». Деннис Шайя, партнер инвестиционного фон... →

Riding high on the growing consumer demand for podcasts, a startup called Castbox this morning announced the close of $13.5 million in Series B funding for its technology-fueled podcast app. The round was led by SIG China, and includes participation from existing investors IDG Capital, Qiming Venture Partners, and GSR Ventures. To date, Castbox has raised $29.5 […]... →

Austin, Texas-based BigCommerce has completed a big round of funding. The growth stage startup, which builds e-commerce sites for Sony, Toyota and 60,000 other merchants, has raised $64 million to accelerate its business. The investment was led by Goldman Sachs, with participation from General Catalyst, GGV Capital and Tenaya Capital. And it brings BigCommerce’s total raised […]... →

Tech giants are busy updating their T&Cs ahead of the EU’s incoming data protection framework, GDPR. Which is why, for instance, Facebook-owned Instagram is suddenly offering a data download tool. You can thank European lawmakers for being able to take your data off that platform. Facebook -owned WhatsApp is also making a pretty big change […]... →

Sinovation Ventures, one of China’s prominent funds which is helmed by former Google China head Kaifu Lee, has announced a new investment fund that’s targeted at a total raise of $900 million. This newest fund is the firm’s fourth, and it promises to be its largest to date. Sinovation is a little different from other firms in […]... →

Where the two companies are using price arbitrage between the costs of developers in emerging markets and coders in the U.S., Techtonic Group is simply offering access to talent. The company’s program pitches itself not just as a development shop, but as a recruitment and training company connecting its clients with skilled entry-level talent. The […]... →

Fat Lama, the startup that offers a fully insured peer-to-peer rental marketplace for almost anything, is getting a little fatter. The London-based company has raised $10 million in Series A funding in a round led by Ophelia Brown’s recently outed Blossom Capital, with participation from Niklas Zennström’s Atomico and existing backer Y Combinator. Aiming to […]... →

Объем инвестиций на российском венчурном рынке в 2017 году увеличился до $729 млн с $229 млн в 2016 году, говорится в исследовании аналитической компании RB Partners. При составлении исследования учитывались «экзиты», без которых объем вложений составил $301 млн. Об этом сообщает «Коммерсант». Большая часть вливаний пришлась на блокчейн-стартапы ($68,9 млн), проекты по созданию IT-платформ ($56,3 млн) и недвижимость ($41 млн). Далее следуют сервисы доставки ($21,1 млн), проекты в транспортной сфере ($16 мл... →