Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

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Imagine if you could go to the profile of a friend of Foursquare and instead of scrolling through the long list of coffee shops they’d checked into in Berlin, you could simply click a button and add all their recommendations to your personal map in one go. That’s essentially the offering of Cool Cousin, an app and web site which is mining one of the last bastions of social media… Read More... →

Brolly, a U.K. ‘insurtech’ startup that offers an app to help you manage and purchase various insurance products, has raised £1 million in seed funding. Valar Ventures, the U.S.-based venture fund backed by Peter Thiel, led the round, with Pi Labs co-leading. Entrepreneur First (EF) also participated via the company builder’s £40 million “Next Stage Fund”. Read More... →

It’s hard raising money as a consumer packaged goods (CPG) company, but one startup wants to make it easier. CircleUp, which already helps consumer brands raise millions in equity financing, is now going to issue loans to help smaller CPG companies raise working capital and avoid cash crunches. Read More... →

More funding is rolling in for Israeli startups. Today, WalkMe, a startup that has built a cloud-based platform that businesses can use to make their web and mobile interfaces easier to navigate with on-screen guidance and prompts, has raised $75 million in funding that it plans to use to expand in markets like Japan, Germany and Latin America, as well as to make more acquisitions to build out… Read More... →

When August Home raised its last big round nearly two and half years ago, the smart lock maker was targeting retail expansion. That’s still part of the plan for the company’s new $25 million Series C, but the real story of this latest round is increasing focus on its partnership program, August Access.  The service has already made some headway in the rental market, counting… Read More... →

Cleo, the London-based fintech startup that offers an AI-powered chatbot to help you manage your finances, has closed £2 million in further funding, adding to an impressive list of backers that already includes Skype founder Niklas Zennström. The new round is led by LocalGlobe, the seed VC firm founded by father and son duo Robin and Saul Klein, with participation from a number of… Read More... →

Управляющие компании FinTech Capital и Da Vinci Capital запустили фонд для инвестиций в финтех FinTech Credit Fund. Объем фонда составил $200 млн, пишут «Ведомости». Инвестиции фонда Fintech Credit Fund будут долговыми. По словам управляющего партнёра Fintech Capital Юрия Попова, в отличие от привычных долевых инвестиций, когда компании отдают долю в акционерном капитале, в новом фонде инвесторы будут возвращать фонду основную сумму и проценты, начисленные по ней.  В фонде отказываются от банковской системы... →

Facebook is apparently working on its own smart speaker and has acquired digital rights management company Source3, SoftBank could bet billions on Uber, Duolingo raises $25 million and more. All this on Crunch Report. Read More... →

Beijing-based Momenta announced this morning that it raised a $46 million Series B round led by NIO Capital, Sequoia Capital China and Hillhouse Capital. Momenta produces self-driving car software that applies deep learning to mapping, path planning and object recognition problems. Shunwei Capital, Sinovation Ventures, Unity Ventures and Daimler also participated in the round. Quite a few U.S. Read More... →

It looks like ICOs, shorthand for initial coin offerings, are about to undergo a lot more scrutiny. The SEC has concluded that the digital currencies will be regulated as securities, meaning unregistered offerings could be subject to criminal punishment. The decision was announced via a report on Tuesday. This is a blow to many startups who had been using ICOs as an alternative way to raise… Read More... →

The first step of any salesperson is to figure out who to pitch, but some of them are wasting time targeting the wrong prospective clients. That’s the premise behind Node, a startup that says its platform uses artificial intelligence to find sales leads. In “stealth mode” for the past 2.5 years, the company is now announcing a $10.8 million venture financing round led by… Read More... →

Companies are increasingly dependant on digital platforms for their business growth, and that is giving a boost to analytics businesses that are helping them make better sense of that digital landscape. SimilarWeb — which offers analytics and insights about the performance of websites and apps, as well as competitive intelligence about how other apps and sites are doing (covering 80… Read More... →

Duolingo, the popular language learning service that was co-founded by reCAPTCHA founder Luis von Ahn, today announced that it has raised a $25 million Series E round led by Drive Capital. This brings Duolingo’s total funding to $108.3 million and the company says that its valuation in this last round was $700 million. Read More... →

Сервис дистанционной диагностики онкологических заболеваний ЮНИМ (UNIM) привлек инвестиции от медицинской компании Medme. Об этом сообщили в фонде «Сколково». Сумма сделки и полученная в проекте доля не раскрываются. Medme вошла в акционерный капитал UNIM. Сам стартап был оценен в $2 млн. UNIM – компания, решающая проблему дистанционной онкологической диагностики. Основана в 2013 году. UNIM создала систему, позволяющую осуществлять доставку биопсийного материала из любого региона России и стран Таможенног... →

Российский разработчик сервиса мобильного эквайринга «Смартфин» (торговые марки 2Сan и iBox) привлек $3 млн от венчурных фондов Da Vinci и Inventure Partners. Об этом сообщает «Коммерсант» со ссылкой на участников сделки. Фонды вложились в 2can и ibox «примерно поровну». Привлеченные средства пойдут на укрепление команды и продвижение продуктов и на серверную инфраструктуру – новый проект «Смартфина», разработанный в соответствии с законом об онлайн-кассах, который был принят 1 июля 2017 года. Речь идет о н... →

Chatbots – automated bots that let you interact with a service or brand via messaging apps or SMS – haven’t yet become breakout hits, as a group. But that hasn’t stopped investors from pouring in $8 million into a hotel booking startup called SnapTravel, which lets users find and book rooms via SMS texts and Facebook Messenger. The $8 million Series A round was led… Read More... →

Freelance workers and consultants make up a third of the US workforce, but that figure is expected to approach 40 per cent according to some studies. And we know how big the overall gig economy is going to become. Thus, marketplaces which meet that need are going to continue to grow. Hence, this is probably why Expert360, an online marketplace to access and manage freelance consultant talent… Read More... →

Currently large enterprises require large accounting teams to do what’s known as cash matching and credit collection. This is very manual stuff. Some of the ERP vendors (most notably SAP) have their own modules to do this, but in this world the big players are firms like Hanse Orga which is focused on Germany and the SAP ecosystem, and US players HighRadius and Billtrust. However, much… Read More... →

Компания Dental Cloud, специализирующаяся в сегменте облачной автоматизации практики врачей и стоматологических клиник рынка России и СНГ, выходит в азиатско-тихоокеанский регион и примет участие в программе вьетнамского стартап-акселератора Vietnam Innovative Startup Accelerator (VIISA) . Об этом Firrma сообщили в стартапе. В рамках программы акселерации компания привлекла от VIISA инвестиции. Суммы и условия финансирования в стартапе не раскрывают. За время акселерации компания намерена адаптировать свои ... →