Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

Security breaches are a disaster for corporate companies, but good news if you’re someone who offers preventative solutions. Today in 2018, wide-ranging attacks on the likes of Equifax, Sony Pictures and Target have only added value to those charged with safeguarding companies. Balbix, one such solutions provider, has pulled in a $20 million Series B to […]... →

UST Global is a multinational digital and tech services firm, but it is not your average unicorn. The U.S.-based firm was founded in 2009, it has “significant” revenues and is profitable. But nonetheless, it has joined the $1 billion-valuation club courtesy of a $250 million investment from Temasek, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund. The business may be […]... →

Honk Technologies, a marketplace for towing services for consumers and insurance companies, has raised $18 million in a new round of funding a little over a year after inking a massive contract with the insurance company, Farmers. The investment was led by Altpoint Ventures, with participation from existing investors Structure Capital and Venture 51. The […]... →

CarBlip, a new used car buying mobile application that’s aiming to compete with services like Wyper, has raised $2 million in a new round of financing. The investment was led by Nordic Eye Venture Capital with participation from the startup studio and seed investment firm, Science. CarBlip chief executive Brian Johnson, said that the company’s main […]... →

b8ta, the retail-as-a-service startup, has closed a $19 million Series B round led by Macy’s with participation from Sound Ventures, Palm Drive Capital, Capitaland, Graphene Ventures, Khosla Ventures and Plug and Play Ventures. This round brings b8ta’s total funding to $39 million. Macy’s decision to lead this round comes in light of its recent partnership […]... →

Because autonomous delivery drones are undoubtedly coming, Boeing HorizonX Ventures, the aviation company’s venture arm, led a $16 million round in drone startup Matternet . Other investors include Swiss Post, Sony Innovation Fund and Levitate Capital. With this funding, Matternet’s plan is to further expand throughout the U.S. and internationally in urban environments. “Matternet’s technology […]... →

As companies get bigger and bigger, all the critical information about a company — even its mission and culture statements — can get lost in a massive pile of Google Docs or files strewn across dozens of collaboration tools, making it nearly impossible to find. That’s where the team behind EveryTeam hopes to step in […]... →

The Elon Musk co-founded venture is aiming to raise awareness for where AI technologies are already and how the industry can promote safe advances that benefit everyone. While playing an unabashedly nerdy video game better than human opponents may seem to be a weird place to place extensive efforts, it’s all the continuation of where […]... →

An app that has the needs of modern-day parents in mind, Winnie, has now raised $4 million in additional seed funding in a round led by Reach Capital. Other investors in the new round include Rethink Impact, Homebrew, Ludlow Ventures, Afore Capital, and BBG Ventures, among others. With the new funds, Winnie has raised $6.5 million to […]... →

RRE Ventures has raised $265 million for its latest fund. The firm was founded back in 1994, and this is its seventh fund (eighth if you include a separate “opportunity” fund for making follow-on investments). Exits in the last few years include Bitly (acquired by Spectrum Equity), Business Insider (acquired by Axel Springer) and TapCommerce […]... →

ФРИИ инвестирует 20 млн рублей в платформу безкассовых покупок Pay-Z. По итогам сделки фонд увеличит свою долю в компании до 24%. Ранее ФРИИ уже инвестировал в Pay-Z 2,5 млн руб. Стартап успешно прошел 14 Акселератор ФРИИ, запустившийся в начале этого года. В рамках акселератора ФРИИ обычно получает 7% акций компании в обмен на инвестиции.  Сервис позволяет посетителям супермаркетов сканировать в приложении штрих-коды товаров, которые хочет купить, тем самым добавляя их в онлайн-корзину. Оплата производится... →

India’s PolicyBazaar, which runs a digital insurance business of the same name and a lending marketplace called PaisaBazaar.com, is the latest company to join SoftBank’s $100 billion Vision Fund after it announced a new funding round of over $200 million. The deal was led by the Vision Fund with participation from existing investors including InfoEdge, the company […]... →

15 июня 2018 года открылся прием заявок в корпоративный акселератор Taxcom Startup College, адресованный перспективным ИТ-проектам «предпосевной/посевной» стадий, разрабатывающим инновационные продукты и решения в одном или нескольких сегментах рынка xTech, — включая финансовые (FinTech), регуляторные/надзорные (RegTech/SupTech) и страховые (InsurTech) технологии. Предпочтение будет отдаваться проектам из Москвы и Московской области. Организатором акселератора выступает Taxcom Venture Capital — корпоративны... →

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Фонд Юрия Мильнера DST Global возглавил раунд инвестиций в компанию Swiggy. Стартап получил $210 млн и был оценен в $1,2 млрд. Также в раунде инвестиций приняли участие холдинг Naspers и хедж-фонд Coatue. Swiggy был основан в Бангалоре в августе 2014 года предпринимателем Срихарша Мажети и меньше чем за четыре года добрался до капитализации более миллиарда долларов. В начале этого года другой индийский сервис доставки еды Zomato получил инвестиции от китайской группы  Ant Financial и был оценен в $1,1 млрд.... →

Urban Airship has raised $25 million in Series F funding. The company started out as a platform supporting push notifications, but has since expanded to include other marketing channels like email, SMS, mobile wallets and voice assistants. The goal is to be the platform managing messaging and unifying customer data across all these channels. Altogether, […]... →

The online language school market is continuing to heat up, and a startup that connects native English speakers with an audience of students spanning China and 35 other countries for live language tutorials, is helping fan those flames. VIPKID, based out of Beijing, today announced that it has raised $500 million in funding — a […]... →

As we inch closer to building increasingly autonomous cars, the complexities that these vehicles will present as programmable hardware are increasing, with some 250 applications ranging from cameras to navigation controls to weather sensors running on a typical high performance system today. Now, a startup that is building a system to help optimise that and […]... →

India’s food delivery race is hotting up after Swiggy, one of the startups vying for pole position, landed $210 million in new capital for expansion and joined the billion-dollar startup unicorn club. The investment is led by existing backer Naspers, the media conglomerate famous for an early bet on Tencent in China, and new investor DST […]... →

Mighty Bear, a game studio startup that grew out of King.com’s former office in Singapore, has landed new funding as it readies its debut title for smartphones. The startup was founded by four former King.com staffers — Simon Davis, Fadzuli Said, Benjamin Chevalier and Saurabh Shukul — after the gaming giant closed its Singapore office — inherited […]... →