Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

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... →

As the vacation rental sector heats up — with Airbnb making even more moves to expand its portfolio of services to include multiple tiers of rentals — there’s going to be more and more of a need for people who manage a large number of properties. Guesty is one service that aims to do that, […]... →

Kidbox, a clothing-in-a-box startup aimed at a slightly younger crowd than StitchFix, has raised $15.3 million in Series B funding to expand and scale its business. The round was led by Canvas Ventures, and includes participation from existing investors Firstime Ventures and HDS Capital, as well as new strategic partners Fred Langhammer, former CEO of The Estée Lauder Companies […]... →

San Francisco-based robotics company Marble announced this morning that it’s just closed a $10 million Series A. The round, which involves the likes of Tencent, Lemnos, Crunchfund and Maven, brings the startup’s total funding to $15 million. In press material tied to the announcement, Marble’s careful not to get hung up on the whole food […]... →

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Cowboy, the startup that’s building a new, smarter electronic bicycle, quietly launched in its home country of Belgium this past week, whilst simultaneously disclosing it has raised $3 million in seed funding. Notably, the round is led by Index Ventures. The London and San Francisco-based VC appears to be particularly bullish on electric-powered mobility, recently […]... →

Capital Float, the fintech startup that says it is India’s largest online lender, announced today that it has raised $22 million in new funding from Amazon. At the end of last year, reports surfaced that Amazon was considering an investment in Capital Float as an extension of its $45 million Series C, which was announced […]... →

The first thing to understand about media sharing app RapChat is that co-founder Seth Miller is not a rapper and his friend, Pat Gibson, is. Together they created RapChat, a service for making and sharing raps, and the conjunction of rapper and nerd seems to be really taking off. Since we last looked at the […]... →

In the span of 20 years, Netflix has gone from a (super convenient) Blockbuster knockoff to one of the most powerful players in media. Partially, that’s credited to Netflix’s technology, bringing streaming content to the mainstream. But Netflix’s success is also owed in part to its willingness to invest in its content library. Netflix continues […]... →

Венчурный фонд R1, основанный в середине 2016 года, объявил о последних сделках. Инвестиции от фонда с декабря прошлого года по март текущего года получили проекты Exeed, Deep Reality, Isina и Astra. Об этом Firrma сообщил управляющий партнер фонда Денис Шейд (на фото).   В декабре R1 вложился в Exeed, децентрализованную поисковую систему, основанную на краудсорсинге сообщества и технологии блокчейн. Проект получил от фонда $250 тысяч в обмен на 51% акций компании. В том же месяце R1 профинансировал проект... →

Сеть магазинов для дома и дачи и онлайн-гипермаркет строительных материалов «Леруа Мерлен» запускает акселератор по работе с ритейл-стартапами в партнерстве с Фондом развития интернет-инициатив (ФРИИ). Об этом Firrma рассказали в пресс-службе ФРИИ. Ритейлер «Леруа Мерлен» заинтересован в стартапах, которые разрабатывают сервисы с применением big data и machine learning, маркетинговые продукты, решения по автоматизации и роботизации внутренних процессов, технологии в сфере логистики (упрощающие доставку до ... →