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Bram Cohen invented torrenting. Now he’s building a cryptocurrency called Chia that doesn’t waste electricity like Bitcoin, and top investors are lining up. Chia has just raised a $3.395 million seed round led by AngelList’s Naval Ravikant and joined by Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock and more. The money will help the startup build out its Chia […]... →

Posted by efgregWe all work hard building our businesses.We put in the sweat equity and all the tears that can come with it to build something truly great. After another day hustling at the office or typing furiously on your keyboard, you might be wondering… what is the end game here? What are you really going for? Is there a glowing neon sign with the word “Exit” marking the path to your ultimate goal?For the majority of businesses, the end goal is to eventually sell that business to another entrepreneur w... →

LetsGetChecked, an Irish startup that offers a health test kit service so that you can take various common laboratory tests from the comfort of your home, has picked up $12 million in Series A funding. Leading the round is Optum Ventures, the independent venture fund of health services provider Optum, and Qiming Venture Partners, the […]... →

Кировский завод, фонд «Сколково» и венчурный фонд и стартап-акселератор iDealMachine запустят акселерационную программу для индустриальных стартапов. Партнеры отбирают проекты в области цифрового сельского хозяйства (agrotech), сельскохозяйственного машиностроения, промышленного интернета вещей (IIoT), индустрии 4.0, big data, energytech, security, gadgets, robotics, e-commerce, transport. Программа пройдет на площадке технопарка «Сколково» в Москве. Предполагаемый объем инвестиций в проекты, успешно законч... →

CardUp, a Singapore-based startup that enables users to make large, recurring payments by credit card even to recipients that don’t accept cards, has raised $2.2 million SGD (about $1.7 million) led by Sequoia India and SeedPlus. This is CardUp’s first institutional investment round and will be used to expand its business serving small- to medium-sized […]... →

Oscar Health, the startup run by Josh Kushner (yes, brother of Jared), has raised $165 million at a reported valuation of $3.2 billion, CNBC’s Christina Farr reports. The funding comes from Alphabet’s Capital G investment company and Verily life sciences corporation, Founders Fund, and others. Oscar’s goal is to outpace existing industry-leading insurers including UnitedHealth […]... →

Just a day after General Catalyst, the 18-year-old venture firm, revealed plans in an SEC filing to raise a record $1.375 billion in capital to shower on startups, another firm that we’d said was likely to file any second has done just that. According to a fresh SEC filing, Lightspeed Venture Partners of Menlo Park, […]... →

Most investors don’t like to admit that they’re chasing the latest buzzwords or fads or hot companies, but a new firm called Bedrock Capital says it’s on a mission to do the exact opposite — founders Geoff Lewis and Eric Stromberg told me they’re searching for “narrative violations.” So rather than just writing a check […]... →

Braintree, the division of PayPal that provides payment services to e-commerce and other online businesses, is making its latest move to help raise its game against competitors like Stripe. It is launching a new solution called Extend, a set of tools to integrate Braintree payments more closely and easily with other services that online companies […]... →

LA-based space startup Relativity has raised $35 million in Series B funding, in a new round led by Playground Global, and including existing investors Social Capital, Y Combinator Continuity and Mark Cuban. The funding will help the startup expand its automated, 3D-printing process for manufacturing rockets quickly and with greatly reduced complexity, with the ultimate […]... →

Сооснователь и CEO венчурного объединения Starta Ventures Екатерина Дорожкина проследила краткую историю появления венчурных акселераторов и указала на их попытки найти решения в сфере Initial coin offering.   Бизнес-акселераторы появились на венчурном рынке в 1995 году, когда начался бум доткомов. В конце XX века появилось большое количество интернет-компаний и ряд бизнесов поменял направление работы на глобальную паутину. Предприниматели и инвесторы начали активную работу с IT-компаниями, акции которых 1... →

Kloudless makes it easier for developers to connect their applications to a variety of third-party tools for file storage, customer management, calendaring and other services through a unified API. It’s a bit like an IFTTT for developers. Today, the company announced that it has raised a $6 million Series A round led by Aspect Ventures, […]... →

When it comes to sales software, Salesforce isn’t the only game in town. A number of startups have emerged to target the sales industry, with roughly $3 billion per year getting invested into marketing startups. Now one of the largest players is Intercom. The seven-year-old startup is now announcing a $125 million Series D round led by […]... →

Сооснователь Starta Capital и председатель административного совета Национальной ассоциации бизнес-ангелов (НАБА) Людмила Голубкова отошла от операционной деятельности венчурного объединения Starta Ventures. Долю в фонде Starta Capital Fund I она сохранила, сообщили Firrma в Starta Ventures. Дмитрий Гиммельберг, бывший главный финансовый директор компании X5 Retail Group, присоединился к Starta Ventures в качестве партнера в начале 2018 года. Он сосредоточится на развитии инвестиционных партнерств и постро... →

Dandelion, a clean energy startup that was originally incubated inside Google parent Alphabet, has raised $4.5 million in funding to build out its business — a geothermal heating and cooling system for homes that claims it will drastically reduce its customers’ bills — it claims to cut bills in half (notwithstanding the upfront costs, more […]... →

Сервис поиска работы для водителей JobTop, запущенный совладельцем платформы для онлайн-консультаций LiveTex Дмитрием Шкляром, привлек 25 млн рублей. Имя инвестора не раскрывается, он получил 30% в компании. Об этом Firrma рассказал Дмитрий Шкляр. Сделка была закрыта «пару месяцев назад». Привлеченные инвестиции были направлены на маркетинг и развитие продукта.  Сам Шкляр изначально инвестировал в проект 15 млн рублей.  По данным ЕГРЮЛ, ООО «Джобтоп» было зарегистрировано в октябре прошлого года. Учредит... →

Skyline AI, an Israeli startup that uses machine learning to help real estate investors identify promising properties, announced today that it has raised $3 million in seed funding from Sequoia Capital. The round will be used to build its tech platform and hire experts in data science and machine learning. Founded in 2017 and headquartered […]... →

AdStage is announcing that it’s raised $3 million in new funding. That might not sound like much for a startup that raised a $6.25 million Series A back in 2014, but CEO Sahil Jain told me via email that the company has always raised “in tranches.” So when you combine this new funding with the […]... →

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Частные компании выкупили 49% в АО «Спутниковая система «Гонец», едином операторе по системам связи, вещания и ретрансляции госкорпорации «Роскосмос». Как пишет «Коммерсант», две из них аффилированы с предпринимателем Игорем Ротенбергом, а третья — с совладельцем группы Coalco Василием Анисимовым. Это первый случай, когда частные инвесторы выкупили акции компании из космической отрасли. По словам вице-премьера «Роскосмоса» Дмитрия Рогозина, госкорпорация должна поддерживать частные инициативы, «отдавая прое... →