Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

Korea’s Kakao, the country’s top mobile messenger company with some 50 million monthly users, has continued to diversify its business with a move to spin-out the unit managing its mobility services, which include a ride-hailing app that is beating Uber in Korea. The firm announced that ‘Kakao Mobility’ has now become an independent entity in a move that sees U.S. Read More... →

Венчурный инвестор Александр Румянцев вложился в сервис подбора линейного персонала 2work.co в обмен на 10% долю в компании. Об этом Firrma рассказали в стартапе.  Полученные инвестиции направят на масштабирование проекта, разработку дополнительного функционала сервиса и маркетинг. Основатели проекта рассчитывают занять 3,5% рынка онлайн рекрутинга в России в течение 5 лет. 2work.co — сервис для массового подбора кадров, который предоставляет работодателям прямой доступ к соискателям по сети «Вконтакте». Эт... →

Blue Apron investors might be shedding a tear and it’s not from the chopped onions. The subscription service for at-home cooking closed the day just barely above $10 per share, specifically $10.0018. This is not only a disappointment for the company which hoped to raise more money by selling stock at $15 to $17 to share, but also for the new investors who bought at the $10 IPO price.… Read More... →

ClauseMatch CEO Evgeny Likhoded remembers what it used to be like to negotiate contracts. As a former employee of Morgan Stanley and before that Gazprom, he was on teams that would negotiate contracts and agreements around financial products and the trading of physical commodities. While technology has evolved in many parts of the enterprise, Likhoded says that financial, legal, risk-related… Read More... →

Pray.com, an interfaith mobile app that helps religious leaders keep in touch with their congregants, will grow its team after receiving $2 million in seed funding. The round was led by Science Inc., an accelerator whose portfolio also includes Dollar Shave Club and DogVacay, with participation from Greylock Partners and Spark Capital. Read More... →

Информационная война против РФ будет продолжаться... →

Glooko, a startup selling data management healthcare service on top of a device-agnostic platform to make it easier for doctors to remotely monitor patients, has pulled in $35 million Series C funding. It had previously raised $20 million, bringing the total up to $55 million. The startup was shy about how many were using the platform last time TechCrunch wrote about the company. But it… Read More... →

Финансовые проблемы китайской LeEco оказались намного хуже, чем ожидалось, и компания по-прежнему не может преодолеть кризис, несмотря на привлечённые в начале 2017 года инвестиции. Об этом на ежегодном собрании акционеров заявил президент холдинга Цзя Юэтин (Jia Yueting), передаёт Reuters.... →

Инвестиции осуществляются по модели media for equity.... →

Рекрутинговый сайт Superjob запустил программу поддержки стартапов в области HR. В рамках проекта компания предоставит участникам рекламные возможности, а также, возможно, денежные инвестиции, сообщили vc.ru в Superjob.... →

Управляющий партнер фонда Starta Capital Людмила Голубкова делятся впечатлениями от поездки в Сингапур.  Инновационный хаб Сингапур – инновационный хаб нового уклада, город-государство. Находясь в центре того региона, который здесь называют South East Asia (SEA), Сингапур не принадлежит ни одной из соседних стран: Малайзии, Индонезии, Таиланду, Вьетнаму, Филиппинам. С Китаем соседские, но осторожные отношения. Австралия и Новая Зеландия находятся вне зоны экономического влияния Сингапура, занимая собственно... →

История о многочисленных провалах и одном возможном решении.... →

Конкурс мемов закончился, конкурс стартапов начался... →

Alibaba is doubling down on Southeast Asia after it paid close to $1 billion to raise its stake in e-commerce firm Lazada from 51 percent to 83 percent. The Chinese firm made an initial $1 billion investment in April 2016 at a valuation of $1.5 billion — this second deal raises that valuation to $3.15 billion, Lazada disclosed. The deal sees Alibaba buy shares from existing backers… Read More... →

When you hear about companies raising tons of money for “smart glass,” the first thing that hits your mind might be something augmented reality-related like the HoloLens. But View, which just closed a $200 million funding round after securing $70 million from BlackRock, is using smart glass to make better windows that adjust to the outdoor environment. The internet-connected… Read More... →

Self-driving technology startup Drive.ai has raised a $50 million Series B funding round, led by NEA and with participation from GGV and previous investors, including Series A lead Northern Light. The new funding will help the company pursue its evolved business strategy, which now focuses on creating retrofit kits that can be used to add self-driving capabilities to existing commercial and… Read More... →

Your.MD, an AI-driven health information service delivered via a bot, has raised $10 million in new funding. Read More... →

The U.K.’s Oxford University continues to be a hotbed of AI talent, fuelling not just academic research into AI but also the ambitions of startups and large technology companies alike. The latest Oxford-based AI startup to make headlines is Diffblue, a University of Oxford spin-out that is applying Artificial Intelligence (AI) to software development. Read More... →

As AI slowly seeps into various sectors, it was fairly inevitable that we would start to see the “AI for X” startups begin to appear. Thus “AI for small business social media” is now a thing, in the shape of PromoRepublic, a US/Finnish/Ukrainian startup which has now raised a $1.2M investment round. More specifically, they bill themselves as a “WIX for a small… Read More... →

Today’s Stories Binary Capital co-founder Justin Caldbeck quits as Matt Mazzeo steps away from the firm Pandora co-founder and CEO Tim Westergren will step down according to reports  Houzz raises a huge $400M round at a $4B valuation  Avis signs on to manage Waymo’s self-driving vehicle fleet in Phoenix  MIT’s new drones switch between flying and driving for… Read More... →