Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

If you heard venture investors were pouring tens of millions into storage, you might think it was cloud storage or flash storage. But that’s not the kind of storage we’re talking about with Clutter. The Los Angeles-based startup, which helps customers store their physical belongings like clothing and furniture, has closed a $64 million funding round from big name investors. The… Read More... →

When I gingerly held the little spring-loaded plastic device which would shortly be hurtling an extremely sharp needle towards my finger at a rate of knots, I wondered momentarily about Theranos. Here was a company led by a turtle-necked founder who’d promised angels would dance upon a pin, thus writing your future. Or, perhaps more accurately, the world upon a small spec of blood on a pin. Read More... →

Партнерский материал В мае компания FunCorp, которая занимается созданием развлекательных приложений, объявила о том, что открывает первый в стране акселератор для развлекательных стартапов – FunCubator. О том, зачем это компании, а также какие проекты в ней хотят видеть, объясняет в своей первой авторской колонке руководитель акселератора Виктор Захарченко.  Самый популярный вопрос, который нам задают: «Зачем вам акселератор?» Ответ – это нужно и рынку, и нам самим. Успех FunCorp был во многом предопределе... →

В мае компания FunCorp, которая занимается созданием развлекательных приложений, объявила о том, что открывает первый в стране акселератор для развлекательных стартапов – FunCubator. О том, зачем это компании, а также какие проекты в ней хотят видеть, объясняет в своей первой авторской колонке руководитель акселератора Виктор Захарченко.  Самый популярный вопрос, который нам задают: «Зачем вам акселератор?». Ответ – это нужно и рынку, и нам самим. Успех FunCorp был во многом предопределен открытостью к изме... →

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Remember the good old days when cartoon robot toys were all the rage? Maybe you were a Transformers kid or maybe you were into Microbots. And, if you were very lucky, you got to experience to joy of the mini transforming Sewbots. If you were lucky you got the Sewbots Command Center and if you were really, really lucky you can now get the SoftWear Automation Sewbot, a fully functional sewing… Read More... →

Drone Racing League has closed on $20M in Series B funding, led by U.K telecommunications company Sky, Liberty Media Corporation (which owns the Formula 1 racing brand) and Lux Capital. This new funding means that the league has now raised over $32M in three rounds. Allienz (who is also the title sponsor of DRL) and World Wrestling Entertainment also joined the round as new investors in… Read More... →

HelloSign, the eSignature platform, is announcing a $16 million financing round led by Foundry Group and Zach Coelius. Greylock Partners, U.S. Venture Partners and Tien Zhuo also participated. Although the San Francisco-based company has been around since 2010, they are calling it a Series B, since they’ve raised little outside capital. The business is cash flow positive and it’s… Read More... →

Timeular, the Austrian startup behind the neat Zei time-tracking device that we wrote about last year, has raised €1 million ($1.1 million) in funding to develop new productivity coaching tools to help you work smarter. The company is best known for the Zei, its eight-sided device that is Bluetooth-enabled and acts as a timer. You simply program each side to a different task and tip it… Read More... →

The founder of one of Silicon Valley’s most famous flameouts, anonymous social app Secret, is the new product lead for Postmates’ app. After Secret shut down and gave investors back their money, David Byttow went on to raise a $1 million seed round from Index to launch a blog publishing tool for enterprises called Bold. Today Bold was acqhired by Postmates, Byttow confirmed to… Read More... →

Подконтрольная группе «Ренова» Виктора Весельберга Green Energy по ошибке указала в заявке на строительство солнечной электростанции (СЭС) на 15 МВт инвестиции в десять раз меньше предельных. Это может обернуться для компании многомиллионными штрафами, пишет «Коммерсантъ».... →

Сервис по подписке на натуральные продукты из деревни «Ешь деревенское» привлек $300 тысяч. Деньги в проект вложили бизнес-ангел Владимир Бакутеев и Игорь Ким, инвестиционный директор Inventure Partners через свою структуру Some Random VC. Об этом Firrma рассказал Владимир Бакутеев. Полученные в проекте доли не раскрываются. «Финально сделка была закрыта в конце апреля, вложили суммарно $300 тысяч, оценку не называем», – прокомментировал сделку Бакутеев. Собеседник Firrma отметил, что Игорь Ким инвестирова... →

Венчурный инвестор Александр Румянцев вложился в краснодарский сервис по доставке продуктов с рецептами gurmaniya.com в обмен на 10% компании. Об этом Firrma сообщили в стартапе. Сумма и другие подробности сделки не раскрываются. Известно, что сделка была закрыта 8 июня 2017 года. Привлеченные инвестиции будут направлены на маркетинговое продвижение сервиса, проработку каналов продаж и вывод бренда на широкий рынок. Gurmaniya.com – краснодарский сервис, основанный в ноябре 2016 года Никитой Выхристюком. П... →

Milk deliveries may not sound like an industry in need of disruption, but that’s exactly what one startup in India is working to do. Supr Daily — the company in question — graduated the Y Combinator accelerator program this year and now it has raised $1.5 million from a range of investors to expand its service. The Supr Daily service is designed to bring formality and order… Read More... →

Big layoff coming to AOL and Yahoo after the merger, Microsoft buys Hexadite, Erica Baker is now director of engineering at Kickastarter and Essential raises $300 Million. All this on Crunch Report. Read More... →

The augmented reality acquisition space is hot — Facebook, Snap, Apple and others are throwing money at teams and technologies that promise to increase user engagement. Spektral, a Danish startup, is the latest venture-backed visual effects company setting its sights on the massive space. Spektral is announcing a $2.8 million round today from Litecap and Amp Ventures to continue… Read More... →

Beauty parlors manage a lot of appointments, but about half of them are still using pen and paper, estimates Shedul. The startup is trying to change that, by offering scheduling software for the the salon and spa industry. And it’s been catching on because it’s free. Now they’re raising $6 million led by Dubai’s Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP), with participation… Read More... →

Yubico, the company behind the increasingly popular YubiKey two-factor authentication key, has raised a $30 million funding round. This marks the first major institutional funding round for Yubico, which had previously only raised $4.5 million from angel investors. New investors include New Enterprise Associates, the Valley Fund and Bure, a major growth equity firm from Sweden. Existing… Read More... →

French startup Algolia just raised a $53 million Series B round led by Accel, a couple of years after raising $18.3 million with… Accel also leading the round. So it looks like it’s a love story between the VC firm and the software-as-a-service startup. The reason is quite simple. Algolia is still growing like crazy with its annual recurring revenue doubling every year.… Read More... →

Компания обещает инвестиции до 1 млн рублей.... →