Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

Vice Media has raised $450M in new funding from private-equity firm TPG, with a deal valuing the media company around $5.7 billion post-money. Shane Smith, co-founder and CEO of Vice was just on CNBC answering questions about the funding and Vice’s plans to eventually become a public company. While remaining cryptic, Smith did note that this raise is “what we would do if we were… Read More... →

To expand its channel lineup and grow its customer base, FuboTV has raised $55 million in Series C funding led by Northzone, with participation from 21st Century Fox, Sky and Scripps Networks Interactive. That brings total funding to $75 million since being founded in 2014. Read More... →

Blue Apron, the meal ingredient delivery service that filed to go public earlier this month, has just priced its IPO. The company will price its shares between $15-$17, hoping to raise a maximum of $586,500,000. Using a $16 midpoint, this pricing gives the company a proposed valuation of just under $3 billion. The company will be listed on the NYSE under the symbol “APRN”, and… Read More... →

Российский проект Sonm, который представляет собой Uber для вычислительных устройств, продал 91% токенов за $42 млн в ходе ICO на платформе Ethereum. Об этом Firrma рассказал сооснователь стартапа Андрей Воронков. ICO проходило с 15 по 18 июня. Sonm продал 331.360.000 SNM, что эквивалентно 91% компании. «Мы оставили себе только 9%, — прокомментировал Воронков. — Это специфика ICO». Sonm — это AirBnB или Uber для вычислительных устройств (от суперкомпьютеров до холодильников, включая смартфоны) для сдачи их ... →

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Amazon bids to buy Whole Foods for $13.7 billion, Walmart buys Bonobos for $310 million, Mobike, a ride-sharing company in China, raises $600 million. All this on Crunch Report. Read More... →

Mobike, one of two fast-emerging on-demand bike rental services, has landed $600 million in new funding as it seeks to expand its business outside of China. Bike rentals are shaping up to be the first global tech industry that was born in China. The principle is simple: bikes are fitted with GPS trackers which allows them to be picked up from and left anywhere using an app. With companies… Read More... →

Twitter gets a redesign to their Desktop and mobile expereince, Slack is raising $500 Million at a $5 billion valuation, Musically starts creating original content and Careem raises $150 Million. All this on Crunch Report. Read More... →

Scopely just announced that it has raised $60 million in Series C funding. The round was led by Revolution Growth, a firm led by former AOL executives Steve Case and Ted Leonsis (AOL owns TechCrunch), which targets startups outside Silicon Valley and New York. (Scopely is headquartered in Los Angeles.) Revolution’s Donn Davis is joining Scopely’s board of directors, while… Read More... →

In recent years, GitHub has fundamentally changed developer workflows. By centralizing code on an easily accessible platform, the company was able to rapidly change the way people code. Following in these footsteps, Israeli startup Codota wants to further optimize workflows for the often neglected developer community — this time with machine intelligence. The company is announcing a… Read More... →

Hardware Club is not just a club — it’s now also a venture firm focused on hardware companies. The team has raised $28 million for the first closing of its inaugural fund from Bpifrance, Crédit Mutuel Arkéa, Foxconn, Mistletoe and others. At its core, the vision of the club hasn’t changed much. I’ve already covered the original idea, and everything is still true… Read More... →

Глобальные рекламные инвестиции достигнут $563,4 млрд в 2017 году... →

Salespeople have a lot of things to sell and the latest technology can help them sell even more. Do you think you have the perfect pitch? Highspot will tell you if you’re wrong. Or at least that’s their pitch. Highspot’s software analyzes various communications with prospective clients, including presentations, case studies and training videos. Then it provides data about… Read More... →

Amid ongoing struggles at Uber, one of its stronger regional rivals in transportation on demand has raised a significant round of funding, picking up a significant strategic investor in the process. Careem, a transportation startup currently in 80 cities across the Middle East, has raised another $150 million — closing out a $500 million Series D round that it confirmed in December when… Read More... →

Element AI raises $102 Millon, Another board member resigns from Uber and Chan Zukerberg Initiative invests $5 million into Landed to help teachers afford housing in Palo Alto. All this on Crunch Report. Read More... →

French startup Shadow, also known as Blade, just raised a Series A round of $57.1 million (€51 million). Shadow thinks your next computer is going to be in a data center. Your existing phones, laptops and Shadow’s own device (pictured above) act as a thin client, a window into your virtual machine running on a beefy server in a data center near you. Shadow had already raised $14.6… Read More... →

Managing inventory is one of the most challenging parts of running a retail business. It’s not easy to predict exactly how popular each item will be. That’s why retailers often offload their unsold clothing and products to other businesses. Some of these designs find their way into”off-price” stores like T.J. Maxx or Ross, known for their perpetually low prices. Now… Read More... →

The race for artificial intelligence technology is on, and while tech giants like Google and Facebook snap up top talent to build out their own AI-powered products, a new startup has just raised a huge round of funding to help the rest of us. Element AI — a Montreal-based platform and incubator that wants to be the go-to place for any and all companies (big or small) that are building… Read More... →

Венчурный фонд Altair VC Игоря Рябенького вложился в американский онлайн-супермаркет Movebutter . Подробности сделки не раскрываются. Известно, что раунд инвестиций состоялся в марте 2017 года. В сделке также приняли участие такие инвесторы, как Y Combinator, Liquid 2 Ventures, Мэтью Белами (Matthew Bellamy – участник группы Muse), Kima Ventures, The San Francisco 49ers, First Round Capital's Dorm Room Fund, The House Fund, Beluga Capital и др. Как рассказал Firrma Игорь Рябенький, Altair VC привлекла молод... →

22 из них получат от фонда инвестиции по 2,1 миллиона рублей в обмен на 7% компании.... →