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As the augmented reality industry slowly matures and those within it look to realize the path to ubiquity that they have been preaching, it turns out that they’re showing more appreciation for the vision that Google laid out years ago with its Glass headset. RealWear is aiming to eschew the space-age reality altering helmets that others are pitching to enterprise customers in favor of an… Read More... →

YouTube TV today announced a significant expansion of its channel lineup thanks to new deals with Turner, NBA TV, and MLB Network. A number of Turner-owned networks will be added to YouTube TV’s base package starting now, including TNT, TBS, CNN, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, HLN, truTV, and Turner Classic Movies. NBA TV and MLB Network will soon follow. Unfortunately for cord cutters,… Read More... →

Norwest Venture Partners has closed a $1.5 billion fund, bringing the total under management to $7.5 billion. The firm will be using the money to invest primarily in the consumer, enterprise and healthcare categories. And they are looking for opportunities at all stages, from seed stage to growth. Norwest said it has had a record past two years, achieving liquidity events for 30 of its… Read More... →

French startup Adikteev raised a $12 million funding round led by Ring Capital and BNP Paribas Développement, with existing investors ISAI, Ventech and Laurent Asscher also participating. It’s also worth noting that it represents Ring Capital’s first investment after raising its initial $170 million fund. Adikteev is an adtech startup that previously acquired Motion Lead, a… Read More... →

Азиатский венчурный фонд АФК «Система» — Sistema Asia Fund — повторно вложился в индийский финтех-стартап Lendingkart Technologies. Возглавил раунд C сингапурский фонд Fullerton Financial Holdings PTE Ltd, общая сумма инвестиций составила $87 млн (5,65 млрд индийских рупий). Об этом Firrma рассказали в пресс-службе Sistema Asia Fund. Среди прочих участников раунда — индийские венчурные фонды, такие как Bertelsmann India Investment, Mayfield India, India Quotient и Saama Capital. Сколько вложил каждый из эт... →

JD.com, the Chinese e-commerce giant that is Alibaba’s closest rival, is raising giving its logistics spin-out business a huge boost after it announced that the unit is raising $2.5 billion. JD Logistics, which became a standalone business last April, is raising the investment capital from a range of backers who include Hillhouse Capital, Sequoia China, China Merchants Group, Tencent,… Read More... →

Группа En+ ведет переговоры с несколькими фондами, которые привлекают инвестиции в строительство майнинговых ферм, о поставке электроэнергии по льготным ценам.... →

Rockville, Maryland-based Homesnap has come a long way from its days as a consumer-facing app for displaying information about local homes by taking a photo. While its current app still works this way for prospective buyers, these days its core focus is for U.S. real estate agents, and close to 75% of them are said to be using it. The platform is equipped with hard-to-find data that helps them… Read More... →

HackerRank, the skills-based recruiting platform and online coding challenge community, today announced that it has raised a $30 million Series C funding round led by JMI Equity, a fund that specializes in helping software companies scale. Exiting investors Khosla Ventures, Battery Ventures, Randstad and Chartline Capital Partners also participated in this round. As HackerRank co-founder and… Read More... →

UJET, a startup that makes software to improve customer support, said today that it’s raised a $25 million Series B led by GV (formerly known as Google Ventures). Other participants in the round include returning investors Kleiner Perkins and DCM Ventures and new backer Citi Ventures. Read More... →

Finnish fintech startup Zervant, which provides online invoicing software for small business and entrepreneurs across Europe, has raised €6 million in funding. The round was led by Tesi, with participation from Northzone, NFT Ventures, and Conor Venture Partners. Read More... →

Homebrew is announcing the close of its third fund. This time they’ve raised $90 million, an increase from $50 million in 2015 and $35 million for its debut fund in 2013. Led by Hunter Walk and Satya Patel, the seed stage venture firm has spent the past five years investing in U.S.-based startups at the onset. Several of its portfolio companies have gone on to raise significant… Read More... →

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Stash, the micro-investing app that’s been a hit with first-time investors, announced today it has raised an additional $37.5 million in Series D funding in a round led by Union Square Ventures. Existing investors Breyer Capital, Coatue Management, Entree Capital, Goodwater Capital and Valar Ventures also participated. The company competes with a range of new investment apps –… Read More... →

XebiaLabs, the Boston-based software startup that helps companies automate DevOps functions, announced a healthy $100 million Series B investment led by Susquehanna Growth Equity and Accel. Today’s investment brings the total raised to $121.5 million. Derek Langone, Xebia’s CEO says they raised the money out of a desire to expand more rapidly. “You always want to raise money… Read More... →

Консультационный сервис «КриптоАктив» привлек $100 тысяч от частных бизнес-ангелов в ходе бридж-раунда. Об этом Firrma рассказал консультант проекта и инвестиционный партнер компании «КриптоАктив» Артур Шамалов. Инвестиции будут направлены на разработку продукта, формирование команды и продвижение. «КриптоАктив» оказывает консультационные услуги по инвестированию на рынке криптоактивов. Компания уже предлагает услуги консультационного управления портфелями, подбирает продукты доверительного управления, ок... →

In the world of venture capital, the prospect of a successful “exit” looms large in the minds of investors. A VC’s business model is less about the money that goes into a startup than it is about what comes out. It’s true that most companies fail to exit gracefully, and of those that do, surprisingly few exit by going public. Read More... →

Right now if you want financial guidance and planning help you basically have two options – shell out thousands (or more) a year for an old-school Wall Street-affiliated advisor, or test your luck with one of the free financial planning chatbot startups that have been popping up over the past few years. Neither of these are ideal for most people; traditional advisors give good advice but… Read More... →

На одной дискуссионной площадке соберутся порядка 100 представителей ведущих инвестиционных, управляющих, страховых компаний и банков... →

Sistema Asia Fund стал лид-инвестором раунда инвестиций на $12 млн в индийского разработчика приложения о здоровье и фитнесе HealthifyMe. В сделке также приняли участие фонды Samsung Next и Dream Incubator, инвесторы ранней стадии IDG Ventures, Inventus Capital, Blume Ventures и NB Ventures. Об этом сообщает «Коммерсант». Привлеченные инвестиции будут направлены на расширение присутствия HealthifyMe в Индии и начало работы на других развивающихся рынках — на Ближнем Востоке, в Юго-Восточной Азии, а также в... →