Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

Unsplash is rethinking the way photography gets distributed and monetized, and today it’s announcing a $7.25 million Series A to fund those efforts. The site actually started as a side project for freelance marketplace Crew, but eventually the founders decided to focus on Unsplash and sold Crew to Dribbble. While the Unsplash photo library contains only 400,000 photos (compared to the… Read More... →

20 minutes into my interview with CEO Rob Nail, and I still couldn’t cut through the buzzwords about his online and in-person education startup. So I asked him straight up, “with as little BS as possible, what does Singularity University do?” He told me “You learn to read the news differently and how to identify which of all the crazy breakthroughs might be relevant… Read More... →

Bike-sharing turned multi-modal transportation company LimeBike has raised an additional $70 million from its previously announced $50 million Series B round. This brings LimeBike’s total funding to $132 million. The funding comes shortly after LimeBike announced its entrance into the e-scooter and pedal assist, e-bike games. “We’re interested in bike-sharing because… Read More... →

If you have purchased a drone in the last year or two, there’s a high likelihood that it only emerges from your gadget closet a few times per year, if that. That probably doesn’t leave you feeling too great about your purchase, but it also leaves an expensive piece of professional equipment that a lot of people could use lying dormant. DroneBase is a startup that connects drone… Read More... →

CommonSense Robotics, an Israel-based startup developing AI and robotics tech to help online grocery retailers speed up fulfilment and delivery, has raised $20 million in Series A funding. Read More... →

Российский фонд прямых инвестиций (РФПИ) и Японский банк международного сотрудничества (Japan Bank of International Cooperation) совмемстно профинансируют телемедицинскую платформу Doctis, передает RNS со ссылкой на главу фонда на Кирилла Дмитриева. Doctis станет третьей портфельной компанией российско-японского фонда, который РФПИ запустил совместно с Японским банком для международного сотрудничества (JBIC) в сентябре 2017 года. «Доктис» — это справочно-информационный проект о медицине и здоровье с онлай... →

Фонд развития интернет-инициатив вложит 15 млн рублей в облачный сервис для поддержки клиентов Usedesk в обмен на долю до 24,9%.Об этом Firrma сообщили в фонде. Usedesk получает средства в два транша. Часть денег ФРИИ уже перевёл, оставшуюся сумму фонд направит в стартап по достижении компанией определённых показателей. Новые инвестиции будут потрачены на поиск новых каналов продаж и развитие сервиса. Usedesk — разработчик платформы, которая объединяет обращения из почты, мессенджеров и социальных сетей в... →

Строительство займёт до двух с половиной лет, инвестиции составят несколько сотен миллионов евро.... →

Онлайн-сервис по заказу на дом маникюра, педикюра, услуг коррекции и окрашивания бровей и депиляции Shelly привлек инвестиции на сумму $2,4 млн от Kismet Capital Group (KCG) владельца «СТС Медиа» Ивана Таврина, венчурных фондов NP Capital, AddVenture (инвестирует через портфельную компанию Qlean) и ряда частных инвесторов. Лид-инвестором выступил KСG. Об этом сообщает «Коммерсант». Как уточнил инвестиционный директор KCG Константин Лиходедов, «юридически обязывающие документы пока не подписаны, есть term s... →

Workast, the popular Slack-based task management toolkit, is looking to expand its messaging horizons. The company, which answered the prayers of everyone who was sick of working with Asana and other task management applications, has raised $1.85 million in a seed round of funding led by Greycroft Partners as it looks to expand to other messaging platforms. Guillermo Gette says his… Read More... →

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... →