Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

A lot of startups have been raising money for credit cards and other financing businesses lately. Now Jiko has debit card technology that has convinced Upfront Ventures, Radical Impact, Social Capital and others to invest $7.7 million in a Series A. The Oakland, California-based business markets itself as a secure place to save your money, while also offering at least .5% cash back on debit… Read More... →

Sex education startup O.school recently raised $800,000 to help achieve its goal of offering up easy access to sex-positive, inclusive and comprehensive education around sex and sexuality. Current investors include Cyan Banister of Founders Fund, X Factor Ventures and The House Fund. Sex is one of those things that is still heavily stigmatized in many societies. That leads to subpar… Read More... →

Most young adults don’t have credit cards these days.  Many of them are concerned about accruing debt. Others are finding it difficult to build credit. A handful of startups are now focused on building alternatives. One of these is Deserve, which recently changed its name from SelfScore. The Menlo Park-based startup had been working with international students to assess credit.… Read More... →

ChowNow, an online food ordering service, has raised a $20 million Series B round led by Catalyst. This round brings ChowNow’s total funding to nearly $40 million. “We were excited for [Catalyst] to get involved because they were behind Mindbody,” ChowNow CEO Chris Webb told TechCrunch. Mindbody, a white-label service for health and wellness businesses, went public in 2015. Read More... →

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French startup OpenIO just raised $5 million from Elaia Partners, Partech Ventures and Nord France Amorçage. The company has been focusing on object storage technology for different kinds of infrastructure. With today’s funding round, the company plans to work on getting new clients in the U.S. and Japan in addition to the EMEA region. Object storage is a different way of thinking… Read More... →

HashiCorp is probably best known for Terraform, its open source tool for automatically provisioning infrastructure by describing it as code.  But the company also offers a whole range of additional open source security tools and products that enable multi-cloud deployments, as well as enterprise versions of these tools that add features for larger teams on top of these free version. Today,… Read More... →

Derq aims to make cars smarter and recently raised $1.5 million in seed funding from Techstars Mobility Accelerator. In addition to growing its team and opening an office in Detroit, the company plans on using the cash to advance its tech that aims to reduce vehicle accidents by improving how cars and infrastructure talk to each other. The company sees its product integrating into existing… Read More... →

French startup iAdvize raised another $37.6 million (€32 million) from Idinvest, Bpifrance and Quadrille Capital. The company wants to convert casual website visitors into clients. Thanks to iAdvize, companies can track what you’re doing and engage with you to convince you that you should open a bank account, buy a coat or upgrade your subscription. With today’s funding round,… Read More... →

Инвесторы приобрели около 3% стартапа.... →

Инвесторы приобрели около 3% стартапа.... →

Wibbitz, which uses artificial intelligence to create short videos based on text news stories, has raised $20 million in Series C funding. The money comes from some of big names in the media world, with Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments (a subsidiary of German media conglomerate Bertelsmann) leading the round and participation from The Weather Channel, The Associated Press and TF1.… Read More... →

Shift Technology is raising a Series B round of $28 million from Accel and General Catalyst. Accel had already led the company’s previous round. Existing investors Elaia Partners and Iris Capital are also participating in today’s round. And it seems like the startup has grown quite a lot since my last article. Shift Technology has now processed more than 100 million claims and… Read More... →

Nested, the U.K. estate agent that provides a cash advance to help you buy a new house before you’ve sold your old one, has raised £36 million in further funding. The round was led by Rocket Internet’s Global Founders Capital, and brings the less than two year old startup’s total funding to just shy of £50 million. Buying and selling houses is a pretty capital intensive… Read More... →

Онлайн-сервис для аптечного бизнеса Pharmznanie.ru привлек seed-инвестиции от Фонда развития интернет-инициатив (ФРИИ). Фонд получит долю в компании в размере 15%. Сумма инвестиций не раскрывается. Об этом Firrma рассказали во ФРИИ. Привлеченные инвестиции компания направит на масштабирование проекта. Онлайн-сервис Pharmznanie.ru — образовательная платформа для фармацевтов, провизоров и маркетплейс для заключения маркетинговых контрактов между аптечными сетями и фармкомпаниями. С помощью онлайн-сервиса спе... →

Just one-third of young adults have a credit card, according to a Bankrate survey. It’s partly due to concerns about debt. A startup called Zero thinks it has a solution to this and it is gearing up to launch a credit card that functions like a debit card. The startup is also raising $8.5 million in a funding round led by ENIAC Ventures, including participation from NEA, Lightbank… Read More... →

Сотрудники компании Kama Flow проанализировали 269 стартапов, которые, начиная с декабря 2013 года, привлекали деньги при помощи ICO, и ответили на самые часто задаваемые вопросы, связанные с инвестированием в токены. Все данные представлены по состоянию на 13 сентября.   Уже несколько лет не утихают дискуссии по поводу блокчейн-технологий и их роли в мире. С одной стороны, эксперты предсказывают, что эти технологии станут неотъемлемой частью будущего, с другой – указывают на высокие риски и неопределеннос... →

Countingup, a new fintech startup from Tim Fouracre, who previously founded cloud accounting software Clear Books, wants to simplify the life of sole traders by reinventing the business bank account. Specifically, Fouracre’s vision is that for one-person enterprises, business banking and accounting software should be merged so that book keeping and filing accounts can be automated. Read More... →

Winnow, the U.K. startup that has developed smart kitchen tech to help commercial kitchens reduce food waste, continues to be on a roll. It counts the likes of IKEA, Compass Group, and AccorHotels as customers, and estimates its 600-plus clients are saving 4,300 tonnes of food waste annually through the use of the Winnow system. Read More... →

Oliver Cabell, a Los Angeles-based startup selling bags and other accessories, has raised $1.2 million to slip into the shoe business. The company’s high end canvas and leather bags caused a bit of a stir around TechCrunch’s offices a few years ago (we were too busy using the bags to review them) — and now the company’s ready to try on footwear to see how the new… Read More... →