Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

If you’re looking to buy something, but don’t want to pay for it yet, Blispay thinks it has the solution for you. The startup works with small and mid-sized businesses to help retail customers defer payments for six months. Baltimore-based Blispay has been gaining traction and raised an additional $12 million in funding after raising about the same amount last year. FirstMark… Read More... →

Embrace.io says it can help developers understand the performance of their apps — and determine whether things like bugs or slow load times are actually driving users away. The company just announced that it has raised $2.5 million in seed funding led by Eniac Ventures, with participation from The Chernin Group, Techstars Ventures, BoxGroup and others. CEO Eric Futoran (pictured… Read More... →

People may well remember 2017 as the year that blockchain broke. After years of development and flickering just outside of mainstream consciousness and acceptance, record high prices for the most popular blockchain-based cryptocurrencies Bitcoin and newcomer Ethereum, and an embrace of the technology’s core principles by some of the world’s largest institutions may mean that… Read More... →

There are inefficiencies in the giant self-storage market, and startups like MakeSpace and Clutter have already been gaining traction by offering a more consumer-friendly approach. Now there’s another startup entering the picture, with Trove formally launching in the San Francisco Bay Area after a few months of testing the concept in beta. They are also securing $8 million in a… Read More... →

Putting their own money where their business is, the founders of G2 Crowd joined a new $30 million financing for their business review platform. The round was led by Accel and included undisclosed industry executives and corporate dollars from the professional networking site (and Microsoft subsidiary) LinkedIn. The company said it will use the funds to speed up the development and marketing… Read More... →

Long Game is a bank account, with a twist. Every dollar saved can go towards winning a lottery. The personal finance app allows users to play games and win cash prizes, up to $1 million. It may sound like a gimmick, but these are FDIC-insured accounts backed by Blue Ridge Bank in Virginia.  And now venture capitalists from Thrive Capital and Collaborative Fund are betting $6.6 million that… Read More... →

You know it’s spring when VC funds start to announce their new fund raises. But it’s buoying to see a mid-sized fund appears which over the years has been highly geared towards early stage startups, just starting out on their journey. Pentech has closed its third fund, saying it was oversubscribed at £88 million, surpassing the original target fund size of £70 million. The new… Read More... →

Content delivery company Fastly has raised $50 million in financing to expand its footprint as a corporate supplier of speedy application, website, and web service delivery. In its press release, Fastly calls its service an “edge cloud platform”, which is a fantastic mix of nonsense and meaningless garbage that I’m going to refuse to use (seriously, Bateman Group, that is… Read More... →

Outreach, a software developer selling services that gives sales forces a needed prompt to more efficiently use their time and optimize sales, along with an organizational tool to manage their pitching process, has just raised $30 million with that very pitch. The company touts its ability to triple the volume of meetings and increase the sales pipeline for front-line sales… Read More... →

Холдинг ESForce, получивший инвестиции от владельца Mail.ru Group и «МегаФона» Алишера Усманова, запустил предварительную версию платформы для игровых трансляций Looch.tv, сообщают «Известия».  Создатель платформы – основанная в прошлом году компания «Виста Медиа», на 100% принадлежит кипрской ESForce. По мнению исполнительного продюсера компании киберспортивной игровой площадки Starladder Степана Шульги, новый проект позволит холдингу привлечь новую аудиторию, которая будет генерировать игровой контент. Пл... →

Ксения Сокольская, представляющая интересы миллиардера Леонарда Блаватника, вышла из ООО «ИД «Провинция»» и связанных с ним нескольких десятков юридических лиц. Единоличным собственником этих компаний стал гендиректор издательского дома Олег Никанов, пишет «Коммерсант». Сделка носила безденежный характер, кредиты под покупку не привлекались. ИД «Провинция», выпускающий 27 региональных еженедельных газет, был для Блаватника непрофильным бизнесом. Под управлением его холдинга Access Industries находятся актив... →

Sayspring, a startup that enables designers to create voice-enabled apps without code ahead of handing over projects to development, has just raised $1.5 million in funding for its efforts, the company is announcing today. The round was led by Compound (formerly Metamorphic Ventures), with participation from strategic angels including Scott Belsky, Alan Chung, and Peter Stern. The startup… Read More... →

It’s an old story for anyone moving out to a new place, but for Merchant, and others like her, the idea that there can be a better way to move to a place, and live in a city, has led to the creation of new co-living spaces. In the old days, these spaces (once called communes by a generation less capitalized but perhaps no less idealistic) grew organically around shared interests and… Read More... →

Shipamax, a London-based startup and recent graduate of Silicon Valley accelerator Y Combinator, has raised $2.5 million in seed funding, money it plans to use to continue building and marketing its cloud software platform for the bulk shipping industry. Leading the round is Cherubic Ventures, with participation from AME Cloud, and FF Angel. Read More... →

Частный инвестор объясняет, почему для реализации идеи не нужны инвестиции ... →

SoftBank’s huge $100 billion investment fund — the largest tech fund in history — announced its first close today… and it’s huge. The Japanese telecom giant revealed that its VisionFund has closed an initial commitment of $93 billion from a bevy of high profile backers. They include Apple, Qualcomm, UAE-based Mubadala Investment Company, Saudi Arabia’s… Read More... →

What do people actually want in luggage? A phone charger, unbreakable exterior, and maximum packing space at a resonable price is what Away discovered. So it built a line of sleek but expansive polycarbonite suitcases equipped with battery packs, and sold them direct-to-consumer. Now after selling nearly 100,000 suitcases and generating $20 million in revenue, Away has raised a $20 million… Read More... →

Российский финтех-проект BI&BL service привлек $50 тысяч от некого российского банка. Об этом Firrma сообщили в стартапе. По словам стартаперов, банк входит в топ 50 банков РФ. Сделка состоялась в феврале 2017 года. Привлеченные инвестиции использованы на разработку прототипа. BI&BL service – онлайн платформа краудфандинга на участие в тендерных закупках и исполнение выигранных контрактов. По данным с сайта компании, победитель тендера может получить финансирование за 5 дней, оформить кредит онлайн, в том ч... →

Silicon Valley VC Menlo Ventures has closed a new $450 million fund to invest primarily in early-stage “consumer, enterprise and frontier technologies”. The funding brings the firm’s total capital to more than $5 billion under management, while Menlo Ventures says the fund was oversubscribed with both new and existing limited partners. Read More... →

Корпорация Rambler&Co Александра Мамута приобрела мажоритарную долю в платформе для управления видео Eagle Platform (ООО «Далтон Медиа»). В ходе сделки из проекта вышел венчурный фонд Prostor Capital, ранее оценивавший этот бизнес в $12-15 млн, сообщает Коммерсант. Основатель и гендиректор «Далтон Медиа» Анатолий Воронцов остался совладельцем компании. Компания создана в 2008 году. На основе собственной облачной платформы компания вывела на рынок два продукта: интернет-проект «ЯTV» (b2c-сервис прямых трансл... →