Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

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... →

French VC firm CapHorn Invest recently closed a new $150 million fund (€130 million). Around 250 CEOs and executives of big established companies invested in the fund as limited partners. This is CapHorn Invest’s second fund. The firm plans to focus on Series A rounds, from $600,000 to $6 million (€500,000 to €5 million). What’s interesting about this VC firm is that it… Read More... →

Стартап Cherry Labs, одним из сооснователем которого является управляющий партнер Gagarin Capital Николай Давыдов, привлек $840 тысяч. Деньги в проект вложили венчурные фонды Gagarin Capital, Impulse VC и Altair Capital, а также частные инвесторы Грег Силверман, Александр Агапитов, Агерим Шорман, Джулия Незнанова. Сделка была закрыта весной 2017 года. Об этом рассказал Николай Давыдов. Cherry Labs основана более года назад. Она использует технологии компьютерного зрения и машинного обучения в сфере личной ... →

В России начал работу венчурный фонд Ad.ru объемом $10 млн, при этом по итогам работы его размер может быть увеличен. Об этом Firrma рассказали представители фонда. Фонд Ad.ru направлен на инвестиции в российские стартапы в области электронной коммерции и решений для маркетплейсов, систем доставки, дейтинговых сервисов, медицинских систем и образовательных ресурсов, которые рассчитывают выйти на международный рынок. Средний размер инвестиций в проекты составит от $100 тысяч до $500 тысяч, при этом в некото... →

Grab is in the process of raising $2.5 billion for it ride hailing service in Southeast Asia, but that hasn’t stopped the Uber rival from tapping banks for $700 million in debt facilities to develop its business. The Singapore-based company said it had pulled in the financing from “leading global and regional banks” to expand its car rental fleet in Singapore and Indonesia,… Read More... →

Sea, the Singapore-based digital entertainment firm formerly known as Garena, is set to raise upwards of $884 million when it lists on the New York Stock Exchange Friday under ‘SE’. The company, which specializes in publishing games but also offers payment and e-commerce services, has priced its shares at $15 — above the $12-$14 range it previously set out. Sea originally… Read More... →

Softbank looks to be preparing follow on raises to its first ~$100BN Vision Fund. Speaking to Nikkei today CEO Masayoshi Son said: “The Vision Fund was just the first step, 10 trillion yen is simply not enough… Read More... →

Группа компаний Softline выкупила разработчика платформ для дистрибуции софта по подписке Enaza. В результате сделки стартап будет инкорпорирован в структуру Softline. Об этом сообщает «Коммерсант» со ссылкой на источник, знакомый с ходом сделки. Сумма сделки не раскрывается. В Softline подчеркивают, что приобретение окупится в течение трех лет. По словам вице-президента корпорации Елены Волотовской, новый владелец Enaza планирует масштабировать платформу на рынки дальнего зарубежья, включая Южную Америку, ... →

Lyft raises $1 billion at an $11 billion valuation, Swedish lock maker Assa Abloy acquires August Home, MongoDB up 34% on stock market debut and Facebook is testing paywalls for Instant Articles. All this on Crunch Report. Read More... →

Today Google announced a new labeled dataset of human actions taking place in videos. That may sound obscure, but it’s a big deal for anyone working to solve problems in computer vision. If you’ve been following along, you’ve noticed the significant uptick in companies building products and services that act as a second pair of human eyes. Video detectors like Matroid,… Read More... →

There’s a huge funding round from one of the top local services companies in China. Meituan-Dianping, a company formed by a multi-billion dollar merger in 2015, said today that it has raised a $4 billion Seres C round from a group of investors led by existing backer Tencent. Others involved include Sequoia, GIC, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Trustbridge Partners, Coatue, IDG,… Read More... →

Banks face an increasingly crowded battlefield in the fight for millennial customers. Not only do they have to compete with services like Venmo, but many messaging apps are adding their own peer-to-peer payment services. Tel Aviv-based startup PayKey thinks it has the solution with a smartphone keyboard that lets bank customers access financial services without having to log onto a banking app. Read More... →

Ride-hailing company Lyft has raised a new $1 billion funding round, putting its post-money valuation at $11 billion total. The round was led by Alphabet’s CapitalG, its growth-focused investment fund, and CapitalG partner David Lawee will join Lyft’s board as part of the transaction. Lyft shared the news in an official blog post, and noted that it has run over 500 million rides… Read More... →

Snaps has raised $6 million in Series A funding for what it calls its Conversational Marketing Cloud. By that, it’s referring to a suite of tools that allows businesses to to promote themselves through messaging. CEO Christian Brucculeri said Snaps is differentiated by its “write once and deploy everywhere approach,” allowing marketers to build things like chatbots and… Read More... →

Свердловский венчурный фонд вложил более 22 млн рублей в разработчика хирургических инструментов и титановых имплантов для нейрохирургии — компанию ООО «Зибус». Об этом Firrma сообщили в фонде. Полученные средства будут направлены на запуск производства на территории особой экономической зоны «Титановая Долина», которая расположена между двумя промышленными городами Свердловской области – Нижним Тагилом и Верхней Салдой. Пока была произведена только опытная партия изделий. Как уточнили в фонде, технический ... →

The furniture rental industry is stuck in the last. Current options involve old-school companies like CORT where most of the inventory will make your apartment look like a dorm room, or a place like Rent-A-Center where you’ll almost certainly pay many times what the item is actually worth. Enter Feather, a company trying to breathe some life into the aging industry by letting… Read More... →

Инвестиционный директор фонда Life.SREDA Игорь Песин написал статью, в которой проанализировал ситуацию на рынке ICO. Firrma публикует сокращенную версию материала.  Блокчейн существует с 2008 года (с момента рождения биткоина) и особенно активно обсуждается последние 4–5 лет, причем не только в стартаперской и венчурной сферах, но уже и на уровне корпораций, банков, регуляторов и правительств. Но действительно ли блокчейн индустрия в 2012–2016 годов являлась настолько успешной и крупной, насколько было соз... →

Movinga, the European platform for house removals that was seemingly written off last year, continues to perform what appears to be an impressive turn around. The Berlin-headquartered startup has closed a new funding round of up to €22 million led by Santo Venture Capital, the venture arm of the Strüngmann family office, with participation from existing backers Earlybird Venture Capital… Read More... →