Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

Duo Security raises $70 million, a close look at Apple’s self-driving car, Snapchat’s Halloween costume and Abu Dhabi’s state fund is doing business in San Francisco. All this on Crunch Report! Read More... →

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Since Issac Asimov first laid out the three laws of robotics in 1942, human safety has been the number one concern of the inventors, innovators and futurists that have pondered our place in the age of robots. But for robots to be able to ensure human safety, those robots have to be able to see humans and recognize them as humans. That’s where Veo Robotics comes in. The Cambridge,… Read More... →

Бизнес-ангел Любовь Симонова дала несколько рекомендаций стартаперам, которые хотят привлечь деньги.  Пока есть время, решила чуток написать. Так вот, дорогие мои читатели, меня часто спрашивают, а что главное надо рассказывать, презентовать. Все зависит от того, каковы ваши цели и задачи, и цели и задачи инвестора или партнера, к которому вы приходите. Первое – какую проблему вы решаете и как она решается сейчас (или не решается), и как вы ее собираетесь решать. Второе – а в чем ваш продукт. Что вы предлаг... →

Thanks to the Internet, you can order regular deliveries of everything from clothing to razors to geeky memorabilia. With Bespoke Post, you’re not just limited to one type of products — it ships its customer “box of awesome” that could be focused on style, travel, alcohol or something else entirely. Co-founder and CEO Rishi Prabhu explained that the goal is to curate… Read More... →

Despite a continuing economic crisis, Brazil’s technology startups are continuing to attract cash and financing, with the mobile personal financial service GuiaBolso raising $39 million in fresh funding. Readers outside of Brazil can think of the company as a combination of U.S. services like Mint, CreditKarma, and Lending Club, all rolled into one. That GuiaBolso has emerged as a… Read More... →

Duo Security is today announcing its Series D funding round that puts the company in unicorn status. The company raised $70 million led by Meritech Capital Partners and Lead Edge Capital at a valuation of $1.17 billion. This funding round brings the company’s total amount raised to $119 million. This round included new investors, Index Ventures and Workday, that latter of which joins as… Read More... →

Венчурный фонд Sistema VC стал соинвестором раунда в €1 млн в британскую компанию DataSine, которая разрабатывает технологию на стыке машинного обучения и психометрии для построения личностного портрета клиента финансовой организации. Лид-инвесторов раунда выступил международный фонд Cathay Capitals, также в сделке принял участие британский фонд Force Over Mass. Об этом Firrma рассказали в Sistema VC. Полученные инвестиции будут использованы для развития бизнеса, включая расширение состава команды, увеличе... →

Revelo, a job marketplace that puts the responsibility on companies to contact candidates, has raised $4.6 million in its latest financing. The company, unlike traditional job boards, puts high-end, high-profile Brazilian job seekers at the center of the search, and makes companies reach out to them. Its latest round was led by Valor Capital, the Latin American-focused venture capital fund,… Read More... →

E-commerce and digitally-based financial transactions have consistently been one of the biggest and most lucrative areas of the tech world, and today a commerce startup out of Canada is laying down its claim to be among the significant players in the field. Lightspeed POS, which provides point of sale, accounting, inventory management, purchasing analytics, and other related services to… Read More... →

BuddyGuard, the Berlin startup behind the Flare AI-powered home security camera, has raised €3.4 million in new funding, money it plans to use to ramp up marketing of the newly-launched device. Leading the round is German electrical specialist Bachmann Group, with participation from over 20 unnamed angel investors across Europe. Read More... →

The former founders of Vine release their new app, “HQ Trivia,” Alphabet is looking to turn Toronto into a model smart city and Magic Leap raises $502 million. All this on Crunch Report. Read More... →

Allset has raised $5 million in Series A funding led by Greycroft. The startup’s goal is to eliminate most of the wait time that comes with eating out. You make a reservation through the Allset smartphone app, and when you do, you also order your food and pay for the meal. Ideally, that means you should get your food within five minutes of arriving at the restaurant, and you should be… Read More... →

В 2017 году российские компании привлекли с помощью ICO $293 млн, что более чем в два раза больше объёма венчурного рынка 2016 года. Об этом пишет РБК со ссылкой на гендиректора компании «Сколково — Венчурные инвестиции» Василия Белова. Всего были проанализированы данные о 25 российских проектах, пять из которых суммарно привлекли с помощью ICO с начала 2017 года более $190 млн. При этом в 2016 году объём рынка венчурных инвестиций составил $128 млн. Участники рынка считают, что ICO в ближайшее время не смо... →

В 2017 году российские компании привлекли с помощью ICO $293 млн, что более чем в два раза больше объёма венчурного рынка 2016 года. Об этом пишет РБК со ссылкой на гендиректора компании «Сколково — Венчурные инвестиции» Василия Белова. Всего были проанализированы данные о 25 российских проектах, пять из которых суммарно привлекли с помощью ICO с начала 2017 года более $190 млн. При этом в 2016 году объём рынка венчурных инвестиций составил $128 млн. Участники рынка считают, что ICO в ближайшее время не смо... →

Free streaming TV service Pluto TV announced today it has received a new $5 million investment from Samsung Venture Investment Corporation, the VC arm of the Samsung Group. Combined with other investors, the full round totaled $8.3 million, the company says. The round follows a $30 million Series B for the streaming service, announced a year ago, which valued the business at $140 million. Read More... →

Indian credit marketplace BankBazaar has pulled in $30 million in fresh funding led by Experian, the London-headquartered credit giant with a £14 billion ($18 billion) market cap. BankBazaar seems to have a penchant for big name backers. Amazon led its $60 million Series C funding in 2015 while Experian is the main investor behind this Series D raise. The company didn’t specific the… Read More... →

Polkadot is a project which has emerged from the Blockchain world, and was designed to do something increasingly important. In effect, Polkadot is the interchange and translator between multiple blockchains which creative people developing on the Ethereum blockhain have been looking for in order to build a wealth new projects and infrastructure. As companies develop their own side-chains,… Read More... →

Indiez is an up-and-coming freelance service that aims to bring a higher standard to a world that is dominated by the likes of Gigster, Upwork and Fiverr by taking a different, team-led approach. There are already plenty of options for developers who opt for freelance work perhaps because they don’t like the shackles of a single day job, want to moonlight outside of office hours, or… Read More... →

Students deciding on their next phase in higher education face a daunting choice and a array of options. Most schools have zero capability to deal with sifting 40,000 undergraduate courses in the UK, alone. Why not apply big data to the problem and create an ‘adaptive learning platform’ which actually helps students make these crucial decision, based on real data. That’s… Read More... →