Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

Firrma по заказу РВК в партнерстве с НАБА и VC.ru представляет очередной ежегодный рейтинг бизнес-ангелов – самых активных частных венчурных инвесторов в России. Как мы считаем 1. Кто такой ангел? Главный критерий для нас: для человека венчурные инвестиции должны быть бизнесом и работой. Кроме того, инвестирование должно быть регулярным, поэтому мы немного ужесточили критерии: в этом году порог отсечения опять – не менее 2 венчурных сделок за последние 12 месяцев. Кроме того, чтобы человек попал в рейтинг,... →

Фонд Runa Capital повторно инвестировал в стартап в сфере искусственного интеллекта  DigitalGenius, в который ранее вложилась Маша Дрокова. DigitalGenius привлек $14,7 млн. Раунд возглавил фонд Global Founders Capital, также в сделке участовали MMC Ventures, Paua Ventures и текущие инвесторы Salesforce Ventures, Runa Capital, RRE Ventures, Lumia Capital, Compound и Lerer Hippeau Ventures. Инвестиции будут направлены на развитие: компания планирует нанять 60 новых сотрудников. Всего компания привлекла $26 ... →

If you go to any company’s website these days, you’re probably starting to see some chat functionality more and more often — and for good reason, as it’s a quick way for those companies to get in touch with their potential customers. And Sendbird, which launched in February this year out of Y Combinator, has tried to quietly begin eating up this space by giving… Read More... →

Convercent, a company that provides ethics and compliance software to businesses, today announced that it has raised a $25 million funding round led by Rho Ventures. Additional investors include Sapphire Ventures and Tola Capital. The idea behind Convercent is to give businesses the tools to, in MBA-speak, “operationalize ethics.” In practice, this means that the companies mines… Read More... →

Dgraph is an increasingly popular open-source distributed graph database that uses a version of Facebook’s GraphQL as its default query language. Today, the company announced that it has raised $3 million in funding from (this includes a $1.1 million seed round raised last year). In addition, the company announced that its flagship database has hit the 1.0 stage. Read More... →

On the heels of Lemonade raising $120 million from Softbank for its new “peer-to-peer” spin on insurance services, another company aimed at disrupting the insurance market is announcing a major round of its own. Bima, a Munich-based startup that builds and sells “microinsurance” services for low-income consumers in Africa, Asia and Latin America, has raised $96.6 million… Read More... →

When DigitalGenius participated in the TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield competition in New York City in 2015, there weren’t a lot of companies working on AI and machine learning. Today, it’s become much more commonplace, and the company announced a $14.75 million Series A. Global Founders Capital led the round. MMC Ventures, Paua Ventures and several other unnamed new investors… Read More... →

Этот способ поднять инвестиции популярен из-за проблем с венчурным капиталом и любви к «быстрым деньгам».... →

There’s been a slew of new European VC fund raises over the last few months, including mostly recently Seedcamp, Balderton, and Brighteye Ventures, but now we can add Inventure to the list. The Nordic VC firm is announcing a new fund to invest in seed-stage and early-stage startups in the region. Read More... →

Инвестиционный фонд Altera Capital увеличил долю в компании Group-IB, которая заниматся борьбой с киберпреступлениями, с 10 до 25%, сообщают «Ведомости». Фонд выкупил 15% компании у одного из акционеров. По словам представителя Group-IB, свои доли продавал менеджмент компании. Сумма сделки не раскрывается. По словам представителя Altera Capital, фонд нарастил доли, видя перспективы отрасли и компании. Другой инвестор компании — фонд Run Capital основателя Qiwi Андрея Романенко, в сделке не участвовал. Ему... →

AxleHire, a last-mile logistics startup that facilitates deliveries for companies like HelloFresh, Freshly, Sunbasket, La Boulangerie and others, has raised $4.3 million from Acorn Pacific, RGA Ventures and others. AxleHire, which started back in 2015, is doing over 150,000 shipments per month and bringing in $750,000 in monthly revenues. By April, AxleHire expects to hit $1.5 million in… Read More... →

Springboard is a platform that helps people advance their tech skills, and ultimately career. Today it took a step further to realizing its own potential after it landed a $9.5 million Series A round to develop specialisms. I wrote about the U.S.-based service nearly two years ago when it was just starting out and it had gobbled up a $1.7 million seed round. Then, Springboard had brought… Read More... →

В 2018 году компания планирует подписать контракты в России и на Ближнем Востоке, пишет Axios... →

It’s probably no surprise that billionaire Richard Branson is going to be taking a more active role in Virgin Hyperloop One, considering the company adopted the “Virgin” moniker after Branson’s global co. became a key backer earlier this year. Now, Axios reports that he’ll be made chairman of the company, as it takes on an additional $50 million in funding to help… Read More... →

Bringing small scale Nigerian farmers to a broader market has netted the new startup Farmcrowdy $1 million from investors including Techstars, Cox Ventures and Social Capital. Farmcrowdy’s digital platform connects investors to farmers through sponsorship packages to fund higher yields for a share of the returns. The app allows the sponsors to “Farm Shop” screened… Read More... →

Венчурный фонд Almaz Capital вложил $250 тысяч в библиотеку «гифок» Hyperkey. Сделка была заключена в виде конвертируемого займа в марте этого года. Об этом Firrma сообщили в Almaz Capital. Hyperkey — библиотека «гифок», созданных на основе эмоций человека. С помощью Hyperkey пользователи сервиса могут создавать GIF и наклейки, чтобы использовать их в чатах с друзьями. У компании есть собственная коммуникационная платформа IMessage, на которой пользователи могут использовать «гифы», которые после отправки ... →

It looks like Wag may get another huge injection of cash following a big financing round earlier this year, according to a report by Recode, and also based on what we are hearing. We had heard a bit ago that Wag was looking to raise around $100 million, which the Recode report also suggests. But it now looks like Softbank is in talks to invest around $300 million in the dog-walking app… Read More... →

Described to me as “American Idol meets musical.ly,” startup Spotlite recently raised over $10 million from Sequoia Capital and BlueRun Ventures. The plan is to use the funding to build out the product, make key hires, and expand its marketing and advertising efforts. Spotlite is a direct-to-fan music platform for artists who want to make money and have direct access to their… Read More... →

Airwallex, an Australia-based fintech startup that helps banks and businesses handle cross-border transactions at scale, has closed a $6 million investment ahead of a planned Series B next year. The new funding comes from Square Peg — a VC firm located in Melbourne, the same city as Airwallex HQ — which joins Tencent, MasterCard, Gobi Ventures and Sequoia China as backers of… Read More... →

Среди самых предпочитаемых ниш для вложений российские инвесторы назвали искусственный интеллект, машинное обучение (эти понятия инвесторы не разделяют) и финтех-стартапы. В этом году в топ-3 также вошли проекты в области блокчейна и криптовалют. При этом ряд экспертов называют блокчейн в числе наименее перспективных ниш. Большинство опрошенных считают, что в ближайшее время ажиотаж вокруг ICO спадет, «пузырь лопнет и останутся только по-настоящему интересные проекты». Об этом говорится в исследовании «Венч... →