Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

Spiro aims to sell CRM software to businesses that have been avoiding traditional CRM products. CEO Adam Honig told me that he and his co-founders Andy Levi (CTO) and Justin Kao (vice president of growth) originally set out to build artificial intelligence products that could assist with CRM (i.e., the software that salespeople use to track their customers and deals). But then they started… Read More... →

“We’re actually out here trying to create value, not just give venture capital money away” says Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen. “It’s counterintuitive. The more the business works, the more cash it needs.” That’s because Flexport doesn’t ship bits, it ships atoms. Lots of them. Flexport is a freight forwarding logistics network. If you produce a… Read More... →

Quinn Slack thinks we’re close to the future that Back to the Future II promised back in the 80s — flying cars, artificial intelligence, sending rockets into space, and the rest of the whole suite — but there’s a way to get there even faster. That’s why he and his co-founder Beyang Liu started Sourcegraph, a development environment for programmers… Read More... →

You’ll find image recognition technology in almost every kind of consumer service you would use today — like Facebook, Google, or any number of other apps — but Yann Fleureau is hoping that he can build a whole business off of its increasing success in healthcare. Fleureau hopes that his startup, Cardiologs, can use image recognition to analyze an EKG and detect potential… Read More... →

Privacy rights group, Privacy International, is running a crowdfunding campaign to try to raise funds to help cover its legal costs as it continues to challenge the UK government’s use of hacking as a mass surveillance technique for domestic security agencies to gather intelligence. Read More... →

Кипрский фонд Embria Ventures Group вложил $2 млн в видеочат Connect. Об этом Firrma рассказал владелец фонда и основатель стартапа Игорь Монахов. Часть средств пошла на выкуп долей партнеров Монахова и ГК «Эмбрия», которые помогали создавать стартап. Сегодня владельцами компании Cnnct, зарегистрированной на Кипре, является он и команда разработки. Остальные инвестиции пойдут на развитие проекта, в том числе на покупку технологий, рассказал Монахов. Connect — это видеочат с автоматическим подбором собеседни... →

Bluecore, the automated marketing platform for ecommerce brands, has today announced the close of a $35 million Series C round of funding. Norwest Venture Partners led the round, with participation from existing investors including Georgian Partners, FirstMark Capital, and Felicis Ventures. As part of the deal, NVP’s Scott Beechuk will join the board of directors at Bluecore. When… Read More... →

Участники форума обсудят ICO, инвестиции в криптовалюты, криптотрейдинг и майнинг... →

Общественная организация «Опора России» совместно с венчурным фондом Softline Venture Partners начинает прием заявок от команд, создающих IT-решения, для участия в бизнес-акселераторе. Команды-победители смогут получить инвестиции в размере от 10 млн рублей. Об этом Firrma сообщили в группе компаний Softline. В акселератор приглашаются команды с готовыми решениями для рынка или прототипами. Прием заявок открыт с 4 октября по 1 декабря 2017 года включительно. Акселерация проектов будет проходить с декабря п... →

Late last month, Spanish media got wind that the Barcelona-based on-demand delivery app Glovo had closed Series B funding, but now the company is making the news official. The startup, which offers a service similar to Postmates in the U.S., has raised a €30 million round led by Rakuten Capital, and Cathay Innovation. Existing investors Seaya Ventures, Entreé Capital, Caixa Capital Risk,… Read More... →

ICOs are said to be the new way to raise money. We’ve seen companies raising millions by selling tokens. Against the money raised, the tokens they gave were created and sold on the Ethereum blockchain — meaning that all the trade happened on the Ethereum blockchain and the tokens created are tracked on the Ethereum blockchain. But that is changing. Read More... →

As tech giants like Apple and Facebook prepare to spend billions of dollars on movies and TV, longtime Hollywood executive Jeffrey Katzenberg is looking to write some big checks for original content, too. Katzenberg began his career at Paramount Pictures (where he worked on Star Trek: The Motion Picture), but is best known for running Disney’s motion picture division during the period… Read More... →

Recursion, a drug discovery startup out of Salt Lake City, Utah has announced a $60 million Series B round, led by Data Collective (DCVC). Recursion started out in 2014 on a mission to identify one-hundred new treatments in 10 years. That’s a lofty goal, considering the discovery for just one drug can traditionally take decades and tens of millions of dollars, with a high rate of… Read More... →

MessageBird, a cloud communications platform that counts publicly listed Twilio as a competitor, has raised a hefty $60 million in Series A funding. The round is being led by Accel in the U.S., with Atomico, the VC firm founded by Skype’s Niklas Zennström, leading in Europe. Read More... →

The recent Equifax hack is yet another reminder that major corporations are still leaving themselves susceptible to attacks. There are countless cybersecurity startups looking to fix this problem, but HYPR believes its decentralization approach is key. Its authentification technology secures traditional passwords and also biometrics like fingerprints, faces and voices. The New York-based… Read More... →

Boxee co-founder Idan Cohen’s most recent stint may have been in the smart TV space — but now he wants to build a box that’ll help you grow some lettuce outside your home. That might seem weird, but after many dinners spent feeding guests with vegetables grown from his roof, he and his team are now launching a smart planter called GROW. Initially starting as a hobby to… Read More... →

From travel visas to sponsoring green cards, today’s companies deal with a lot of documents to keep up with the demands of a global workforce. A Chicago-based startup called Envoy Global has built enterprise software for processing the relevant paperwork. It also works with a law firm to offer companies legal advice pertaining to immigration and visas. Envoy Global has raised a $21… Read More... →

Венчурный биотех-фонд Primer Capital вложился в компанию Bendit Technologies Ltd., разрабатывающую микрокатетеры для малоинвазивных эндоваскулярных вмешательств. В раунде приняли участие пять инвесторов, сформировав сделку на сумму $3,55 млн. Об этом Firrma рассказали в фонде. Полученные инвестиции будут направлены на запуск продукта на европейском и американском рынках. Компания Bendit Technologies Ltd. разработала конфигурацию малых и гибких микрокатетеров, которыми возможно управлять в сосудах с выраже... →

Truphone, a mobile company that made a name for itself through low-cost international mobile voice and data plans, is taking a very big step forward in a strategy to catapult itself into the future of communications: the company has picked up a massive £255 million ($339 million), funding that it will use to retire its debt and double down on providing data connectivity for connected… Read More... →

Российская платформа для сбора оценки рисков и перспектив ICO-кампаний Dolphin Blockchain Intelligence привлекла от международного акселератора Startupbootcamp €500 тысяч в обмен на 8% компании. Стартап был оценен в €6 млн, сообщает Cnews. Dolphin BI стал единственным российским проектом, который вошел в десятку команд, отобранных Startupbootcamp в акселерационную программу FinTech & CyberSecurity в Амстердаме. Всего в отборе приняли участие более 500 проектов из 73 стран. Полученные средства компания нап... →