Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

When it comes to tracking the effectiveness of online advertising campaigns, PhoneWagon CEO Ryan Shank said there’s been a big piece missing for most businesses — namely, how often those campaigns lead to phone calls. Shank has plenty of experience in local marketing, having worked in sales at Yext, then founding Mhelpdesk, which he sold to IAC’s ServiceMagic. And… Read More... →

Burrow, a startup bringing a Casper-style approach to manufacturing and delivering sofas, is announcing that it has raised $4.3 million in seed funding. This might might not sound like the most obvious area for a startup to tackle — unless you’ve had the experience of trying to carry a couch up a twisty flight of stairs, or attempting to squeeze it through a narrow… Read More... →

Technology has made buying stuff for your house a whole lot easier to do on a whim, but there haven’t seemed to be quite as many advancements in terms of ensuring that what you buy actually makes your space look good. Modsy isn’t an augmented reality company as much as they are a 3D imaging startup that’s aiming to help you augment your living space’s style. Users can… Read More... →

Whether your hair is straight, curly, color-treated or oily, the texture is unique. And a newly launched startup called Prose thinks your hair products should be, too. Prose is working with hair salons and stylists to build custom formulations for clientele. They’ll not only take into account a person’s hair type but whether their city has pollution, wind or humidity. Prose will… Read More... →

Chattermill, a London-based startup that uses ‘deep learning’ to help companies make better sense of customer feedback, has raised £600,000 in seed funding. Backing comes from Entrepreneur First — Chattermill is an alumni of the company builder — and Avonmore Developments, along with a number of angel investors, including Jeff Kelisky, CEO of Seedrs. Read More... →

Белорусская компания «Зубр капитал», под управлением которой находятся фонды прямых инвестиций SMH и Zubr Capital Fund I, проинвестировала порядка $10 млн в кипрскую Lagembor Holdings Ltd., объединяющую белорусские активы Softline. Об этом пишут «Ведомости» со ссылкой на представителей «Зубра» и IT-компании. Полученная доля инвесторами не раскрывается. По информации вице-президента Softline по инвестициям Елены Волотовской, речь идет о блокирующем пакете.  Полученные средства пойдут на развитие белорусског... →

Инвестиции предоставит в том числе фонд Phystech Ventures... →

Inflect, a startup that wants to make it easier for businesses to buy their own internet infrastructure, today announced that it has raised a $3 million seed funding round. The service, which is still in preview, provides business with the necessary data to make their purchasing decisions when they go out and look for their own data center space, networking services and exchange… Read More... →

CrossCut Ventures, a Los Angeles-based seed investment firm has just closed its fourth (and largest) fund with $125 million in new cash. It’s been a long road for the firm’s three co-founders, who have been investing in Los Angeles since 1997. In that time they’ve seen the city’s technology scene evolve in fits and starts, but now, with companies like Snap, Dollar… Read More... →

PerceptIn’s been operating mostly behind the scenes since launching in March of last year. Even so, the company has managed to raise a decent chunk of change in its mission of helping improve robotic vision. The startup’s raised a total of $11 million in all, including a seed round of ~$2 million last year and an $8 million Series A in 2017. Read More... →

Health2Sync, a Taiwan-headquartered company that offers a diabetes tracking service, has closed a $6 million Series B round aimed at expanding its business in Japan and other markets in Asia. Health2Sync launched at the TechCrunch Hardware Battlefield at CES 2014 and it essentially offers a smarter way to track and manage diabetes. Using a connector cable, Android and iOS devices can be… Read More... →

Пять российских стартапов из разных сфер рассказывают о своем нелегком пути привлечения первых инвестиций.  Лориана Сардар, сооснователь каршеринга BelkaCar: Первый раунд мы поднимали два года. Параллельно инвестировали собственные деньги и брали займы, чтобы создавать продукт. В итоге нашли отличного инвестора – швейцарский фонд Bryanston. Нам не надо было убеждать их в потенциале каршеринга, задача была – доказать, что инвестировать нужно именно в нас. На закрытие сделки, от момента due diligence до подп... →

Lyft just announced that it has added an additional $500 million to its most recent funding round, a $1 billion raise announced in October. The now-$1.5 billion round includes participation from Fidelity Management & Research Compant as well as the Ontario Teacher’s Pension Fund. Lyft’s post-money valuation as of this add-on raise is now $11.5 billion, with the expanded round… Read More... →

Smartphones have made flipping through photo albums a relic of the past. It’s easy to peruse and share a digital photo archive, but some people miss looking through photos while sitting next to family and friends. At least that’s what motivated serial entrepreneur Alan Chan to create Joy, a smart photo album. He says that he realized “family photo-sharing is broken”… Read More... →

Have you ever bought something only to see it go on sale the next day? It may seem like bad luck, but you’re often still entitled to get that discount. Some retailers and credit card companies will even guarantee price drop refunds for up to 90 days. But it can be a hassle to keep track of price changes and to follow through and get your money back.  A handful of sites have been… Read More... →

Pi Charging, the company that won at TechCrunch Disrupt SF with its wireless charging tech, has closed a series A round of $11.4 million dollars. They disclosed the news for the first time while updating the audience at Disrupt Berlin on their progress since winning in SF. For those who might’ve missed it: Pi Charging is building a device (the namesake Pi Charger) that lives on your… Read More... →

Проект Universa Blockchain Александра Бородича вошел в консорциум Blockchain.aero, который занимается развитием городской авиации, объединяя производителей, поставщиков услуг и разработчиков ПО. Universa Blockchain присоединится к формированию модели сети городской авиации и системы с управляемой производительностью. Об этом Firrma рассказали в Universa. Консорциум Blockchain.aero планирует направить все детали работы аэротакси в блок-цепь: от качественных характеристик транспортного средства, координации ... →

The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged Canadian crypto company PlexCorp with violating securities laws by selling up to $15 million in an initial coin offering (ICO). ICO’s have seen explosive growth over the past year as fledgling companies have used them raise more than $3 billion in capital through various cryptocurrencies. However, experts have warned they can present… Read More... →

Raising a Series A is hard for a founder. Especially when you consider they’re usually doing it for the first time, while the VCs on the other side of the table are essentially professional negotiators getting pitched and doing deals every day. So to help give founders a leg up Justin Kan’s new legal tech startup Atrium is launching a program to help founders become better… Read More... →

There has been a veritable explosion of connected devices that people are using these days to interact with apps and the internet, from smartphones and computers, to cars, watches, home speakers and refrigerators. Now a startup out of Berlin called Contentful has raised $28 million to position itself as the platform to manage how all that information is delivered via a set of APIs. The Series… Read More... →