Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

Do you like hats? If you do, maybe you already contributed to The Boring Company’s ability to dig a network of underground tunnels. Since Elon Musk started selling The Boring Co. hats, featuring the logo on the front (which he once claimed was designed by director J.J. Abrams), the company has apparently sold $300,000 worth of the march. That’s a lot of hats: At $20 per,… Read More... →

Candid, the dental startup that aims to straighten your teeth for less than the cost of braces and Invisalign, recently raised a $15 million Series A round led by Greycroft Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, e.ventures and some existing investors. The plan is to use the funding to beef up Candid’s operations and grow its customer base, the company said in a press release.… Read More... →

A company called Confido raised a small ICO by selling special CFD designed to allow “safe and trustless cryptocurrency payments. According to ICODrops they raised their goal of about $400,000 and quickly disappeared, taking the cash with it. The site is currently a parked web server that points to nothing. The apparent founder and former eBay employee, Joost van Doorn, posted a message to… Read More... →

Uber and Lyft have made it easier to get around town, but the service isn’t designed for young people. Unaccompanied passengers under the age of 18 are forbidden from ordering cars. So how are children supposed to go from one activity to the next when their parents are busy? Well, there’s carpools or nannies, but a ridesharing startup called HopSkipDrive is combining these concepts… Read More... →

Венчурный фонд Altair Capital Игоря Рябенького вложился в Gagbot, мобильное приложение для создания подписей к фотографиям и картинкам с помощью нейронных сетей. Общая сумма раунда составила $500 тысяч. В сделке также приняли участие частные инвесторы, имена которых не раскрываются. Об этом Firrma рассказали в Altair Capital. Привлеченные инвестиции будут направлены на развитие и масштабирование проекта на рынке США. Приложение Gagbot помогает автоматически создавать остроумные мемы и подписи на основе ... →

Венчурный фонд AddVenture инвестировал $4,5 млн в онлайн-сервис уборки квартир Qlean, сообщают «Ведомости» По словам управляющего директора фонда Максима Медведева, сервис оценен в $80 млн. Контрольный пакет акций остался у основателей проекта. До этого фонд вложил $1,2 млн в проект в марте 2015 года, затем в марте 2016 года — $3,5 млн при оценке в $14,5 млн. Средства были направлен на тестирование новых продуктов, выходы на новые рынки (например, услуг для бизнеса). Новые инвестиции пойдут на развитие са... →

Tech In Asia, the Singapore-based media and events startup, has closed $6.6 million in fresh funding. The lead investor is a name that may not be too familiar to regular readers (yet) and that’s Hanwha, a Korean conglomerate which started out in explosives in 1952 but has since expanded into a range of verticals including (now) a focus on tech in emerging markets. With $55.5 billion… Read More... →

Code2040, founded by Laura Weidman Powers and Tristan Walker, recently raised $5.6 million to advance its diversity and inclusion efforts in technology. The latest funding comes from The Knight Foundation, The Sara and Ev Williams foundations and others, and brings Code2040’s total funding raised to over $7 million. Code2040’s Fellows program, which first launched in 2012,… Read More... →

Stitch Fix went up just 1% on its first day of trading. After pricing at $15, the company closed at $15.15. It’s also below the opening trade of $16.90. The company also didn’t raise as much money as it had been hoping for. It raised $120 million, after pricing at $15, below the expected range of $18 to $20. The company also reduced the size of its IPO. Stitch Fix markets itself… Read More... →

There’s a glimpse of hope in new media as Axios just raised $20 million less than a year after its launch, the Wall Street Journal reported. The company already had a pretty big list of investors, and most of the startup’s existing investors are putting more money into Axios. Existing investors Greycroft Partners and Lerer Hippeau Ventures are co-leading today’s… Read More... →

Tortuga Logic has raised $2 million in seed funding from Eclipse Ventures to help in their effort to maintain chip-level system security. Based in Palo Alto, the company plans to use the cash to build products that will find “lurking vulnerabilities” on computer hardware. The founders, Dr. Jason Oberg, Dr. Jonathan Valamehr, Professor Ryan Kastner of UC San Diego, and Professor… Read More... →

Сбербанк купил 25,07% в компании VisionLabs, создающей программное обеспечение и облачные сервисы для распознавания и анализа лиц. Сумма сделки не раскрывается. Известно, что контрольный пакет остался за основателями. Об этом сообщают «Ведомости» со ссылкой на представителя банка, а также гендиректора и основателя VisionLabs Александра Ханина.  Инвестиции Сбербанка не повлияют на работу VisionLabs с другими банками. Как уточнил Ханин, с инвестором VisionLabs будет работать не только в финансовом секторе, н... →

There’s been plenty of appetite for Stitch Fix’s upcoming NASDAQ listing, but concern around disappointing listings from Snap and Blue Apron may explain why the fashion e-commerce company has opted to slim down its IPO tomorrow. Stitch Fix stands to raise $120 million after it announced a lower than expected $15 share price and a reduced number of shares on offer. That price comes… Read More... →

Digital art technology company Meural has raised a $5 million Series A round of funding, led by Corigin Ventures and with participation from Netgear, Resolute Venture Partners and assorted angels. The $5 million in fresh funds accompanies the news that Meural will now be distributing its Canvas in retail stores across the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Germany, France and the Netherlands. The… Read More... →

If you’ve ever ended up with an injury, you’ve probably gone through an overly long process to eventually end up in a physical therapist’s office: you go to a doctor’s office, they take a look, hand you a slip of paper, and refer you off to a PT office (that might not even still exist). And that’s just to get to the point of actually starting the workouts and… Read More... →

Trocafone, the online marketplace for used electronics, has raised $15 million in new financing to expand its reach beyond Brazil and Argentina into other emerging markets. The company, which raised $7 million in a previous round of financing last year, said the new money came from Callfort, MIT Castor Ventures Fund, FJ Labs, Rocketship, Mercado Libre Fund, and other undisclosed investors.… Read More... →

If you’re a company working on an electric skateboard that’s already raised nearly $500,000 on Kickstarter and slayed the Shark Tank sharks what do you do for an encore? The answer, at least for Inboard Technology, is to go out and raise $8 million in a new round of venture funding to become the Tesla of skateboards. Read More... →

PIxelz, a Danish provider of post-production photographic software and services, has raised  $7 million to build out its business in Europe. Read More... →

If you’ve ever searched for a product on any website that’s not Amazon or Google, you’ve probably had a bad time trying to find something — and then go straight back to Google or Amazon. That’s a significant problem for retailers, which need to ensure that potential customers that are already signaling a lot of interest in buying something will actually be able… Read More... →

Criteo has long been named as one of the most successful French startups, quickly reaching unicorn level and even going public in the U.S. Former Criteo CEO Jean-Baptiste Rudelle is now launching a new startup called Less with Romain Niccoli, Florent Bouteiller and Francis Cohen. The startup just raised $19 million (€16 million) from Index Ventures and Daphni. Less is a ride-sharing service… Read More... →