Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

Moscow Seed Fund совместно с частными инвесторами вложил 12 млн рублей в сервис GetShop.TV,  который позволяет покупать товары с экрана телевизора при помощи пульта. Об это Firrma рассказали в пресс-службе Московского фонда содействия развитию венчурных инвестиций (Moscow Seed Fund). Сейчас технология работает в онлайн-кинотеатрах. В IV квартале 2017 года компания планирует запустить технологию для эфирного телевидения на федеральных каналах. Зрители, использующие в качестве приемного устройства приставки о... →

There’s no shortage of startups building their brands around AI for enterprise. And within the enterprise, few spaces are as competitive as AI-powered voice analytics. TalkIQ is the latest company in the space to carry home a large round of financing with promise. With $14 million in Series A funding, the TalkIQ team is hoping its proprietary tech stack and engineering-heavy team will… Read More... →

Incorta, the startup that wants to make big data analytics faster by eliminating the need for data warehouses, has raised a $15 million Series B led by new investor Kleiner Perkins. Existing investors GV and Ron Wohl, former executive vice president of applications development at Oracle, also participated. Read More... →

Посевной венчурный фонд Константина Синюшина и Игоря Лутца the Untitled ventures инвестировал в российский стартап Hello Baby. Об этом Firrma рассказали в фонде. Сумма сделки не раскрывается. Полученная в проекте доля также остается неизвестной. Инвестиции будут использованы для дальнейшей разработки и маркетинга проекта на американском рынке. Проект Hello Baby имеет веб- и мобильную версию. На сервис могут быть загружены четыре вида контента: видео, аудио, фото и текст. Основная монетизация строится на е... →

iZettle, the startup based out of Sweden that competes against the likes of Square and Paypal to provide card transaction services from smartphones and tablets, is adding a little more money to its coffers today, specifically to ramp up in emerging technologies like artificial intelligence. The company has announced that it has received €30 million ($36 million) funding from the European… Read More... →

Have you ever gotten a gift card for a store you don’t shop at? Or have you made a purchase and don’t know what to do with the remaining balance? It turns out you can sell and trade unwanted or partially unused gift cards on a marketplace called Raise. If you don’t want a Starbucks gift card, you can sell it or get one for Macy’s. They also have iTunes, Sephora and… Read More... →

Funnel, a startup headquartered in Stockholm that sells a SaaS to help companies analyse the effectiveness of online marketing spend across multiple channels, has raised $10 million in Series A funding. London VC Balderton Capital led the round, with participation from existing investors including Industrifonden and Zobito. Read More... →

Well, GoCardless co-founder and CEO Hiroki Takeuchi knows how to work a non-denial denial. When I interviewed him a few weeks ago for an extensive profile piece we ran yesterday, he wouldn’t be drawn on if the hot London fintech was raising a new round. Today, the company is announcing $22.5 million in new funding. Read More... →

Mail.Ru Games Ventures, профильное игровое инвестиционное подразделение Mail.Ru Group, объявило о выделении посевных инвестиций в размере 800 тыс. евро для российско-финского разработчика Panzerdog. Как сообщает пресс-служба компании, финансирование позволит команде завершить разработку мобильного шутера Tacticool. Ранее Panzerdog привлек предпосевные инвестиции от финского семейного фонда Aii Capital, одним из владельцев которого является старший советник Президента Фонда […]... →

Финтех-компания SimpleFinance (ООО МКК SimpleFinance), специализирующаяся на кредитовании малого и среднего бизнеса, привлекла инвестиции от японского фонда SBI FinTech Fund (входит в SBI Investment). Об этом сообщает компания. Размер инвестиций стороны не разглашают. SBI FinTech получит место в совете директоров SimpleFinance и примет участие в управлении дальнейшим стратегическим развитием. SimpleFinance направит привлеченные средства на выдачу новых кредитов.  В конце июня SimpleFinance выпустила евроо... →

French startup Younited Credit is building the biggest crowdlending platform in continental Europe. The company just raised $47.8 million (€40 million) to launch in new countries, work on new product features and more. Younited Credit is currently live in France, Spain and Italy as a consumer-facing product. Consumers can borrow anything between $1,200 and $48,000 (€1,000 and €40,000)… Read More... →

If you think that too many VCs these days are playing it safe and only looking to back sure bets rather than moonshots and more ambitious ventures, take a look over at what’s going on in Boston. The Engine, based out of MIT and Cambridge, has raised a $200 million fund to back and help incubate startups working on “tough tech” — new challenges in areas… Read More... →

Slack raises a pretty big chunk of change from SoftBank, the DOJ is investigating an Equifax stock dump and Google debuts payments app Tez in India. All this on Crunch Report. Read More... →

Posted by jkuriaIn this post, we share a CRO case study from Protalus, one of the fastest-growing footwear companies in the world. They make an insole that corrects the misalignment suffered by roughly 85% of the population. Misalignment is the cause of most back, knee, and foot pain. Back pain alone is estimated to be worth $100 billion a year. Summary We (with Protalus’ team) increased direct sales by 91% in about 6 months through one-click upsells and CRO. Based on the direct sales increase, current run... →

It’s impossible to ignore the rush of ICOs in venture capital land. The new fundraising dynamic has helped companies raise more than $1.7 billion this year to date. Huge sums of money tend to catch the attention, but experts in the industry argue that there’s far more to ICOs, also known as token sales, than simply the cash. Eyal Hertzog, a co-founder of Bancor Network —… Read More... →

Roku, the digital streaming business, is looking to raise about $204 million when it goes public later this month. According to a SEC filing revealed Monday, the company plans to price its shares between $12 to $14. This is more than double the $100 million that forecast in the IPO filing earlier this month. That’s because that number is a placeholder and often changes. If it goes public… Read More... →

Venture investing in Latin America continues to pick up the pace, with new deals in financial technology services leading the way. One example of investors’ renewed interest in regional financial services companies is the $14 million in financing that ComparaOnline just wrapped up. The company, now backed by private equity firm Bamboo Capital Partners and the International Finance Corp.,… Read More... →

Slack has raised another huge new round of financing that values the company at more than $5 billion, this time led by Softbank — which seems to be investing in everyone at this point. This seems like another huge investment from a $100 billion fund that is dumping an enormous amount of money in some of the biggest deals in Silicon Valley, this time participating in a $250 million round… Read More... →

Фонд Altair VC и бывший вице-президент по коммуникациям компании Acronis Маша Дрокова инвестировали в американский стартап Piper в раунде А. Об этом Firrma сообщили участники сделки. В разговоре с журналистами Firrma управляющий партнер Altair VC Игорь Рябенький отметил, что его фонд оказался «среди основных инвесторов», сумму сделки он раскрыть отказался . Маша Дрокова ранее вкладывалась в проект.  По данным VentureBeat, общая сумма раунда составила $7,6 млн. Лид-инвестором выступил сделки выступил америка... →

Максим Зябкин, CEO и основатель кросс-платформы для перемещения грузов по трубопроводам Maxitube, специально для Firrma написал колонку о решениях в сфере smart logistics. В середине 2017 года население Земли перевалило за отметку в 7,5 млрд человек. Мировое сообщество осознает проблемы демографического роста – нехватка пространства, пищи, ресурсов и пр. Сегодня большая часть людей по всему миру живет в городах. Еще в 2007 году городское население планеты впервые в истории превысило сельское. Данные ООН сви... →