Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

Unicorns are like buses for Hong Kong. After living in the shadow of other cities and waiting around for its first, it now has (almost) two billion-dollar companies within months… and in the same space. GoGoVan became the country’s first unicorn in September following a merger deal with China-based 58 Suyun, and now Lalamove — another Hong Kong company specializing in… Read More... →

HelloFresh, the Berlin-based cooking kit delivery company, revealed that it’s planning to raise up to $353 million in an IPO on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. The move would value HelloFresh at up to 1.5 billion euros ($1.8 billion) in the public markets. This is below the last private market valuation of 2 billion euros. The IPO may come as a surprise to some, following the lackluster… Read More... →

Location and mapping been two of the key features underpinning a wide array of smartphone services. Now a startup that has been at the center of building those location services for mobile devices has picked up a large round of funding to take its tech to newer frontiers in hardware, specifically in automotive and virtual / augmented reality. Mapbox, a company that competes against Google and… Read More... →

Andela, a startup that trains developers in Africa and hires them out to global tech companies, has raised $40 million in Series C funding. Read More... →

Airbnb finally got serious about the Chinese market this year, and now its chief rival in the country — Tujia — has tapped investors for $300 million more to sharpen its focus on global markets. The new funding values Tujia at $1.5 billion, the startup confirmed. That’s a big jump on the $1 billion it commanded when it last raised in 2015, but the company is going to the… Read More... →

Сбербанк и управляющая компания FortRoss Ventures (бывшая УК MoneyTime) запустили венчурный фонд SBT Venture Fund II. Об этом Firrma сообщили в компании. На сегодняшний день размер обязательств SBT Venture Fund II составляет $75 млн долларов. Совокупный размер обязательств под управлением FortRoss Ventures — $175 млн. Максимальный объем фонда составит $200 млн, в свою очередь инвестиции в каждый новый проект будет равен $5-10 млн. «Сегодня к фонду присоединились уже более 10 инвесторов, — говорит Виктор Ор... →

«Ростелеком», ФРИИ и фонд «Сколково» начинают набор технологических стартапов в совместную акселерационную программу. Организации будут интересовать компании, которые занимаются проектами по созданию оборудования и ПО для виртуализации телекоммуникационных сетей ЦОДов, а также стартапы из области интернета вещей, индустриального интернета, кибербезопасности, видеоаналитики, технологий компьютерного зрения, connected cars, дронов и «умных автомобилей». Об этом журналисту Firrma рассказали на пресс-конференци... →

Фонд AddVenture и группа частных инвесторов вложили 32 млн рублей в стартап BestDoctor, сообщает «Коммерсант» со ссылкой на сооснователя стартапа Марка Саневича и управляющего партнера фонда Максима Медведева. По их словам, инвестиции будут направлены на техническое развитие сервиса и маркетинг. BestDoctor — онлайн система корпоративного медицинского обслуживания. Заменяет добровольное медицинское страхование. Компании-клиенты BestDoctor платят не фиксированную сумму по количеству сотрудников, а за фактиче... →

Zume has long had grand ambitions for its food automation service, and the Mountain View-based startup is now $48 million closer to that goal, courtesy of a new series B. The funding, first spotted by CNBC, was detailed in an SEC filing, alongside the company’s plans to raise a total of $50 million. Cofounders/co-CEOs Julia Collins and Alex Garden confirmed the round this morning with… Read More... →

Laundryheap is a London-headquartered laundry on-demand startup that has taken a different path to competitors such as Laundrapp and Rocket Internet’s Zipjet. Rather than raise VC funding, the company, which claims to already be break even and is operational in London, Birmingham, Manchester, Dublin and Dubai, has been entirely bootstrapped over the last three years. Read More... →

Венчурный биотех-фонд Primer Capital вложился в препарат компании «МТ-Медикалс» для лечения туберкулеза со множественной лекарственной устойчивостью. Об этом Firrma сообщили в фонде.  Размер сделки не раскрывается, известно, что вместе с грантом от «Сколково» общая сумма вливаний составила 11 млн рублей. Еще 33 млн ООО «МТ-Медикалс» получила от Министерства образования и науки РФ в рамках госконтракта.  Инвестиции будут направлены на разработку технологии получения готовой лекарственной формы, аналитических... →

GitLab, a collaboration and DevOps platform for developers that’s currently in use by more than 100,000 organizations, today announced that it has raised a $20 million Series C round led by GV (the fund you may still remember under its former name of Google Ventures). This brings GitLab’s total funding to date to just over $45.5 million. In addition to the new funding, the… Read More... →

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... →

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