Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

Databricks, a big data analytics platform built by a team that grew out of the Apache Spark project, today announced that it has raised a $140 million Series D round led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from New Enterprise Associates and Battery Ventures. This brings Databricks’ total funding raised to date to $247 million, which includes a $60 million round the company… Read More... →

Skytap is probably one of the more interesting clouds right now. Unlike so many other startups, it’s not trying to offer enterprises specific cloud computing services on top of one of the big platforms like AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform. Instead, the company actually runs its own cloud with the goal of helping enterprises that want to modernize their infrastructure bring their… Read More... →

Matterport is picking up new funding as it looks to speed the development of deep learning tech in its capture technology which brings immersive views of spaces into 360-degree 3D The company, which largely specializes in scanning spaces for commercial and real estate purposes, announced today that they’ve picked up $5 million in funding from Ericsson Ventures. This strategic raise… Read More... →

UK fintech startup Prodigy Finance has raised a whopping $240 million funding round, certainly one of the largest by a UK company this year. The company provides loans to international students from emerging markets, enabling them to study at business schools in the US, the UK and Europe. The fundraise includes a $40 million Series C equity round led by London’s Index Ventures, with… Read More... →

Geoff Lewis has left Founders Fund, where he was partner, and is starting a venture fund of his own. This means he’ll no longer be working with Peter Thiel, directly anyway. Founders Fund will be one of his LPs. The news was first reported by Bloomberg, which said that he intends to raise more than $100 million for the new fund. We understand that the exact amount has not been… Read More... →

Redis Labs, a database company that specializes in in-memory databases, said today it has raised $44 million in a funding round led by Goldman Sachs. Redis Labs is like other typical open-source based database companies, where it offers the technology for free while charging for an enterprise tier. It’s a bet that while anyone can build something on the technology, the company will have… Read More... →

Capital Float, which claims to be the largest online lending platform in India, announced today that it has raised a $45 million Series C led by Ribbit Capital. Returning investors SAIF Partners, Sequoia India and Creation Investments also participated. Read More... →

The ICO hackers are at it again. Enigma, a de-centralized platform that’s preparing to raise money via a crypto token sale, had its website and a number of social accounts compromised with the perpetrators netting nearly than $500,000 in digital coin by spending out spam. Enigma, which was started by a group of MIT graduates, did not lose any money from the attack. Whoever orchestrated… Read More... →

Основатель корпорации Qiwi и управляющий партнер фонда Run Capital Андрей Романенко поделился своими наблюдениями о венчурной экосистеме Долины.  Кремниевая Долина – отдельная и самодостаточная бизнес-Вселенная. Для ее понимания нужны люди из среды.  Несколько интересных наблюдений нашел : 1. Не влюбляться в потенциальную инвестицию и Never invest in nice guys! («никогда не инвестируй в приятных парней» – пер. ред.) 2. Построение профессиональной сети – важный элемент успеха VC. 3. Есть прямая корреляция ме... →

You don’t need a fancy university degree to launch a startup and secure venture capital. But looking at the data on who gets funded, alumni affiliation sure seems to be a big contributing factor. Read More... →

Reddit is rolling out its own video platform, VR adtech company Immersv raises $10.5 million and Benchmark versus Kalanick goes sour. All this on Crunch Report Read More... →

Евгения Артемова, вице-президент по глобальным продажам в компании Appness, написала для Firrma колонку о важнейших трендах мобильной рекламы главной соцсети планеты.      Времена надежного бесплатного трафика и органического роста давно ушли, и на сегодняшний день сложно представить себе бизнес, который мог бы стать успешным без рекламы. В этой связи всемогущий Facebook, который обладает аудиторией в 2 миллиарда активных пользователей в месяц по всему миру и колоссальным объемом данных о них, открывает кос... →

While VR has shown consumers a great deal of what’s possible when it comes to immersive experiences, the world of potential that VR opens to advertisers has not been explored so heavily, Immersv, a mobile 360 VR ad network, wants to use the strengths of VR to bring improve mobile advertising, not only on headset but smartphones as well. For now, the startup is focusing on pre-roll… Read More... →

You’ve probably had the experience of going to a website and seeing a lot of content that’s not really relevant. For the most part, a lot of this is organized in a way that’s either pre-defined or based on a limited number of signals that aims to sort of personalize the experience for a normal user. But as time goes on and the competition for eyeballs continues to heat up,… Read More... →

Частный инвестор Александр Румянцев и его партнер Андрей Тамбовцев запустилиобразовательную инициативу «Венчурный Акселератор». Как сообщил Firrma Румянцев, партнеры вошли в проект в равных долях. Сумма инвестиций, который привлек акселератор, не раскрывается. Всероссийский «Венчурный Акселератор» создан как социальный проект профессиональными инвесторами и бизнесменами при содействии Фонда развития интернет-инициатив (ФРИИ) и Тюменского технопарка. Акселератор ориентирован на школьников и студентов, которы... →

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Codacy, a startup based in Lisbon, Portugal that offers what it calls an “automated code review platform,” has raised $5.1 million in Series A funding. EQT Ventures led the round, with participation from existing investors Faber, Caixa Capital, Join Capital, and Seedcamp. Read More... →

Фонд Развития Интернет Инициатив (ФРИИ) вложится в сервис на основе искусственного интеллекта по выявлению потенциала кандидатов в препараты «Семантик Хаб». В сделке также примут участие предприниматели Валентин Дороничев и Владимир Преображенский. Совокупный объем инвестиций составит 24 млн рублей. Об этом Firrma рассказали во ФРИИ. Инвестиции компания планирует направить на маркетинг и продажи на российском и зарубежных рынках. Другим важным направлением станет развитие собственного R&D – с тем, чтобы ито... →

Push notifications are one of the main ways we connect with our apps —  but according to OneSignal CEO George Deglin, most of the tools for managing those notifications are too expensive without offering the features that developers need. Deglin’s company started out as a Y Combinator-backed mobile developer  called Hiptic Games. It was as a game developer that he said he… Read More... →

HomeLight was founded in 2012 to connect home owners looking to sell with real estate agents in their area who are likely to close quickly and get the best price for their homes. With its business quickly growing, the company has raised $40 million in new funding led by Menlo Ventures. Read More... →