Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

Glint, a startup that helps companies improve their employee retention rates, announced today that it has raised $20 million in Series D funding. The round, which includes participation from returning investors Bessemer Venture Partners, Meritech Capital Partners, Norwest Venture Partners and Shasta Ventures, brings Glint’s total funding so far to $80 million. Read More... →

Instart Logic has raised $30 million in Series E funding. The company describes its technology as a “digital experience platform.” If that sounds vague, it’s partly because Instart Logic actually has a broad range of products, covering everything from performance optimization, image optimization, application firewall and its own content delivery network. Founder and CEO… Read More... →

HelloFresh, the Berlin-based cooking kit delivery company, priced its IPO at the middle of its expected range at 10.25 euros, or roughly $11.91 dollars. This means that the company could raise up to 318 million euros in the offering, or $369 million, assuming underwriters exercise what’s called a greenshoe option. It would value the company at nearly $2 billion or 1.7… Read More... →

Экс-владелец группы «Мортон», президент ГК «Основа» Александр Ручьев стал владельцем 45% доли в компании Awespace (ООО «Центр технологий и медиа групп»). Об этом пишет РБК со ссылкой на «СПАРК-Интерфакс». Стартап занимается проектами в сфере виртульной и дополненной реальности (VR/AR) для b2b и b2c сегментов. Технология позволяет «превращать стенды в интерактивные инсталляции и оживлять любую поверхность».  Инвестиции Ручьева пошли на развитие двух продуктов с технологией AR для массового рынка, ориентирова... →

When Greg Mark takes his 3D printer to VCs he gets blank stares. The Boston-based CEO of Markforged, a 3D printing company that specializes in printing carbon fiber and metals, has found that few of them could understand his technology. That’s why he turned to Microsoft Ventures, Posche, and Siemens-backed Next 47 for his next $30 million for his Series C. These industry-backed VCs… Read More... →

Expense reports aren’t the most exciting thing in the universe. But when you reach the scale of say, Amazon, and have tens of thousands of employees, making sure everything comes through smoothly and the right things are being billed to the company could mean the difference in millions of dollars to your bottom line. And when Anant Kale walks into the office of a big company and asks for… Read More... →

There are venture-backed shoes, razors, and glasses. So why not, toothbrushes? Quip has raised a $10 million round for its dental care business. Sherpa Capital and other unnamed fashion and entertainment investors participated. The New York-based startup is “a lot more than just an electric toothbrush,” said Simon Enever, founder and CEO. Quip is “looking to help fix or… Read More... →

Kano — the startup that teaches kids (and adults) about computers and coding by way of a variety of do-it-yourself hardware building kits — is announcing an important milestone in its growth today. The company has raised $28 million in funding, and ahead of the holidays, it will be using that investment to help spearhead a retail push in North America by getting the device into… Read More... →

Sunlight, a London startup that offers an employee learning and development platform to let companies offer more bespoke professional development, has picked up £500,000 in seed backing. Leading the round is Speedinvest, with participation from previous backers Seedcamp, and Annection, amongst a number of individuals. Read More... →

Razer looks to raise $500 million in Hong Kong IPO, Google releases a new hardware kit for Hangouts Meet and Netflix halts production on House of Cards. All this on Crunch Report. Read More... →

Just months after Grail raised a $900 million Series B round, the startup that aims to detect cancer early on is looking for additional funding, CNBC reports. Prior to the $900 million round, Grail raised $100 million last year to develop initial studies of its blood test technology. Citing sources, CNBC says Grail is mostly focused on sovereign funds. Grail has reportedly been in touch… Read More... →

Razer, the U.S.-Singapore firm that produces PCs and peripherals for gamers, is set to raise as much as $550 million from its Hong Kong IPO after it revealed its price range. The company first filed to go public in July, and today it confirmed that it plans to offer 1,063,600,000 shares at a range of HK$2.93-HK$4.00, that’s around $0.38-$0.51. If the full allocation sells at that top… Read More... →

Ada Health, the AI-driven app which works a little like an ‘Alexa for health’, has raised a $47M (€40M) funding round led by Access Industries, Len Blavatnik’s global investment group. Joining the round in the Berlin-HQ’d startup was June Fund and Berlin-based Cumberland VC. Fascinatingly, William Tunstall-Pedoe, the AI entrepreneur who came up with the Siri-like… Read More... →

Фонд Runa Capital вышел из американского стартапа SchoolMint, который предоставляет онлайн-систему записи в государственные, частные и чартерные школы. Стартап приобрела компания Hero K12, которая анализирует поведение студентов и школьников. Hero K12 купила Schoolmint в рамках инвестиционной стратегии, согласно которой, компания особое внимание уделяет приложениям для повышения эффективности работы школ. SchoolMint присоединиться к образовательной платформе EdTech Platform. По собственным данным, SchoolM... →

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Издательство бизнес-литературы «Альпина» полностью выкупило компанию Alpina Digital, которая работает в сфере корпоративных электронных библиотек, сообщает «Коммерсант». До сделки 45% в ООО «Альпина Диджитал» принадлежали разработчику мобильных приложений Redmadrobot, еще 10% – гендиректору Alpina Digital Александру Негруцы. По данным издания, возврат инвестиций Redmadrobot превысил 600%. По словам гендиректора «Альпины» Алексея Ильина, у издательства и Redmadrobot было разное видение развития проекта. В ... →

The Bay Area-based Wonder Workshop announced today that it has closed a $41 million Series C round of funding. The team has built a number of very cool little robots that kids can program on their mobile phone in a manner that helps them grasp at some computer science basics. Tencent Holdings, Softbank Korea, TAL Education Group, MindWorks Ventures, Madrona Venture Group, and VTRON Group… Read More... →

Former media chief Edgar Bronfman Jr. is starting a venture firm called Waverley Capital with longtime investor Daniel Leff, reports Bloomberg, which says the two are looking to raise up to $100 million. The idea: to target media investments. Media companies are an abiding passion for Bronfman, the former head of Warner Music. He led Seagram, the liquor business built by his uncle Samuel, into… Read More... →

Researchers at the University of Surrey and Dalian University of Technology in China have created a form of nanoparticle that can heat up and kill cancerous cells and then self-regulate to avoid burning healthy cells. The particles can raise their temperature between 42°C to 45°C, hot enough to kill cancer cells. Once they reach a set temperature they back off, ensuring that healthy cells… Read More... →

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