Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

Фонд содействия развитию венчурных инвестиций в малые предприятия в научно-технической сфере города Москвы (Moscow Seed Fund) совместно с инвестиционной компанией УК «ЭйСиПи» инвестировали 16 млн рублей в средство для эпиляции Let’s gel. Об этом Firrma рассказали в фонде. Проект реализуется компанией «Мерея косметикс», основанной выпускниками акселерационной программы «Формула Биотех 2016» с участием индустриального партнера — компании «Биотекфарм». Основатели компании разработали химический состав, позвол... →

“How much money does it take to get a startup off the ground?” Entrepreneurs and venture capitalists are faced with this question all the time, and the only right answer — it depends — is also the least satisfying. For any particular startup to succeed, it might take a lot of outside funding or very little. It’s contingent on the business a team is trying to build. Read More... →

VIPKID, an online English teaching tool, announced today that it has raised $200 million in financing. That financing round values the company at $1.5 billion, according to a report by Bloomberg. That wouldn’t just give VIPKID unicorn status — it also exposes a huge amount of demand there is in China and other countries as a tool to learn English from English speakers. VIPKID… Read More... →

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As companies get bigger and bigger, their needs are going to change — including, probably most importantly, their options for health care as their employee base expands and the costs of those plans start to balloon. But the end result is that employees could be presented with a confusing set of plans to pick from without a whole lot of guidance. There’s where Lumity comes in.… Read More... →

Square Roots is unusual startup incubator. Sure, the people who participate are entrepreneurs — but they’re also farmers, growing food in hydroponic farms housed inside long, metal containers. Founded by executive chairman Kimbal Musk (brother of Elon Musk, and board member at SpaceX, Tesla and Chipotle) and CEO Tobias Peggs (former CEO of Aviary), Square Roots launched a year… Read More... →

Finland-based ICEYE is launching a constellation of microsatellites with the aim of helping provide a view form space where traditional imaging cannot, with images delivered within a few hours using a technology that is typically very expensive and difficult to deploy. The startup uses something called synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) to observe Earth even through clouds and in darkness, and… Read More... →

Truss, a Chicago-based commercial real estate (CRE) tech platform, today announced that it has raised a $7.7 million Series A round led by Navitas Capital, with participation from Hyde Park Angels, which also invested in Truss’ seed round. The round also includes debt financing from The PrivateBank. This round brings Truss’ total funding to $9 million. Commercial real estate, just… Read More... →

Twitch and YouTube Gaming have reigned supreme in the eSports viewing space, but the services have struggled to find ways to make the action of watching other people play video games into a more interactive experience. Sliver.tv is bringing 360-degree views to traditional 2D eSports PC content via their patented technologies which gives viewers courtside seats to the match, allowing them to… Read More... →

Основатель сервиса для изучения иностранных языков LinguaLeo и образовательного портала LeveL90 Айнур Абдулнасыров приобрел 20% в «Венчурном Акселераторе». Об этом Firrma сообщили в компании. Ранее в проект в равных долях вложились частный инвестор Александр Румянцев и его партнер Андрей Тамбовцев. Сумма сделки сторонами тогда не разглашалась. Сейчас, по словам Румянцева, вхождение в проект Абдулнасырова осуществлялась путем увеличения капитала компании на 20%.  Всероссийский «Венчурный Акселератор» создан ... →

Фонд Развития Интернет Инициатив и бизнес-ангел Лев  Гориловский вложат 25,8 млн рублей в логистическую платформу Expeditor.Pro. Об этом Firrma сообщили в фонде.   Полученные инвестиции компания направит на разработку дополнительных функциональных модулей, маркетинг и развитие клиентского сервиса. Expeditor.Pro – платформа, автоматизирующая все этапы организации и выполнения грузовых перевозок автомобильным транспортом. Сервис подбирает наиболее подходящих для выполнения работ перевозчиков, формирует оптима... →

LinkedIn now allows anyone to upload video to the platform, Databricks raises $140 million and Druva raises $80 million, the first day of Y Combinator’s Summer 2017 Demo Days wraps up and Verizon throttles down to 480p for its unlimited plan. All this on Crunch Report. Read More... →

An ongoing trend among businesses to put more of their data into the cloud — bringing ever more smartphones, tablets, laptops and other devices on to their networks — is driving a lot of business to startups that are building smart ways to capture, back up and analyse these increasingly complex network architectures. Today, one of the bigger of these startups is announcing a… Read More... →

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... →