Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

Apptopia, a startup that began its life as a marketplace for reselling apps before morphing into the app intelligence provider that’s now used by Google, Facebook, Pinterest, NBCU, and others, has closed on a second seed round of $2.7 million. The round, which was led by Ashton Kutcher’s and Guy Oseary’s Sound Ventures, brings Apptopia’s total raise to date to $5… Read More... →

Everyone knows the basics of how to improve their financial health: put money into savings, track your spending, reduce your debt, look for ways to save on your monthly bills, and make smart investments. Where people struggle is translating that knowledge into specific actions you can take today. That’s where an application called Albert steps into help. The startup, which has now closed… Read More... →

Andy Rubin is looking for another big round of funding for his hardware incubator, Playground Ventures. According to an SEC filing that popped up yesterday (via Dan Primack), the Android founder is looking to raise up to $500 million — Rubin’s name is listed alongside fellow Playground founders Peter Barrett, Matt Hershenson and Bruce Leak. This follows a $300 million funding… Read More... →

More money for more startup seed-stage investments: SV Angel, one of the more prominent early-stage investment firms in the Bay Area, has closed its latest fund at $53 million, according to an SEC filing (via Dan Primack). The firm had originally targeted $46 million for the fund, according to a previous filing in March of this year. Prior to that, the firm had said it would raise even… Read More... →

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Фонд развития интернет-инициатив (ФРИИ) опубликовал отчёт о российском венчурном рынке за первое полугодие 2016 года. Согласно документу, одной из самых быстрорастущих отраслей оказалась медицина — за первые шесть месяцев 2016 года инвестиции в неё выросли в четыре раза по сравнению с аналогичным периодом 2015 года.... →

Aye Finance, a startup that specializes in micro-loans in India, has landed $10.3 million in new funding of its own led LGT and existing investors SAIF Partners and Accion. Read More... →

Israeli startup SafeDK, which offers a mobile SDK management platform to help app developers stay on top of the multiple SDKs their apps increasingly rely on, has closed $3.5 million in Series A funding. Read More... →

Поисковик Findo, умеющий искать информацию по запросам в интернете, облачных хранилищах, соцсетях и на пользовательских устройствах, получил новые инвестиции в размере $1 млн от фонда Flint Capital и компании Foxit. Как сообщает TechCrunch, по результатам достигнутых договоренностей Findo будет интегрирован с сервисами Foxit, которая занимается различным софтом для работы с PDF-файлами. Напомним, в начале текущего […]... →

Theranos competitor Genalyte just announced it has raised an equity round of $36 million in funding led by Khosla Ventures and Redmile Group. The San Diego-based startup leverages lab-on-a-chip technology it says can run through up to 128 different tests on a single finger prick of blood in under 15 minutes using what it calls its Maverick Detection Platform. Genalyte’s proprietary… Read More... →

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Венчурный фонд Sesame Ventures, основанный создателями телепередачи «Улица Сезам» Sesame Workshop и нью-йоркским Collaborative Fund, объявил о своей первой инвестиции, пишет TechCrunch. Компания вложилась в американское обучающее приложение Yup, ранее известное как MathCrunch.... →

Российский фонд прямых инвестиций (РФПИ) кратно увеличил свои инвестиции в проект высокоскоростной перевозки Hyperloop. Об этом сообщает «Интерфакс». Детали сделки не раскрываются. Вложения были произведены совместно с дубайским портовым оператором DP World. О том, что Российский фонд прямых инвестиций (РФПИ) вложился американскую компанию Hyperloop One, стало известно в июне этого года. Подробности сделки тогда также не обсуждались. По словам главы РФПИ Кирилла Дмитриева, речь шла о незначительном объеме и... →

Renew.com has raised $3 million in Series A funding from Venrock, Expa and others to launch a platform aiming to give the baby boomer generation adequate information on their benefits after retirement. American companies started to shift away from pensions and health care benefits packages for retirees in the mid-80’s, leaving the last bit of the boomers without the same compensations… Read More... →

The adoption of the Cloud is booming (of course). But at the same time SaaS services are exploding. That means companies need developer resources to integrate all these inter-locking services. But there’s a problem. They spend huge amounts of time and money manually transferring data between services and are, once again, hamstrung by a lack of developer resources. Playing in this… Read More... →

CodeFights brings together coding challenges and skills-based recruiting. The company, which competes with the likes of HackerRank, today announced that it has raised a $10 million Series A round led by e.ventures. As CodeFights CEO and founder Tigran Sloyan told me, the company’s user base has grown 10x since it announced its $2.4 million seed funding round last April. He attributes… Read More... →

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GuestReady, a service that helps home owners who use Airbnb and other services manage their property professionally, has landed a $750,000 seed funding. The round was led by existing investor Swiss Founders Fund. Read More... →