Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

Grab, the Uber rival in Southeast Asia that operates across seven countries, is reportedly in talks to raise up to $2 billion from Japan-based SoftBank and China-based Didi Chuxing, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing sources. The funding would reportedly value Grab at more than $5 billion, which would make it the most valuable startup in Southeast Asia. SoftBank is the telecom giant that… Read More... →

A few months ago I wrote about a little startup called Collectly going after the big, inefficient  debt collection industry by using modern tools to ease the process for debtors while also increasing the amount of money recovered. Based on some early traction, the company has raised $1.9 million in seed funding to grow its nascent business. Read More... →

Венчурный инвестор Александр Румянцев вложится в онлайн-площадку GrapTil.com, которая помогает покупать и продавать загородную недвижимость при помощи технологии «Открытый Дом». Инвестор получит 10% долю в компании. Об этом Firrma рассказали в стартапе. Сделка будет закрыта в ближайшие дни. Инвестиции планируется направить на внедрение системы для проведения сделок с недвижимостью на базе blockchain-технологии и масштабирование проекта. GrapTil.com — сервис, который определяет рыночную стоимость дома и про... →

Assent Compliance isn’t in a sexy space. The company focuses on helping enterprises collect the necessary data to keep their global supply chains in compliance with local and international regulations. But while that may not sound like the most exciting space to be in, the company today announced that it has raised a $40 million CAD Series B round. Read More... →

Insticator is announcing that it has raised $5.2 million in Series A funding. The startup allows online publishers to add quizzes, polls and other interactive elements (either created by Insticator or by the publisher themselves) to their stories. They then make money from those widgets by then running ads in them, too. Other startups trying to do something similar include Playbuzz and Qzzr… Read More... →

Applying for homeowner’s insurance should be as easy as waving your phone camera around your room. That’s the premise behind Cover, an app that recommends insurance based on what’s photographed in your home. Whether it’s electronics, jewelry, or even your pet, Cover will cover just about anything. Cover is licensed to sell insurance and they work with Progressive,… Read More... →

Segment has raised $64 million in Series C funding, with the Y Combinator Continuity Fund and GV leading the round. The continuity fund is the $700 million fund led by former Twitter COO Ali Rowghani. It selectively writes checks for YC startups as they raise bigger rounds of funding. As part of the deal, Rowghani will be joining Segment’s of directors. In the funding announcement, he… Read More... →

Micro-investing app Stash has raised an additional $40 million in Series C funding, the company announced this morning, following rapid growth in terms of sign-ups from new users – 86 percent of whom are first-time investors. The startup’s app is designed to help ease people into investing by allowing anyone to start with as little as $5, then build a portfolio you contribute more… Read More... →

Saucey, an L.A.-based alcohol delivery company, has raised $5.4 million in Series A funding led by Bullpen Capital, with participation from earlier and new investors, including Blumberg Capital, Structure Capital and HashtagOne. Saucey, which has now raised $10.2 million altogether, is competing against a dizzying number of alcohol-delivery companies. In addition to direct rivals… Read More... →

Spotinst, a service that helps businesses optimize their cloud utilization and reduce their cloud computing cost through the use of Amazon’s EC2 spot instances, today announced that it has raised a $15 million Series A round led by Intel Capital, with participation from Vertex Ventures and Springtime Ventures. This brings Spotinst’s funding to date to a total of $17 million. The… Read More... →

Care/of, a year-old, New York-based company that makes subscription-only vitamin supplements that it says are tailored specifically to user’s needs, has convinced investors to give it $12 million in Series A funding to get more of its pill packs on users’ welcome mats. Goodwater Capital led the round, with participation from Tusk Ventures, RRE Ventures, the co-founders of the… Read More... →

Средства планируется направить на реализацию новой стратегии развития и реструктуризацию компании... →

Two years ago, Stephen Kane was looking for his next big idea. A lawyer who previously worked for the mega-firm O’Melveny & Myers and then spent time at Lex Machina, a software company that analyzed caselaw for lawyers, Kane was looking for the next new thing. That was when he hit on his latest idea, FaircCaims — an online service to resolve small claims cases. Kane calls it… Read More... →

Стартап с российскими корнями Revolut привлек $66 млн. Деньги в проект вложили фонды Index Ventures, Ribbit Capital и Balderton Capital. Об этом сообщает агентство Bloomberg. Полученные инвестиции будут направлены на расширение присутствия компании в Азии и Северной Америке, а также на развитие новых сервисов, которые позволят клиентам использовать криптовалюту. Revolut представляет собой пластиковую карту платежной системы MasterСard с тремя валютными счетами, которая управляется через мобильное приложение... →

Revolut has raised a $66 million Series B round with Index Ventures leading the round, and existing investors Balderton Capital and Ribbit Capital also participating. The startup will also run another $5 million crowdfunding campaign in a few weeks. The company has raised $83 million in total. Revolut started as a mobile app that lets you send and receive money in multiple currencies. Over… Read More... →

Группа компаний Game Show привлекла $3,5 млн от инвесторов прошлых раундов. Об этом Firrma сообщили в компании. Имена инвесторов не раскрываются. Привлеченные средства будут направлены на реализацию новой стратегии развития и на реструктуризацию компании. Game Show намерена закрыть офис в Вильнюсе и переехать в Москву в новую студию, которую планируют открыть этой осенью. В планах компании также расширение штата и редизайн киберспортивной платформы gsl.tv. Общий объем инвестиций, полученных с момента основа... →

Astronomer aims to ease the pain around data analytics. Collecting data is just part of the operation. After the data has been collected, it needs to be assembled and organized and sometimes that’s the most time-consuming part of the process. Astronomer says its solution helps with this process, freeing up engineering resources to actually analyze the data. The Cincinnati-based company… Read More... →

Fresh out of 500 startups, Datatron has raised $2.7 million in seed financing for its data savvy assistant Emma. But under the somewhat trite coating of an assistant, Datatron is a making it easier for employees to gather insights from the complex web of historical and real-time data. Businesses generate hordes of data on uneven timelines. Some data is updated less frequently, like the number… Read More... →

Whatever any country leader says about banning travel or shutting down the movement of people, the world is accelerating its globalisation and that means people move around. Duh. Talent is now global, and the industry that helps that talent move is huge. Thus it is that Move Guides — a SaaS platform for employee relocation which launched in London but has grown internationally —… Read More... →

Genoox, a startup that wants to make it easier for medical professionals to use genomic data in patient care, has raised $6 million in funding. The capital includes a seed round from Inimiti Capital Partners and a Series A round led by Glilot Capital Partners. Read More... →