Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

If you ask investors in Silicon Valley about Houzz — an app where you browse ridiculously nice homes and check out interesting interior design ideas — they’ll probably quietly mutter that they’re just growing their business. We really don’t hear about Houzz’s business that often. Except now the company says it has raised $400 million led by Iconiq Capital,… Read More... →

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... →

Blue Apron will be going public in short order, kicking off the second big major consumer IPO of 2017. It’s nowhere near as big as Snap, but the company at the top end of its IPO pricing will be valued at around $3.2 billion as it looks to raise nearly $600 million. The company’s IPO comes at an interesting time as we approach the midpoint for 2017, which has seen a big wave of… Read More... →

Space tech company Satellogic has raised $27 million in a Series B round led by Chinese internet giant Tencent, and with participation by CrunchFund (disclosure: co-founded by TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington). The company also launches its sixth micro-satellite into orbit on June 15, aboard a Long March-4B rocket that took off from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. What Satellogic… Read More... →

Word recently spread that Google had quietly launched a new fund for investing into AI companies. Now this fund has made its first (or at least its first public) investment, leading a $10.5 million Series A into Algorithmia, a marketplace and enterprise solution that allows developers to easily tap into its catalog of 3,500 algorithms, functions and machine-learning models. Read More... →

Венчурный инвестор Александр Румянцев вложился в сервис уведомлений от сайтов на рабочий стол Pushem.ru в обмен на 10% долю в компании. Об этом Firrma рассказали в стартапе. Полученные инвестиции будут направлены на разработку дополнительного функционала сервиса, маркетинг и масштабирование проекта. Сам инвестор рассчитывает на десятикратный рост проекта в течение 3 лет. Pushem.ru — сервис уведомлений от сайтов, которые приходят на рабочий стол пользователя, даже если он уже покинул сайт. Основали проект Ев... →

Blockchain (the company) just raised a $40 million Series B funding round led by Lakestar. Blockchain has been working on the most popular bitcoin wallet in the world. You can open a wallet on the company’s website or through its mobile apps. GV, Nokota Management, Digital Currency Group and existing investors Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mosaic Venture Partners, Prudence Holdings,… Read More... →

Chinese startup Tantan, which is probably most comparable to Tinder, has raised $70 million in new capital as it looks to monetize its business for the first time and explore overseas expansion options. Three-year-old Tantan claims 60 million ‘validated’ users — i.e. not fake accounts — of which six million are active on a daily basis. Of those active users, 75 percent… Read More... →

Фонд Inventure Partners вложил $3 млн в онлайн-сервис грузоперевозок Deliver (ранее iCanDeliver). Это часть раунда на $8 млн, в котором ранее участвовал холдинг A&NN Group Александра Мамута и сингапурский фонд прямых инвестиций Amereus Group Максима Воробьева. Об этом Firrma рассказали в Inventure Partners. Inventure Partners вложил в стартап $3 млн. Привлеченные инвестиции будут направлены на продолжение географической диверсификации, масштабирование бизнеса и разработку новых услуг на базе существующей п... →

Growbots uses machine learning to provide sales teams with the right leads to kickstart their outbound sales process. The service, which argues that its product can save each member of a sales team a few days of work every month, today announced that it has raised a $2.5 million funding round from Buran VC, Lighter Capital and a number of angel investors. This brings the company’s… Read More... →

Rinse, the San Francisco-based dry cleaning and laundry delivery service, has closed a $14M Series B round of funding. This comes after a $6M Series A last year, meaning the startup has now raised about $23.5M in three rounds. The round is being led by Partech Ventures, with participation from existing investors including Javelin Ventures, Arena Ventures, Accelerator Ventures, and… Read More... →

The online tutoring market in the US is well-developed. Varsity Tutors raised $50m; Wiseant $20m; Tutor.com sold to IAC and InstaEdu was recently bought out. So it makes sense that this model would be big in other markets. This is the thinking behind MyTutor, a London-based edtech company that connects school pupils to high-performing university students for one-to-one, online… Read More... →

Rapid changes in the shipping industry has caught the attention of investors who are starting to pour large sums of money into the industry. And likely for good reason: as a future where trucks are run autonomously becomes ever clearer, the sensors and software behind that is going to have to be able to keep up. One company, Samsara, is working on just those kinds of sensors and products to… Read More... →

As it looks to expand beyond recruiting and job postings, Textio has raised $20 million in new funding led by Scale Venture Partners, with participation from existing investors Bloomberg Beta, Cowboy Ventures, Emergence Capital, and Upside Partnership. Read More... →

TrueLayer, a London startup that’s built a developer platform to make it easy for fintech companies to access bank APIs — and ride the PSD2 gravy train — has raised $3 million in Series A funding. Read More... →

Российский предприниматель, экс-совладелец «Вимм-билль-данна» Гаврил Юшваев владеет долями в немецком сервисе по доставке еды из ресторанов Delivery Hero и конкуренте Uber на рынке США – сервисе заказа такси Lyft. Об этом пишут «Ведомости». В Delivery Hero Юшваеву принадлежит 6%. В ходе предстоящего IPO предприниматель продаст 0,88%. После IPO пакет бизнесмена составит 4,5% (будет проведена допэмиссия). В том случае, если Delivery Hero разместится посередине объявленного ценового диапазона в 22–25,5 евро з... →

Soldo, the London-based fintech startup that offers a multi-user spending account, first launched for consumers and since tailored to businesses too, has raised $11 million in Series A funding. Read More... →

Основатель туристического сервиса Onetwotrip и бывший топ-менеджер Anywayanyday Петр Кутис привлек $4 млн на развитие своего нового проекта FinalPrice.... →

Look out HotelTonight. Oh, and Booking.com, Expedia, Skyscanner, Hopper and a few others. Coming out of LA there is a new kid on the block. FinalPrice, a new subscription-based travel app, has today both launched and announced its $4 million fund-raising from Almaz Capital, Sistema VC and private investors. For an annual $99 charge, the offer here is that users get access to “the best… Read More... →

Венчурный фонд Sistema VC корпорации АФК «Система» совместно с фондом Almaz Capital и рядом частных инвесторов вложили $4 млн в туристическое мобильное приложение FinalPrice. Об этом Firrma рассказали в пресс-службе Sistema VC. FinalPrice – мобильное приложение, которое работает по модели подписки и позволяет бронировать авиаперелеты, отели и аренду автомобилей по минимально возможной цене. Потенциальным пользователям будет необходимо оформить подписку, стоимость которой составляет $99 в год. Новое приложен... →