Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

Благотворительный фонд «Система», который входит в АФК «Система», инвестирует в Университет ИТМО 6 млн рублей на развитие образовательной программы по подготовке IT-специалистов для нужд АФК «Система». Об этом Firrma сообщили в ИТМО. Инвестиции будут направлены на развитие факультета информационных технологий и программирования Университета ИТМО. Будут разработаны образовательные программы по подготовке IT-специалистов профиля, требующегося компаниям группы АФК «Система». Полученные средства также пойдут н... →

Flex, the tampon alternative you can wear during sex, has raised a $3 million seed round led by Vivek Ranadive’s new fund, Better Our World Ventures Fund, with participation from Cyan Banister of Founders Fund, Ellen Pao and others. This comes just a couple of months after Flex raised $1 million from Y Combinator, Amplify.LA and others. Flex plans to use the funding to fine-tune… Read More... →

Fabricating a circuit board isn’t tough but it takes a while. The back and forth, the bugs, and all of the shipping costs can turn a small project into a big problem. That’s why Botfactory raised $1.3 million to stick a PCB printer on your desk. Founded by NYU grad students Nicolas Vansnick and Carlos Ospina along with NYU professor Michael Knox, BotFactory came about when Vansnick… Read More... →

Два стартапа первого выпуска нью-йоркского акселератора Starta Accelerator получили инвестиционные соглашения на сумму чуть менее $7млн. Об этом Firrma сообщили в фонде Starta Capital. Healbe – разработчик фитнес-браслета закрыл раунд А на сумму $6.5 млн конвертируемым займом в обмен на 10% компании от текущих инвесторов. Стартап масштабируется в BRICS, MINT, APAC-странах, имеет предложения от международных фондов в Азии, Европе, а также запускает второе поколение браслета Healbe GoBe на основе искусственно... →

Story Terrace today announced it has raised £500,000 ($640,000) to continue its mission to tell the stories of those you love. The customers are typically kids who want to buy a highly personal gift for their parents around an anniversary, or startup founders who have recently exited a business and want to set the record straight — or at least firmly crooked. Read More... →

Blue Origin succesfully launches a rocket to test a capsule-malfunction scenario, VC firm Metamorphic Ventures raises $50 million and gets a new name, VC firm Fenox pauses its India fund after Venktesh Shukla leaves the company, Clearpath raises a $30 million Series B and Google’s autonomous cars cross 2 million miles driven. All this on Crunch Report. Read More... →

Just in time for New York Comic Con, Madefire is announcing that it has raised $6.5 million in Series B funding. Madefire co-founder and CEO Ben Wolstenholme said the funding — which was led by Santa Monica-based Plus Capital — will help his company build more connections with the media and entertainment world. It’s not that Madefire (which previously raised $6.3 million… Read More... →

Chicken, peas, beef, sweet potatoes, and blueberries, the stuff of $40 meals in places like Hayes Valley and Greenwich Village — and starting today, also the stuff of dog food. Ollie, a new startup founded by Alex Douzet, Gabby Slome and Randy Jimenez is aimed squarely at disrupting the premium pet food space by offering something like a Sprig or Maple for dogs. With a new $4.4… Read More... →

Payoneer, a global provider of payment processing technologies, has added another $180 million to its already sizable warchest as it looks to continue to grow its payment services. Already profitable and with a solid amount of cash on the balance sheet the new money will double the company’s product development and technical staff, according to the company’s chief executive… Read More... →

Ontario tech firm Clearpath Robotics has raised $30 million in a Series B round of venture funding to scale up production of its self-driving vehicles. They’re not exactly Teslas or Google self-driving cars. Intsead, Clearpath makes vehicles that autonomously move boxes and pallets around factories, warehouses and distribution centers. Clearpath CEO and co-founder Matt Rendall tells… Read More... →

Yahoo is under scrutiny today after former employees claimed the company designed custom software to enable U.S. intelligence agencies to scan incoming emails to all of Yahoo’s millions of users. The allegations, first published by Reuters, raise questions about the constitutionality of such dragnet surveillance and about the legal means used to compel Yahoo to build the software.… Read More... →

Инвестиционый фонд A&NN Group Александра Мамута и фонд Amereus Group вложили более $5 млн в онлайн-сервис iCanDeliver, который помогает рассчитывать цены и заказывать перевозки товаров различными видами транспорта непосредственно через перевозчиков.  Как сообщили в Firrma в компании, оба фонда инвестировали поровну и получили по 26% каждый в iCanDeliver. Стратегические инвесторы выкупили доли бизнес-ангелов Кирилла Кириллова и Виталия Разгуляева, которые вложили в сервис $3 млн в ноябре 2014 года. Бизнес-а... →

Closing a Series A is notoriously hard — so much so that it has been coined the “Series A Crunch.” It’s estimated that only about 25 percent of startups that raise a seed round go on to close an A round. Shippo, a shipping-as-a-service platform, is one startup that made it through. Last month, the company announced their $7 million Series A led by USV. Albert Wenger… Read More... →

Компания Леонида Богуславского ru-Net в четвертый раз вложилась в онлайн-магазин приложений AppsDaily, предлагающий, в том числе, приложения для безопасности и защиты смартфонов. Об этом сообщает издание Livemint. Всего AppsDaily привлекла $3,75 млн от основателей компании и существующих инвесторов: Zodius Capital, Kalaari Capital, Qualcomm Ventures и бизнес-ангелов из Мумбаи. Инвестиции пойдут на дальнейший рост сервиса. Вместе с предыдущими раундами стартап привлек 1,5 млрд индийских рупий. Мумбайский ста... →

While at LinkedIn, Steve Goodman and his co-founders spent a lot of their time trying to help companies dig up the best possible candidates from those that exist around the Web — but might not have applied. But after candidates have applied, their resumes are sitting in a database somewhere on a company’s servers. And they continue to sit there, likely untouched or only lightly… Read More... →

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Source{d} provides an interesting use-case for AI. The Spain-headquartered startup, which today is announcing $6 million in Series A funding, is using deep learning to help startups and larger companies recruit developers. Specifically, its AI tech is analysing the code of millions of developers via their open source contributions in order to match them to appropriate job openings. Read More... →

В обмен на инвестиции фонд получил долю в Luden.io в размере 25%... →

Grana, a two-year-old online fashion retailer based in Hong Kong, has announced that it has raised $10 million in fresh funding led by Alibaba’s entrepreneurship fund. Read More... →

Benchling, a biotech company out of Y Combinator providing cloud-based software for researchers, tells TechCrunch it has raised $7 million in growth funding to continue creating tools to help the science community access research from big pharma and other leaders in the space. You might think of Benchling as the Google Docs portion of the life sciences industry. While IT solutions software… Read More... →