Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

Департамент транспорта Москвы предоставит Фонду развития интернет-инициатив (ФРИИ) доступ к более чем 90 различным типам данных о транспортной ситуации в столице для разработки новых идей и методов решения транспортных задач города. Об этом Firrma сообщили в фонде. Стартапы из нового набора акселератора ФРИИ  (Big Data) получат данные о пассажиропотоках на рейсах городского транспорта, видеопотоках с ТВ-камер интеллектуальной транспортной системы столицы, показателях параметров транспортных потоков и их ско... →

Инвестиции будут доступны через сайт банка, сам сервис будет зарабатывать на комиссии в 0,3% с суммы каждой сделки... →

«Тинькофф банк» и «БКС Брокер» запустили брокерский сервис для покупки акций российских и зарубежных компаний «Тинькофф инвестиции». Клиенты банка смогут приобрести ценные бумаги через маркетплейс банка, сообщили vc.ru представители кредитной организации.... →

When you take your next shower, the water flowing from the faucet may just be recycled. That’s the vision fueling Hamwells, a Netherlands-based startup that launched in the Startup Battlefield at Disrupt London 2015. In the Battlefield, the company presented their e-shower with a re-circulation mode that recycles each drop of water 7 times, significantly reducing the waste… Read More... →

Команда сервиса по доставке еды Delivery Club написала для vc.ru колонку о том, как обстоят дела на мировом фудтех-рынке: собрала актуальные направления, крупных игроков и описала ситуацию в российском сегменте.... →

Два крупнейших в Китае сервиса по прокату велосипедов — oFo и Mobike — в течение недели привлекли многомиллионные инвестиции от разных инвесторов. Несмотря на рост популярности автомобилей в Китае, велосипеды по-прежнему пользуются спросом среди студентов и жителей пригородов, пишет Bloomberg.... →

Remitly, a startup co-founded and led by a former executive of Barclays who saw a gap in the market to build money transfer and other financial services for emerging markets and the “unbanked”, is today announcing that it has raised $38.5 million, as well as expansion to seven more countries in Latin America. The funding, which brings the total raised by Remitly to just under… Read More... →

And it’s off to the races for another takeout food delivery business going public. Today, it was the turn of Takeaway.com, an Amsterdam-based company with operations across Europe, which listed on Euronext Amsterdam. Takeaway.com priced its shares at €23 each ($25.82), giving the company an enterprise value of around €849 million ($952 million) and a market cap of… Read More... →

Минэкономразвития и Фонд развития интернет-инициатив (ФРИИ) обсуждают поправки в законодательство, согласно которым государственные IT-системы станут объектом концессии или государственно-частного партнерства (ГЧП). Об этом сообщают «Ведомости». По словам представителя ФРИИ Сергея Скрипникова, когда государство нуждается в IT-системах, оно вкладывается в разработку, затем тратит на содержание таких систем и решений десятки миллиардов рублей. Эти расходы мог бы взять на себя частный бизнес, если предложить ... →

As we inch closer to a time when we may rely on truly autonomous devices to move us or do things on our behalf, the need for software that’s able to think on its feet (or mid-air) will be essential. Now, an artificial intelligence startup working on this emerging area of machine learning has raised a seed round of funding to try to do just that. Cambridge, UK-based Prowler.io, which… Read More... →

Home Chef just announced that it’s raised a new $40 million round of funding. This Series B comes on top of the $10 million round that Home Chef raised earlier this year. It was led by L Catterton Partners, the private equity firm formed by the recent merger of Catterton with the PE arm of luxury conglomerate LVMH. Founder and CEO Pat Vihtelic has argued that Home Chef differs from… Read More... →

A startup called Dozr Inc. has raised CAN $2.5 million (or $1.9 million USD) in seed funding to help contractors rent heavy industrial equipment from other construction professionals who have it, but aren’t using it. Based in Kitchener, Ontario Dozr’s marketplace lets builders rent equipment, like excavators, skidsteers or one day drones and industrial robotics, either alone, or with… Read More... →

A Los Angeles startup called codeSpark has raised $4.1 million in seed funding for web and mobile games that teach kids how to code, even before they know how to read and write effectively. CodeSpark’s games were developed for kids 4 to 9 years old, and with a goal of not just teaching them STEM concepts, but engaging boys and girls equally well. The games feature characters who are… Read More... →

A cybersecurity startup based in Hod Hasharon, Israel, Karamba Security, has raised $2.5 million in new series A funding to protects internet-connect cars and self-driving vehicles from hackers. Fontinalis Partners, a venture firm that is focused on mobility and transportation-related technologies, led the investment joined by Karamba’s earlier seed backers YL Ventures and GlenRock.… Read More... →

LocalGlobe, founded by former Index Partners investors Robin Klein and Saul Klein, has taken the lead in a GBP500,000 financing for the education technology startup, Lingumi. A member of the 5th cohort of the Entrepreneur First accelerator, Lingumi has not only raised its first capital, but also launched its first product this week. Created by an Oxford University graduate Toby Mather… Read More... →

Today, Skymind, a company developing an open-source deep-learning library for Java, along with tools for implementation, closed $3 million in financing from Tencent, SV Angel, GreatPoint Ventures, Mandra Capital, and Y Combinator. Skymind was previously a part of Y Combinator’s Winter 2016 batch and has taken money from Joe Montana’s Liquid 2 Ventures and a number of other… Read More... →

My first home-way-from-home was a room in a house with an unrepeatable nickname on West College St. in Oberlin, OH. I lived with 8 other people in a two-story, rambling warren filled with rooms and roomlets that had been created over the years to shelter increasing numbers of people in the same finite amount of space. While increasing numbers of college students are choosing the manicured… Read More... →

b8ta, the retail store that sells trendy tech gadgets, recently raised a $7 million Series A round led by TriplePoint Ventures with participation from Khosla Ventures, Fifth Wall Ventures, Macerich and Eniac Ventures. b8ta also received $8 million in debt funding and previously raised a $4.5 million seed round. b8ta launched its first store in Palo Alto last December. Since then, things have… Read More... →

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Setting its sights on a public offering within the next year, Druva, which sells software so businesses can manage all of the information they’re forced by law to hold onto, has raised $51 million. In the old days, data management and protection was an analog affair — or existed on big server farms inside a corporate firewall. Now, like everything else, forecasts are more…… Read More... →