Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

Получивший инвестиции от «Яндекса» агрегатор скидок в супермаркетов «Едадил» запустил тестирование сервиса «Сова», с помощью которого пользователи могут получать кэшбек за покупки в супермаркетах. Об этом изданию Roem.ru рассказал глава по продукту компании Михаил Климин.... →

Facebook launches Watch Tab, Coinbase raises a $100 million Series D, Consumer Reports pulls its Microsoft Surface recommendation and 500 Startups Australia falls apart. All this on Crunch Report Read More... →

There are a million and one services for voice transcription on the market. But even with just one job to do, I’ve never seen a service that can handle the long tale of vocabulary used in the real world. This is particularly challenging if you’re a startup trying to sell your service to enterprises that rely on accurate transcription for their operations. Jon Goldsmith, co-founder… Read More... →

«Дочка» АФК «Система» Владимира Евтушенкова — Sistema Finance — приобрела 50% долю в литовском стартапе Laserpas, который занимается мониторингом электрических сетей по всему миру. Сумма сделки составила €2,6 млн. Об этом сообщает РБК. Laserpas разрабатывает беспилотные воздушные транспортные средства и сервисы, связанные с ними. Компания является коммерческим оператором дронов, которые используются владельцами электросетей по всему миру для мониторинга. «Эта сделка является финансовой инвестицией Sistema F... →

Coinbase has had a pretty crazy six months. It may be hard to remember, but at the beginning of 2017 the cryptocurrency world was a different place. Bitcoin was below $1000 per coin and the entire market cap for all cryptocurrencies was about 7x less than it is today. Since then, the market has surged. And as arguably the most established wallet and exchange service that exists today, Coinbase… Read More... →

This week seems to be a good one for media streaming companies in Asia. Hot on the heels of Malaysia-based Iflix raising $133 million for its Netflix-like service for emerging markets, Hong Kong’s PCCW has pulled in $110 million for its range of video and music streaming services. Hony Capital, which recently backed WeWork’s China business, Foxconn Ventures and Singapore… Read More... →

Amplitude has raised $30 million to fund what CEO Spenser Skates said is a mission of “helping product people build better products.” That’s not quite how Amplitude pitched itself initially, which was more about undercutting other analytics companies on price. Skates (pictured above with his co-founder Curtis Liu) said this is less a change in direction for the company than a… Read More... →

Los Angeles-based Pistol Lake has developed what it thinks could be the next thing in men’s activewear — a line of shirts and other products made with new fabric that could be worn at the gym or out and about. To fund the next evolution of its product expansion, the company has raised $600,000 in new funding.  Read More... →

Here Be Dragons, an immersive production studio focused on virtual reality content, has closed a $10 million Series A round led by Discovery Communications with participation also coming from David Droga and David Jones. The raise sets the virtual reality studio’s valuation at $55 million pre-money, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. As part of the round, Discovery exec Rebecca… Read More... →

Buoy, a startup using an intelligent algorithm backed my medical data to guess what ails you, has raised $6.7 million in Series A funding from F-Prime Capital Partners, FundRx and various angel investors to help scale operations. The startup debuted in March of this year to take on WebMD and other online symptom checkers with an algorithm it believes can more accurately diagnose patients.… Read More... →

Firrma собрала мнение инвесторов и участников рынка о совместном бизнесе Сбербанка и Яндекс.Маркета.   Алексей Соловьев, партнер и управляющий директор фонда iTech Capital: Я бы обратил внимание на фразу «связанные с этим продукты и услуги». Хочется надеяться, что это возможность для стартапов и их инвесторов, а не угроза. Возможно, что образование такого конгломерата даст возможность новым и существующим стартапам, создающим «связанные с этим продукты и услуги» как развить свой бизнес, так и дать ликвиднос... →

Railsbank, a relatively new fintech startup co-founded by CEO Nigel Verdon, who previously co-founded money exchange and payments platform Currencycloud, has raised $1.2 million in a funding round led by seed investment firm Firestartr. Read More... →

Pro.com started out as a marketplace that wanted to connect homeowners with home improvement and renovation professionals. Today, however, the company is a tech-centric general contractor with licenses in Washington state and California — and it’s also probably one of the best-funded general contractors. The company today announced that it has raised a $10 million growth… Read More... →

Everyone should be saving for retirement, but not everyone has an employer that offers a 401(k) plan. Guideline wants to change that, and the company has raised $15 million to grow its base of small business customers making retirement more attainable for employees. Read More... →

Israeli startup Oryx Vision has raised a $50 million Series B round led by Third Point Ventures and WRV to help continue to develop and commercialize its innovative LiDAR tech, which is designed to be as simple as a digital camera with greater reliability and sensitivity than existing LiDAR, while also achieving a low cost. Oryx’s LiDAR has no moving parts, and uses antennas in place… Read More... →

Iflix, an Asia-based startup providing Netflix-like streaming services in emerging markets, has landed $133 million in fresh funding to accelerate its business. The investment was led by U.S. media conglomerate Hearst, which counts BuzzFeed, Vice and Roku among its investment portfolio. The group was joined by another new backer EDBI — the corporate investment arm of the Singapore… Read More... →

В России запускается новый проект Baner, который объединяет функции социальной сети, профессионального сообщества, торговой площадки и технологии блокчейн. Новая платформа позволяет любому человеку начать свой бизнес, не делая никаких вложений. Инвестиции в проект организаторы проекта планируют привлекать в ходе ICO. С помощью бизнес-сети Baner можно: бесплатно рекламировать товары и услуги как физических, так и юридических […]... →

Партнерский материал  Руководитель Disruptive.VC Дмитрий Масленников объясняет, как акселератор FunTech старается преодолеть родовые ошибки всех акселераторов и стать для стартапов желанных партнером. Я создаю и запускаю корпоративные акселерационные программы, а также консультирую тех, кто задумывается о создании собственного акселератора. Одна из важнейших частей моей работы – проектирование условий акселерационных программ для корпоративных клиентов, где я вынужденно балансирую между бизнес-интересами ко... →

Децентрализованная платформа хранения данных Filecoin на предварительных продажах токенов перед запуском ICO привлекла инвестиции на сумму $52 миллиона. Среди новых инвесторов стартапа из Сан-Франциско, по сообщениям со ссылкой на его представителя, оказались венчурные компании Union Square Ventures и Sequoia Capital. По данным The Wall Street Journal, в список инвесторов также вошли венчурные фонды Winklevoss Capital, […]... →

There has been a wave of startups turning to initial coin offerings, known as ICOs, to raise funding through digital currency and now at least one fund is doing this, too. Science Inc., the LA-based team co-founded by Peter Pham and Mike Jones, which has incubated startups like Dollar Shave Club, DogVacay and Wishbone, is launching a fund for blockchain startups and plans to raise the… Read More... →