Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

The augmented reality acquisition space is hot — Facebook, Snap, Apple and others are throwing money at teams and technologies that promise to increase user engagement. Spektral, a Danish startup, is the latest venture-backed visual effects company setting its sights on the massive space. Spektral is announcing a $2.8 million round today from Litecap and Amp Ventures to continue… Read More... →

Beauty parlors manage a lot of appointments, but about half of them are still using pen and paper, estimates Shedul. The startup is trying to change that, by offering scheduling software for the the salon and spa industry. And it’s been catching on because it’s free. Now they’re raising $6 million led by Dubai’s Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP), with participation… Read More... →

Yubico, the company behind the increasingly popular YubiKey two-factor authentication key, has raised a $30 million funding round. This marks the first major institutional funding round for Yubico, which had previously only raised $4.5 million from angel investors. New investors include New Enterprise Associates, the Valley Fund and Bure, a major growth equity firm from Sweden. Existing… Read More... →

French startup Algolia just raised a $53 million Series B round led by Accel, a couple of years after raising $18.3 million with… Accel also leading the round. So it looks like it’s a love story between the VC firm and the software-as-a-service startup. The reason is quite simple. Algolia is still growing like crazy with its annual recurring revenue doubling every year.… Read More... →

Компания обещает инвестиции до 1 млн рублей.... →

Addepar, the provider of data collection and monitoring services for the financial industry (it’s Palantir’s somewhat less ethically compromised cousin), has raised a whopping $140 million in its latest round of funding. The company’s financing, which likely makes it a unicorn if it wasn’t already (company chief executive Eric Poirier refused to comment on the… Read More... →

Фонд развития интернет-инициатив (ФРИИ) инвестирует 23 млн рублей в российского разработчика голографических решений HoloGroup. Об этом Firrma рассказали в фонде. Полученная доля не раскрывается. Привлеченные инвестиции будут направлены на разработку технологических продуктов компании и маркетинг. HoloGroup занимается разработкой решений для смешанной реальности на базе Microsoft HoloLens. HoloGroup разрабатывает несколько платформ – для демонстраций архитектурных концепций, для голографических экскурсий и ... →

Колонка руководителя интернет-проектов Фахреддина Мирзоева.... →

London-based Trint, a startup co-founded by Emmy-winning journalist Jeff Kofman, is tackling a paint-point I know all too well: the time it takes to transcribe an interview (or any audio) accurately. Read More... →

Whether you love or hate native content, revenues from traditional display advertising continue to decline for most publishers, and native ads are one of the few new revenue opportunities for them. Enter Pressboard, a native ad marketplace that today announced it has raised a $2 million funding. Read More... →

Белорусский проект Wandle, разрабатывающий приложение по автоматизации работы смартфона, привлек инвестиции от американской IT-компании Solbeg Group. Об этом Firrma сообщили в стартапе. Соглашение об инвестициях было подписано в июне этого года. Сумма и другие подробности сделки не раскрываются. Привлеченные средства будут направлены на дальнейшую разработку и продвижение сервиса. «Планируем расширить функционал, который Wandle автоматизирует. Мы считаем, что смартфон должен сам подстраиваться под пользоват... →

As the cost of in-class education continue to rise, and the cost for computing continues to fall, we’re seeing a flourishing of startups that target the market for online learning. As one mark of the trend, one of the leaders in this space, Coursera, is today announcing $64 million in a Series D round of funding. Coursera’s CEO Rick Levin (who notably joined the company after a… Read More... →

While music streaming has become more and more commoditized, artists still have a wide array of places to distribute their songs like Spotify, YouTube and Apple Music — but getting paid properly can start to complicate things. That problem gets even more difficult when there are multiple people collaborating on the same song and it’s not clear who is getting how much of a cut from… Read More... →

Running a company is expensive. And it’s more than just the product and employee costs that add up. From furniture to electronics, there’s a lot of day-to-day corporate spending that can be hard to keep tabs on. That’s why procurement software has become a big business. Investors are betting that Scout RFP will emerge as a leader in the space. Menlo Ventures is leading a… Read More... →

Стартап работает над приложением, которое позволяет автоматизировать некоторые функции смартфона... →

Another day, another major round of funding for a security startup, underscoring just how active this area is right now, both in terms of business need and as an investment opportunity. Today, Illumio — a startup that provides data center and cloud security services by monitoring and protecting individual applications and processes within an enterprise network by segmenting them —… Read More... →

Cross-border commerce platform WaystoCap has raised new funding to expand its reach in Africa, the startup confirmed to TechCrunch today. A recent graduate from the Y Combinator accelerator program in the U.S., WaystoCap is an online destination for buyers and sellers of business-to-business goods in Africa. Founded in Casablanca, Morocco, it aims to digitize the centuries old… Read More... →

Евгений Кузнецов, директор дочерних фондов Российской Венчурной Компании рассказал Firrma о реорганизации фондов, изменении их стратегии, а также о том, как был назначен новый руководитель РВК.    Про объединение дочерних фондов РВК и принципы их работы Вы возглавили сразу четыре фонда. Их будут как-то объединять, будет происходить реорганизация. Что в итоге получится? Какова цель объединения?   Дочерние фонды фонды РВК начали появляться еще в 2009 – 2011 годах. В тот момент рынок венчурных инвестиций был в... →

Is there room for smaller, more focused Airbnb competitors? French startup Misterb&b thinks so as the startup just raised $8.5 million from Project A and Ventech to build an apartment renting platform focused on the LGBTQ community. As the name suggests, Misterb&b started with a focus on gay people, but the company says that it wants to become the inclusive platform for the LGBTQ… Read More... →

ООО «Диджитал Беттинг», принадлежащее A&NN Investments Александра Мамута, при участии Rambler & Co запускает букмекерскую платформу bwin.ru. Сервис будет работать по лицензии одной из крупнейших мировых игорных компаний bwin.party, сообщает «Коммерсант». Bwin.ru и мобильное приложение запустят через несколько месяцев. Российская сторона будет вкладывать в проект не менее 10 млн евро в год в течение нескольких лет, bwin.party, в свою очередь, предоставит технологическую платформу и бренд, получая часть приб... →