Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

На IT-рынке новая волна интереса к проектам в сфере fintech. Причем сейчас интерес исходит не только от венчурных фондов, но и от крупных игроков — банков и регуляторов. Firrma собрала мнения экспертов на тему того, как будет выглядеть fintech в ближайшем будущем. Глеб Давидюк, управляющий партнер венчурного фонда iTech Capital:   Сегодняшний основной тренд отрасли — оптимизация традиционных сегментов финансового рынка с точки зрения бизнес-процессов и стоимости финансовых услуг. Другими словами, все финанс... →

Вокруг стало очень много бизнес-ангелов и инвесторов. Я только за, чем больше денег, тем лучше для того, кто начал инвестировать давно, но... Каждый считает себя гениальным, это понятно. Господа, поймите вероятность успеха при инвестиции в 1-5 проектов крайне мала. Плюс, начинающий инвестор как правило делает очень много ошибок, что ухудшает результат. Плюс, инвестиции в стартапы не равны инвестициям в обычный бизнес, и совсем не то, что инвестиции в фондовый рынок. Поэтому, либо инвестируйте сами в 20+ ком... →

Google’s Jamboard will cost $5,000 plus an annual management fee, Airbnb closes Series F to go over $1 billion, Google goes after Slack and Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan are expecting their second baby. All this on Crunch Report. Read More... →

Chowbotics Inc. has landed $5 million in a Series A round of venture funding to develop what it’s calling food service robots. These are machines designed to prepare food in restaurants, cafeterias, hotels, or food courts in airports, malls and hospitals. The company’s flagship product, Sally, is a salad-making robot that uses 20 different food canisters to prepare and… Read More... →

On the surface, Astro, launching its public beta today, is a nifty but not completely necessary email client that combines machine intelligence and a bot interface to improve workflows and increase the signal to noise ratio of mail for power users. But the real story is that the startup, backed with a new $8 million Series A led by Redpoint, is gearing up to pitch enterprises on… Read More... →

Kidizen, a marketplace for secondhand children’s apparel, has raised $3.2 million in Series A funding, the company announced today. The funding was led by Chicago-based Origin Ventures, who backed the startup following its over 100 percent year-over-year growth in 2016, which has allowed the business to reach over a quarter million registered users across the U.S. Also participating in… Read More... →

RealConnex, a four-year-old, Miami and New York-based platform connecting real estate professionals to capital, investments, and services, has raised $3.5 million in strategic funding led by Silver Portal Capital, a San Diego-based real estate investment and merchant banking firm. The round is part of a much bigger trend of startups working to change how properties are built, bought, and… Read More... →

Chairish, the marketplace for vintage and used furniture, is raising $8 million in funding. Altos Ventures, OATV and Azure Capital Partners participated in the round. Founded in 2013, Chairish has become a platform for consignment stores, antique galleries, interior designers and others to buy and sell everything from art to bed frames. Chairish does not buy up any of the inventory, they… Read More... →

Лучшие проекты смогут получить инвестиции по результатам своих презентаций в конце апреля... →

Hedge fund Dymon Asia is getting into the venture capital game after it announced its maiden fund. Dymon Asia Ventures is focused on fintech deals and it is targeting a $50 million raise. Today, its founding partners disclosed a first close of $20 million from a range of LPs that include Thai bank Siam Commercial (SCB), which ha invested an undisclosed sum via its Digital Ventures arm.… Read More... →

Another fintech startup has raised a growth round to tap into the estimated $25 trillion dollar market for money transfers. London-based CurrencyCloud, which builds tools for payment companies to use by way of an API to enable remittances and money exchanges across borders, has raised £20 million ($25 million) in a Series D round of funding led by Google’s GV. The news comes one… Read More... →

Goldbely, the speciality food delivery service, has closed $10M in Series A funding. The round was led by Global Founders Capital and Intel Capital (who also led the company’s seed round). As part of the investment Goldbely is joining the Intel Capital Diversity Fund. Goldbely’s goal is to send you the best food from cities around the U.S, no matter where you are based. So you could… Read More... →

Norwegian startup Gobi raised $500,000 at a $15 million valuation to take on Snapchat with its “Stories” communication tool. The platform enables users to create public and private groups where users can share photos and videos that stay around for three days before vanishing into digital pixel-dust. Read More... →

Grocery delivery startup Instacart has raised approximately $400 million in a new round of venture funding at a valuation of $3.4 billion according to sources familiar with the deal. Axios broke news that Instacart was in talks to close this mammoth venture deal last week. Instacart executives declined to comment for this story. Over the past year, Instacart has weathered controversies… Read More... →

Wrapify, the startup that will pay you to wrap your car with an advertisement, has raised $3M in seed funding. As a refresher, the startup provides a two-side marketplace that matches up drivers wanting to make some extra money with brands looking for a unique way to advertise. Eligible drivers will get their car wrap installed (and removed) for free, and on average are paid $450 a month for… Read More... →

iflix, a Netflix-like service that covers Southeast Asia and other emerging markets, has closed $90 million in new funding to expand its service into new countries. The round was financed by international cable firm Liberty Global, Middle East and Africa-focused operator Zain and existing backers Sky, Catcha Group and EMC. Sky made a $45 million investment last year, while Catcha Group and… Read More... →

A subscription commerce startup that sells its own brand of daily disposable contact lenses, Hubble, has raised $16.5 million in a new round of venture funding just five months after having launched its service publicly. One might say the deal happened in the blink of an eye for the startup, which is incorporated as Vision Path Inc. Co-founded by Ben Cogan and Jesse Horwitz, Hubble sells… Read More... →

Confluent, the commercial company built on top of the open source Apache Kafka streaming database project, announced today that it has closed a $50 million investment. The round was led by Sequoia with Benchmark and Index Ventures also participating. Sequoia’s Matt Miller will be joining the Confluent board as part of the deal. Today’s round brings the total investment into the… Read More... →

Fintech startup Qapital has raised $12 million in Series A funding from investors that include Industrifonden, Northzone, Rocketship VC and Anthemis Exponential Ventures to expand its capabilities. Read More... →

Венчурный фонд Сбербанка SBVC вышел из компании iiko, разрабатывающей софт для автоматизации ресторанного бизнеса, сообщает РБК. Соснователь компании Максим Нальский купил у банка 27%, увеличив свою долю до 40,3%. Сделка состоялась в августе 2016 года. Точная сумму не раскрывается, она составила «несколько сотен млн руб.». Венчурный фонд Сбербанка владел 37% доли iiko. Эту долю в конце 2007 года за $3,7 млн купил первый инвестор стартапа — венчурный фонд Республики Татарстан, под управлением компании «Тройк... →