Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

Kreditech, the German startup backed by Peter Thiel, Rakuten and the IFC that creates credit ratings and provides finance to people who may not otherwise have credit histories, has raised another round of funding from one of its strategic partners. PayU, the payments company owned by Naspers that is known by some as the “PayPal of emerging markets” — its business is mainly… Read More... →

Joining the exclusive club of one-percenters is hard, and, by definition, nearly every company fails to gain entry. For founders and investors alike, the heartening thing is that, in most cases, even a small seed and Series A round puts your company in the top half of startups founded in or after 2003. And there’s one good thing about being middle of the pack — you have plenty… Read More... →

Growth and consolidation in vacation marketplaces has driven investment into the short-term rentals market. Some analysts are even projecting the short-term rentals market to hit $169.7B by 2019 and $193.9B by 2021 due to changes in the travel industry like the Chinese traveling boom, the ‘millennial traveler’ and the cost reduction of air travel. With all that money… Read More... →

Smule, maker of Sing! Karaoke and other social music apps, announced yesterday that it has raised $54 million in a round by Chinese company Tencent. Adams Street Partners, Bessemer Ventures, Floodgate, Franklin Templeton and Shasta Ventures also participated in the funding. Reuters reported that the round valued the company $604 million, setting Smule up to expand in Asia and potentially, to… Read More... →

In a move that is bound to raise more than a few eyebrows in the London VC community and beyond, TechCrunch has learned that the ex-Accel VC is joining forces with Harry Stebbings, the founder and host of the popular “Twenty Minute VC” podcast. Read More... →

Mindfulness app Simple Habit was built to help users relieve stress and build healthier lives with more than 1,000 guided meditation sessions available to users. To continue growing, the company has raised $2.5 million from investors that include New Enterprise Associates, Fabrice Grinda’s FJ Labs, Foundation Capital, Dropbox CEO Drew Houston and Gusto CEO Josh Reeves. Read More... →

Whether you call them granny units, in-laws or backyard studios, accessory dwelling units are rising in popularity in the US, in part due to new regulations that make it easier to obtain permits to build them in California. Now, a startup called Cover Technologies Inc. has raised $1.6 million in seed funding to give accessory dwelling units a high-tech makeover. General Catalyst and Khosla… Read More... →

Nordic home cleaning startup Freska, which is headquartered in Finland but also operates in Norway, has picked up a modest €2 million in new funding. Read More... →

Some people really need help with grammar. By the way,  “a lot” is two words. “Your” and “you’re” are not the same thing. Grammarly has been quietly building a freemium grammar checker to help students, writers and people who want to make a good impression on social media or email. Now they’re raising $110 million from General Catalyst, IVP,… Read More... →

If you thought the world didn’t need another prepared food distribution and delivery service, apparently you’d be wrong, as the newly-minted startup, Territory, has managed to pull in $6.7 million for its healthier eating options. The Washington-based company formerly known as Power Supply raised the money as it looks to expand to new geographies and consolidate its position in… Read More... →

Созданный украинскими разработчиками сервис по проверке правописания и грамматики текста Grammarly привлёк $110 млн, пишет The Wall Street Journal. Это первые сторонние инвестиции проекта.... →

Garena, one of Southeast Asia’s biggest tech startups, has picked up $550 million in new funding and changed its name. The Singapore-headquartered consumer Internet company told Bloomberg that it is now called Sea Ltd. to reflect is global expansion plans (and also because SEA is an acronym for Southeast Asia). Its new valuation was undisclosed. Read More... →

The whole on-demand space has faced a lot of scrutiny in the past few years as questions about whether they are viable businesses balloon and the periodic down round leaks out. Then Instacart raised a massive round at a $3.4 billion valuation, and while the terms aren’t exactly clear, the funding environment for that space may be softening a bit. That’s offered an opportunity for… Read More... →

After drones became available to private citizens around the world, bad actors found ways to use them for nefarious purposes like spying on corporations, carrying contraband across borders and into prison yards, and sadly, turning the aerial robots into weapons. Drone crashes also put people and property in harm’s way. Provo, Utah-based Fortem Technologies Inc. has raised $5.5 million in… Read More... →

Инвестиционная компания Realogic Николая Матушевского приобрела 10% в стартапе Office Sharing. Об этом Firrma сообщили в компании. Инвестиции в проект пойдут на доработку автоматизированной версии сайта, CRM систему, маркетинг и выход в новые города. «Мы сразу увидели потенциал проекта для Realogic. На дворе кризисная ситуация, компании оптимизируют издержки, молодым стартапам нужны помещения, а у нас еще и Флакон с Хлебозаводом №9 - отличная синергия!» – прокомментировал сделку Николай Матушевский. Ранее в... →

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Фонд развития интернет-инициатив (ФРИИ) вложил 15 млн рублей в маркетинговую платформу Convead, получив 16% компании. Об это Firrma рассказали в фонде.  Сделка была закрыта в октябре 2016 года. Полученные инвестиции были направлены на развитие проекта. Convead – сервис, который помогает интернет-магазинам решать проблему низкой конверсии и брошенных корзин. Основатель проекта – Алексей Ковалев. Стартап проходил акселерацию в акселераторе ФРИИ осенью 2015 года, за свой счет.  О ФРИИ Фонд развития интернет-ин... →

Go-Jek raises $1.2 billion, Soylent raises $50 million, wheelchairs get a makeover from Izzy Wheels and Uber attempts to make UberPOOL a little less like a game of Russian roulette. All this on Crunch Report. Read More... →

E-commerce fraud is a growing problem, but Signifyd thinks it has a solution to save businesses money. Their company is growing fast and has closed a $56 million Series C investment led by Bain Capital Ventures. Menlo Ventures also participated in the round. Signifyd counts big clients like Jet.com, Peet’s Coffee and Lacoste, where it uses its pattern recognition technology to warn… Read More... →

Heap, a startup that promises a uniquely comprehensive approach to analytics, has raised $27 million in Series B funding. Co-founder and CEO Matin Movassate told me Heap’s vision is to “make data useful for everyone.” Normally, according to Movassate (who previously worked as a product manager at Facebook), anyone who wants to ask an analytics-related question has to talk to… Read More... →