Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

Фонд Xsolla Capital, запущенный в этом году платежной платформой для разработчиков и издателей видеоигр Xsolla Александра Агапитова, вложится в разработки видеоигр на основе движков Unreal Engine 4. Инвестиционный фонд Xsolla Capital и Epic Games (создатель игровых движков Unreal Engine) объявили о стратегическом партнерстве, которое поможет разработчикам игр на основе UE4 вывести свои проекты на рынок. Также компании будут помогать независимым разработчикам, которые хотят самостоятельно публиковать свои фа... →

Next Insurance, a startup that wants to make it simpler for small businesses to find coverage, has raised a $29 million Series A. The round was led by Munich Re/HSB Ventures, the venture capital arm of German insurance company Munich Re. Existing investors including Markel and Nationwide, also participated. Read More... →

Go-Jek, the motorbike on-demand startup that is battling Uber and Grab in Indonesia, has closed a new round of $1.2 billion led by Chinese internet giant Tencent, two sources close the company told TechCrunch. The deal, which we understand was signed last week, values the company at $3 billion post money. It is expected to be officially announced “soon.” Neither Go-Jek… Read More... →

As huge tech co’s continue to dump money into VR and AR technology that looks to convince us digital objects in front of us are actually real, they’re still having a tough time figuring out how to make them feel real. Ultrahaptics is working on a technology that uses ultrasound waves to construct 3D objects in the air that users can feel. The startup is looking to use this tech… Read More... →

Tesla today re-affirmed that the production of its next car, the Model 3, would begin in July — and that the company had $4 billion in cash-on-hand heading into the second quarter this year. Both of those are going to be critical as Tesla heads into the back half of the year, which reported its first-quarter earnings today. The company has gone to market multiple times to raise… Read More... →

Goldman Sachs is investing $13 million in Nav, a startup that helps small businesses with financial advice and credit scores. Billionaire Steven Cohen’s Point72 Ventures is also investing, along with Clocktower Ventures and the CreditEase Fintech Investment Fund. This follows $25 million that was invested in the company last year, and is considered part of the same Series B round,… Read More... →

As the web becomes an ever more crowded landscape of things battling for your attention, we’re seeing an increase in marketing spend from companies to help capture it, and that in turn is leading to a rising tide for marketing technology startups building solutions to do just that. Today, Yieldify, a London-based company that builds tools tools to increase conversions on sites and… Read More... →

Российские агрегаторы такси RuTaxi и Fasten объединились и привлекли финансирование от UFG Private Equity. Об этом сообщает «РБК». Компании создали единую акционерную структуру, были объединены штаты двух компаний, технологии, программные комплексы. По итогам сделки UFG Private Equity стала основным акционером объединенной компании. RuTaxi (бренды «Везет» и «Лидер») и Fasten (бренды «Такси Сатурн» и RedTaxi) планируют увеличить число заказов почти на 25%, до 1,5 млн в день. По словам партнера UFG Private Eq... →

Cheetah Mobile, the Chinese firm that specializes in utility apps for smartphones, has enlisted the help of outside investors for its live-streaming service. Cheetah announced this week that its one-year-old Live.me service has pulled in $60 million from a range of China-based investors that include Matrix Partners China, Evolution Media China, Gobi Partners, IDG Capital and Welight Capital. Read More... →

Российские стартапы EasyDress и Costume.ai прошли в акселератор Friends of eBay (находится в Нью-Йорке и в Сан-Хосе), в котором они получат инвестиции в обмен на долю в компании. Об этом стало известно на Al-хакатоне Spacehack 2017, организованного фондом Gagarin Capital.   EasyDress определяет рост на фото по зрачку и размеру головы. Сostume.ai занимается поиском одежды похожего стиля на фото. Кроме того, EasyDress стал победителем хакатона и получил двухнедельную оплачиваемую поездку в Кремниевую долин... →

The SEC has processed a new filing that suggests Tesla may be at work on yet another new initiative. Specifically, the filing shows a $2 million investment in a months-old, Redwood City, Ca.-based company called Redwood Materials that describes itself at its site as focused on “advanced technology and process development for materials recycling, remanufacturing, and reuse.” The… Read More... →

Hearkening back to the old days of iconic Nintendo games like Super Smash Bros., Wavedash Games has raised $6 million for a vision of platform fighting games as the next big thing in social gaming. Taking platform fighter games beyond the game console, the Los Angeles-based company is looking to popularize the genre and bring the one-on-one fighter concept to the same level as a title like… Read More... →

Стартап Talkbank стал одним из 12 победителей международного конкурса стартапов Seedstars, который прошел в начале апреля 2017 года. Об этом сообщают «Ведомости». В международном этапе конкурса участвовало более 1000 стартапов из 76 стран. Talkbank стал также победителем и российского этапа.  Talkbank – виртуальный банк, позволяющий управлять финансами при помощи чат-бота в мессенджерах. Сейчас банк работает c Telegram. В перспективе работать в Viber и Facebook Messenger. При помощи бота Talkbank пользовате... →

When Bitfusion launched in 2015, its focus was on helping developers speed up their applications by giving them pre-compiled libraries that made better use of GPUs, FPGAs and other co-processing technologies. That was then. Today, the hottest market for these technologies is in training deep learning models. Unsurprisingly, that’s exactly what Bitfusion is focusing now. Read More... →

Australia-based cross-border payments startup Airwallex has closed a $13 million Series A round to expand its reach across Asia Pacific and into Europe. The deal was led by Chinese internet giant Tencent — marking its first investment in an Australian startup — with participation from Sequoia China, Mastercard and other undisclosed investors. Airwallex was founded last year… Read More... →

Основатель рекламной платформы Clickky и организатор Mobile Beach Conference Вадим Роговский о том, как похоронить свою идею.... →

Deep Sentinel, a home security startup, today announced that it had closed a $7.4 million Series A led by Shasta Ventures with participation from Bezos Expeditions, Lux Capital and UP2398. Founded by serial entrepreneur David Selinger, Deep Sentinel is betting that its emphasis on user experience can provide needed differentiation in the crowded space. Over tea in the… Read More... →

Победителей ждут гранты и инвестиции.... →

After weeks of reports that Didi Chuxing, the Uber of China, was raising another monster round of funding, today the company confirmed the close: it has raised a fresh $5.5 billion, it said in a statement today, to continue global expansion and to invest deeper into emerging areas like artificial intelligence to bring more advanced systems to its transportation service. The company… Read More... →

Didi Chuxing is valued at more than $50 billion, SiriusXM acquires Automatic for more than $100 million, Apple Music wants to be Apple Video with the next iteration of the app focused on video and Everfi raises a $190 million round. All this on Crunch Report. Read More... →