Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

From rising rents to online competitors, local stores and restaurants face enough challenges outside of their own doors that basic stuff like scheduling employees’ shifts and breaks should feel easy. But that process is still, too often, a mess of paperwork and data entry for them. A startup called Homebase has raised $6 million to make hourly work much easier to manage for every business… Read More... →

Go-Jek, the motorbike taxi on-demand service that rivals Uber and Grab in Indonesia, has raised $550 million in new funding today, a source close to the company told TechCrunch. The deal values the company at $1.2 billion and will be announced this week, we understand. Read More... →

Few things are more dreadful than dealing with airline customer service. Fortunately, there’s a startup that wants to make those calls for you. For hassle-free travel, AirHelp is raising $12 million in Series A funding from a group of investors including Khosla Ventures and Evan Williams. This is in addition to the $4.7 million in seed financing raised two years ago. AirHelp promises to… Read More... →

Венчурный фонд AltaIR Capital Игоря Рябенького и компания Millhouse Capital Романа Абрамовича инвестировали в израильский стартап Spot.IM, который занимается построением децентрализованных социальных сетей. Spot.IM привлекла $13 млн в раунде А. В сделке также  участвовали Джеймс Хилтон (генеральный директор M & C Saatchi Mobile), Авишай Абрахами (соучредитель и генеральный директор Wix), Гиора Каплан (соучредитель и технический директор компании Wix), Нир Зохар (президент и главный операционный директор ком... →

An Altanta-based startup called Florence Healthcare has raised $1.7 million in seed funding to help drug companies and researchers at hospitals or other trial sites to exchange information about clinical trials in the cloud. Ultimately, helping these groups share information with each other, and with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, could speed up the time it takes to get much-needed… Read More... →

Panoply.io, a startup that wants to make setting up a data warehousing and analytics infrastructure as easy as spinning up an AWS server, today announced that it has raised a $7 million Series A round led by Intel Capital, with participation from previous investor Blumberg Capital. This follows Panoply’s $1.3 million seed round from late last year. “It’s remarkable that… Read More... →

Zype has raised another $2 million as it helps publishers deliver (and make money from) video across devices. Added to the $1.6 million that Zype announced last year, this brings the New York City startup’s seed round to $3.6 million. The round was led by Revel Partners, with participation from Point Nine Capital, Alpine Meridian Ventures, Berlin Ventures, Entrepreneurs Investment Fund… Read More... →

For those who think that Google Hangouts, Slack, or Skype aren’t enough to meet their business needs, please allow me to introduce you to Pluot. The company just raised $2.5 million from a slew of investors including TenOneTen Ventures, Root Ventures, Metamorphic Ventures, Haystack and Gokul Rajaram. Founded by Kwindla Kramer and Doug Brunton, Pluot combines a hardware and software system… Read More... →

San Francisco-based Attic Labs is launching Noms today, a new decentralized database that takes it cues from projects like Git, Camlistore, ipfs, bup and others. As the company also announced today, Attic Labs has raised a $8.1 million Series A round led by Greylock that will allow it to continue to work on Nom and other projects. Harrison Metal and a number of angel investors also… Read More... →

Инвесторами стартапа выступили российские бизнес-ангелы Тимур Родионов и Сергей Востриков... →

A San Francisco startup called iBeat has raised $1.5 million in seed funding to make a smartwatch that constantly monitors a wearer’s heart and, in the event of cardiac arrest, checks in on them, and notifies loved ones and emergency responders. Ryan Howard, who previously founded and was CEO of the electronic health records venture Practice Fusion, said he started iBeat after losing… Read More... →

MikMak, the service that creates and distributes short-form ‘mini-mercials’ so users can shop via video, has today announced the close of a $3.2 million seed round, led by VaynerMedia, with participation from SLOW Ventures, UTA Ventures, BRaVe Ventures, and MX Investments. As part of the round, Gary Vaynerchuk will be joining MikMak’s Board. MikMak launched back in May of… Read More... →

Сервис поиска захоронений и заказа услуг по уходу за захоронениями Pomnim.pro привлек инвестиции от Тимура Родионова и Сергея Вострикова. Об этом Firrma сообщили в стартапе.  Подробности сделки не раскрываются. Инвестиции пойдут на маркетинговые активности по географической экспансии, на завершение работ по платформе автоматизации работы кладбищ «Открытое кладбище» и запуску нового сайта (релиз планируется на осень 2016 года), а также каталогизацию Московских кладбищ. Pomnim.pro – электронный реестр захорон... →

E-commerce startup Shoppable is announcing that it has raised $3.5 million in Series A funding. The New York City-based startup offers several products that allow publishers and consumers to take advantage of what founder and CEO Heather Marie calls “shoppable moments” — those times when you read about a product or see it featured in a photo or video and, if it was easy… Read More... →

Sensay, the chatbot startup that lets people ask for advice from fellow users, has today announced the close of a $4.5 million seed round extension led by Norwest Venture Partners. Other participants include Greycroft Partners, Sweet Capital, NHN, Draper Associates, as well as existing investors. This brings Sensay’s total funding to $6 million. Plus, the platform has also introduced… Read More... →

ShareACamper, the Germany-headquartered peer-to-peer rental platform for motorhomes and caravans, has raised €2 million in seed funding. The backing comes from mostly unnamed investors from the tech and RV (recreational vehicle) industry, including German software development company Werkdigital. Read More... →

Start-up fundraising is hard. Despite ubiquitous headlines about unicorn valuations and how it’s never been easier to raise money in Silicon Valley, the process of raising capital can be gruelling, unpredictable, and non-transparent. To shed some light on best practices for successful startup fundraising, I sat down with my partners Eric Feng and Randy Komisar to ask and answer the… Read More... →

Корпорация РОСНАНО продает свою долю в портфельной компании «НикоМаг», специализирующейся на выпуске наноструктурированного гидроксида, высокочистого оксида магния и хлорида магния.  Как говорится в сообщении корпорации, сумма сделки двукратно превышает инвестиции. Поскольку вложения в «НикоМаг» со стороны РОСНАНО  в 2010 году составили 1,3 млрд рублей, можно предположить, что сумма экзита равна 2,6 млрд рублей. Покупателем доли РОСНАНО выступила группа «НИКОХИМ». «НикоМаг» выпускает наноструктурированный г... →

Carousell, a four-year-old company in Singapore behind a listings app that enables peer-to-peer selling, has closed a $35 million Series B round to grow its reach into new countries and increase product development. Read More... →

Of all the ways to make a 3-dimensional object, 3-D printing is still the freshest, whether what’s involved is plastic extrusion, milling away wood or metal, or the spinning of cells into functional living tissues. Now, a company that makes a desktop laser cutter and engraver for home or office use, Glowforge, has raised $22 million to start mass production of its devices. The startup… Read More... →