Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

Инвестор Юрий Мильнер вышел из сервиса для совместной работы с документами Quip. Об этом сообщает издание Techcrunch. Подробности сделки, сумма и прибыль от инвестиции Юрия Мильнера не уточняются. Мильнер вложился в компанию в 2013 году совместно с фондом Salesforce Ventures, Greylock Partners и Benchmark в общем раунде инвестиций на сумму $15 млн. Стартап приобрела компания-разработчик CRM-систем Salesforce за $750 млн. Однако согласно документам, поданным Salesforce в Комиссию по ценным бумагам и биржам С... →

Video advertising platform Teads has raised a further $47 million in debt financing. Providing the capital are a bank syndicate made up of BNPP, Bank of China, HSBC, Banque Palatine, and BPI. Read More... →

B2B-платформа для организаторов и распространителей билетов Tickets Cloud привлекла $400 тысяч через инвестиционную площадку StartTrack. Об этом Firrma сообщили в StartTrack. Средства были привлечены от двух частных инвесторов, имена которых не раскрываются. Инвестиции пойдут на масштабирование сервиса в России, а также запуск тестовых продаж на рынке США.  Также компания разрабатывает новые продукты для билетного рынка. В частности, улучшает аналитический модуль сервиса, с помощью которого организаторы мер... →

Pundits are painting a picture of doom and gloom for startups, saying it will be harder to raise money. What do you think? I think the next several months and possibly years will be challenging for raising capital. There has definitely been a reset. The market was over extended in an unhealthy way and we are seeing the impact across the board. The catalyst for this reset has been the collapse… Read More... →

It’s no secret Hillary Clinton has a friend in Silicon Valley elites. Now Apple CEO Tim Cook will be helping the democratic presidential candidate raise some cash for her campaign next month, according to an invitation letter obtained by BuzzFeed. Cook, who will be hosting the fundraiser for the Hillary Victory Fund as a private citizen, not as an Apple rep, will be joined… Read More... →

Часть инвестиций фондов «Сколково», «Роснано», Российской венчурной компании (РВК), Фонда развития интернет-инициатив (ФРИИ) и «Росинфокоминвеста» могут переориентировать на импортозамещающие проекты. Об этом сообщают «Ведомости» со ссылкой на руководителя рабочей подгруппы при администрации президента «Интернет + суверенитет» Ильи Массуха. Инвестиции могут направить на разработку софта и оборудования для исполнения требований антитеррористического «пакета Яровой». По данным издания, существует поручение пр... →

Posted by Lesley_VosI write every day for my blog as well as other publications. I'm a big fan of guest posting, and every day I do everything I can to reinforce better writing. The problem: Content creation is time-consuming: Content marketers deal with multiple tasks: social media content (93%), newsletters (81%), articles for websites (79%), blogs (81%), in-person events (81%) and more. Lack of time is one of top 5 challenges for 51% of content marketers while 50% face the challenge of producing truly en... →

Uber Co-Founder Garrett Camp launches real estate venture, UpThere raises $77 million for its new cloud storage service, Oracle buys NetSuite for $9.3 billion, Apple sold its 1 billionth iPhone. Hyperloop Transportation Technologies to help build a train in Europe. All this on Crunch Report Read More... →

Peek.com has raised $10 million in equity funding to become what it calls an “OpenTable for the $100 billion activities market,” according to CEO and co-founder Ruzwana Bashir. Based in San Francisco, with additional offices in Salt Lake City, Utah, Peek.com lets travelers, and locals, find and book activities such as tours, tastings and lessons, online or via mobile. The Peek.com… Read More... →

You’re an analyst or business person who needs to constantly monitor important topics relevant to your sector and constantly switching between multiple apps, news sources, social media and platforms to do that. It’s pretty daunting and time-consuming. You also need to collaborate with a team on all that incoming information. Do you cut and paste into Slack or something?… Read More... →

At first glance, Roomi looks like it’s just another rental listing app. But there’s a twist — all of these homes already have tenants. An alternative to Craigslist, Roomi thinks it can find you a better roommate. Are you a gym rat? Do you like to throw parties? The app syncs with Facebook to give you a glimpse of prospective cohabitants. Launched last year, Roomi has over… Read More... →

LeadGenius announced today that it has raised $10 million in Series B funding. Formerly known as MobileWorks, LeadGenius helps customers find likely sales leads and reach out to them with automated emails. The company says revenue increased 6x in the past 20 months, with customers including eBay, Box and Weebly. LeadGenius has now raised more than $21 million in funding. The new round was… Read More... →

A San Francisco startup that many people assumed was toast, Good Eggs, has raised $15 million in a new round of venture funding led by Index Ventures to expand its online, organic grocery business across the U.S. In recent years, Good Eggs tried to ramp up its eco- and farm-friendly grocery business only to face logistics problems, high costs and lagging customer satisfaction in some markets.… Read More... →

As the world of DNA sequencing becomes more efficient and less expensive, a number of companies are sprouting up within the space. The latest, Phosphorus, has just raised a $10 million Series A led by FirstMark. Phosphorus is actually a spin-out from a previous genomics company called Recombine, which sold to CooperSurgical last year in a transaction valued at $85 million. Recombine, led by… Read More... →

Nestled in a valley between the two tailing ends of the Appalachian foothills, the southern city of Birmingham, Ala. seems an unlikely base of operations for a rival to San Francisco’s multi-billion dollar food delivery behemoth Instacart. But the two-year-old startup Shipt is doing exactly that, tackling not only its far better funded San Francisco-based rival, but the twin juggernauts… Read More... →

The Department of Motor Vehicles is one of the most notorious ways to waste your life away. Density could help ease this pain. Today, Density is launching its people-counting sensor for measuring how many people are inside a space at any given time. The company is also announcing a $4 million Series A round led by Upfront Ventures Managing Partner Mark Suster with participation from Ludlow… Read More... →

Today Big Health, which is already backed by Index Ventures, is disclosing that it has raised $12 million (£9.15m) in new funding led by Octopus Ventures. Also participating are Kaiser Permanente Ventures, Index, Sean Duffy (CEO, Omada Health), and JamJar Investments (the UK-based investment fund of the innocent drinks founders). Noteworthy is that Esther Dyson, and Peter Read are also… Read More... →

Израильский стартап Zeek, помогающий купить и продать ненужные купоны, привлек $9,5 млн в инвестиционном раунде B. В сделке приняли участие фонды Emery Capital и Target Global. Об этом сообщает TechCrunch. Лид-инвестором раунда стала компания Scale-Up Venture Capital. К раунду присоединились фонды Blumberg Capital, Qualcomm Incorporated (через венчурную компанию Qualcomm Ventures) FJ Labs, Ури Левин (Uri Levine), Ton Ventures, Radiant Venture Capital, iAngels. Привлеченные средства будут направлены на укреп... →

Funding may be becoming a bit harder to come by for some startups in the current climate, but generally as long as a company has the right idea someone will always be there with a checkbook in hand. A studio building a virtual reality baby brawler seems to have fit that bill. Kite & Lightning announced today that they have raised $2.5 million in seed funding to support development of a… Read More... →

A Tel Aviv-based startup called Propsera has raised $7 million in new venture funding to build out systems that will monitor and help farmers improve the health of their crops, and optimize their operations. Bessemer Venture Partners led the Series A round. Prospera CEO and co-founder Daniel Koppel said agriculture professionals have plenty of tech at their disposal today from soil and… Read More... →