Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

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... →

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... →