Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

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... →

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... →