Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

In the ticketing world you have hotels.com and booking.com for hotels, CarTrawler for car hire and Amadeus, Sabre and Travelport for airlines. All of these have a similar business model called open distribution. But event ticketing platforms are only just beginning to realise that this is the direction in which they should head. One of the reasons secondary ticketing is so rampant (around $10bn… Read More... →

It’s actually a pretty great URL: Bus.com. It’s also a much better brand identity than Sharethebus, which is the old name of the company that just raised a $5 million Series A round from Jackson Square Ventures and BMW’s i Ventures investment arm. Bus.com is the destination you’d expect to head to for what the company does, which is organize charter bus trips for… Read More... →

European VC firm 83North (formerly Greylock IL), which since 2008 has focused on backing startups in Europe and Israel, has closed its fourth fund — taking $250M in a raise that it says was both oversubscribed and its largest to date, and bringing its total capital under management to $800M. Read More... →

AdAsia, a one-year-old online advertising startup based in Singapore, has closed a $12 million Series A round from Japanese investor JAFCO. The company was founded in April 2016 by CEO Kosuke Sogo, the former managing director of Japan’s MicroAd in APAC, and COO Otohiko Kozutsumi, who had been with MicroAd Vietnam. It offers a single digital platform that integrates elements such as… Read More... →

CheckRecipient is a London startup that uses machine learning to help prevent emails being sent to the wrong recipient. Read More... →

Former 500 Startups accelerator company Pluto AI is announcing $2.1 million in fundraising today from Fall Line Capital, Refactor Capital, Unshackled Ventures, Comet Labs and additional angels. Pluto is taking advantage of the sensorification of modern water treatment plants to extrapolate insights that can save operators precious time, money and water. The Pluto analytics… Read More... →

PhenixP2P, one of the five finalists in our 2016 Disrupt London Battlefield competition, today announced that it has raised a $3.5 million Series A round led by KB Partners. With this, the company has now raised $5.5 million for its real-time video streaming solution that promises to offer far lower latency and a better user experience than similar services. Read More... →

Vimcar, a startup out of Berlin, is developing a clever tech solution to help small to medium-sized companies manage their car fleets. Read More... →

Cohesity, a company that helps enterprises to store and manage all of the secondary data they create outside of their production apps, today announced that it has raised over $90 million in a Series C round led by GV (aka Google Ventures) and Sequoia Capital. Sadly, the company’s investor’s won’t let it disclose the exact number, except that it’s over $90 million (and… Read More... →

Find-a-doctor app Amino has raised $25 million in a Series C round of venture funding, according to CEO and co-founder David Vivero. Highland Capital led the investment joined by Accel, Aspect Ventures, CRV, Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures, and Pilot Wall Group. A ZocDoc competitor, Amino gives users the ability to search for doctors who are most experienced in treating their… Read More... →

Ирина Цветкова, адвокат и основатель портала для инвестиций в судебные дела Platforma, рассказала Firrma о набирающем силу тренде инвестиций в судебные разбирательства.  Еще несколько лет тому назад словосочетание «инвестирование в судебные дела» вызывало в России недоумение. Оно считалось уделом отдельных энтузиастов, занимавшихся инвестициями в штучном исполнении.  Впрочем, в США и других западных странах этот инструмент масштабировался в индустрию тоже только в 2000 годах, хотя появился несколькими деся... →

Clerky may not be a household name like TurboTax today, but the company’s business formation software has been called a “secret weapon” by startup founders in Silicon Valley for years. Many Y Combinator cofounders use it to get their companies started on paper. And now, Clerky is launching two new tools called Hiring and Fundraising to help startups move beyond… Read More... →

Zero-fee stock trading app Robinhood has added to its coffers, raising another big round of funding. According to sources, the round was led by Yuri Milner investment vehicle DST Global and values the company at $1.3 billion dollars. Read More... →

Инвестирующий в резидентов «Сколково» фонд добился судебного решения о возврате ранее предоставленного Oktogo займа, но не инвестиций в 5 млн долларов.... →

Шанс получить инвестиции размером до 2,5 миллиона рублей.... →

Партнерский материал Продолжаем рассказывать о первом отраслевом финтех-акселераторе Fintech Lab. Его стратегический консультант — компания Accenture. О том, как в «лабораторных» условиях вырастить проекты, у которых высоки шансы понравиться  банкам и научить представителей финансовых структур думать как стартап, рассказывает Эдриан Сето. Он стоял за созданием финтех-лаборатории Accenture в Гонконге, а также работал совместно с Международным финансовым центром в Дубае над созданием FinTech Hive. Теперь Эдри... →

The startup bug has hit the world of biotechnology, and the latest victim is a business that is building a “super glue” — coincidentally, for bug-combatting vaccines. SpyBiotech — a startup spun out of Oxford University that has developed way to bond antigens to viruses and other particles to make vaccines — has announced £4 million ($5 million) in funding… Read More... →

Facebook today announced it’s expanding its set of online fundraising tools to include its own GoFundMe competitor, with the added support for personal online fundraisers, starting first in the U.S. The new tool will allow Facebook users to raise money for personal crises and other campaigns – like school or medical expenses, emergency situations, funerals, and more. In addition,… Read More... →

A Santa Clara, Calif. startup called JoyRun has raised about $10 million in Series A and seed funding for its peer-to-peer food and drinks delivery app. Floodgate led the $8.5 million Series A round in JoyRun, and Norwest Venture Partners led the company’s earlier $1.3 million seed round. Other investors joining both rounds included: Visionnaire Ventures, Morado Ventures, CrunchFund… Read More... →

Венчурный фонд LETA Capital инвестировал $1 млн в российскую компанию Brain4net, которая разрабатывает ПО для модернизации сетей на базе технологий SDN и NFV. Как Firrma сообщили в фонде, деньги выданы в виде конвертируемого займа. Инвестиции будут направлены на совершенствование решений компании и развитие продуктовой линейки, поддержку реализуемых проектов и расширение партнерской экосистемы как в России, так и за рубежом.  Brain4Net разрабатывает системы управления сетями передачи данных, обработки сетев... →