Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

You know it’s spring when VC funds start to announce their new fund raises. But it’s buoying to see a mid-sized fund appears which over the years has been highly geared towards early stage startups, just starting out on their journey. Pentech has closed its third fund, saying it was oversubscribed at £88 million, surpassing the original target fund size of £70 million. The new… Read More... →

Content delivery company Fastly has raised $50 million in financing to expand its footprint as a corporate supplier of speedy application, website, and web service delivery. In its press release, Fastly calls its service an “edge cloud platform”, which is a fantastic mix of nonsense and meaningless garbage that I’m going to refuse to use (seriously, Bateman Group, that is… Read More... →

Outreach, a software developer selling services that gives sales forces a needed prompt to more efficiently use their time and optimize sales, along with an organizational tool to manage their pitching process, has just raised $30 million with that very pitch. The company touts its ability to triple the volume of meetings and increase the sales pipeline for front-line sales… Read More... →

Холдинг ESForce, получивший инвестиции от владельца Mail.ru Group и «МегаФона» Алишера Усманова, запустил предварительную версию платформы для игровых трансляций Looch.tv, сообщают «Известия».  Создатель платформы – основанная в прошлом году компания «Виста Медиа», на 100% принадлежит кипрской ESForce. По мнению исполнительного продюсера компании киберспортивной игровой площадки Starladder Степана Шульги, новый проект позволит холдингу привлечь новую аудиторию, которая будет генерировать игровой контент. Пл... →

Ксения Сокольская, представляющая интересы миллиардера Леонарда Блаватника, вышла из ООО «ИД «Провинция»» и связанных с ним нескольких десятков юридических лиц. Единоличным собственником этих компаний стал гендиректор издательского дома Олег Никанов, пишет «Коммерсант». Сделка носила безденежный характер, кредиты под покупку не привлекались. ИД «Провинция», выпускающий 27 региональных еженедельных газет, был для Блаватника непрофильным бизнесом. Под управлением его холдинга Access Industries находятся актив... →

Sayspring, a startup that enables designers to create voice-enabled apps without code ahead of handing over projects to development, has just raised $1.5 million in funding for its efforts, the company is announcing today. The round was led by Compound (formerly Metamorphic Ventures), with participation from strategic angels including Scott Belsky, Alan Chung, and Peter Stern. The startup… Read More... →

It’s an old story for anyone moving out to a new place, but for Merchant, and others like her, the idea that there can be a better way to move to a place, and live in a city, has led to the creation of new co-living spaces. In the old days, these spaces (once called communes by a generation less capitalized but perhaps no less idealistic) grew organically around shared interests and… Read More... →

Shipamax, a London-based startup and recent graduate of Silicon Valley accelerator Y Combinator, has raised $2.5 million in seed funding, money it plans to use to continue building and marketing its cloud software platform for the bulk shipping industry. Leading the round is Cherubic Ventures, with participation from AME Cloud, and FF Angel. Read More... →

Частный инвестор объясняет, почему для реализации идеи не нужны инвестиции ... →

SoftBank’s huge $100 billion investment fund — the largest tech fund in history — announced its first close today… and it’s huge. The Japanese telecom giant revealed that its VisionFund has closed an initial commitment of $93 billion from a bevy of high profile backers. They include Apple, Qualcomm, UAE-based Mubadala Investment Company, Saudi Arabia’s… Read More... →

What do people actually want in luggage? A phone charger, unbreakable exterior, and maximum packing space at a resonable price is what Away discovered. So it built a line of sleek but expansive polycarbonite suitcases equipped with battery packs, and sold them direct-to-consumer. Now after selling nearly 100,000 suitcases and generating $20 million in revenue, Away has raised a $20 million… Read More... →

Российский финтех-проект BI&BL service привлек $50 тысяч от некого российского банка. Об этом Firrma сообщили в стартапе. По словам стартаперов, банк входит в топ 50 банков РФ. Сделка состоялась в феврале 2017 года. Привлеченные инвестиции использованы на разработку прототипа. BI&BL service – онлайн платформа краудфандинга на участие в тендерных закупках и исполнение выигранных контрактов. По данным с сайта компании, победитель тендера может получить финансирование за 5 дней, оформить кредит онлайн, в том ч... →

Silicon Valley VC Menlo Ventures has closed a new $450 million fund to invest primarily in early-stage “consumer, enterprise and frontier technologies”. The funding brings the firm’s total capital to more than $5 billion under management, while Menlo Ventures says the fund was oversubscribed with both new and existing limited partners. Read More... →

Корпорация Rambler&Co Александра Мамута приобрела мажоритарную долю в платформе для управления видео Eagle Platform (ООО «Далтон Медиа»). В ходе сделки из проекта вышел венчурный фонд Prostor Capital, ранее оценивавший этот бизнес в $12-15 млн, сообщает Коммерсант. Основатель и гендиректор «Далтон Медиа» Анатолий Воронцов остался совладельцем компании. Компания создана в 2008 году. На основе собственной облачной платформы компания вывела на рынок два продукта: интернет-проект «ЯTV» (b2c-сервис прямых трансл... →

No one, it seems, has come up with a good way to harness all the videos, photos, and tweets that budding creators post every day on YouTube, or the Facebook media juggernaut, or its smaller Snap-pier rivals. Read More... →

Специалисты компании O2 Consulting, которая вела инвестиционные сделки c Facebook/MSQRD, Mail.ru Group/Prisma, объясняют, как продавать и покупать кусочки ООО.... →

Brit + Co, the media startup founded by Brit Morin, is announcing an additional $15 million in funding led by Verizon Ventures (TechCrunch’s parent company). Former Uber President and Target CMO Jeff Jones will also be joining the startup as an advisor. San Francisco-based Brit + Co will be using the funding to expand its digital content business that targets women. They will also… Read More... →

Qupital, a one-year-old Hong Kong-based startup that addresses cash flow issues for SMEs, has closed a $2 million seed funding round. The is certainly a notable size for an early stage investment in Hong Kong’s nascent but growing startup scene. The financing was led by Hong Kong-London firm MindWorks Ventures and the $130 million Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund which launched in 2015.… Read More... →

Let’s say you randomly selected 1,000 seed-stage startups based in the United States. How many of those would go on to raise a Series A? Of companies that go on to raise a Series A, how many would go on to raise a Series B? You could keep this process going until only a few companies remain. But it’s not enough to just ask what the survival rate of companies is from round to round. Read More... →

Российский сервис для заказа товаров у туристов из-за границы Grabr получил инвестиции на сумму $2,6 млн от венчурных фондов и бизнес-ангелов Кремниевой Долины. Об этом vc.ru рассказали в компании.... →