Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

Performance Horizon, a company aiming to help advertisers manage their relationships with marketing partners, is announcing that it has raised $15.4 million in Series C funding. The company’ says that with its software, brands and agencies can bypass the affiliate networks that online publishers usually rely on to get paid by marketers for driving purchases or other consumer actions. Read More... →

FirstMark Capital, the investment firm behind companies like Pinterest, Shopify, Riot Games, InVision, Tapad, Schoology, has today announced $480 million in new funds. This money will be split between two separate funds, with $275 million going into FirstMark IV (an early stage fund), and $205 million headed to the Opportunity Fund (for later stage companies and follow-on deals for existing… Read More... →

FirstMark Capital, the investment firm behind companies like Pinterest, Shopify, Riot Games, InVision, Tapad, Schoology, has today announced $480 million in new funds. This money will be split between two separate funds, with $275 million going into FirstMark IV (an early stage fund), and $205 million headed to the Opportunity Fund (for later stage companies and follow-on deals for existing… Read More... →

We are in the middle of a major wave of startups building software to improve workplace productivity; now a company focused on making legacy enterprise apps more useful (and used) is picking up traction and announcing funding. Sapho — which builds what it refers to as “micro apps” for older software that does not already offer notifications whenever data is updated or… Read More... →

Основатель центра Digital October Георгий Тушинскиц и создатель BBDO Moscow, а также партнер The Untitled Venture Company Игорь Лутц созвали венчурный фонд VRTech для поддержки стартапов в области виртуальной реальности. Об этом Firrma сообщили в фонде.  Фонд VRTech будет инвестировать в проекты на ранней стадии, основанные на технологиях виртуальной реальности. Направления деятельности фонда – оптимизация бизнес-процессов компаний-клиентов путем внедрения новых разработок на базе технологий виртуальной реа... →

Faced with droughts and an increasing environmental effort in America to conserve water, utility companies have struggled to keep their financial houses in order in light of reduced usage. One former Startup Battlefield competitor — Valor Water — hopes to help these companies get back on track. Read More... →

PromisePay, an Australia-headquartered fintech startup that specializes in payments for online marketplaces, has raised $10 million in fresh capital for growth. Read More... →

Talkspace, the startup that offers therapy via an app, has today announced the close of a $15 million Series B funding round ed by Norwest Venture Partners. Other participants in the round include existing investors such as Spark Capital, Soft Bank, Metamorphic Ventures and TheTime. As part of the deal, Norwest Venture Partners managing partner Jeff Crowe will be joining Talkspace’s Board… Read More... →

Posted by MiriamEllis[Estimated read time: 7 minutes] Coworking office spaces have existed for more than a decade around the globe, and I consider it a testament to their growing popularity for start-ups and agencies that I’ve been seeing an increasing number of questions about them in recent times at places like the Moz Q&A forum and elsewhere. The burning question on everybody’s mind is: do coworking locations meet or fall afoul of the official Guidelines for Representing Your Business On Google? This art... →

Liking or sharing a charity online might help raise awareness, but what a lot of campaigns that go comprehensively viral really need is cold, hard cash. Launched this week, Spotfund has created a site and an iOS app that makes raising $1-$3 donations far easier than before. “Making an impact isn’t about the size of your wallet,” Spotfund’s CEO says. Read More... →

Raise your hand if you have a folder on your iPhone or iPad filled with all the built-in apps from Apple that you never use but can’t delete. Oh, all of you? Then you’ll be interested to learn that iOS 10 will finally allow you to remove those pesky apps and reclaim the space they’ve occupied for years. Read More... →

Apple redesigned the lock screen with iOS 10. With “Raise to Wake” you can see your lock screen without touching your phone. Your phone wakes up. This move was needed as Touch ID had become so fast with the iPhone 6s that you wouldn’t see your notifications on your lock screen. Now, you can also preview notifications with 3D touch. You deep press on a notification and it loads… Read More... →

The market for augmented and virtual reality technology continues to heat up, and now one of the more promising startups making both AR hardware and software has raised a $50 million round to keep up the pace. Meta, which makes a headset/glasses that are part-AR viewer, and part-VR simulator, has raised $50 million in a Series B round of funding — money that the company plans to use… Read More... →

TechCrunch understands from a source close to the transaction that FinLeap’s latest round gives the company a post-money valuation of €121 million (based on a €100 million pre-money valuation). Read More... →

Mobile phones have emerged as the dominant alternative payment method to cash for buying and selling goods and services in emerging markets. And with a service akin to alternative payment providers like M-Pesa and Pagatech in Africa and a slew of alternative payment platforms in Southeast Asia, Tapp’s technology is one that the region understands well. Read More... →

Фонд развития интернет-инициатив (ФРИИ) отобрал 31 проект для участия в девятом наборе акселератора. Об этом Firrma сообщили в фонде. Среди участников 15 компаний из Москвы, три из Санкт-Петербурга, по две — из Красноярска и Екатеринбурга, и по одной — из Кемерово, Томска, Новосибирска, Краснодара, Ростова-на-Дону, Тамбова, Архангельска, Иркутска и Казани. ФРИИ вложит 2,1 млн рублей в 29 стартапов, 900 тысяч пойдут на оплату обучения. В обмен на инвестиции ФРИИ получит долю в бизнесе финансируемых компаний ... →

Руководитель клуба инвесторов ФРИИ и «Школы инвестиций» Максим Чеботарев в совместном с #tceh партнерском материале советует начинающим ангелам, как выбрать среди множества объектов для инвестиций те, которые с большей вероятностью станут успешными. Партнерский материал По моему опыту начинающие ангелы в первую очередь сталкиваются с двумя проблемами. Первая – это когда они уже приняли решение, что хотят инвестировать, но у них нет пайплайна и они просто не понимают, где им брать проекты. Но это на самом де... →

As long expected, Japan’s Line Corporation, the company behind the popular messaging app Line, today announced that it has filed to go public on the New York Stock Exchange in the U.S. and the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Japan, respectively on July 14 and July 15. The company today set the dates in a news release announcing that the Tokyo exchange has already approved its listing of… Read More... →

Сооснователь Google Ларри Пейдж (Larry Page) лично финансирует два стартапа по разработке летающих автомобилей. Об этом сообщает Bloomberg со ссылкой на свои источники. Один из стартапов, Zee.Aero, был создан в 2010 году. За всё время существования этого проекта Пейдж вложил в него $100 млн. Другой стартап – Kitty Hawk – начал получать инвестиции в прошлом году. […]... →

Sherpa Capital, the private capital fund run by Scott Stanford and Shervin Pishevar, has closed on $470 million and launched two new funds: Sherpa Ventures II, an early stage venture fund and a mid-stage fund called Sherpa Everest, bringing the total now raised up to $630 million. The three-year-old venture firm backing startups like Uber, SpaceX and Hyperloop One (where Pishevar is a… Read More... →