Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

When Carlo Borquez Schwarzbeck was growing up he always loved the work he saw going on around his family’s farm. But without the aptitude for it, Schwarzbeck chose to go the business school route. Now, with his Los Angeles-based startup ProducePay, Schwarzbeck says he’s giving back to the communities that nurtured him. His company has just raised $77 million in equity and debt… Read More... →

Bringg, a startup taking advantage of the shift toward faster, more transparent on-demand delivery, has raised an additional $10 million in Series B funding, the company announced this morning. The funding was led by Aleph VC, and includes participation from Coca-Cola and prior investor Pereg Ventures. Founded in 2013, Chicago-headquartered Bringg was started by Raanan Cohen, the former… Read More... →

As the legal cannabis industry grows in the U.S., competition for customers is heating up. Now, a startup called Baker Technologies Inc. has raised $3.5 million to become a “salesforce for pot.” Investors in the new round included Michael Lazerow, Base Ventures, XG Ventures, Poseidon Asset Management, Phyto Partners, the founders of Outside Lands, and several other angel… Read More... →

For a previous generation in the US, the only places where one might worry about the possibility of a mass casualty were “high-value targets,” like airports and government offices, places that have body scanners and bag inspections, security guards and long lines to get in today. But attackers increasingly strike at public places like nightclubs, stadiums, clinics, malls, places… Read More... →

Основанная россиянами компания WayRay договорилась о сотрудничестве с китайской Banma Technologies по созданию навигационной системы с элементами дополненной реальности для автомобилей. Также WayRay привлекла инвестиции от китайской Alibaba Group в рамках раунда на $18 млн, сообщили vc.ru в компании. ... →

Компания WayRay, которая занимается разработкой интеллектуальных навигационных систем и голографических дисплеев, привлекла $18 млн от Alibaba Group и текущих инвесторов. Об этом Firrma сообщили в стартапе. Деньги будут потрачены на разработку автомобильной инфотейнмент-системы, основанной на технологии дополненной реальности. Система будет разработана совместно с Banma Technologies (совместное предприятие Alibaba Group и крупнейшего китайского автопроизводителя SAIC Motor), с которой WayRay подписал соглаш... →

Silverfin, a startup out of Ghent, Belgium (of all places) that offers a ‘connected accounting platform’ to help businesses stay on top of their financial data, has picked up $4.5 million in Series A funding. Read More... →

Yext, the company that powers location data in search results, has revealed its IPO filing. The business will be able to join the stock market as soon as April. The offering is said to raise $100 million, but that number is subject to change. We will get more of an indication in the coming weeks about how Yext plans to price its shares. With clients like Best Buy, McDonalds and Marriott,… Read More... →

Pitching a “codeless” user interface that allows anyone in a business to develop applications for business intelligence, Skuid has raised $24 million in new financing. Based in Chattanooga, Tenn., Skuid is indicative of the type of startup that is cropping up outside of the traditional innovation hubs of Silicon Valley and San Francisco, Boston, Los Angeles and New York. In some… Read More... →

Группа компаний Mazaltgroup объявила о вложении 35 млн рублей в платформу Wi-Fi идентификации для публичных сетей Radius Wifi. Об сделке Firrma сообщил управляющий партнер Mazaltgroup Ян Сепиашвили. По его словам, сделка состоялась в январе 2017 года. Как утверждает инвестор, после возмещения вложенных денег из заработаных средств компании, его доля в проекте составить 25%. Планируется, что это произойдет через 2 года, когда Radius Wifi должен выйти на окупаемость. Как сообщил Сепиашвили, до этого Mazaltgro... →

На IT-рынке новая волна интереса к проектам в сфере fintech. Причем сейчас интерес исходит не только от венчурных фондов, но и от крупных игроков — банков и регуляторов. Firrma собрала мнения экспертов на тему того, как будет выглядеть fintech в ближайшем будущем. Глеб Давидюк, управляющий партнер венчурного фонда iTech Capital:   Сегодняшний основной тренд отрасли — оптимизация традиционных сегментов финансового рынка с точки зрения бизнес-процессов и стоимости финансовых услуг. Другими словами, все финанс... →

Вокруг стало очень много бизнес-ангелов и инвесторов. Я только за, чем больше денег, тем лучше для того, кто начал инвестировать давно, но... Каждый считает себя гениальным, это понятно. Господа, поймите вероятность успеха при инвестиции в 1-5 проектов крайне мала. Плюс, начинающий инвестор как правило делает очень много ошибок, что ухудшает результат. Плюс, инвестиции в стартапы не равны инвестициям в обычный бизнес, и совсем не то, что инвестиции в фондовый рынок. Поэтому, либо инвестируйте сами в 20+ ком... →

Google’s Jamboard will cost $5,000 plus an annual management fee, Airbnb closes Series F to go over $1 billion, Google goes after Slack and Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan are expecting their second baby. All this on Crunch Report. Read More... →

Chowbotics Inc. has landed $5 million in a Series A round of venture funding to develop what it’s calling food service robots. These are machines designed to prepare food in restaurants, cafeterias, hotels, or food courts in airports, malls and hospitals. The company’s flagship product, Sally, is a salad-making robot that uses 20 different food canisters to prepare and… Read More... →

On the surface, Astro, launching its public beta today, is a nifty but not completely necessary email client that combines machine intelligence and a bot interface to improve workflows and increase the signal to noise ratio of mail for power users. But the real story is that the startup, backed with a new $8 million Series A led by Redpoint, is gearing up to pitch enterprises on… Read More... →

Kidizen, a marketplace for secondhand children’s apparel, has raised $3.2 million in Series A funding, the company announced today. The funding was led by Chicago-based Origin Ventures, who backed the startup following its over 100 percent year-over-year growth in 2016, which has allowed the business to reach over a quarter million registered users across the U.S. Also participating in… Read More... →

RealConnex, a four-year-old, Miami and New York-based platform connecting real estate professionals to capital, investments, and services, has raised $3.5 million in strategic funding led by Silver Portal Capital, a San Diego-based real estate investment and merchant banking firm. The round is part of a much bigger trend of startups working to change how properties are built, bought, and… Read More... →

Chairish, the marketplace for vintage and used furniture, is raising $8 million in funding. Altos Ventures, OATV and Azure Capital Partners participated in the round. Founded in 2013, Chairish has become a platform for consignment stores, antique galleries, interior designers and others to buy and sell everything from art to bed frames. Chairish does not buy up any of the inventory, they… Read More... →

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Hedge fund Dymon Asia is getting into the venture capital game after it announced its maiden fund. Dymon Asia Ventures is focused on fintech deals and it is targeting a $50 million raise. Today, its founding partners disclosed a first close of $20 million from a range of LPs that include Thai bank Siam Commercial (SCB), which ha invested an undisclosed sum via its Digital Ventures arm.… Read More... →