Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

Фонд развития интернет-инициатив (ФРИИ) и концерн Bayer запустили совместный акселератор Grants4Apps в сфере автоматизации сельского хозяйства. Об этом Firrma сообщили в ФРИИ. Принять участие в наборе могут стартаперы, работающие над продуктами в области точного земледелия, робототехники, machine learning, экологичной утилизации отходов, а также проектами по диагностике заболеваний растений и противодействию контрафактной продукции. По итогам акселерации, лучшие стартапы смогут претендовать на инвестиции ФР... →

НАБА и РВК при поддержке Firrma готовят к выходу исследование рынка ангельских инвестиций Russian Angel Monitor. В его преддверии мы публикуем мнения-колонка ведущих российских бизнес-ангелов и посевных инвесторов. Сегодня итоги прошлого года подводит управляющий партнер Starta Capital  Людмила Голубкова.         Прошлый венчурный год был для российского венчурного рынка переломным. Инвесторы, решившие отказаться от инвестиций в российские проекты, ушли. Однако это не повлияло на количество сделок. Стали за... →

Disruptor Beam has raised another $8.5 million to turn some of the best-known entertainment franchises into mobile games. It released its first title, Game of Thrones Ascent, in 2013, with Star Trek Timelines following last year. (The latter offers a particularly novel approach to Star Trek, combining space combat with roleplaying elements as characters from different Trek TV shows and… Read More... →

Фонд развития интернет-инициатив (ФРИИ) и российская розничная компания X5 Retail Group запустят программу стратегического партнерства для поддержки retail-tech стартапов. Об этом Firrma сообщили в ФРИИ. В рамках партнерства X5 Retail Group при поддержке ФРИИ будет тестировать проекты ранних стадий и внедрять лучшие из них в бизнес-практику. Для таких проектов ФРИИ запустит специальный ритейл-трэк в акселераторе. Для участия в программе акселератора продукт или сервис основателей компаний должен сделать тра... →

Российский фонд Guard Capital вложил $100 тысяч в онлайн-платформу GetBlogger, предназначенную для взаимодействия рекламодателей с блогерами. Основатели сервиса Левон Оганесян и Анна Шкирина (основатели сервиса по доставке еды Delivery Club) вложили в проект $400 тысяч. Согласно ЕГРЮЛ по 40% принадлежат Левону Оганесяну и Анне Оганесян (Шкириной), еще 20% у Сергея Волкова. GetBlogger – российская онлайн-платформа, на которой рекламодатели с блогеры могут взаимодействовать между собой без посредников. GetBlo... →

GoldenKey, which was previously known as SoloPro, wants to change how real estate agents and their clients do business. Typically, as a buyer or seller, you work with one agent, who then gets a three percent commission once you buy or sell your home. GoldenKey puts a different spin on this. Instead of a commission, you pay an agent a Typically, as a buyer or seller, you work with one agent,… Read More... →

The hot air around young and savvy tech startups is not going anywhere, despite dark prophecies that saw 2016 as the “winter is coming” year. Snapchat and Airbnb are warming up on the sidelines of an IPO, BuzzFeed, Palantir and Uber are snatching hundreds of millions of dollars every couple of months and young startups with no revenues and almost no users raise tens of millions… Read More... →

French startup Yomoni is a promising fintech startup operating robo-advisors. It means that you can give the company some of your savings, and the startup automatically manages a portfolio for you, buying and selling stocks, bonds and more. Yomoni just raised $5.4 million from existing investors Crédit Mutuel Arkéa and Iéna Venture (€5 million). The management team is also buying back some… Read More... →

Reserve, a startup offering table and customer management tools for restaurants, is announcing that it has raised $10 million in Series B funding. When the company first launched in 2014, it billed itself as a “digital concierge” that would make it easier for diners to get reservations at top restaurants. Last year, it launched a new product called Reserve for Restaurants,… Read More... →

Emojis — not just a fun way to avoid writing actual words, but also an opportunity for  ? Well, Inmoji, a startup that creates emoji-focused marketing campaigns, is announcing that it has raised an additional $1.5 million, bringing its total funding to $9 million. This comes a week after announcing a self-serve platform that should make these emoji campaigns accessible to a… Read More... →

Частный инвестор Александр Румянцев учредил собственную номинации «Инвестиции от Александра Румянцева» в рамках стартап-акселератора GenerationS от РВК. Об этом Firrma сообщили в РВК. Общий объем номинации – до 15 млн рублей. Она расчитнана на 5 стартапов. Инвестор отдаёт предпочтение проектам на ранней стадии. Для участия в номинации предприниматели должны представить не только идею проекта, но также результат: технологию, прототип или готовый продукт. Кроме инвестиций победители номинации смогут получить ... →

Seoul-based startup AIM has closed $1.6 million in seed funding to bring its artificial intelligence-powered app for financial investments to market in Korea, and potentially other parts of Asia. The fintech company has developed a system which works alongside existing investment institutions to allow users in Korea to make trades and investments via their smartphone. So rather than a… Read More... →

President Trump is expected to sign an executive order today on cybersecurity that will commission a review of the federal government’s capabilities and defenses, similar to reviews ordered by Obama when he took office and again last year. A draft of the order, obtained by the Washington Post, raises more questions about Trump’s policy on cybersecurity than it answers. Although… Read More... →

Qvivr, a Silicon Valley-based FinTech startup originally known for building the SWYP programmable credit card, has raised $5M in Series A funding. The funding was led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from a large multinational Asian bank. The startup was founded in 2014 and originally launched with a pre-order campaign for a hardware product that would let users program all of their… Read More... →

Jason Nazar, the Los Angeles-based co-founder and chief executive of Comparably is aiming to unseat some of the web’s most successful tech companies in human resources and job search world. Nazar, who previously launched Docstoc, is looking to crack the market for business intelligence dominated by Glassdoor and break the chain LinkedIn has wrapped around the job-hunting process for… Read More... →

Radish is officially launching its mobile apps for reading bite-sized chunks of serialized fiction — and it’s announcing that it has raised $3 million in seed funding. This isn’t the first startup to experiment with new ways to deliver fiction via e-readers and mobile devices. In fact, I wrote about one of them in my very first piece for TechCrunch five years ago. But… Read More... →

SoundHound has been around for 10 years and, before today, had raised around $40 million in financing as its worked to build a massive conversational AI platform. But today, the company is adding an even more cash to that pile, nearly doubling the amount that it’s already raised with a $75 million round including strategic investors like NVIDIA and Samsung Catalyst Fund, among others. Read More... →

Ассоциация стриптиз-клубов России запустила инвестиционный фонд Striptech.  Фонда будет инвестировать в стартапы на стыке IT и сферы стриптиза, на стадиях pre-seed и seed. Также фонд предложит личные консультации с представителями отрасли  и рабочее место в коворкинге – при необходимости.  Обьем фонда – $1 млн. Максимальный размер одной инвестиции составит до 3,5 млн рублей. В задачи фонда входит расширение связей между IT-индустрией  и сферой стриптиза, а именно инвестиции в стартапы и уже действующие комп... →

There’s a field full of flower delivery services to choose from these days from the old school 1-800-flowers and FTD to startups popping up over the last few years like BloomThat, Farmgirl Flowers, UrbanStems and The Bouqs. That last one just raised $24 million in Series C financing, bringing the total now to $43 million. The Bouqs doesn’t quite roll off the tongue but that fresh… Read More... →

In the wake of President Trump’s ludicrous lies about illegal votes in November’s election — immediately after the lies about the size of the audience for his inauguration — it’s tempting to just point and laugh at his apparent insecurity and fears of illegitimacy. He does, though, inadvertently raise a point worth considering: how can we strengthen the integrity… Read More... →