Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

Careship is a Berlin-based startup aiming to tackle the growing problem of how we care for our elderly. It’s a big problem in Europe in particular, where people are living much longer than they used to. Careship helps families find a home-based caregiver for their loved ones. It uses as matchmaking algorithm to find qualified personnel, while advising on insurance benefits and… Read More... →

Фонд развития интернет-инициатив (ФРИИ) объявил о старте одиннадцатого акселератора. Отбор прошли 28 компаний. В 23 стартапа нового набора ФРИИ вложит по 2,1 млн рублей в обмен на долю в 7%. Оценка каждой компании составит 30 млн рублей. Из полученной суммы каждая компания оплатит программу акселерации стоимостью 900 тысяч рублей. Пять компаний из нового потока акселератора самостоятельно оплачивают свое участие в программе без привлечения инвестиций от фонда. Следующие стартапы получили pre-seed инвестиции... →

Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi is losing its head of international and primary English-language spokesperson Hugo Barra after he announced his exit from the company. Former Android executive joined Xiaomi joined the company 3.5 years ago, in what was then a major coup, so his exit naturally raises questions about why he is departing. This year, for the first time, Xiaomi declined to… Read More... →

Some news today from Dwolla, the startup that bypasses banks (and now sometimes works with them) to provide payments and money transfers with reduced fees. The company has raised another round of funding of $6.85 million, and at the same time it’s announcing the relaunch of its API as a white-label service, which it is now calling Access API. The funding round was led by previous… Read More... →

Инвестор Алексей Менн сформулировал советы для стартаперов, которые хотят переехать в Лондон.  Вчера с Ольгой Котсур (основатель стартапа Mercaux – прим. ред.) подводили итоги переезда в Лондон в июне 2016 года, вот что мы узнали за полгода. Летом 2016 года наша портфельная компания Mercaux, которая занимается технологиями для ритейла, переехала в Лондон. Уже к концу года клиентами Mercaux стали несколько известных глобальных ритейлеров (с ними мы уже в 9 странах). Это было очень правильное решение, но было... →

Drone delivery startup Flirtey has raised $16 million in Series A funding to bring its high-flying service to new customers, companies and possibly countries. Earlier, the startup raised $120,000 in seed funding and participated in the Y Combinator accelerator. Flirtey was also the first company to attain FAA approvals to conduct a drone delivery in the US in 2015. That fact helped it… Read More... →

Генеральный директор платформы для продвижения видеороликов Virool Александр Дебелов вложился в американскую медийную платформу TeamDom. Об этом он сообщил Firrma. В раунде посевных инвестиций на сумму $1 млн также участвовали Джаред Моргенстем, Тихон Бернстам, Гари Вайнерчук. Для Александра Дебелова это первая венчурная инвестиция. Как он прокомментировал Firrma, это не только финансовое сотрудничество, но и обмен технологиями. Так как Virool занимается производством вирусного контента, компания заинтересо... →

Iris Automation Inc. has raised $1.5 million to bring “sense and avoid” technology, and truly self-flying capabilities, to drones used for industrial tasks. Even for human pilots, identifying obstacles and deciding precisely how to maneuver a fast-flying aircraft around them poses a serious challenge. Iris’ technology analyzes and draws insights from videos captured by… Read More... →

Сбербанк и Alibaba Group могут уже в первой половине 2017 года создать совместное предприятие в области электронной торговли. Как сообщает «Коммерсант», Alibaba Group внесет в компанию свой действующий бизнес по трансграничной торговле в России и СНГ, а от Сбербанка, который получит контроль в бизнесе, потребуются преимущественно финансовые инвестиции. «Речь идет о создании компании стоимостью в […]... →

ProtectWise, a security startup that records all your network traffic DVR-style, and saves it in the cloud, announced a $25 million round today. The company’s security strategy is surprisingly simple. It records all of the networking activity, then indexes the data and provides customers with forensic tools to search and review it. Once a breach has been detected, the victimized… Read More... →

Партнерский материал Самый активный частный инвестор 2016 года по версии «Рейтинга бизнес-ангелов» Firrma Александр Румянцев рассказывает о собственной методике оценки стартапов. На сегодняшний день в портфеле инвестора 15 проектов. Мой подход к оценке прозрачен: он основан на собственном анализе рынка, уже осуществлённых инвестициях и общении с другими инвесторами. Должен отметить,что я доволен большей частью своего портфеля – а это 15 стартапов, – и сейчас мы закрываем еще несколько сделок, которые оценив... →

Chelsea Manning is going to be freed this May, Zoom video conferencing raises $100 million, Vine is shutting down — today is the last day to grab your videos, Google Drive has been experiencing intermittent outages and Juicero lowers the price of its juicer. All this on Crunch Report. Read More... →

New Enterprise Associates (NEA), the 40-year-old venture firm, has signaled its intention to raise $3 billion for its 16th fund in a new SEC filing. The Form D states that the first sale has yet to occur, though typically, when a firm registers a fund of this size, it has already soft circled many, if not all, of the commitments from investors to reach its goal. Three billion dollars is… Read More... →

Zeotap, a startup that helps telecom companies sell their data to advertisers, announced today that it has raised €12 million in Series B funding (that’s just under $13 million). Co-founder and Chief Product Officer Projjol Banerjea told me that while there’s “decent data” available for online advertisers targeting desktop users, things are shakier on the mobile… Read More... →

Jake Paul grew up online. The 19-year-old current Disney star has turned a millions-strong following among millennials on social media channels like Instagram, Vine, Snapchat, and YouTube into a mini-empire of TV deals and endorsements, and now has his sights set on entrepreneurial domination. Leveraging his legions of followers (and those of famous friends like Cameron Dallas), Paul has… Read More... →

With a pitch for its users to just let go of the things they no longer need, the online used goods marketplace letgo has managed to grab on to $175 million in new financing. Since its launch in 2015, the would-be craigslist killer has raised at least $325 million to tackle the U.S. market. It’s been growing a blistering clip, to over $20 billion in gross merchandise value sold on the… Read More... →

Measure may not be building the ultimate flying camera, or drones that drop burritos at your door. But the Washington D.C.-based startup has raised $15 million in a Series B round of funding to fly drones as a service for other businesses that want to do things like conduct inspections, capture videos, or gather other insights from on high. Measure CEO and cofounder Brandon Torres Declet… Read More... →

Selling a suite of online and mobile services for wealth managers and individual investors, Starburst Labs, a new New York-based startup has landed $6.25 million in its first institutional round of financing. A relatively new entrant into the market, Starburst Labs began working on its first product in 2013 and is targeting the independent wealth managers and armchair investors that account for… Read More... →

Berlin-based Neufund has raised €2 million from Christoph Maire’s Atlantic Labs, Klaas Kersting and a group of superangels. Neufund will use the funding to build an open platform for investors to acquire startup equity in the form of tradable crypto tokens. Read More... →

OrderGroove, a company helps retailers and brands to sell online by building tools for them to use that are similar to those used by online marketplace Amazon, has raised another $20 million in funding to expand its business. Originally focused on subscription commerce, OrderGroove’s CEO and founder Greg Alvo said the company is looking for the next frontier for frictionless commerce.… Read More... →