Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

Rusbase пообщался с инвестором и узнал, чем его привлекла компания... →

Astrobotic Technology, the company that plans to deliver payloads to the moon, has completed a $2.5 million seed round led by Space Angels Network. The company was originally spun out of Carnegie Mellon University in 2007 to compete for the Google Lunar XPRIZE (GLXP). As of today, they’ve secured 10 deals from governments, companies, universities, non-profits and individuals for their… Read More... →

Agrilyst, the winner of our Disrupt SF 2015 Battlefield competition, today announced that it has raised a $1 million seed round for its indoor agriculture analytics service. The round was led by Brooklyn Bridge Ventures with participation from Metamorphic Ventures and a number of angel investors and seed funds, including the co-founders of QuickFire, another Battlefield company that was… Read More... →

If the idea of wearing spider silk intrigues, the idea of managing a farm full of spiders isn’t all that appealing. A startup called Bolt Threads has developed a means of brewing spider silk and other insect fibers, and spinning then into yarn, making them accessible to makers of apparel, upholstery and more. Read More... →

Posted by dudleycarr[Estimated read time: 3 minutes] At the end of last year, we launched Moz Local Insights, and then I read this comment on Phil Rozek’s blog: “To be honest, we’ve been finding issues in the citation quality — it seems like their directory partners are changing up how they update information and not keeping stuff as consistent as we’d all like. I’d like Moz to focus on that and make that rock solid first — because right now, we really can’t rely on the results we’re getting from InsiderPag... →

Российский фонд Caspian VC Partners повторно инвестировал в Hyperloop Илона Маска. Общий объем раунда В составил $80 млн. Об этом сообщает Techcrunch. В сделке также приняли участие как существующие инвесторы проекта – фонды Sherpa Ventures, EightVC, ZhenFund – так и ряд новых инвесторов, включая 137 Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Fast Digital, Western Technology Investment (WTI), SNCF, французская Национальная железнодорожная компания и GE Ventures. Общий объем инвестиций на сегодняшний день составляет примерн... →

Корпорация «Лаборатория Касперского» создала инвестиционное подразделение для вложений в стартапы по всему миру. Об этом пишет РБК. Подразделение было создано в прошлом году. Руководителем направления по инвестициям и инновациям «Лаборатории Касперского» стал Вартан Минасян. Компания будет инвестировать на посевной стадии, средний чек составит от $50 тысяч до $1 млн. Финальное решение о вложениях в конкретный проект будет принимать инвестиционный комитет, состоящий из сотрудников «Лаборатории». В фокусе ком... →

There’s no such thing as a free lunch or free energy, right? Not necessarily. Drayson Technologies, the London startup founded by Lord Paul Drayson, a very successful serial entrepreneur and former U.K. government science minister, is commercialising technology that harvests energy from radio frequency (RF) signals to potentially power a range of low-consumption devices. These include… Read More... →

Обозреватель vc.ru изучил историю американского предпринимателя и инвестора Марка Кьюбана, который заработал состояние на продаже Broadcast.com, вложил деньги более чем в сотню проектов, а также владеет собственной баскетбольной командой и участвует в различных телешоу.... →

Oakland, Calif. startup MegaBots Inc. has raised $2.4 million in seed funding to bring the robot-fighting stuff of manga and anime to a venue near you. According to MegaBots cofounders, Gui Cavalcanti, Matt Oehrlein, and Brinkley Warren, the startup aspires to follow in the footsteps of major sports associations like Formula 1 or UFC. With the seed funding, Warren said, MegaBots will be… Read More... →

Internet performance management company Dyn has raised $50 million in Series B funding. Dyn was founded back in 2001, with its first product being a DNS service called DynDNS. Over time, it’s expanded into a broader suite of products that allow companies including Pfizer, Visa, Netflix and Twitter to monitor their online availability, security and speed. In addition to the funding,… Read More... →

Rancher Labs, a container management platform that supports both Kubernetes and Docker Swarm, today announced that it has raised a $20 million Series B round. This new funding round was led by new investor GRC SinoGreen, a Chinese private equity and venture capital fund, with participation from existing investors Mayfield and Nexus Venture Partners. This round brings the company’s… Read More... →

If Nearpod CEO Guido Kovalskys has his way, overhead projectors and PowerPoint presentations will never bore students again. Instead, he wants to see cutting-edge technologies and interactive content become standard tools of the teaching trade. To that end, Nearpod has raised $9.2 million in Series A funding led by Reach Capital to help teachers use mobile tech for live instruction, rather… Read More... →

Image management and distribution platform Musikki raised a first round of funding in 2014 to become “the IMDB of music”. It’s now inked a deal on another $1M in funding from Portugal Ventures, the biggest VC in Portugal. It’s also launching Exclusiph, an image management and distribution tool for the music industry, already in use by independent labels 4AD and… Read More... →

CoreOS, the company behind the container-centric CoreOS Linux distribution and Tectonic container management service, today announced that it has raised a $28 million Series B round led by GV, the fund formerly known as Google Ventures. Other investors include Accel, Fuel Capital, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) and the Y Combinator Continuity Fund. In total, the company has… Read More... →

Swedish edtech startup DigiExam, which also has offices in the U.S. and U.K., offers software-as-a-service for academic testing and grading. It enables students to take tests digitally and in turn teachers to grade the results more efficiently. Read More... →

Drawbridge, a startup that helps businesses identify when a single person is using multiple devices, has raised $25 million in Series C funding. Every time I write about Drawbridge, I’m contractually obligated to mention that the company is backed by two of the best-known venture capital firms, Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. For this round, Drawbridge back… Read More... →

Humanyze, a company that helps businesses better understand how their employees spend their days at work, today announced that it has raised a $4 million Series A round led by Romulus Capital. The company, which was spun out of the MIT Media Lab in 2010, provides businesses with a high-tech employee badge that includes a microphone, accelerometer and bluetooth connection that then allows them… Read More... →

Кипрская компания Ervington Investments, конечным бенефициаром которой является российский миллиардер Роман Абрамович, инвестировала в израильский стартап Via (также известный, как Via Transportation), который разработал транспортное приложение для смартфонов. Компания привлекла в апреле $70 млн и ведёт переговоры о получении еще $30 млн от стратегического инвестора. Раунд возглавил Pitango Growth, также приняли участие Poalim Capital Markets, C4 Ventures и текущие инвесторы Hearst Ventures и 83North. Сре... →

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