Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

Mark up one more sizeable round of funding for another regional startup that is rivalling Uber and other services in the world of on-demand transportation. Cabify, a ride-sharing app based out of Madrid and active in Spain and Latin America, has raised $120 million — money that it plans to use to continue building out its business on both sides of the Atlantic, starting first in Brazil… Read More... →

Barcelona-based Lodgify, which offers website builder software to enable vacation rental owners to build their own branded website and accept online bookings, has raised €1.4 million in funding. Read More... →

Two former Rocket Internet executives are out to beat Foodpanda, the food delivery startup backed by the German incubator-cum-investor, at its own game, and they’ve raised $800,000 to get to it. Read More... →

Rinse Inc. has raised a $6 million Series A round of venture funding to pick up and clean anything in its customers’ closets. According to Chief Executive Ajay Prakash, who cofounded Rinse in 2013 with Chief Operating Officer James Joun, “We never wanted to b Uber for laundry, and don’t consider ourselves an on-demand business.” The startup provides garment care services… Read More... →

Singapore-based Ninja Van today announced $30 million Series B round aimed at building it into the go-to partner for anyone selling online in Southeast Asia. Read More... →

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Betaout, a marketing automation platform for e-commerce companies, plans to expand in India, Southeast Asia, and the United States after closing $1.5 million in pre-Series A funding. Read More... →

Mobile ad startup Adtile is announcing that it has raised an additional $2 million in funding. That’s an extension of the $4.5 million Series A that Adtile raised back in 2014, and it comes from undisclosed investors. The San Diego-based startup focuses on a format it calls Motion Ads, allowing marketers to take advantage of smartphone capabilities like the GPS and accelerometer to… Read More... →

Основатель венчурной компании «МетаБета» Дмитрий Масленников запустил проект Hi-Tech Bridge. По собственному заявлению, это хаб, призванный объединить и помочь реализовать возможности двух стран в области стартапов, инноваций, венчурных инвестиций и предпринимательства. Цель проекта — помогать российским стартапам, корпорациям и инвесторам искать продукты и технологии, инвестировать в компании, делать исследования, выводить компании на израильский рынок, изучать подход к развитию корпоративных инноваций, по... →

Российский миллиардер Юрий Мильнер и бывший президент по операционной деятельности в компании Flipkart Сужит Кумар вложили в бангалорскую компанию NestAway Technologies, которая разработала сеть аренды жилья Nestaway. Лид-инвесторами раунда В на сумму более $30 млн стали фонды Tiger Global Management и IDG Ventures.  Юрий Мильнер инвестировал через компанию Apoletto Asia. Как сообщает издание The India Times, это одна из самых крупных сделок серии В этого года в Индии.  Инвестиции в Nestaway будут направлен... →

Posted by larry.kim[Estimated read time: 13 minutes] Does organic click-through rate (CTR) data impact page rankings? This has been a huge topic of debate for years within the search industry. Some people think the influence of CTR on rankings is nothing more than a persistent myth. Like the one where humans and dinosaurs lived together at the same time — you know, like in that reality series "The Flintstones"? Some other people are convinced that Google must look at end user data. Because how in the world ... →

Even with billion dollar behemoths already in the food delivery market, Helsinki-based food delivery app Wolt has managed to raise $11 million fresh funding from heavyweight Nordic investors including the founder of Skype and the chairman of Nokia as the company announced its Stockholm launch on Friday. “We are now expanding in the Nordics and in the Baltic region. The funds go to the… Read More... →

ClassDojo has raised $21 million in Series B round of venture funding for tech that connects educators to students’ parents, and helps them communicate consistently about student’s activities, social and behavioral development at school. Communicating throughout the year, and even throughout the school day, means parents are apprised of what their kids are experiencing and how they… Read More... →

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Apple is teaming up with the World Wildlife Fund to raise money for the conservation organization through in-app purchases. Already started, the initiative will last until April 24, during which time users will have access to exclusive in-app content created specifically for the campaign by 24 different app developers, with 27 total apps in the collection. All of the proceeds from the purchase… Read More... →

13 апреля на XX Российском Интернет Форуме состаялась венчурная секция «Какие проекты могут получить инвестиции в России в 2016-2017 годах», организованная фондом Maxfield Capital. Модератором секции был основатель Firrma Дмитрий Фалалеев. Выступали спикеры из ведущих венчурных фондов: Андрей Романенко (Run Capital), Алексей Шахматов (Emery Capital), Александр Туркот (Maxfield Capital), Александр Фролов (Target Global), Артем Инютин (TMT Investments).  Все участники дискуссии согласились с тем, что экономич... →

Beekeeper, the Switzerland and U.S.-based startup that provides a mobile-first communications platform for employers that need a better way to communicate with blue-collar and service-oriented workers, has beefed up its coffers with $5 million in new funding. Read More... →

HomeToGo, the Berlin-headquartered metasearch engine for holiday rentals, has closed $20 million in Series B funding. Noteworthy for a European startup, the round is being led by New York-based VC Insight Venture Partners, along with participation from the company’s previous backers DN Capital, and Acton Capital Partners. I’m told the new capital will be used by HomeToGo for… Read More... →

Annual performance reviews are often more like an annual headache for both managers and employees. Impraise, a startup that wants to streamline the process with a mobile app, just raised $1.6 million in seed funding. Investors include Palm Drive Ventures, China Growth Capital, and HenQ. Read More... →

Как обычно по четвергам Firrma публикует обзор самых крупных израильских сделок за неделю, которую для нас подготовил управляющий партнер соинвестиционной платформы AltaClub Игорь Рабинович.  Поисковая система для электронной коммерции Twiggle привлекла $12,5 млн Израильская компания Twiggle анонсировала привлечение $12,5 млн в раунде финансирования серии А, который возглавила корпорация Naspers. В финансировании также приняли участие Yahoo! Japan, State of Mind Ventures и Рональд Коэн (Ronald Cohen) — глав... →