Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

2016 is almost out but there’s just time to anoint one more ride-sharing unicorn. Careem, one of Uber’s lower profile rivals in emerging markets, has taken a step into the global limelight today after it announced that it has raised $350 million led by Japanese e-commerce firm Rakuten and Saudi Telecom Company (STC). Read More... →

Memebox, a Y Combinator startup that sells Korean beauty products in the U.S. and Asia, has raised $60 million. The cash is an extension of the firm’s Series C round which initially closed at $65.95 million in August. Read More... →

NoBroker, the India-based property startup that wants to make property agents obsolete, has landed $7 million in fresh funding to expand its service. Read More... →

Разработчик направит инвестиции на развитие партнерской сети, маркетинг и НИОКР.... →

Инвестиции в проект составили 1, 9 млн рублей.... →

Соцсети – не только канал продвижения, но и способ поднять раунд... →

Президент «РЫБАКОВ ФОНД», основатель KupiVIP и Aktivo, сооснователь Fastlane Ventures, Simile Ventures Partners и CarPrice, бизнес-ангел, вечный стартапер и инвестор Оскар Хартманн уверен, что вовремя полученный профессиональный совет порой полезнее финансовых вложений. Суть бизнеса состоит в том, что надо взять невидимое – то, что есть у тебя в голове, и сделать видимым. Это требует огромных ресурсов и умений: продавать, убеждать, строить. На первом этапе развития компании или проекта важнее всего скорость... →

NextView Ventures, a seed-stage venture firm in Boston, is looking to raise at least $50 million for a third fund, shows an SEC filing that was processed yesterday. The firm closed its second fund with $40 million in 2014 and its debut fund with $21 million in 2012. NextView was founded in 2010 by three former veterans of other venture firms: Dave Beisel, who’d previously worked for… Read More... →

There’s never been a better time to start a company, thanks largely to technological innovations that have made it easier to raise capital, find and manage new customers and streamline operations. Some might say that entrepreneurship has entered a golden age in recent years. The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor’s 2015/16 Global Report estimates more than 100 million new businesses… Read More... →

The Flo app — the period calculator for women that tracks and predicts menstrual cycles, ovulation, and fertile days — has raised $1 million in seed round funding led by Flint Capital along with the Haxus Venture Fund co-founded by Yuri Gurski (who invested in MSQRD that was sold to Facebook in 2016). The Flo app is developed by OWHealth, a US-based startup. Like MSQRD, Flo was… Read More... →

Should you be interested in the lifecycle of the bee or the magic of clip art and equations then ExplainEverything would like a world. This Wroclaw, Poland-based company offers a sort of iPad-powered whiteboard that lets you collaboratively display drawings and text, equations, and even stamp out fun (and educational) clip art presentations. The company recently raised $3.7 million from Credo,… Read More... →

Airfare prediction app Hopper has grown from 1 million downloads to over 10 million in the course of a year – a trajectory that’s allowed it to pull in $82 million CAD (~$61.2 million US) in additional funding to continue to grow its business. The Series C round was led by North American pension fund manager, Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, and includes participation… Read More... →

Amino Apps, a startup aiming to reinvent online forums for the mobile world, has raised $19.2 million in Series B funding. The New York City-based company started out by building individual apps focused on topics like anime and Doctor Who, but earlier this year it launched a new, all-purpose Amino app that allows anyone to launch a community. Now more than 250,000 communities have been… Read More... →

Looking to be the next leap forward in data organization, computation, and delivery for big data Databricks, the business built on top of the popular Apache Spark open source project, has raised $60 million in new financing. Taking the route mapped by so many big data companies before it, Databricks is the business that the open source Apache Spark project built. Spark is the next step in… Read More... →

Инвестиционный фонд Prostor Capital представил результаты  ежегодного исследования Venture Barometer Russia, проведенного компанией Data Insight. Исследование проводится уже третий год. В ходе исследования было опрошено онлайн 37 участников из 30 компаний (инвесторы, управляющие фондами, бизнес-ангелы). Это более 70% инвесторов, работающих на территории РФ.  Наиболее часто упоминаемым фактором, негативно влияющим на венчурный рынок, стали экономические и политические санкции (72%) по сравнению с 70% в 2015... →

Kreditech — the online lender that builds credit histories based on big data analytics and is backed by the likes of Peter Thiel, Blumberg and the World Bank’s IFC — is today announcing a new strategic investor, and with it, a little more funding. The Berlin startup has raised $10 million from Rakuten, the e-commerce giant out of Japan. The investment comes out of… Read More... →

Фонд семьи Гуцериевых Larnabel Enterprises и белорусская компания VP Capital планируют совместно инвестировать более $100 млн в проекты, связанные с развитием искусственного интеллекта. В фокусе фондов будут проекты стран Европы. В какой форме будут осуществляться инвестиции и о каких именно проектах идет речь – не сообщается. «Новые технологии искусственного интеллекта уже в ближайшие 5 лет изменят мир так же, как его в свое время изменили мобильные устройства и интернет», – цитирует «Интерфакс» Виктора Пр... →

Первая российская система обработки данных клинических исследований Data MATRIX привлекла 160 млн рублей от фонда развития интернет-инициатив (ФРИИ) и венчурного фонда Primer Capital. Об этом Firrma сообщили в Primer Capital. Лид-инвестором сделки стал ФРИИ, который вложил в Data MATRIX 150 млн рублей. Primer Capital вложил 10 млн рублей. Привлеченные инвестиции будут использованы для развития проекта и выхода на зарубежные рынки. Инвестиционным консультантом сделки выступила инвестиционная служба «Сколково... →

Codementor (incorporated as Peer Idea Inc.) has raised $1.6 million in seed funding to grow its online education business into a marketplace for elite freelance developers who are among the top-rated mentors on its site. Based in Mountain View with a development office in Taiwan, Codementor is a graduate of Techstars in Seattle. WI Harper led the seed round in Codementor, which had… Read More... →

Zola, the online wedding registry for engaged couples, has confirmed that it raised $25 million in Series C funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, according to Re/code. We first reported on the round in late November, at which time sources said the company was valued at $200 million, pre-money. Zola lets couples put together a wedding registry online, which can include products from… Read More... →