Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

Some social media users raised concerns on Friday over networking forum Reddit's removal from its site of a section that told users it had never received a certain type of surveillance request from the U.S. government.... →

Peter Thiel is having a good month. According to a new SEC filing, Mithril Capital Management, which Thiel named after a fictional metal from J. R. R. Tolkien’s fantasy writings and cofounded with longtime colleague Ajay Royan in 2012, is out raising its second fund with a $600 million target. But sources say the fund is already oversubscribed and that it may hit $1 billion before it… Read More... →

Less than a year after raising a hefty Series A, Managed By Q is today announcing the raise of a $25 million Series B round led by GV, with former TechCrunch writer MG Siegler joining the board. Managed By Q is a service that handle all the extra responsibilities that come along with running an office. From re-stocking toilet paper and soap to office cleanings to a fresh paint job on the… Read More... →

Business messaging service Slack has raised $200 million at a $3.8 billion post-money valuation, the company confirms to TechCrunch. The round was led by Thrive Capital, with participation by GGV, Comcast Ventures and Slack’s existing investors, including Accel, Index Ventures and Social Capital. This brings the total funding for the three-year-old company to a whopping $540 million.… Read More... →

betaworks doesn’t often launch games, but when they do, it tends to stick. Just take Dots, for example, which ended up spinning out of betaworks as its own game studio. Today, the startup studio is launching its second game in the form of CHKN. Imagine that Minecraft had a baby with a Tamagotchi from the 90s and you’ll have a pretty clear idea of how CHKN works. It’s a… Read More... →

A co-founder and former CTO of Yammer, Adam Pisoni, quietly raised a $4.5 million first round of venture funding for his new education tech startup in January. This week, he revealed what Always Be Learning Inc., known as Abl Schools, is working on. Read More... →

Украинский фонд TA Venture, инвестор российского стартапа Carprice, принял участие в раунде А берлинского стартапа data Artisans на сумму 5,5 млн. евро. Об этом сообщается на сайте компании.  Лид-инвестором рауда стала компания Intel Capital. Другие участники сделки: Tengelmann Ventures и b-to-v Partners. data Artisans представляет собой платформу для анализа больших массивов данных. Стартап был создан компанией Apache Flink как проект Apache Incubator. Apache Flink – открытая платформу для распределения по... →

Schoold is a college search app that has been downloaded more than 500,000 times in its first month, and the company is announcing today that it has closed a seed round of $4.5 million. The money will further the company’s mission of helping students and parents navigate the bewildering process of choosing a college. It comes […]... →

Алексей Менн — партнер инвестиционного фонда Sun Capital – написал для Firrma колонку о том, какие проекты на рынке food-стартапов привлекательны для инвестора в кризис, а какие могут уйти с рынка.  Продукты питания, фаст-фуд, ресторанный бизнес — отрасли, которые всегда привлекали инвесторов. Но новыми их уж точно не назовешь. Это, на первый взгляд, простой и вроде бы понятный бизнес, но далеко не всегда прибыльный. Почему же сейчас в среде профессиональных инвесторов так много стали говорить о рынке food-... →

Алексей Менн — партнер инвестиционного фонда Sun Capital – написал для Firrma колонку о том, какие проекты на рынке food-стартапов привлекательны для инвестора в кризис, а какие могут уйти с рынка.  Продукты питания, фаст-фуд, ресторанный бизнес — отрасли, которые всегда привлекали инвесторов. Но новыми их уж точно не назовешь. Это, на первый взгляд, простой и вроде бы понятный бизнес, но далеко не всегда прибыльный. Почему же сейчас в среде профессиональных инвесторов так много стали говорить о рынке food-... →

Принадлежащий Минкомсвязи инвестфонд «Росинфокоминвест» показал прибыль по итогам 2015 года, сообщают «Ведомости». За последние 10 лет фонд не совершил ни одной сделки, но планирует начать инвестиции в 2016 году.... →

Инвестиционный фонд Минкомсвязи «Росинфокоминвест» принес 93 млн рублей прибыли в 2015 году или 15% годовых, по сравнению с 2014 годом, а  чистый убыток составил 177,6 млн рублей. Об этом сообщается в отчете фонда.  По итогам 2015 года чистые активы фонда «Росинфокоминвест» по инвестиционным резервам приросли на 130 млн рублей. Фонд стал операционно прибыльным впервые за последние четыре года. За прошедшие 10 лет фонд не совершил ни одной сделки. Прибыль удалось получить благодаря управлению инвестиционными... →

Berlin-based, Rocket Internet-backed online furniture retailer Home24 has raised €20 million (about $22.7 million) and reinforced its management team to get to profitability and to try and take on IKEA in Europe (via Reuters). The fresh capital comes from both existing and new investors, the company said in a statement. Christoph Cordes and Marc Appelhoff, respectively […]... →

New York-based Material Wrld provides a high-end marketplace for used clothes. Launched in 2012, the company provides marketplace for luxury fashion items aimed at women looking to update what’s inside their closets according to events and seasonal changes. The company announced on Wednesday that it has secured $9 million from Start Today and Nissay Capital in a series B round. Start […]... →

Big box retailers like Best Buy and Target have all kinds of financing card programs for their customers. But smaller and medium-sized merchants have no way to give their customers the same kind of financing plans. Until now. Blispay is a new startup founded by Greg Lisiewski, formerly of BillMeLater, which was acquired by PayPal for nearly $1 billion in 2008. From that point, he served… Read More... →

Управляющий партнер соинвестиционной платформы AltaClub Игорь Рабинович сделал для Firrma подборку наиболее крупных израильских сделок за неделю.  LifeBEAM привлек $16 млн Израильский стартап LifeBEAM анонсировали привлечение $16 млн в раунде финансирования серии А, возглавляемом венчурным фондом Square Peg Capital при участии инвесторов Wellborn Ventures, Cerca Partners, Atomic14 Ventures, TriVentures и бизнес-ангелов. Полученные инвестиции будут потрачены на развитие нового продукта Awareables, задуманног... →

San Francisco-based Branch International, or Branch.co, raised $9.2 million to bring digital financial services to mobile phone users in Sub-Saharan Africa. Andreessen Horowitz led the Series A round. Branch’s free-to-download Android app is a kind of “branchless bank for the next generation,” says founder and CEO Matt Flannery. Read More... →

Expa announced today that it has raised $100 million in funding that’ll be used to continue to ideate and build new companies. The investment round included investors such as TPG founder David Bonderman, Li Ka-Shing, Solina Chau, Google board member Ram Shriram, RIT Capital Partners, Sir Richard Branson, HP chief executive Meg Whitman, SV Angel, […]... →

Expa announced today that it has raised $100 million in funding that’ll be used to continue to ideate and build new companies. The investment round included investors such as TPG founder David Bonderman, Li Ka-Shing, Solina Chau, Google board member Ram Shriram, RIT Capital Partners, Sir Richard Branson, HP chief executive Meg Whitman, SV Angel, […]... →

Asana, an enterprise app that lets people set and track projects and other goals, has hit a goal of its own: today, the company is announcing that it has raised $50 million. The Series C round — led by Y-Combinator’s Sam Altman — values the company at $600 million, the company tells me. As a bit of context, Asana last raised $28 million in 2012; that Series B was at a… Read More... →