Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

It’s been a wild few years for the home fitness industry. Few consumer technologies were better positioned to ride the pandemic to new heights. There’s been some leveling off of late, of course. Perth-based startup Vitruvian has made a name for itself in the Australian market. The company’s at-home strength-training system sports resistance-based weights up […]... →

В компании отметили, что доход от российского рынка составляет 0,2% от прогноза консолидированной выручки 2021 финансового года... →

For sales reps, commission plans are often complicated and lack transparency, leading to accounting errors and frustration. Everstage, a sales commission platform, solves that, letting sales rep see exactly how much they earned. It also has features to estimate how much commissions they can potentially make from their deals pipeline. Today, the startup announced it […]... →

Silicon Valley has gotten fantastically efficient at funding apps, SaaS and developer tools. It turns out, though, that climate change cares a lot less about bits, bytes, and stored procedures — it’s a lot more analog than that. Along come Evok Innovations and its cleantech fund, aiming to plow money into companies that are working […]... →

Demostack, a San Francisco, California-based startup creating a “demo experience” platform for software-as-a-service (SaaS) sales teams, today announced that it raised $34 million in a Series B round led by Tiger Global Management with participation from Bessemer Venture Partners, Amiti Ventures, GTMfund, Operator Collective, and StepStone. CEO Jonathan Friedman says that the proceeds will be […]... →

Last year we covered the $3.3 million seed round for NUE Life Health, a US-based telemedicine startup in the US, which was building out a mental wellness platform that combined psychedelic-assisted therapies and a graph database-driven app. This at-home ketamine therapy – considered a radically new way to treat depression – also combines music therapies […]... →

The idea of digital twins — digital representations of humans built with computer models — for medical research is gaining traction in both the private and academic sectors. With predictive simulation technology, some experts says that digital twins have the potential to improve healthcare by assessing health risks before a disease becomes symptomatic, helping clinicians […]... →

The digital transformation of banking and payments services is a red-hot trend that’s shown no signs of slowing down. Banking-as-a-service (BaaS) products like Synapse, Unit, and Bond have helped fuel the shift by allowing companies to quickly spin up new financial services using APIs. NovoPayment is a global BaaS startup based in Miami that has largely been focused […]... →

Per reports, Egyptians spend about 30% of their income on food in a $17 billion restaurant industry, one of the largest in Africa and the Middle East. Yet restaurants in this North African nation operate on thin margins due to several factors, ranging from large initial investments and high cost of rent to increasing operating expenses […]... →

An ambitious Chinese startup wants a slice of the flourishing global work automation market. Laiye, a Beijing-based company that provides a one-stop platform for automating office tasks of varying degrees of complexity, just picked up $160 million from a Series C funding round to expand globally. Guanchun Wang, Laiye’s founder and CEO, saw the “value […]... →

A European music streamer, Deezer is going public via a SPAC deal, valuing the Spotify competitor at $1.1 billion. Deezer will merge with the “blank-check” company I2PO, which is headed by former WarnerMedia executive Iris Knobloch. Founded in 2007, the company previously tried to IPO in 2015, only to reverse course and raise Series E […]... →

Investors want you to raise enough capital to comfortably reach your financial and non-financial targets before another fundraise — raise what you expect to need plus an acceptable buffer.... →

Almost anyone who has moved to a new country knows that setting up the basics, like a bank account, are the hardest tasks to do. That’s why Ellis was created for international students planning to study in the U.S. Before they arrive, they can open a debit account with Ellis’ neobank and sign up for […]... →

Clipboard Health, an app-based marketplace that matches nurses with open shifts at nearby healthcare facilities, today announced that it raised $80 million over two unannounced rounds, a $50 million Series B round in 2021 and a $30 million Series C round this year, at a $1.3 billion valuation post-money. CEO Wei Deng says that the […]... →

Zambian card issuing fintech Union54 has raised $12 million in a seed extension round led by Tiger Global. Other participating investors in this financing include existing ones such as Vibe VC and new investors Earl Grey Capital and Packy Mccormick’s Not Boring Capital. It’s been only six months since Union54, whose API allows African software […]... →

Инвестиции за первый квартал года в частные компании США упали с 90 млрд долларов год назад до 70 млрд венчурные инвесторы стали куда более осторожными после рекордного 2021 года, когда сотни американских технологических стартапов были оценены выше $1 млрд. При этом, пишет Financial Times, падение акций стартапов совпало с массовой распродажей акций публичных технологических компаний. Технологичный индекс Nasdaq Composite с начала 2022 года просел уже более чем на 15%..... →

Indian neobank Fi is in advanced stages of talks to raise about $100 million at a $700 million valuation, according to three sources familiar with the matter. Alpha Wave Global, formerly known as Falcon Edge Capital, is leading the round, sources said. Singapore’s Temasek is also in talks to invest in the new round, one […]... →

GoCrowd.io — это лицензированная краудфандинговая платформа, где инвесторы могут вложиться в перспективные проекты и увеличить доходность своего портфеля, а стартапы и действующий бизнес — привлечь инвестиции.... →

As we found during the pandemic, food and beverage distribution is critical, but most food wholesalers’ sales remain manually operated. Post-covid, food wholesalers are fast digitizing their operations, but many still rely on legacy backend systems. Addressing this, Cerve, a Sweden-based food-tech startup, has raised a $2 million seed round for its infrastructure platform that […]... →

Immigrants to the United States face myriad challenges besides having to learn a new language. In many cases, they are dealing with a foreign and complex financial system, may struggle with finding adequate housing and health care and just generally feel lost. Welcome Tech, a startup aiming to build “an operating system” for immigrant families […]... →