Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

The rise and fall of Pokémon GO begs us to ask many questions regarding how to launch a game to position it for success. One specific question it raises is whether branded intellectual property is something game makers should consider prior to launch. Branded IP is one of the most time-tested ways to launch games that go on to become immensely popular. Read More... →

When we last left Polish smart lighting company Silvair they were working on a way to create a Bluetooth mesh network between you, your kettle, your lightbulbs, and countless other devices in the home. After two years of work the company has perfected their systems and are now offering occupancy sensing, beacons, customer tracking and lighting to enterprise customers using a unique set of… Read More... →

Украинский интергратор bNesis получил подписанные обязательства на $500 тысяч от фонда Starta Capital, Found Fair ventures (ряд европейских инвесторов и фондов) и украинского бизнес-ангела, имя которого не раскрывается. Об этом Firrma сообщил CEO и основатель bNesis Дмитрий Норенко. По словам Дмитрия Норенко, Starta Capital и бизнес-ангел могут вложить по $50 тысяч, Found Fair Ventures дает 400 тысяч евро в рамках конкурса Catch Pitch Challenge, который прошел в Европе. К раунду могут присоединиться еще д... →

Paris-based DJiT, the French startup behind the popular DJ app edjing and more recently a hardware device called Mixfader, has raised a further $2.6 million. Read More... →

ValiMail helps enterprises protect their inboxes by making it easier to authenticate incoming emails with the help of the DMARC standard and related open protocols. At its core, this allows businesses to ensure that nobody can use their own domain names for a phishing attack against their employees, and gives enterprises more insight into how their internal and external email services are… Read More... →

Российский разработчик дополненной реальности в сфере туризма Piligrim XXI привлек инвестиции от испанской компании Way2Wow в обмен на четверть активов. Об этом Firrma сообщили в акселераторе GenerationS. Way2Wow приобрела долю фонда предпосевных инвестиций Санкт-Петербурга, который в 2014 годe вложился в Piligrim XXI. По итогам сделки Piligrim XXI и Way2Wow объединят бизнес и расширят команду. Проект Piligrim XXI — мобильное приложение из Санкт-Петербурга, которое содержит виртуальные реконструкции историч... →

Even if self-driving cars aren’t part of our daily lives yet, vehicles are becoming internet-connected at a rapid pace. Gartner predicts that one fifth of all autos on the road, and great majority of new vehicles being produced worldwide will have wireless network connectivity by 2020. Yet, few organizations have access to use the data generated by these vehicles today. That’s… Read More... →

The Model Sondors 3-wheeled electric vehicle is the latest automotive startup to take advantage of new rules to raise funds. Sondors is using equity crowdfunding, “where a crowd of accredited and nonaccredited investors alike can invest up to $1 million in an early-stage company,” according to Grant Harvey, who is working with the company on this campaign. This particular type… Read More... →

Think back to the last time you had to do a corporate training. More likely than not it was a frustrating experience that you simply tried to survive rather than learn from. (If you feel otherwise, I’m genuinely worried about you). With $27 million in fresh funding led by JMI Equity and BDC Capital, Axonify, wants to hack your brain to help everyone get away with doing less while taking… Read More... →

Meet Melody. Despite looking like a giant egg with a TV for a heart, she actually may be the first thing to put a smile on your face this morning. She can recognize you, listen to you, and even sing for you — all the while being a hub for home IoT. The whole package may seem a bit corny, albeit in a cute candy corn kinda way, but for investors in Rokid, Melody’s maker, the device… Read More... →

A San Diego startup called Classy has raised $30 million for software-as-a-service that helps nonprofits raise donations online, and keep supporters engaged in a good cause for the long run. Specifically, Classy helps 501c3 or other nonprofit organizations to run crowdfunding, online and mobile campaigns, awareness and fundraising events all under one roof. This makes it possible for nonprofits… Read More... →

AirPR is announcing that it has raised $5 million in Series B funding. The company started out as a marketplace that matched up startups with public relations professionals, but is focus has since shifted to building analytic tools that measure the impact of PR — in fact, it sold the marketplace side of the business last year. AirPR has now raised a total of $10 million. The Series B… Read More... →

At least 30 million people wear contact lenses in the U.S., but somehow, less than one-third of this population wears daily disposable lenses, which are deemed the most hygienic and healthiest option by eye health professionals. A New York City startup called Hubble Contacts, co-founded by Ben Cogan and Jesse Horwitz, wants to make daily disposable lenses the norm here the way they are in most… Read More... →

Los Angeles-based Replicated has raised $5 million to build out its service that takes software-as-a-service companies down from the “cloud”, TechCrunch has learned. The company, which operates under the somewhat contrarian belief that not all services are going to be delivered in the cloud, provides a toolkit that lets software companies offer their products on premise behind… Read More... →

Giphy, the NY-based search engine and platform for GIFs, has raised $72 million in funding led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Institutional Venture Partners and China Media Capital. This brings Giphy’s total funding to just short of $151 million, according to Crunchbase, with a valuation reported at $600 million by the WSJ. Giphy started as part of a Hacker-in-Residence program at… Read More... →

Инвестиционная группа LetterOne, которая управляет активами «Альфа-групп» Михаила Фридмана, вложилась в финского провайдера облачных решений для телекоммуникационных компаний Qvantel. Об этом пишут «Ведомости». Подробности сделки не раскрываются. Финская компания привлекла LetterOne своим продуктом – системой поддержки бизнеса, которая будет использоваться оператором Vimpelcom Ltd (47,9% принадлежит LetterOne). L1 старается инвестировать в развивающиеся технологичные компании, чей бизнес призван изменить тр... →

Бывший IT директор ЮКОСа Сергей Шашурин купил 49% туристического проекта Инны Бельтюковой Bookinna. Об этом сообщает RNS, со ссылкой на заявление Инны Бельтюковой. Сделка состоялась в начале года. Сумма вложений не раскрывается. По словам представителя VentureClub, в результате сделки никто из предыдущих инвесторов не вышел из проекта.  Ещё 51% принадлежит компании «Руслайн», пулу инвесторов VentureClub и фонду RMG Partners, которые вложили в BOOKINNA $200 тысяч в качестве первого транша в 2015 году.  В нач... →

Корпорация «Роснано» договорилась с АФК «Системой» о продаже своей доли в компании «Микрон». Об этом сообщает «Коммерсант». По условиям пут-опциона от 2014 года сумма сделки составит 8,1 млрд рублей за 20,42% акций. По данным издания, «Роснано»получит до конца года 4,8 млрд рублей, а 3,3 млрд рублей —не позднее конца 2017 года. Принадлежащий АФК «Система» отраслевой холдинг РТИ контролирует 70,189% акций «Микрона», «Роснано» принадлежит 20,42%, еще 6,55% у Росимущества, остальное у частных лиц. «Микрон» вып... →

Blackline, a Los Angeles-based accounting software company, debuted in the U.S. markets Friday. After pricing at $17 per share, the stock closed at $23.70. In what has been a slow year for tech IPOs, Blackline decided to go public right now because it’s “part of a longer term plan to raise awareness for what we do,” said CEO Therese Tucker. She said the IPO, which raised… Read More... →

Отношения между инвестором и основателем часто заходят в тупик из-за кардинальной разницы в мотивациях. Позиция инвестора в отношении фаундера зачастую описывается фразой «nothing personal, just business». Основатель вкладывает в свой проект душу, верит в него до последнего и не задумывается о том, что инвестором руководят совершенно другие эмоции. Задача инвестора – в первую очередь, заработать деньги и сформировать сильный инвестиционный портфель.  При несовпадении целей и отсутствии проработанного корпор... →