Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

Vive, the Classpass for hair blowouts, has announced the close of a $2.3 million seed round, led by Deep Fork Capital with participation by Y Combinator, Crunchfund, Ludlow Ventures, Vayner RSE, Maveron, Expansion Venture Capital, T5 Capital, Kosinski Ventures, Haystack Fund, and angel investors Pascal Levy-Garboua, Paul Buchheit and Scooter Braun’s SB Projects. Vive offers on-demand… Read More... →

Naritiv, the platform that connects brands and advertisers with influencers on Snapchat, has today announced the close of a $3 million Series A. Investors in the round include FreeForm, Third Wave Capital, and Luminary Capital, and Disney, among others. Naritiv launched out of the Disney Accelerator, powered by TechStars, in 2015. Naritiv works like this: The company has amassed a network… Read More... →

The three-way battle for India’s ecommerce market has just intensified. Snapdeal announced yesterday a $200 million funding round as it ramps up competition against Amazon and Flipkart. The investment was led by Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, one of the world’s largest pension funds, and Singapore-based investment entity Brother Fortune Apparel, among others. The new investment puts Snapdeal’s valuation in […]... →

Во время непростой экономической ситуации многие ищут альтернативные способы заработка. Самое верное решение – это грамотные инвестиции. Как это сделать? На помощь придет интеллектуальное приложение для инвестиций «Мой брокер». «Мой брокер» — это веб-сервис и iOS-приложение БКС Брокер для торговли ценными бумагами (в скором времени появится и приложение для Android). Кроме покупки и продажи активов, в нём также можно просматривать ленту информационных агентств и котировки, меняющиеся в реальном времени. Нов... →

Компании Ermak Group и Supremum Capital, которые принадлежат сыну бывшего министра энергетики Юрия Шафраника – Денису Шафранику – вышли из разработчика IT-инфраструктуры для электронной коммерции Atosho. Стартап был куплен компанией prettysocial media international. Подробности сделки не раскрываются. Atosho будет полностью интегрирован prettysocial. Ожидается, что это позволит prettysocial стать первым и единственным поставщиком для маркетологов и издателей, решения интернированного для соцсетей и охватыва... →

Snapdeal, India’s second largest e-commerce site, has pulled in $200 million in new funding via an investment led by Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan. Read More... →

Cybersecurity startup Cynet announced earlier this week that it raised $7 million from Lazarus Management Company. The Tel Aviv-based company offers a “solution for detection and remediation of advanced and unknown threats” to enterprises. The investment will be used to further work on its threat detection and response technology, as well as fueling international expansion, Cynet […]... →

Юлия Кожевникова из Tranio.com рассказывает о том, как устроена стартап-экосистема Амстердама – одного из городов, который претендует на звание европейской венчурной столицы. Амстердам известен не только богатой ночной жизнью, каналами и тюльпанами — это ещё и крупный центр предпринимательства.  Согласно исследованию European Digital City Index (2015) компании Nesta, Амстердам — лучший европейский город для интернет-бизнеса после Лондона. По данным отчёта The Startup Ecosystem, опубликованного компанией Com... →

They’re starting to crop up here and there, new startups that have appropriated the monthly class-pass model and are focused on children’s activities. Last month, a New York-based startup called KidPass announced $325,000 in seed funding, including from serial entrepreneur Kevin Ryan. Meanwhile, The Kids Passport, which is based in (and caters to) Brooklyn, has been up and… Read More... →

Artificial intelligence startup Diffbot announced today that it scored a $10 million series A round led by Tencent, Felicis Ventures, and Amplify Ventures. The Palo Alto-based company says its technology “uses computer vision and NLP algorithms to extract and structure any web page into the world’s largest structured database… with no human curation or oversight.” Diffbot’s […]... →

Компания ru-Net Леонида Богуславского повторно инвестировала в провайдера мобильных платежных услуг Payleven. Объём раунда D составил $10 млн. В сделке также приняли участие  Holtzbrinck Ventures, B Cinque, New Enterprise Associates (NEA) и MePay. Всего стартап привлек около $51 млн. На что конкретно будут потрачены средства не говорится. В компании заявляют, что в дальнейшем продолжат международную экспансию, разработку новых продуктов и привлечение новых пользователей.  Впервые Ru-Net инвестировала в Payl... →

The days of Square clones popping up, everywhere you looked and capitalizing on Square’s conservative approach to global expansion, are long gone. But those startups are not. And today, one of them is announcing a Series D round. Payleven, a mobile payments startup originally incubated in 2012 at Berlin’s Rocket Internet, says it has raised a $10 million growth round from a… Read More... →

Veniam, which provides mesh network for automobiles, has raised a $22 million Series B round to bring Wi-Fi hotspots to more vehicles. The latest investment includes funding from Verizon Ventures, Cisco Investments, Orange Digital Ventures*, Yamaha Motor Ventures, True Ventures, Union Square Ventures, and Cane Investments. The company plans on using the funds to bring its […]... →

Toss Lab has raised $2.5 million in fresh funding for JANDI, an enterprise communication tool that is tailored for companies in Asia. Along with a previous seed round, this brings Toss Lab’s total pre-Series A funding to $4.5 million. Read More... →

Онлайн-сервис объявлений Avito впервые выплатил дивиденды. Их размер составил $230 млн. Это 95,8% накопленной прибыли компании. Как сообщает «Коммерсант», компания выплатила дивиденды в четвертом квартале, после того как Naspers получила контроль над ней. В отчёте шведской компании Vostok New Ventures (VNV) говорится, что она получила $30,6 млн. Ей принадлежит 13,3% Avito. Согласно отчёту, доля в Avito по состоянию на 31 декабря 2015 года оценивалась в $338,5 млн, за год оценка инвестиции выросла на 59,2%. ... →

An under-the-radar startup that’s been quietly cornering the international student accommodation market for the past five years has raised $60 million from a number of high-profile investors. Launched initially as Overseas Student Living (OSL) in 2011 by an expat living in China, the web-based platform that matches students with professional landlords was rebranded as Student.com […]... →

Smart gardening startup Edyn announced today that it harvested a $2 million seed round. The Oakland, California-based startup also announced plans for an international expansion, starting with Japan. Edyn built a smart gardening system that helps plant enthusiasts to “stay connected to [their] garden” by regularly monitoring the soil and water conditions, along with temperature and […]... →

Lantern, a mental health startup that offers tools to deal with stress, anxiety and body image has raised a $17 million Series A round led by the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s venture arm with participation from previous investors such as Mayfield and SoftTechVC. UPMC Enterprises, the hospital’s venture arm, has invested large sums of money in 12 other health startups… Read More... →

CrunchBase, a service that surfaces information about startup funding, venture capital investments and people in the startup ecosystem, was spun out of TechCrunch and its parent company AOL/Verizon late last year. At the time, the new company raised a funding round led by Emergence Capital, with AOL/Verizon still holding on to a significant stake in the company. Today, CrunchBase announced… Read More... →

Robit is launching an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign to raise money for a domestic robot that runs apps as if it were a smartphone. The cute little robot rolls around your home and performs chores as commanded by the Raspberry Pi computer that serves as its brain. It’s an awful lot of technology on wheels, and Robit […]... →