Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

Mobile payment startup Fit Pay snagged a $3.1 million seed round led by security company Giesecke & Devrient, the startup announced today. Fit Pay said its technology “allows wearable device manufacturers to seamlessly add contactless payment capabilities to their products.” Plug and Play joined the round for the startup, which participated in the Plug and […]... →

ZenDrive today announced that it just raised $13.5 million in funding to support its effort to make transportation safer. The investment was led by Sherpa Capital and will be used to improve the company’s technology and add more talent to the team. Its valuation was not disclosed. A mission-driven company, ZenDrive uses data and analytics […]... →

Акционеры Ozon рассматривают возможность объединить туристический проект Ozon.Travel с одним из российских онлайн-сервисов по бронированию авиабилетов и гостиниц. Об сообщает RNS, со ссылкой на источник, близкий к одному из акционеров Ozon.  По данным издания, акционеры Ozon сделали предложение OneTwoTrip и Anywayanyday о слиянии с Ozon.Travel. Переговоры начались более года назад по инициативе фонда Baring Vostok. Однако определённых договорённостей пока нет. Руководитель Anywayanyday Кирилл Подольский дал... →

EXCLUSIVE: Totspot, a marketplace to buy and sell children’s cloths, announced today that it closed a $1.5 million seed investment led by Seven Seas Venture Partners. GGV Capital, 500 Startups and Structure Capital also participated. The mobile marketplace says it aims to help moms sell and restock their kids closet. However, as cofounder and CEO Vijay […]... →

U.K.-based startup Sonovate announced today that it closed a $22 million (£20 million) series A round. Dawn Capital led a $5.5 million investment for Sonovate, while Shawbrook Business Credit provided the remaining $16.5 million in debt. The startup, which offers “contract management for recruitment businesses,” said it will use the capital to further develop its product […]... →

Handshake announced today that it has raised a $10.5 million Series A round for its college career network. Led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), the investment will be used to help the company build additional university partnerships, as well as boost engineering and product support. Additional participants in the round include True Ventures, […]... →

After School, the popular anonymous social app that sells itself as a “private message board for your school,” has raised $16.4 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Accomplice, formerly Atlas Ventures, Tikhon Bernstam, and AngelList-founder Naval Ravikant. Founded in 2014, After School has seen hundreds of thousands of high-school students flock […]... →

Geofeedia, a startup that pulls real-time, location-based data from social media, has raised $17 million in Series B funding. Co-founder and CEO Phil Harris said the company “invented a new way of organizing social data” — most other analytics tools allow businesses to look at social data based on things like keywords and hashtags, while Geofeedia is focused on location.… Read More... →

Riding electric boards is hot. Future Motion has raised $3.2 million for tis one-wheeled electric skateboard, dubbed Onewheel. The Onewheel is part of a wave of electric skateboards, hoverboards, and other devices that help people get around to places faster. It was part of a wave of personal transportation devices that were on display at […]... →

Lamudi, a real estate listings site backed by Rocket Internet, is in the money today after closing a fresh investment worth €29 million ($31.4 million) to grow its business in Asia and Latin America. Read More... →

Фонд SOL Ventures Сергея Опарина и Левона Оганесяна инвестирует в ИТ-проекты уже третий год. За это время он достаточно редко попадал на радары СМИ о венчурном бизнесе. Firrma записала интервью с управляющим фонда Сергеем Опариным, в котором он рассказал о стратегии и принципах работы SOL Ventures. Какова стратегия фонда? Менялась ли она со дня его основания в 2013 году? Мы инвестируем исходя из нескольких важных принципов. Мы делаем ставку на «ярких» предпринимателей. Поэтому для нас важно глубокое знакомс... →

If you have young children, or your children aren’t so old that you can still remember what a complete and utter pain clunky car seats can be, you might want to acquaint yourself with three-year-old, Ra’anana, Israel-based mifold. The founders of King Digital Entertainment did. In fact, after seeing the Indiegogo campaign of the company and its accompanying video, they reached out… Read More... →

Pinterest. Instagram, Tumblr. The future of the web is visual, but how does anyone make money on that? By understanding what’s in the images people post and connecting them to where you can buy what you see. That’s Curalate’s job. The image recognition marketing startup just raised $27.5 million led by NEA, bringing it to $40 million in total funding. If a picture is worth… Read More... →

Алексей Поликарпов, бывший коммерческий директор компании «Тематические медиа» (издания «Хабрахабр», «Мегамозг») инвестировал в сервис по доставке еды «Нужен ужин». Как сообщил Firrma Алексей Поликарпов, сделка состоялась в январе 2016 года и составила 2 млн рублей. Доля инвестора в стартапе не раскрывается по соглашению сторон. Известно, что по итогам сделки Алексей Поликарпов назначен коммерческим директором сервиса, а также его исполнительным директором по совместительству. Осенью 2015 года стартап привл... →

When companies have to pick what kinds of services they want for their operation — like marketing or human resources — they can easily be paralyzed by choice. That’s why Vamshi Mokshagundam decided to start Siftery, a database of sorts where companies list their software stacks. The company just raised $4 million from Felicis Ventures, Founders Fund, and Venrock among… Read More... →

AdTech has been lumbering along in the last few years, with a number of M&A moves to consolidate the market – not least the purchase by Verizon of AOL, allegedly (in the main) for it’s ad platform. But there remain niches where AdTech is actual innovating. To that end, London-based Ad tech firm Grapeshot has raised $8.5m in funding from European-based investors IQ Capital,… Read More... →

Of the many categories of products that are hard to buy online, one of the most challenging is underwear — and specifically bras. Even at the best of times — when you are physically in a store with a veritable sea of bras at your disposal to try on — the process can be painfully unrewarding, with two bras purportedly made for the same proportions fitting completely… Read More... →

Tattoo culture is by now very well established and of course with it has come ways of expressing that culture online. Thus, Tattoodo has styled itself as a “digital lifestyle hub for all things tattoo-related.” In English, that means it publishes content, has community and a marketplace. The Copenhagen-based startup has now raised $2.5 million from a number of high-profile… Read More... →

Magic Leap has been successful in keeping a lot of its technology under wraps — the augmented and virtual reality technology company has yet to release a product — but its fundraising has been an open secret. And today it is finally being confirmed: the startup announced that it has raised $793.5 million in a Series C round of funding, at a valuation that a spokesperson tells us… Read More... →

OutSystems, an Atlanta-based service that helps enterprises quickly build line-of-business apps, today announced that it has raised a $55 million funding round led by North Bridge Growth Equity. Previous investors in the company include ES Ventures and Portugal Ventures. OutSystems isn’t exactly a new company anymore. It was founded in 2001 and now has over 600 enterprise customers and… Read More... →