Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

Минэкономразвития и Фонд развития интернет-инициатив (ФРИИ) обсуждают поправки в законодательство, согласно которым государственные IT-системы станут объектом концессии или государственно-частного партнерства (ГЧП). Об этом сообщают «Ведомости». По словам представителя ФРИИ Сергея Скрипникова, когда государство нуждается в IT-системах, оно вкладывается в разработку, затем тратит на содержание таких систем и решений десятки миллиардов рублей. Эти расходы мог бы взять на себя частный бизнес, если предложить ... →

As we inch closer to a time when we may rely on truly autonomous devices to move us or do things on our behalf, the need for software that’s able to think on its feet (or mid-air) will be essential. Now, an artificial intelligence startup working on this emerging area of machine learning has raised a seed round of funding to try to do just that. Cambridge, UK-based Prowler.io, which… Read More... →

Home Chef just announced that it’s raised a new $40 million round of funding. This Series B comes on top of the $10 million round that Home Chef raised earlier this year. It was led by L Catterton Partners, the private equity firm formed by the recent merger of Catterton with the PE arm of luxury conglomerate LVMH. Founder and CEO Pat Vihtelic has argued that Home Chef differs from… Read More... →

A startup called Dozr Inc. has raised CAN $2.5 million (or $1.9 million USD) in seed funding to help contractors rent heavy industrial equipment from other construction professionals who have it, but aren’t using it. Based in Kitchener, Ontario Dozr’s marketplace lets builders rent equipment, like excavators, skidsteers or one day drones and industrial robotics, either alone, or with… Read More... →

A Los Angeles startup called codeSpark has raised $4.1 million in seed funding for web and mobile games that teach kids how to code, even before they know how to read and write effectively. CodeSpark’s games were developed for kids 4 to 9 years old, and with a goal of not just teaching them STEM concepts, but engaging boys and girls equally well. The games feature characters who are… Read More... →

A cybersecurity startup based in Hod Hasharon, Israel, Karamba Security, has raised $2.5 million in new series A funding to protects internet-connect cars and self-driving vehicles from hackers. Fontinalis Partners, a venture firm that is focused on mobility and transportation-related technologies, led the investment joined by Karamba’s earlier seed backers YL Ventures and GlenRock.… Read More... →

LocalGlobe, founded by former Index Partners investors Robin Klein and Saul Klein, has taken the lead in a GBP500,000 financing for the education technology startup, Lingumi. A member of the 5th cohort of the Entrepreneur First accelerator, Lingumi has not only raised its first capital, but also launched its first product this week. Created by an Oxford University graduate Toby Mather… Read More... →

Today, Skymind, a company developing an open-source deep-learning library for Java, along with tools for implementation, closed $3 million in financing from Tencent, SV Angel, GreatPoint Ventures, Mandra Capital, and Y Combinator. Skymind was previously a part of Y Combinator’s Winter 2016 batch and has taken money from Joe Montana’s Liquid 2 Ventures and a number of other… Read More... →

My first home-way-from-home was a room in a house with an unrepeatable nickname on West College St. in Oberlin, OH. I lived with 8 other people in a two-story, rambling warren filled with rooms and roomlets that had been created over the years to shelter increasing numbers of people in the same finite amount of space. While increasing numbers of college students are choosing the manicured… Read More... →

b8ta, the retail store that sells trendy tech gadgets, recently raised a $7 million Series A round led by TriplePoint Ventures with participation from Khosla Ventures, Fifth Wall Ventures, Macerich and Eniac Ventures. b8ta also received $8 million in debt funding and previously raised a $4.5 million seed round. b8ta launched its first store in Palo Alto last December. Since then, things have… Read More... →

Инвесторы также помогут отобранным стартапам довести продукт до стадии прототипа или продаж... →

Setting its sights on a public offering within the next year, Druva, which sells software so businesses can manage all of the information they’re forced by law to hold onto, has raised $51 million. In the old days, data management and protection was an analog affair — or existed on big server farms inside a corporate firewall. Now, like everything else, forecasts are more…… Read More... →

Tink Labs offers a free-to-use smartphone for hotel guests that lets them enjoy free services, and gives hotels a powerful channel to engage their guests. Read More... →

Компания ABBYY запустила интернет-платформу для оценки качества образования в школах «ABBYY Мониторинг». Инвестиции в проект превысили 100 млн рублей, рассказал директор по образовательным проектам «ABBYY Россия» Алексей Калинин «Коммерсанту».... →

ProsperWorks, a cross-platform customer relationship management (CRM) service that plugs into the Google for Work platform, today announced that it has raised a $24 million Series B funding round. The round was led by Next World Capital, an early revenue stage VC firm that specializes in helping its portfolio companies expand into European markets. Other investors include Storm Ventures,… Read More... →

Othman Laroki and Elad Gil were sitting on Twitter’s roof deck after their previous company Mixer Labs had been acquired. Gil had brought a small hard drive with him — which happened to contain data on his genome being sequenced — and Laroki wanted to take a look at the data. That led to the the original hypothesis of Color Genomics: what if you could apply the same principles… Read More... →

27 из них получат от фонда инвестиции по 2,1 миллиона рублей в обмен на 7% компании... →

Deepgram co-founders, 20-year-old wunderkind Noah Shutty and his University of Michigan lab supervisor Scott Stephenson, definitely have faith in sound. The two left behind promising research in particle physics, researching the creation of Dark Matter in the bowels of underground Chinese bunkers, to develop what they call a “Google for sound”. Much as the Google search engine… Read More... →

22 сентября 2016 года стартовал 10-ый Акселератор ФРИИ, в который вошли 33 IT-компании из разных регионов России. Об этом Firrma сообщили в фонде. ФРИИ инвестирует по 2,1 млн рублей в 26 стартапов, из которых каждая компания оплатит программу акселерации стоимостью 900 тысяч рублей. В обмен на инвестиции ФРИИ получит 7% долю в стартапах. Оценка каждой компании составит 30 млн рублей. Остальные 7 компаний самостоятельно оплатят свое участие в программе без привлечения инвестиций от фонда. Среди участников... →

Посевной венчурный фонд Константина Синюшина и Игоря Лутца the Untitled ventures инвестировал в российский стартап в области новых форматов розничной торговли Bazzar. Как сообщил Firrma основатель стартапа Илья Лесничий, the Untitled ventures получил долю в размере 25%. Сумма сделки не раскрывается. Инвестиции пойдут на достижение операционной окупаемости проекта. Crowd-commerce cистема распространения товара через сеть агентов BAZZAR позволяет снизить операционные издержки бизнеса. Сейчас сервис присутству... →