Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

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... →

Pencil + Pixel wants to use bleeding edge technology to upgrade your digs. Eventually. Called Modsy, the service still isn’t publicly available but the company is today announcing it raised an $8 million Series A to push its mission towards a public launch. The company soft launched its innovative design service in mid-2015. It blew me away. In its pre-launch state, a user sent the… Read More... →

Spotcap, the Rocket Internet-founded fintech startup that operates an online lending platform for small businesses, has beefed up its coffers with €31.5 million in new funding. Read More... →

Кирилл Клоков – директор по продукту в стартапе ezhome, сооснователь бизнес-инкубатора МГУ, а также выпускник стендфордского акселератора StartX – написал для Firrma колонку о важных аспектах привлечения инвестиций в Кремниевой Долине.  Почему инвесторы из долины инвестируют только в компании из долины? По одной простой причине – у них нет времени. Каждый венчурный инвестор сидит в совете директоров 4-5 компаний, играет в гольф с другими инвесторами и ходит на прогулки на выходных – такой спокойный и нормал... →

Kaizen, a Tokyo- and San Francisco-based user interface marketplace and testing platform, plans to increase its presence in the United States after raising an $8 million Series B. Read More... →

Фонд развития интернет-инициатив (ФРИИ) объявил о начале работы своего восьмого акселератора. Как сообщили Firrma в ФРИИ, в новый набор вошли 28 проектов, из которых 7 стартапов будут проходить акселерацию за свой счет.   В 21 проект из этого набора акселератора ФРИИ вложил по 2,1 млн рублей, из которых по 900 тысяч рублей пойдут на оплату программы акселерации. В обмен на инвестиции фонд получил по 7% этих стартапов. Постинвестиционная оценка каждой проинвестированной ФРИИ компании составит 30 млн рублей. ... →

The last 5-10 years have been an extraordinary time for early stage tech founders to raise money. But easy access to capital has ingrained some bad habits among founders. There has always been the risk of over-funding your company or not being able to find a funder for your next round, but now it’s far more common to see founders blithely accepting deal terms that could kill their… Read More... →

2015 was not a good year for IPOs — it was actually the worst year for tech IPOs since the financial crisis in 2009. More and more startups are opting to remain private for longer periods of time. And while we still haven’t seen any IPOs in 2016, the slowest start since 2009, eventually venture-backed companies need to go public — if only to raise additional financing to… Read More... →

Два проекта с российскими корнями ManyChat и ArrowPass прошли отбор в американский акселератор 500 Startups и получили от него по $125 тысяч. Об этом Firrma сообщил сооснователь ManyChat Микаэл Ян и сооснователь ArrowPass Мирослав Сарбаев. ManyChat – платформа, которая помогает бизнесу продавать и поддерживать клиентов через популярные мессенджеры (Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Viber, Telegram, и т.д). Проект объединяет все чатовые API (Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Viber, Telegram, и т.д.) в один интерфейс... →

Российский сервис для изучения иностранных языков Lingualeo объявил о выходе на окупаемость к 2016 году после сокращения 30% штата в середине 2015 года. Теперь компания планирует выйти на испаноязычные рынки и привлечь новые инвестиции, однако «рассчитывает только на себя», сообщили vc.ru в сервисе.... →

Инвестиции в Национальный реестр интеллектуальной собственности могут достичь 100 млн рублей, размер которых может увеличиться с ростом числа единиц контента, вносимых в реестр. Об этом сообщает газета «Ведомости».  Во главе реестра будет стоять АО «Национальный реестр интеллектуальной собственности», под управлением нескольких учредителей. Вложения в компанию могут поступать не только со стороны учредителей, но и от сторонних инвесторов. Реестр создается для защиты прав обладателей собственности на музыкал... →

Susa Ventures, a 2.5-year-old, seed-stage firm with offices in San Francisco, New York, and L.A. , is looking to raise up to $50 million for a second fund, two years after raising a $25 million debut fund. The SEC filing is here. Susa has four general partners: Eva Ho, who was most recently the VP of marketing and operations at venture-backed Factual and a senior product marketing manager… Read More... →

Identity protection startup ID Experts announced today that it raised a $5 million series A financing from BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners and the Sandbox Advantage Fund. ID Experts said its services “protect individuals from financial and medical identity theft, mitigate risks, and ensure compliance.” The startup had been working with the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association since […]... →

Insurify, a startup out of MIT, today announced the launch of Evia (Expert Virtual Insurance Agent), an artificially intelligent virtual insurance agent that aims to find you better car insurance using a photo of your license plate. The company recently pulled in $2 million in seed from Rationalwave Capital Partners to create EVIA and launch its robo-agent platform. “We barely have time… Read More... →

Next Games has raised $10 million from existing investors to fuel its existing titles and future games. The Finnish company also said that The Walking Dead: No Man’s Land, the official mobile game based on AMC’s hit TV series, has been downloaded more than 10 million times. That latter fact is one reason why the company has […]... →

EXCLUSIVE: Wercker, a startup with tools for automating the process of testing and deploying code, is announcing today a $4.5 million funding round. The startup is also announcing that it’s releasing its command line interface (CLI) tool under an open-source license on GitHub. With the new funding, Wercker can build out a full commercial product with features […]... →