Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

Vidyard, the business video platform, today announced it has closed a $35 million Series C financing. And, in a move that can only be described as “eating its own dog food,” the company has announced the raise with a Star Wars-inspired video. The round is led by Battery Ventures with participation from existing investors Bessemer Venture […]... →

Инвестиционная компания KamaFlow вложился в детский проект Marabaka в обмен на 50% компании, сообщил Firrma партнер KamaFlow Евгений Борисов. По словам Борисова, KamaFlow подписал соглашение о капиталовложении на сумму от $150 тысяч до $200 тысяч летом 2015 года. Доля KamaFlow в стартапе может уменьшиться, если инвесткомпании не удастя выполнить KPI по развитию бизнеса. Речь идет об увеличении количества детских оффлайн-центров Marabaka. Marabaka предлагает виртуальный мир для детей в виде комиксов с героям... →

Grovo, a company offering “micro-learning” content to help businesses train their employees, has raised $40 million in Series C funding. The round was led by Accel (which has been involved since Grovo’s seed round and led the Series B) with additional funding from previous backers Costanoa Venture Capital, SoftTech VC and Greg Waldorf, plus new investor Vayner Capital. Read More... →

HopSkipDrive, the ridesharing service for kids of busy parents, has raised $10.2 million in funding for its Series A. The round was led by FirstMark Capital and will be used to not only work on enhancing its product but also bringing its service to new neighborhoods in the United States. The company has also brought […]... →

Cedexis helps large enterprises monitor and optimize how their traffic flows from their servers, CDNs and cloud providers to their customers. The company today announced that it has raised a $22 million Series B round led by Ginko Ventures with participation from Foxconn, Nokia Growth Partners, Citrix Systems Ventures and its Series A investors Madrona Ventures and Advanced Technology Ventures. Read More... →

Considering how vital a company’s Internet connection is, finding out that your network is down can be a crisis for engineers, who often are notified about outages from the end user. Not having access to servers and applications could cost a business in productivity, revenue, and likely all facets of its operations. NetBeez, a Y Combinator startup, […]... →

AngelList is the LinkedIn for startups; it’s a directory for finding and researching great startups. Many of the biggest seed venture capital firms and angel investors are on the list, and many use it to help them source and validate deals. But AngelList is also a crowdfunding platform, a way for startups and investors not only to connect with each other, but also to actually raise money. Read More... →

EXCLUSIVE: GetSocial raised $2.5 million to expand its social networking platform for marketing and monetizing mobile games. The Amsterdam-based has built a backend platform for amplifying engagement of mobile gamers as well as data analytics tools that help mobile game developers cut the cost of user acquisition. It’s no secret that getting noticed is a huge problem […]... →

Engaging customers with rewards and special offers is smart business. Instead of spending a ton acquiring new users, small businesses can re-engage with customers through rewards and special offers. FiveStars does just that, which is why the company is announcing today that it has raised $50 million in a third round of funding. FiveStars drove more than […]... →

Венчурный фонд Pulsar Venture Capital инвестировал в российский стартап AGELON — онлайн-конструктор маркетинговых исследований. Как сообщил Firrma представитель фонда, в планах AGELON – выход на международный рынок. Условия и сумма сделки не раскрывается. Ранее стартап получил инвестиции на сумму более $200 тысяч от Moscow Seed Fund и частного инвестора «Инновационная лаборатория». В августе 2015 года на GenerationS AGELON стал обладателем сертификата на «облачный грант» от Microsoft в размере $120 тысяч. В... →

Canvs is a startup measuring emotion on social media — but CEO Jared Feldman insisted that we shouldn’t think of it as a social sentiment company. He said that’s because existing tools for measuring sentiment have earned something of a bad reputation. Where those tools are usually limited to classifying social media posts as good, bad or neutral, Canvs can classify a… Read More... →

The jewelry industry is notorious for its insane markups on products and confusing array of terminology related to the metals used or gemstone grades – as with the “four C’s” of diamonds, for example. Now, a new startup – that’s managed to snag the old domain name Ice.com – is trying to change that. With its online jewelry marketplace, the company… Read More... →

Sentenai, a cloud service that says to connect “intelligent systems to the data that need to make decisions in real-time,” announced today that it closed a $1.8 million seed round. Boston’s Flybridge Capital Partners, Founder Collective, Project 11 Ventures, and Hyperplane Venture Capital participated in the investment. Sentenai said that it will use the funds […]... →

Iterable, the growth marketing and user engagement platform, today announced it has closed a series A round of funding led by Charles River Ventures, with participation from previous investors. This latest round takes its total funding to $9.2 million, following a seed round in January 2015. The company was founded in 2013, and was a member […]... →

Numerous startups over the years have tried to tackle the problem of helping people track down the photos others have taken, but hadn’t yet shared with you. Today, the outsize winner in the space is Facebook, whose Moments application has taken over the social network’s photo syncing function, while leveraging Facebook’s massive scale to allow for easier private… Read More... →

IBM announced today that it’s acquired Ustream, a video streaming service, to bolster its existing “portfolio of video services.” News of the deal first broke yesterday, when Fortune wrote that IBM paid $130 million for the company. IBM confirmed the deal today but has yet to confirm the price. This acquisition follows IBM’s purchase of Clearleap — a […]... →

Российский миллиардер Юрий Мильнер вложился сразу в два стартапа, один из них –американская финансовая компания LendUp, второй – лондонское транспортное приложение Citymapper. Мильнер принял участие в инвестиционном раунде B приложения Citymapper на сумму $40млн совместно с фондами Index Ventures, Benchmark Capital и частными инвесторами Томом Стэффордом и Майклом Линтоном. Об этом сообщает TechCrunch.  Инвестиции данного раунда пойдут на значительное расширение команды. Компания планирует нанять работников... →

Nubo, whose software enables employees to access company files on their own mobile devices, has raised $7 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Magma Venture Partners and Motorola Solutions Venture Capital. Read More... →

Olo, the digital ordering business, has raised $40 million in funding from The Raine Group. The capital will be used to expand its recently launched Dispatch delivery service. With over 150 restaurant groups as clients, New York-based Olo works with large chains including Chipotle, Five Guys and Jamba Juice to power their online ordering and pick up business. Olo provides the white label… Read More... →

Some more big news for the world of open source. MariaDB Corporation — the startup formerly known as SkySQL and building for-profit solutions on the SQL fork managed by the MariaDB foundation — has raised another $9 million in funding and announced a new CEO, Michael Howard, a veteran executive from the enterprise world. The funding brings the total raised by MariaDB to just over… Read More... →