Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

The rumors were almost true: Foursquare today announced it’s raised an “oversubscribed” $45 million round from existing investors Union Square Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, and others, plus new investor Morgan Stanley. News of this surfaced last month, and with it, Foursquare reportedly cut its valuation by more than half from $650 million (an unconfirmed figure) to $250 million (also […]... →

Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, updated as the day unfolds. Tip us here if you have a deal to share. Data analytics startup Looker raises $48 million, led by Kleiner Perkins Looker, a startup selling data analytics software, is announcing today a $48 million funding round led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. The […]... →

Fugue (the company previously known as Luminal), today announced that it has raised $20 million in a Series C funding round led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA). The Frederick, MD- and Washington, DC-based company’s previous investors, including Core Capital, are also part of this round. Luminal’s main product was always Fugue (which is still in closed beta), so it’s… Read More... →

Euclid Analytics plans to help more companies track customer traffic in their retail stores after raising a $20 million Series C. The funding will be used to acquire clients, add new employees, and build Euclid’s location analytics platform. Read More... →

Alternative movie streaming service Mubi is starting the year with some big news. While Mubi has always been a nearly-global service, the company is launching its service in China in the coming months. The startup also announced that Huanxi Media, Mubi’s partner in China, will invest $50 million in total for both the Mubi China subsidiary and the global Mubi service. Read More... →

The family of a U.S. man killed in a suspected terrorist attack in Jordan is suing Twitter for “knowingly” allowing ISIS to attract new recruits, propagate information, and raise funds through the social network. 46-year-old Lloyd Carl Fields Jr., a Florida-based contractor, was one of two Americans killed at an international police training center in […]... →

Фонд Runa Capital повторно вложился в немецкий провайдер облачных сервисов для микрофинансирования Mambu. Ранее фонд участвовал в двух предыдущих раундах проектах в 2013 и 2014 годах.  В сделке также приняли участие фонды Acton Capital Partners и Commerz Ventures. Общая сумма раунда B – 8 млн евро. Привлеченные инвестиции будут использованы на дальнейшее международное развитие компании. Компания планирует открыть дополнительные офисы в Азии и Америке. В 2015 годe Runa Capital проинвестировала несколько прое... →

Call9, a nine-month-old, Palo Alto, Ca.-based telemedicine startup that came together last spring as a Y Combinator company, has raised $10 million in Series A funding led by Index Ventures, whose cofounder, Neil Rimer, is joining the company’s board. Other investors in the round include Ali Rowghani, who leads the Y Combinator Continuity Fund;  Joe Lonsdale, the VC and co-founder… Read More... →

Looker, a startup selling data analytics software, is announcing today a $48 million funding round led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Looker can visualize data from many sources, including Amazon Web Services (AWS) Redshift, Cloudera Impala, HP Vertica, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Snowflake. It’s available as on-premises software or as a cloud service. The data […]... →

MiMedia is a slick personal cloud storage service for all of your photos, videos, music and other files. It has flown under the radar since the team started building it back in 2010, but it looks like the company is now ready to make a bit of a splash. New York-based MiMedia today announced that it has raised a $15 million Series C round. What’s a bit unusual about this round is that… Read More... →

Disrupt Battlefield alum (and finalist) Boomerang Commerce today announced that it has raised a $12 million Series B round led by Shasta Ventures. Previous investors Madrona Venture Group and Trinity Ventures as participated in this round. Boomerang helps online retailers get their prices right. It allows retailers to test and optimize their pricing strategies and it allows them to monitor… Read More... →

Everlaw, a startup with a cloud service that law firms can use to store documents and make them easily searchable and accessible, is today announcing an $8.1 million funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz. Lots of e-discovery tools are available for law firms to choose from, but Everlaw stands out partly because it’s cloud-based, and […]... →

App Annie, the nearly six-year-old, San Francisco-based app analytics firm that long ago became the first stop for developers, investors, and journalists looking to better understand app rankings and trends, has raised $63 million in Series E funding in “mostly equity” and debt, says cofounder and CEO Bertrand Schmitt. The round was led by Greenspring Associates, with… Read More... →

Фонд «Сколково» выделит около 58 га из имеющихся у него 400 га под Международный медицинский кластер (ММК). Об этом сообщают «Ведомости».  Разработкой концепции проекта займётся Boston Consulting Group. Концепция будет представлена в мае-июне 2016 года. На данный момент «Сколково» создал управляющую компанию и внес в ее капитал 100 млн рублей.  Вначале в 2016 году будет определено, какие медицинские исследовательские центры будут располагаться в кластере, как они будут связаны  между собой и как интегрируют... →

Carwow, the U.K. site that claims to offer a better way to buy a new car, has stopped off for some further funding. The four year-old startup has raised a £12.5 million Series B led by Accel, who I understand tried but failed to get in on the last round. Read More... →

In a letter sent Wedesday to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, U.S. Senator Al Franken (D-Minn.) sought to raise questions regarding Google’s use of data gathered from their EdTech initiatives. While I commend Google’s foray into education technology (“EdTech”), I am concerned about the extent to which Google may be collecting K-12 students’ personal data and using… Read More... →

The failure to take prescribed medicine, whether as part of a clinical trial or treatment regimen costs the U.S. healthcare industry roughly $378 billion dollars. Read More... →

In the ecommerce world, there’s a flurry of activity around startups eager to increase adoption of their services. If Stripe, PayPal, and Shopify have taught us anything, it’s that the best way to get into a company is to show developers ways to integrate technology into their existing infrastructure. One of the latest such services […]... →

At first glance, mParticle might seem to be focused on a pretty specific niche — helping mobile app-makers consolidate their data. But the New York City startup counts companies like Airbnb, SeatGeek, Soulcycle and Spotify among its customers, and it recently raised a $15 million Series A. The funding was first revealed in a regulatory filing last month and officially announced… Read More... →

Одиннадцать  российских стартапов привлекли 115,5 млн рублей через краудинвестинговую площадку StartTrack в 2015 году. Об этом Firrma сообщили в StartTrack. Всего за год на площадке прошло 59 сделок, а на площадке StartTrack зарегистрировались 512 инвесторов и поступило 576 заявок от стартапов, желающих получить финансирование. Из них было отобрано 65 проектов для инвесторов.  Больше всего средств привлекла компания Cappasity — разработчик доступных решений по 3D-сканированию. Инвесторы вложили в проект $60... →