Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

When Chris Comparato joined his former colleagues at Toast, a service that includes a point-of-sale tool for restaurants, raising new financing to continue scaling the company was near the top of the list. And so it happened. Today, the company said it had raised $30 million in a round led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with Google Ventures participating. The company says it has more than… Read More... →

There’s been “a very big shift” in the thinking of many online publishers, according to JW Player President Chris Mahl. Yes, many of them are looking at Facebook and YouTube as platforms where they can build awareness, but he argued that they’re “really concentrating on driving traffic on their own sites.” “That’s where you as the publisher… Read More... →

Toast announced today that it has raised a $30 million Series B funding round to support its Android Point of Sale system for restaurants. Its latest investment was led by Bessemer Venture Partners and will be used to improve the company’s growth, both in talent hiring, product updates, and marketing. Additional investors include GV (formerly […]... →

Virtuix, maker of the Omni virtual reality treadmill, said today it is testing the waters for a “mini-IPO” under new regulations that allow companies to raise money in a new way. Austin, Texas-based Virtuix has begun shipping the Omni, a new product that allows you to run on a treadmill-like platform while wearing virtual reality goggles. […]... →

BlueShift, a B2C marketing automation vendor, has raised $8 million in series A funding. Most marketing automation solutions address the B2B market, but B2C marketers increasingly desire similar automation capabilities. Additionally, most marketing automation vendors focus on rules-based segmentation, as opposed to machine-learning-based one-to-one personalization. To address these challenges for B2C marketers, BlueShift was founded […]... →

Малазийский стартап с российскими сооснователями Bfab привлек посевные инвестиции от фондов 500 Startups, KK Fund и компании Captii. Сумма сделки не раскрывается, однако известно, что она представляет собой «шестизначное число». Валютой сделки были американские доллары. Сервис позволяет в режиме реального времени бронировать посещения салонов красоты. Клиенты могут посмотреть рабочий календарь салона и записаться в любое время суток. Как сообщается, в бета-версии продукта к сервису подключено 200 салонов кр... →

Quartzy, a lab supplies marketplace, announced it has closed a $17 million round in Series B financing to help the startup build up the supply of lab equipment offered to customers. The startup launched out of Y Combinator four years back and has since partnered with several academic institutions, including Stanford to offer an alternative marketplace for pricier lab supplies. Quartzy does so… Read More... →

Proof, if proof were needed, that democracy is a cat and mouse game of PR these days… Civil rights campaign organisation, the Open Rights Group, is running a crowdfunding campaign to try to raise £20,000 to fund a challenge to the U.K. government’s own massive PR machine which is in the midst of driving the draft Investigatory Powers bill through Parliament and onto the statute… Read More... →

Silvercar, a next-generation car rental company that aims to provide better service than the existing conglomerates, has raised $28 million for further expansion. Austin, Texas-based Silvercar uses valet-style greeters to meet you at the airport with your car. You no longer have to take a shuttle and wait in a long line at a car rental […]... →

GUEST: As we fast approach 2016, my security team and I have been compiling a forecast of mobile security trends and vulnerabilities that concern us most. My goal in outlining these threats is not to raise alarm or panic, but to paint a picture of the gravest security concerns we face in the coming year, and hopefully, […]... →

Оборот сервиса по продаже туров онлайн Level.Travel в 2015 году составил 700 млн рублей. Об этом Firrma сообщили в компании.    По собственным данным, в течение 2015 года через сайт Level.Travel было реализовано около 10 тысяч туров, при этом средний чек составил 65 000 рублей. В прошлом году было продано около 2000 туров. Продажи сайта Level.Travel выросли в  пять раз. Руководители компании Дмитрий Малютин и Эллин Толстов считают, что во многом таких показателей удалось достичь потому, что в поисках доступ... →

Но не вообще, а среди заявок в LETA Capital. А еще фонд опросил инвесторов насчет того, какие направления они считают наиболее перспективными... →

Posted by randfishIt's the season of giving, and that notion extends to search! Brand preferences have an almost tangible impact on several levels, from consumer affinity to a rankings boost on Google. In this holiday edition of our now-traditional Whitebeard Friday, Rand explains why it's important to keep brand recognition at the forefront of your strategy, and offers up a framework on how to get started on giving searchers a reason to prefer your brand. Click on the whiteboard image above to open a high ... →

Руководитель Клуба инвесторов школы управления «Сколково» Виталий Полехин анализирует самые яркие тренды венчурного года и призывает инвесторов готовиться к новой реальности. Сейчас определённо время интересных возможностей на венчурном рынке. Прежде всего связано это с упавшими в несколько раз оценками компаний. Но, судя по падению рынка в целом, как по числу сделок, так и объему вложенных средств, позволить себе ухватить эти возможности могут не многие. Ниже – несколько слов об основных тенденциях на венч... →

Инфрафонд РВК и группа частных инвесторов вложились в создание инжинирингового центра «ЭлТехПрогресс». Об этом Firrma сообщили в РВК. Бумаги по сделке были подписаны в 2014 году, однако деньги были переведены только в 2015 году. Сумма вложений не раскрывается. Согласно ЕГРЮЛ, Инфрафонд получил 24,99% в АО «ЭлТехПрогресс», остальные 75,01% принадлежат гендиректору компании Сергею Кузину.  Новый центр будет специализироваться на внедрении научных разработок и технологий для повышения эффективности работы росс... →

Carousell, a three-year-old mobile marketplace that enables social commerce, could emerge as the next big e-commerce player in Southeast Asia. That’s because, according to multiple sources in to the investor and e-commerce communities in Southeast Asia, the Singapore-based company is currently trying to raise a whopping $50 million Series B to expand its footprint across Asia. Read More... →

Less than a year after its last round, Innovid is announcing that it has raised $27.5 million in new funding. The New York City-headquartered company works with more than 220 advertisers, including Best Buy, Procter & Gamble and Walmart, to create, target and measure their video campaigns. Co-founder and CEO Zvika Netter has said that what really sets Innovid apart is “a… Read More... →

Semantic Machines, a startup with speech recognition technology and talent from Apple and Google, disclosed today that it has raised $12.3 million in new funding. Investors from Bain Capital Ventures and General Catalyst Partners are listed in the filing the startup submitted to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Last year Semantic Machines named Larry […]... →

With word that Foursquare is reportedly raising another down round of financing, it seems logical to bet that the company is reaching some kind of end game. According to Re/Code, Foursquare is trying to raise between $20 million to $40 million at a valuation of $250 million. That’s far below the $650 million valuation it […]... →

The Happy Home Company is aiming to eliminate the headaches of home maintenance and improvement, and it’s raised $3.5 million in seed funding. The company has been relatively quiet, at least in terms of talking to the media, since I wrote about it a year ago. CEO Doug Ludlow told me today that this was intentional — he wanted to work out the kinks in the model before making a… Read More... →