Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

Verlocal, a marketplace for classes and tours, raised a $2.65 million seed round from VenturesLab, Seven Seas Partners, Amidzad Partners, and Big Basin Capital, the startup shared today. Verlocal is like an Airbnb for experiences, where locals can host lessons for travelers such as this DIY Ugly Sweater Workshop. Oddly, Airbnb already offers its own Experiences, although it has severely downplayed […]... →

After leaving Intel, Raviv Melamed and his co-founders spent a year working out of a garage on an image sensor that could produce 3D images of things behind boundaries like walls. The result is a startup called Vayyar, which makes sensors that use radio waves to create 3D mappings of things like root systems or piping. The company said today that it has raised $22 million in venture financing… Read More... →

It was in the aftermath of the Rana Plaza disaster, amid a growing push for greater oversight and an increasing number of startup fashion brands catering to this sustainable sensibility, that Jag Gill began working on Sundar, which offers a new way for designers to source materials for clothes. Read More... →

На днях фонд Imperious Group отчитался о результатах трех лет своей работы. По нашей просьбе партнер фонда Кирилл Мазур прокомментировал промежуточные итоги работы и рассказал о планах фонда:  Эти 3 года были очень насыщенные и наполненные многими хорошими событиями, фонд значительно вырос за эти 3 года, как с точки зрения показателей, так и с точки зрения партнерств, со-инвесторов, потока проектов и в целом качества отбора компаний.  Фонд 3 года назад и сейчас – две абсолютно разные компании. Исторически... →

Deal Street Asia, an eighteen-month-old website covering financial investment news, is the latest media outlet in Asia to raise funding as it plans to increase its presence and expand into events and data services. Read More... →

iPrice, the e-commerce startup that wants to be the gateway to online retail in Southeast Asia, is back in the money after disclosing a new $1.2 million financing round. Read More... →

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. Cloud-cost monitoring startup Cloudyn raises $11M Cloudyn, a startup with a cloud service that shows how much money you’re spending on cloud infrastructure, is announcing today that it has taken on an $11 million […]... →

SketchDeck, a two-year-old, on-demand design service for marketing and sales teams, has raised $1.7 million in new funding. The round comes 10 months after the startup raised $500,000 from investors. Backers include Matrix Partners, Norwest Venture Partners, Foundation Capital, Blue Capital, Arnold Capital and Flight VC. The appeal of SketchDeck — which passed through the Y… Read More... →

If you spent a lot of time eating jars of tamales and reading Stephen King novels as a kid like I did you’ll know that Mystery Science Theatre 3000 was the best thing ever (aside from Siskel & Ebert’s movie review show). When it died a lot of nerds were sad. Well send a time flare back to your previous self because MST3K raised almost $6 million to bring back a full season of… Read More... →

The NHS, the U.K.’s publicly-funded health body, has teamed up with Tinder to help raise awareness of organ donation among young people. Over the next fortnight, the popular dating app is enlisting the help of a handful of local celebrities, including Olympic Gold Medallist Jade Jones, Made in Chelsea’s Jamie Laing, and Emmerdale’s Gemma Oaten, who […]... →

Cloudyn, a startup with a cloud service that shows how much money you’re spending on cloud infrastructure, is announcing today that it has taken on an $11 million round of funding. In addition to offering granular information on how much your infrastructure deployment costs on Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Compute Engine, Cloudyn […]... →

Фонд Imperious Group вложил $350 тысяч в британский сервис InstantAPI, который помогает создать, управлять и монетизировать API любых масштабов. Об этом Firrma сообщили в фонде.  В сделку также вошли и другие инвесторы. Их имена и суммы вложений не раскрываются.  Пока сервис работает в закрытом режиме. Среди первых клиентов InstantAPI - Softlayer, Orange, Dell, Tata, Citybank, NHL, Vodafone, IBM. Полученные инвестиции позволят открыть публичную версию для всех желающих, усилить технологию и внедрить дополни... →

Инфрафонд РВК купил долю 10% суммарно в четырех инжиниринговых компаниях группы АМТ&C: «Магнетит»,«ФМТ», «Фармаг» и «ПМТ и К». Об этом Firrma сообщили в фонде. Сумма инвестиций не раскрываются. Средства пойдут на реализацию проекта по внедрению энергоэффективного мотора-генератора для гибридной силовой установки на заводе «КАМАЗ», а также других инжиниринговых работ с использованием новых магнитных технологий. Группа компаний AMT&C специализируется на разработке и изготовлении изделий промышленного назначен... →

Korea’s Yello Mobile has made a name for itself raising $100 million and using it to pick up more than 60 startups to build its mobile apps business, which now serves 18 million users. Now, the startup is raising again: Yello Mobile has racked up another $47.2 million in funding, led by existing investor Formation 8 — financing that is being done as convertible debt at a… Read More... →

GUEST: Famo.us raised $25 million last year, bringing its total funding to over $30 million. Fifteen months after its most recent raise, the company “laid off a big chunk of the team, including its VP of Engineering, Head of Open Source, and a dozen engineers” and switched directions for the third time. Famo.us had started as […]... →

Asia accounts for nearly half of the mobile learning revenues in the world. Thousands of hagwons, or “cram schools,” line the streets in South Korea, which has about 15 percent of the global tutoring market. Parents spend an average of $1,000 per month on private tutoring — an estimated 20 percent of the monthly cost to raise a child there. In India, 7.5 percent of… Read More... →

Венчурная компания Леонида Богуславского ru-Net инвестировала в платформу CupoNation, которая предлагает промокоды для покупок в интернет-магазинах. Объем раунда составил €10 млн. В сделке приняли участие Rocket Internet, Holtzbrink Ventures, New Enterprise Associates (NEA), e.ventures, Deutsche Telekom Strategic Investments (DTSI), Silicon Valley Bank и Columbia Lake Partners. Средства пойдут на рост компании. В апреле этого года компания  ru-Net вышла из индийской FreeCharge, которая представляет собой мо... →

Seerene, an analytics platform that helps companies see how their other software is performing, has raised $5 million in seed funding and opened an office in Hong Kong, its first in Asia. The round was led by Earlybird Venture Capital and will support Seerene’s international growth. Read More... →

Составлен Firrma. Стратегический партнер РВК. При поддержке EY Каждый год Firrma при поддержке партнеров высчитывает активность венчурных фондов страны. Этот год не стал исключением. Ниже приведен рейтинг активности фондов в 2015 году. В этом году мы собрали гораздо больше данных, чем раньше, и изменили методологию. Советуем ее изучить перед тем как смотреть сам рейтинг, чтобы правильно его понять. Мы представляем Рейтинг «классических» венчурных фондов, а также Рейтинг посевных фондов, Рейтинг новичков и п... →

Posted by randfishPresentations are so much better when your audience isn't bored — when they're engaged with what you're saying, and attentive, and wowed. But what's the secret formula to giving a great talk? Where do you start? In this week's Whiteboard Friday, Rand will help you boost your presentations to the next level with six tips that have spelled success for him. Click on the whiteboard image above to open a high resolution version in a new tab! Video TranscriptionHowdy, Moz fans, and welcome to an... →