Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

Руководитель правового блока ФРИИ Искендер Нурбеков продолжает серию ликбез-колонок. В этот раз речь о том, как устранить или хотя бы снизить возможные трения между основателем бизнеса и его инвестором.  Каждый стартап в определенный момент сталкивается с общей проблемой: продолжать наращивать бизнес своими силами и за все отвечать своей головой либо обратиться к инвестору и передать часть «рулевых» функций ему? Вопрос управления бизнесом наиболее ощутим, когда происходит совместное принятие решений, когда ... →

The average seed round in the nascent cannabis industry in the U.S. hovers around $1 million, according to hemp and cannabis-focused investment research by Poseidon Asset Management. But Denver-based Baker has raised $1.6 million in seed funding for software that helps marijuana dispensaries win new customers, eliminate long lines in stores, and retain and reward their best customers for… Read More... →

Digital music may have brought the experience of listening to an artist to a more convenient platform than ever, but there’s never really been a way to replicate the social experience of seeing an artist perform live at a concert. TheWaveVR is hoping to do just that by utilizing social VR to bring people closer to an artist’s live performances than they’ve ever been digitally. Read More... →

Mobile search company Quixey has raised an additional $30 million in debt funding. The company touts its ability to help users find content within their apps. More recently, it says it has developed technology that can take you straight from the search results to personalized actions like showing nearby friends in Facebook or bringing up your own playlist in Spotify. “Our innovative… Read More... →

With plans for a new brewery and aggressive expansion in the biggest craft beer market in the world, Scottish brewery BrewDog* turned to BankRoll to raise investment to, er, bankroll its U.S. expansion plans, with a hefty $50 million round of equity crowdfunding. The brewery has secured 42 acres of land in Winchester, Ohio (don’t worry, I had to look it up, too), where it is building… Read More... →

Insert is the new startup from the team behind app development company Worklight (which was acquired by IBM for $70 million). Today it’s announcing that it has raised $10 million in Series A funding. Insert CEO Shahar Kaminitz said that where Worklight (where he was founder and former CEO) was focused on “the core development of the application,” he’s come to realize… Read More... →

Forget food delivery. Just the organic slice of the grocery delivery business remains competitive in the U.S. with giants from the brick and mortar world, tech titans and upstarts all muscling in for a piece of an annual market that sees more than $40 billion in sales domestically. Some have flamed out, like Farmigo, which recently closed shop. And others done some belt-tightening, like… Read More... →

Фонд Юрия Мильнера DST Global принял участие в общем раунде инвестиций индонезийской компании Go-Jek на сумму $550 млн. Как пишет Techcrunch, постинвестиционная оценка стартапа составила $1,3 млрд. В сделке также приняли участие как новые инвесторы – KKR, Warburg Pincus, Farallon Capital, Capital Group Private Markets – так и текущие акционеры стартапа, среди которых Sequoia Capital, сингапурский фонд NSI Ventures, Northstar Group, Rakuten Ventures и Formation Group. По информации издания, DST ранее также в... →

Reputation management startup BrandYourself has raised another $2 million. It’s been two years since the company raised $3.3 million in Series A funding. Since then, co-founder and CEO Patrick Ambron said BrandYourself has grown to an 80-person team, and it’s become profitable. (Ambron also pitched BrandYourself on Shark Tank last year, though he ended up turning down funding… Read More... →

Indonesia-based Go-Jek, the motorbike taxis on-demand company that competes with Uber and Grab, has confirmed that it has raised $550 million new funding and hinted that it may expand overseas. Read More... →

Formlabs is shaping up to be something of a rare bright spot in a world of desktop 3D printers. While plenty of other devices have come and gone, failing to live up to the promise of consumer electronics’ next big thing, the company’s pro-level technology has continued to pique the interest of hobbyists and prototypers alike. A couple of months after picking up an online 3D… Read More... →

Компания Wallarm, специализирующаяся на безопасности веб-приложений,
 прошла отбор в бизнес-инкубатор Y Combinator. Об этом Firrma сообщили в компании. Инкубатор вкладывает $120 тысяч для запуска
продуктов на американском рынке. Инвестором Wallarm является
 венчурный фонд Runa Capital. Также проект получал грант от фонда «Сколково» в размере 5 млн рублей.
 Wallarm анализирует сетевой трафик и определяет типичное поведение
пользователей, затем отличает хакерские атаки от
легитимных пользователей. Продукт спо... →

From rising rents to online competitors, local stores and restaurants face enough challenges outside of their own doors that basic stuff like scheduling employees’ shifts and breaks should feel easy. But that process is still, too often, a mess of paperwork and data entry for them. A startup called Homebase has raised $6 million to make hourly work much easier to manage for every business… Read More... →

Go-Jek, the motorbike taxi on-demand service that rivals Uber and Grab in Indonesia, has raised $550 million in new funding today, a source close to the company told TechCrunch. The deal values the company at $1.2 billion and will be announced this week, we understand. Read More... →

Few things are more dreadful than dealing with airline customer service. Fortunately, there’s a startup that wants to make those calls for you. For hassle-free travel, AirHelp is raising $12 million in Series A funding from a group of investors including Khosla Ventures and Evan Williams. This is in addition to the $4.7 million in seed financing raised two years ago. AirHelp promises to… Read More... →

Венчурный фонд AltaIR Capital Игоря Рябенького и компания Millhouse Capital Романа Абрамовича инвестировали в израильский стартап Spot.IM, который занимается построением децентрализованных социальных сетей. Spot.IM привлекла $13 млн в раунде А. В сделке также  участвовали Джеймс Хилтон (генеральный директор M & C Saatchi Mobile), Авишай Абрахами (соучредитель и генеральный директор Wix), Гиора Каплан (соучредитель и технический директор компании Wix), Нир Зохар (президент и главный операционный директор ком... →

An Altanta-based startup called Florence Healthcare has raised $1.7 million in seed funding to help drug companies and researchers at hospitals or other trial sites to exchange information about clinical trials in the cloud. Ultimately, helping these groups share information with each other, and with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, could speed up the time it takes to get much-needed… Read More... →

Panoply.io, a startup that wants to make setting up a data warehousing and analytics infrastructure as easy as spinning up an AWS server, today announced that it has raised a $7 million Series A round led by Intel Capital, with participation from previous investor Blumberg Capital. This follows Panoply’s $1.3 million seed round from late last year. “It’s remarkable that… Read More... →

Zype has raised another $2 million as it helps publishers deliver (and make money from) video across devices. Added to the $1.6 million that Zype announced last year, this brings the New York City startup’s seed round to $3.6 million. The round was led by Revel Partners, with participation from Point Nine Capital, Alpine Meridian Ventures, Berlin Ventures, Entrepreneurs Investment Fund… Read More... →

For those who think that Google Hangouts, Slack, or Skype aren’t enough to meet their business needs, please allow me to introduce you to Pluot. The company just raised $2.5 million from a slew of investors including TenOneTen Ventures, Root Ventures, Metamorphic Ventures, Haystack and Gokul Rajaram. Founded by Kwindla Kramer and Doug Brunton, Pluot combines a hardware and software system… Read More... →