Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

Rivigo, an Indian startup that wants to build a more reliable and safer logistics network, has raised a $30 million Series B led by SAIF Partners. The funding, which includes equity and debt financing, will go toward improving Rivigo’s proprietary hardware platform, which it uses to reduce driver fatigue, find the best traffic routes, and monitor the performance of its trucks. Read More... →

Компания Ru-Net Technology Partners Леонида Богуславского приняла участие в раунде финансирования индийского маркетплейса в сфере домашнего хозяйства Housejoy. Об этом сообщает TechCrunch. Общий объем раунда – около $23 млн. Вранду также приняли участие Amazon, Qualcomm, Vertex Ventures и Matrix Partners. Стартап оказывает услуги в сфере уборки, сантехнических работ, электрики и броьбы с вредителями. Как сообщает «Коммерсант», проект берет с партнеров комиссию за привлечение клиентов, в среднем она составля... →

Счетная палата России провела проверку использования средств федерального бюджета, выделенных на создание Иннополиса в 2012–2013 годах, сообщает «Коммерсант». В создание Иннополиса было вложено 4,7 млрд рублей из федерального бюджета. В результате проверки, СП РФ выявила, что Иннополис финансировался в ущерб других госпроектов, что при наличии госсредств с основным подрядчиком строительства расчеты до сих пор не завершены и что контроль использования бюджетных ресурсов «на должном уровне» не ведется. Надзор... →

Funnely, a startup that helps e-commerce companies automate and improve their ad campaigns on Facebook and Instagram, has raised $988,000 in a seed round led by Verizon Ventures. The product uses businesses’ customer data to create and target ads. The goal is to effectively reach consumers throughout the sales funnel, whether it’s first getting their attention through lead… 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. Songkick raises $10 million Songkick, the company behind the eponymous cross-platform app that lets you track when and where all your favorite bands are playing live, has raised an additional $10 million in […]... →

VB INSIGHT: Full Circle Insights, a sales and marketing analytics company, is announcing today a $4.7 million series B round led by Aligned Ventures and Salesforce Ventures. Along with the company’s previous round, this brings the total raised to $9.5 million — with the plan to significantly expand sales and marketing and develop new products. I caught up with […]... →

Tastemade, the maker of food and lifestyle videos, has raised a $40 million financing round led by Goldman Sachs. Participating investors in the Series D round include, Redpoint Ventures, Comcast Ventures, Liberty Media and Scripps Networks. Founded in 2012, Los Angeles-based Tastemade says it has 100 million monthly active viewers on its Tastemadenow programming and over 1 billion views of… Read More... →

Songkick, the company behind the eponymous cross-platform app that lets you track when and where all your favorite bands are playing live, has raised an additional $10 million in funding from Access Industries. Founded in 2007, Songkick had raised $32.6 million before today’s round from a range of notable investors, including Y Combinator, Sequoia Capital, […]... →

Songkick, the concert discovery app and ticketing company (after it merged with white-label artist-to-fan ticket seller CrowdSurge), has raised a further $10 million in funding from previous backer Access Industries, owner of WMG. It follows a $16 million Series C from Access, Sequoia, and Index, announced in June. Read More... →

Компания «Селектел» запустила в Санкт-Петербурге дата-центр «Цветочная-2» на тысячу серверных стоек, который стал крупнейшим на Северо-Западе. Инвестиции в проект составили около 1 млрд рублей, рассказали vc.ru в компании.... →

After finding a fully functional laptop discarded in a rubbish skip near their home, Bethany Koby and Daniel Hirschmann realized this was the spark they were looking for to create a new kind of technology education startup. The wife and husband team created ‘Technology Will Save Us’ (TWSU) in 2012 to marry hardware and software ‘making’ in a way that had;t been done before. Read More... →

A U.K. startup that creates DIY gadget-building kits for kids has closed a £1.2 million ($1.8 million) seed round led by SaatchInvest, with participation from European seed-stage VC fund Backed, among a handful of other individual investors. Founded out of London in 2012, Technology Will Save Us is one of a number of companies across […]... →

Springboard, an India-U.S. company formerly known as SlideRule, has raised a $1.7 million seed round to accelerate its concept of learning through mentors and a community. Each mentor provides a weekly catch-up session with their students, and Springboard partners with other MOOCs for courses, and creates its own where it sees gaps in content. Read More... →

Составлен Firrma. Стратегический партнер РВК. При поддержке НАБА и Venture Club Рейтинг бизнес-ангелов – один из самых ярких и интересных рейтингов, которые делает Firrma вместе с партнерами вот уже третий год. В этот раз мы внесли в его методологию кардинальные изменения. Раньше мы во многом базировали его на экспертных оценках, но с этого года решили положить в основу, как и в случае с фондами, статистику. Теперь ее для этого достаточно, рынок и само ангельское движение за последние пару лет сделали серье... →

ФРИИ говорит, что стартап Weatlas не достигал запланированных показателей.... →

A year ago, UploadVR was formed as one of many meetups for developers interested in virtual reality. Today, the company has raised $1.25 million in seed funding from China’s Shanda Group. That tells you how fast things are moving in the world of VR, which is expected to be a $30 billion market by 2020, […]... →

NextEv, a Chinese electric car company potentially taking on Tesla and Faraday Future, has tapped Padmasree Warrior for the U.S. CEO position. Warrior will also head up software development and the user experience globally for the Shanghai-based company. According to Warrior, NextEv has already pulled in half a billion dollars of the $1 billion it plans to raise from the likes of Sequoia… Read More... →

If on-demand is the future of delivery, a startup called Bringg aims to help established businesses better compete with the likes of Amazon and Uber going forward. The company has now raised $5 million in Series A funding to further develop its web and mobile platform that businesses to move into the on-demand era by providing features like real-time driver tracking, dispatching,… Read More... →

Datavail, a company that offers database administration for enterprises, took in a $47 million investment led by Catalyst Investors, the VC firm announced today. Tahosa Capital,  Lumerity Capital Partners, and Boulder Ventures also contributed to the funding round that gives Datavail a total of $60 million in venture funds. Catalyst’s Tyler Newton and Susan Bihler, […]... →

Textio CEO Kieran Snyder always loved taking a quantitative approach to how language worked with her studies in linguistics. And when she and her co-founder Jensen Harris were leaving Microsoft to start a new company, it was only natural that it would be centered around language in some way. That’s how Textio, a startup that analyzes text for how well words and phrases perform in… Read More... →