Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

Обозреватель vc.ru изучил историю американского предпринимателя и инвестора Марка Кьюбана, который заработал состояние на продаже Broadcast.com, вложил деньги более чем в сотню проектов, а также владеет собственной баскетбольной командой и участвует в различных телешоу.... →

Oakland, Calif. startup MegaBots Inc. has raised $2.4 million in seed funding to bring the robot-fighting stuff of manga and anime to a venue near you. According to MegaBots cofounders, Gui Cavalcanti, Matt Oehrlein, and Brinkley Warren, the startup aspires to follow in the footsteps of major sports associations like Formula 1 or UFC. With the seed funding, Warren said, MegaBots will be… Read More... →

Internet performance management company Dyn has raised $50 million in Series B funding. Dyn was founded back in 2001, with its first product being a DNS service called DynDNS. Over time, it’s expanded into a broader suite of products that allow companies including Pfizer, Visa, Netflix and Twitter to monitor their online availability, security and speed. In addition to the funding,… Read More... →

Rancher Labs, a container management platform that supports both Kubernetes and Docker Swarm, today announced that it has raised a $20 million Series B round. This new funding round was led by new investor GRC SinoGreen, a Chinese private equity and venture capital fund, with participation from existing investors Mayfield and Nexus Venture Partners. This round brings the company’s… Read More... →

If Nearpod CEO Guido Kovalskys has his way, overhead projectors and PowerPoint presentations will never bore students again. Instead, he wants to see cutting-edge technologies and interactive content become standard tools of the teaching trade. To that end, Nearpod has raised $9.2 million in Series A funding led by Reach Capital to help teachers use mobile tech for live instruction, rather… Read More... →

Image management and distribution platform Musikki raised a first round of funding in 2014 to become “the IMDB of music”. It’s now inked a deal on another $1M in funding from Portugal Ventures, the biggest VC in Portugal. It’s also launching Exclusiph, an image management and distribution tool for the music industry, already in use by independent labels 4AD and… Read More... →

CoreOS, the company behind the container-centric CoreOS Linux distribution and Tectonic container management service, today announced that it has raised a $28 million Series B round led by GV, the fund formerly known as Google Ventures. Other investors include Accel, Fuel Capital, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) and the Y Combinator Continuity Fund. In total, the company has… Read More... →

Swedish edtech startup DigiExam, which also has offices in the U.S. and U.K., offers software-as-a-service for academic testing and grading. It enables students to take tests digitally and in turn teachers to grade the results more efficiently. Read More... →

Drawbridge, a startup that helps businesses identify when a single person is using multiple devices, has raised $25 million in Series C funding. Every time I write about Drawbridge, I’m contractually obligated to mention that the company is backed by two of the best-known venture capital firms, Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. For this round, Drawbridge back… Read More... →

Humanyze, a company that helps businesses better understand how their employees spend their days at work, today announced that it has raised a $4 million Series A round led by Romulus Capital. The company, which was spun out of the MIT Media Lab in 2010, provides businesses with a high-tech employee badge that includes a microphone, accelerometer and bluetooth connection that then allows them… Read More... →

Кипрская компания Ervington Investments, конечным бенефициаром которой является российский миллиардер Роман Абрамович, инвестировала в израильский стартап Via (также известный, как Via Transportation), который разработал транспортное приложение для смартфонов. Компания привлекла в апреле $70 млн и ведёт переговоры о получении еще $30 млн от стратегического инвестора. Раунд возглавил Pitango Growth, также приняли участие Poalim Capital Markets, C4 Ventures и текущие инвесторы Hearst Ventures и 83North. Сре... →

Победителям также помогут с развитием проекта от стадии прототипа до рабочего бизнеса... →

Azimo was once in talks to be acquired by WhatsApp and Messenger owner Facebook. And while may not have gone anywhere, today it is announcing funding from another big tech company in possession of a major messaging app. Viber owner Rakuten is putting $15 million into the London-based remittance startup. It’s a strategic investment: the funding will be used to help Azimo… Read More... →

Венчурный фонд Starta Capital запустит фонд Starta Accelerator Fund 16/17 объемом до $5 млн для своей программы акселерации в Нью-Йорке в 2016 и 2017 годах. Об этом Firrma сообщил основатель фонда Алексей Гирин. Фонд организуется в виде инвестиционного партнерства и открыт для инвесторов до конца мая 2016 года. По словам Гирина, Starta Capital уже получил несколько коммитментов от инвесторов. Привлеченные инвестиции будут направлены на акселерационную программу и follow-up инвестиции для двух следующих клас... →

Инвестиционная компания ru-Net Леонида Богуславского приобрела скидочный сервис «Групон рус». Об этом сообщают «Ведомости». Сумма сделки не раскрывается. По данным издания, американская компания Groupon, продала бизнес в России в апреле этого года. ru-Net собирается повысить рентабельность бизнеса Groupon в России, стимулировать его рост за счет развития в регионах, инвестировать в отдел продаж и технологии. ru-Net также владеет скидочным сервисом Biglion. В конце 2015 году он инвестировал в немецкий сервис... →

New York-based Teachable has raised $2 million in a seed round of venture funding to help instructors of anything set up their own, branded storefronts for selling courses and connecting with learners online. The company’s technology lets instructors teach courses online in any subject without having to commit their proprietary materials and personal brands to a single platform. While… Read More... →

Club W, a wine club startup based in Los Angeles, is rebranding as Winc. The team has also raised an additional $17.5 million in funding co-led by the Beijing-based Shining Capital and existing investor Bessemer Venture Partners. Originally just an online marketplace, the company has expanded to a full-fledged alcohol business, sourcing and producing all of the wines it sells. Customers fill out… Read More... →

VTS, a commercial leasing and asset management platforms for landlords and brokerages, today announced that it has raised a $55 million Series C funding round led by Insight Venture Partners. Previous investors OpenView and Trinity Ventures also participated. This round brings VTS’ total funding to do to $84 million and makes it one of the most well-founded technology companies in… Read More... →

I first saw the ROLI Seaboard GRAND backstage at a show during SXSW 2013. Someone had tipped me that some startup was showing off a strange new piano that let the player bend its keys like a guitar string. It was strange and rubbery and fascinating — a silicone piano that made it possible to manipulate keys beyond the standard press. The company has grown a fair deal in the… Read More... →

Passport Inc. raised $8 million in a Series B round of funding to help cities make parking and transportation systems easier for people to use, and harder for them to abuse. MK Capital led the investment in Passport, joined by Grotech Ventures and Relevance Capital. The new round brings Passport’s total capital raised to $17 million. The Charlotte, North Carolina startup provides the… Read More... →