Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

Even though Rohit Prakash was a dual MD and PhD researching optogenetics at Stanford University, his entrepreneurial itch kept returning him to his family’s small business roots. He and his co-founder Nipul Patel began researching the travails of small business owners, interviewing countless entrepreneurs, trying to figure out what their risks were or what caused them to fail. (About half… 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. Ola raises $500M to go ‘deeper into existing markets’ as India standoff with Uber continues ndia’s dominant ride-hailing app, Ola, announced Wednesday that it has raised $500 million in fresh funds to defend against […]... →

Facebook has launched a new fundraising tool to help non-profit organizations raise money, and has also improved the Donate button to help them reach new supporters. The fundraising tool, which functions as its own page, offers non-profits a way to tell their story, pump up supporters and collect donations. While Facebook has offered a donate option since December 2013, it has revamped the… Read More... →

Restaurant software-maker Salido has raised $2 million in seed funding. The round was led by High Line Venture Partners and its managing partner Shana Fisher. Also participating were a number of big names from the restaurant world, including chef (and longtime “Top Chef” judge) Tom Colicchio, restauranteur Stephen Star and chef Ben Daitz of Num Pang Sandwich Shop. Scott Belsky… Read More... →

Российско-американский стартап Endurance, которое разрабатывает лазеры, граверы, роботизированные платформы для бизнеса и дома, привлек более 1,5 млн рублей в рамках pre-seed раунда. Об этом Firrma сообщили в компании. Среди инвесторов Endurance частные лица: Михаил Зак, который является исполнительным директором, Газпромбанка и заместитель председателя индексного комитета ФБ ММВБ, Иван Подфигурный – ex-трейдер «Дойчебанка» (вложил 350 тысяч рублей), начальник планово-экономического отдела АО «ФорБанк» Евге... →

If you weren’t convinced the on-demand delivery space was piping hot right now, wrap your head around this. TechCrunch has learned that Stuart, an on-demand, same-hour delivery startup that is currently pre-launch and operating in stealth, has raised €22 million in funding, largely off the back of an idea and based on the track record of its three founders. Read More... →

Berlin-based Test IO (formerly Testcloud), which offers a self-service ‘crowdtesting’ platform for app and web developers, has closed a $5 million Series A round from Turn/River Capital, the San Francisco-based VC. The new capital will be used to accelerate growth, including launching in the U.S. and setting up operations in San Francisco, and rebranding to the new name of Test IO. Read More... →

India’s dominant ridehailing app, Ola, announced Wednesday that it has raised $500 million in fresh funds to defend against Uber’s challenge on its home turf. A new valuation has not been disclosed, though news of the round was initially leaked back in September and pegged Ola’s new valuation at $5 billion. The investment was led by Baillie […]... →

The same day that U.S.-based ridesharing startup Lyft said it’s on track to hit $1 billion in gross annual revenue this year, The New York Times is reporting that it’s also in talks to raise $500 million in a fresh funding round that would leave it valued at around $4 billion. That wouldn’t be a surprise given […]... →

One of the most sought-after, but never quite dominated, frontiers in online media and marketplaces has been centered on local communities. There have been many attempts, most famously and disastrously with AOL’s Patch effort, and there are some very promising platforms like Nextdoor, which raised more than $100 million earlier this year. But hyperlocal marketplaces and media are far… Read More... →

SDK management startup SafeDK launches with $2.25 million in funds from an investment led by StageOne VC. SafeDK said its service monitors third-party SDKs in real time to warn developers about prospect privacy, performance, and stability issues. By doing so, developers can choose to turn off certain SDK features without affecting the app’s functionality. Headquartered […]... →

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. Earnest raises $275M to help millennials manage their financial futures Lending platform Earnest wants to help millennials manage their finances. To build out its offering of loans and other financial management tools, the company has […]... →

Descartes Labs, a startup with image recognition technology that can help companies answer questions related to agriculture, is announcing today a $5 million round of funding. The startup can work with satellite images to predict what will happen next. To do that, Descartes Labs depends on a type of artificial intelligence called deep learning. The […]... →

Founded by Marwan Forzley, a former executive at Western Union, Align Commerce is using the blockchain technology and Bitcoin as an alternative way to transfer money among small and medium-sized businesses in the same way that other companies have leveraged the technology for peer-to-peer money transfers or payments to individual contractors. Read More... →

Lending platform Earnest wants to help Millennials manage their finances. To build out its offering of loans and other financial management tools the company has raised $75 million in funding, plus $200 million worth of loan capital from New York Life. Battery Ventures led the round which saw participation from Adams Street Partners and Maveron. The funds will be […]... →

When a company is breached a critical step of the recovery process is seeing exactly what happened, including where the vulnerability was exposed and what exactly the hackers had access to. ProtectWise is hoping that their product, which helps companies record live-streams of their network activity, can help their clients get to the bottom of critical issues much more quickly than… Read More... →

Irvine-based Numecent said today it has raised a new round of $15.5 million from a broad range of European investors as the company seeks to expand its cloud-based services beyond Windows. The series B round includes $4.5 million from Deutsche Telekom, with the rest from “European industrialists, family offices and private equity firms,” according to Numecent. Deutsche […]... →

The lending segment of the financial services industry has been one of the areas that has attracted the most interest from venture investors with mature companies like SoFi raising a massive $1 billion round. Earnest raised $75 million in equity and the company received another $200 million in debt from a syndicate of mostly undisclosed insurance companies led by New York Life. Read More... →

Корпорация Net Element, владеющая российскими платежными системами TOT Money и PayOnline, отказалась от продолжения сделки по привлечению инвестиций от американских фондов Candlewood Investment Group (бывшее подразделение бывшее подразделение Credit Suisse Grou) и Tenor Opportunity Associates. Об этом сообщают Cnews со ссылкой на материалы Американской комисси по ценным бумагам (SEC). Летом 2015 года стало известно, что Net Element планирует привлечь инвестиции на общую сумму $34,5 миллионов от фондов Candl... →

Cleaning startup Cleanify has raised $1.8 million in seed funding. That might not seem like much money when compared to the $50 million round that Handy just raised, or the nearly $40 million that Homejoy raised before shutting down. However, the Cleanify model is a bit different. Instead of offering its own on-demand cleaning services, Cleanify aggregates the listings of existing cleaners.… Read More... →