Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

Компания Hyperloop One и ряд ее руководителей, включая сооснователя Шервина Пишевара, подали иск в суд Лос-Анджелеса к своему сооснователю Брогану Бамброгану и троим бывшим сотрудникам на $250 млн. Об этом сообщают «Ведомости». Броган Бамброган и трое сотрудников компании Кнут Зауэр, Дэвид Пендергаст и Уильям Малхолланд обвиняются в попытке получения контроля, а также в последовавшей попытке организации конкурента. По версии истцов, в конце мая 2016 года они попытались уговорить некоторых сотрудников Hyperl... →

Prisma morphs your photos into fine art like Picasso or Mondrian, and it’s blowing up the iOS app charts. Today it came out in unofficial APK beta on Android. But what will be the fate of this red-hot social product? We’ve heard Prisma is in talks with investors about raising funding, but it might make more sense as an acquisition for Facebook/Instagram, Twitter, or Snapchat. When… Read More... →

To predict and prevent fraud online even more quickly than cybercriminals adopt new tactics, Sift Science has raised $30 million in a Series C round of venture funding in a round led by Insight Venture Partners. According to the U.S. Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) 2015 annual report, reported internet crimes alone, ranging from personal and corporate data breaches to credit card… Read More... →

Doppler Labs, the makers of the Here Active Listening system and the Here One headphones, has today announced the close of a $24 million follow-on Series B funding round led by Peter Chernin and The Chernin Group. New investors also contributed, including Kevin Efrusy, David Geffen, Dan Gilbert, Henry Kravis and Anton Levy, among others. Doppler Labs has been on the scene since 2014, slowly… Read More... →

When the partners at Bloomberg Beta — a $75 million seed investment fund — sit down to review how they’re doing, they say they don’t first look at the valuation of their portfolio. Instead, they first take a look at how the founders in the fund are grading them as investors and partners. While paper valuations are always important for any firm, a key metric Bloomberg… Read More... →

Венчурный фонд Сергея Азатяна Inventure Partners запустил второй фонд Inventure Fund II объёмом $150 млн для инвестиции в проекты из сектора «потребительского интернета, сообщили vc.ru представители Inventure Partners.... →

Mobile advertising can be really intrusive. But, if done right, you might not even notice you’re being advertised to. That’s what mobile rewards startup Kiip is all about. It allows advertisers to seamlessly integrate relevant content and rewards into mobile apps. Today, Kiip has announced the close of its $12 million Series C round led by North Atlantic Capital with new… Read More... →

If you’ve used free wifi in San Francisco, there’s a good chance you’ve used Zenreach and just don’t know it yet. The company, until now, has flown largely under the radar, because they wanted to amp up their business quietly for competitive reasons. And they’re finally ready to announce themselves and their new $30 million Series B funding. (Their previous $20… Read More... →

Some online loan platforms have taken a hit of late, but not all of them are struggling: today, CommonBond, a platform that specialises in loans and refinancing for students, is announcing that it has raised $300 million in debt to loan out to prospective borrowers; and a further $30 million in a Series C equity round to continue building out its platform. On top of this, the company has… Read More... →

Ряд инвесторов SmartHub вложились в сервис экспресс-ремонта гаджетов Masterzen (ранее Ismashed). Об этом Firrma сообщили в фонде. В сделке также приняли три частных инвестора: Леонид Шныр, Григорий Руданов, Владимир Батищев и Богдан Яровой. Средства инвестиционного раунда будут направлены на масштабирование бизнес-модели и увеличение доли рынка. Masterzen – сервис по ремонту гаджетов iPhone. Сертифицированный мастер приезжает в любое удобное для клиента время и место (офис, домой или в кафе) и ремонтирует г... →

Российский премиальный сервис по доставке еды Foodfox привлек $1 млн от венчурного фонда Target Global, сооснователей Lamoda Group Флориана Янсена и Нильса Тонзена, а также от ряда бизнес-ангелов. Об этом Firrma сообщили в фонде. Лид-инвестором сделки стал фонд Target Global. Это был первый раунд инвестиций, по итогам которого стартап был оценен в $4–8 млн.  Привлеченные инвестиции помогут Foodfox развить технологическую платформу: приложение для системы Android, интеграцию с ресторанами, добавление возможн... →

aCommerce, a Bangkok-based startup that helps e-commerce companies in Southeast Asia run their businesses, has landed $10 million in new funding ahead of a planned Series B raise later this year. Read More... →

MarketInvoice, which plays in the peer-to-peer lending space by enabling U.K. businesses to raise money from institutional investors and high net worth individuals by ‘selling’ outstanding invoices, has raised a further £7.2 million. Read More... →

What do you get if you combine the broad trends of smartphones, wearables, Internet of Things, an individual desire for control and healthcare costs for society? You get VCs investing in health-tech startups, that’s what. And the latest evidence of this is Stockholm-based Lifesum raising a $10m funding round led by Nokia Growth Partners (NGP), with Draper Esprit, Bauer Media Group and… Read More... →

Бизнес-ангел Алексей Тагаев вложился в квест-приложение «ЯШагаю», резидента Южного IT-парка в Ростове-на-Дону. Об этом Firrma сообщили в стартапе. Точная сумма сделки пока не раскрывается. По словам инвестора, сейчас подписано «соглашение на инвестиции в определенном размере к концу года». Известно, что приложение «ЯШагаю» – один из четырех проектов второго набора Южного IT-парка, с которыми был подписан договор на общую сумму 15 млн рублей. Как сообщил Firrma сооснователm проекта Сергеq Кузьминскbq, средст... →

Fresh from a positive listing in New York on Thursday, messaging company Line saw its share jump as high as 50 percent after it listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in its native Japan. Read More... →

Затраты на поисковую рекламу Google в США во II квартале 2016 оказались несколько ниже аналогичного показателя в прошлом году. Об этом сообщается в отчёте агентства IgnitionOne. Замедление темпов роста прибыли во многом обусловлено активным переходом рекламодателей в мобильный сегмент, где цена за клик ниже, чем на десктопах. За год инвестиции в рекламу на смартфонах выросли […]... →

Greg Reichow, who in May left his post as Tesla’s vice president of production (and reportedly as one of its highest-paid executives), has joined Eclipse Ventures as an investor. If the Eclipse brand isn’t entirely familiar, it may be soon, given its growing star power. Venture geeks might recall that Eclipse was originally part of Formation 8, a firm that has since… Read More... →

Today, ISI Technology announced the closing of their $5 million Series A led by Wade Equity Partners. ISI is the maker of the Heatworks technology — a fully electronic water heater. It happens every morning in households across the US: Turn the water on then check your email, brush your teeth or just wander around the bathroom for several minutes, waiting for hot water to arrive.… Read More... →

Rentomojo, a startup pioneering an interesting alternative for furnishing homes in India, has landed $5 million in fresh financing to further scale its business. The money was provided by Accel and IDG Ventures, and it follows a $2 million raise last November from the same investors. Read More... →