Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

The Brazilian Airbnb for pet-sitting, DogHero, has raised $3.1 million in financing as pet care spending in Brazil starts to take bigger and bigger bites out of consumers’ wallets. Brazil already accounts for $8.16 billion in global spending for pets, according to Brazilian pet care association Abinpet. And the country’s pet-owners are beginning to open their wallets for more… Read More... →

A New York City startup called Helix Sleep Inc. raised $7.35 million in Series A funding to grow its bespoke mattress business, according to cofounder Adam Tishman. With 20 full-time employees today, the company sells directly to consumers online, and via its office and showroom in Manhattan’s Flatiron District. Helix’s mission is to “deliver unprecedented comfort to people… Read More... →

Grocery on-demand service HappyFresh has delivered a mixed bag of news today. Firstly, the company has withdrawn from two markets in Asia as it aims to focus on creating a sustainable business. Second, it has announced an undisclosed amount of funding. Read More... →

The Brazilian Airbnb for pet-sitting, DogHero, has raised $3.1 million in financing as pet care spending in Brazil starts to take bigger and bigger bites out of consumers’ wallets. Brazil already accounts for $8.16 billion in global spending for pets, according to Brazilian pet care association Abinpet. And the country’s pet-owners are beginning to open their wallets for more… Read More... →

Launching with a marketplace for landscaping, snow plowing, and other home care and repair services, Plowz & Mowz has raised $1.5 million from the Los Angeles-based startup studio, Science. On the heels of the firm’s successful exit from Dollar Shave Club, Science has turned to the marketplace industry for its next investment. The idea for the company stretches back nearly… Read More... →

San Francisco-based education startup StudySoup, which calls itself “a peer-to-peer learning marketplace,” announced it has raised $1.7 million in seed funding. The company works as an online study group where students can sell or purchase class notes and study guides. “We realized that a lot of students come to college on very different levels,” Sieva Kozinsky, 26… Read More... →

mSurvey, a Kenya based startup specializing in mobile data collection, has raised seed capital as it looks to expand its survey business in partnership with retailers in sub-Saharan Africa. Safaricom, Cross Culture Ventures, and the Virgin Group’s Alpha Angels joined an investment round in the three year old business. “It’s a seed round. I can’t disclose the amount,… Read More... →

Институт Развития Интернета (ИРИ) объявил о запуске нового направления «Интернет+ Инвестиции», в рамках которого будет заниматься инвестиционными и исследовательскими проектами в интернет-экономике. В частности, ИРИ приступил к изучению возможности создания системы распознавания и анализа медицинских изображений на основе нейросетей и BigData. Участниками исследования также стали Научно-практический центр медицинской радиологии Департамента здравоохранения Москвы, Первый Московский Государственный […]... →

Ирина Калашникова, руководитель проекта GoTech, рассказала Firrma, как нынешний набор конкурса отличается от предыдущих. Российские стартапы за последние три года заметно изменили свой подход к финансированию и монетизации. Такой вывод мы получили после анализа заявок на ежегодный конкурс Web Ready, который с этого года после изменения концепции выступает под брендом бизнес-интегратора . Стало больше проектов, которые развиваются на собственные средства, объем запрашиваемых инвестиций у венчурных фондов и б... →

Songkick, which allows you to track the gigs of your favorite music artists and buy tickets to concerts, has raised a further $15 million in funding from Access Industries. Songkick says it now plans to use the money to “enhance the connection between artists and fans,” increase ticket sales, and prevent scalping. Songkick’s app and web platform scans a user’s music… Read More... →

Whether you’re clumsily attempting to find where your Uber is parked or trying to find your friend at a crowded venue, it’s clear that GPS has some major limitations that need to be fixed. Navisens wants to gather reliable mapping data from users’ smartphones without even touching GPS, instead relying on sensors like the gyroscope and accelerometer to track the… Read More... →

Symphony Commerce, a provider of cloud technology for e-commerce platforms, is raising $11 million to grow its fulfillment business. Symphony, which helps companies like Gatorade and Hershey’s manage their web business, is doubling down on its logistics services, by helping these brands enable faster shipping. With order management tools and a network of warehouses, Symphony says its… Read More... →

Mail.Ru Group приобрела контрольную долю GeekBrains, образовательной онлайн-платформы для программистов. Сумма сделки не разглашается. Точная доля, которую получит Mail.Ru Group, также не называется, однако указывается, что она составит около 50%. Основатели проекта останутся его акционерами и продолжат руководить GeekBrains. Как сообщается в официальном пресс-релизе, инвестиции в GeekBrains являются частью системной работы в области развития образования […]... →

SigOpt, a company aiming to “optimize everything,” announced today that it has raised $6.6 million in Series A funding. When startups talk about optimization, they often mean trying out a few different variations and then choosing the ones that get the best results. With SigOpt, it’s more of a continual process, where the technology can look at your results and recommend what… Read More... →

David Lortscher was one of a few dozen people practicing dermatology in New Mexico when he realized a huge problem in the field: there weren’t enough dermatologists, and people were skipping out on visits because they thought it was for more affluent people or took too long. So Lortscher decided to start Curology, which provides acne and anti-aging treatment and prescriptions through… Read More... →

A startup called SelfScore has raised $7.1 million in new venture funding to help bring much-needed financial services to international students at U.S. colleges and universities. SelfScore co-founder and CEO Kalpesh Kapadia grew up in India, but moved to the U.S. for graduate school in 1995. That’s when he first noticed the challenges of assimilating into what he says is the… Read More... →

SkyGiraffe helps enterprises give their employees access to their line-of-business apps and enterprise data from virtually any device. The company today announced that it has raised a $6 million funding round led by SGVC, with participation from Trilogy Equity Partners and a number of angel investors, including Heroku founder and CEO James Lindenbaum, Lookout founder and CTO Kevin… Read More... →

“Identity-as-a-service” startup Auth0 (pronounced “auth zero”) has raised $15 million in Series B funding. CEO Jon Gelsey said that for many website and mobile app developers, integrating with different login systems can turn into a big headache — and also create security risks. So the company helps those developers manage identity and authentication, whether… Read More... →

Генеральный директор коммуникационного агентства А-ТАК Евгения Колобухова объясняет, как понять, что PR может помочь стартапу именно сейчас.  Два года назад я подняла тему, казалось бы, противоречащую самой идее нашего бизнеса – когда стартапам PR не нужен. Я по-прежнему вижу, что начинающие бизнесмены часто спешат с выходом на публику, не доработав продукт и не имея представления о его аудитории. Однако как понять, что этот водораздел пройден? По каким признакам определить, когда настало время для PR? Если... →

Фонд развития интернет-инициатив (ФРИИ) вложил ещё 15 млн рублей в онлайн-сервис по организации ремонта квартир под ключ SMETUS. Средства пойдут на доработку технологии пересчета типовых дизайнов и смет под индивидуальные планировки, а также расширение партнерской сети. SMETUS является выпускником восьмого акселератора ФРИИ. Фонд уже вложил в компанию 2,1 млн рублей в конце 2015 года. SMETUS – это онлайн-сервис, позволяющий сделать ремонт, создав проект своей квартиры на сайте сервиса. Система позволяет с т... →