Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

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. Segment raises a $27M round to expand its ‘partner ecosystem’ Segment, a service that lets users collect consumer data for analytics and marketing, announced today that it closed a $27 million funding round. […]... →

Segment, a Y Combinator-backed startup that allows businesses to use a single API for event tracking in order to send data to hundreds of different tools and databases, including Google Analytics, MailChimp, KISSmetrics, Omniture, Mixpanel, Quantcast, Flurry, and much more, today announced an additional $27 million in Series B funding, led by Thrive Capital. Existing investors Accel… Read More... →

Netflix is raising the price of its most popular package from $8.99 per month to $9.99 per month starting today. The updated price applies to new users in the U.S., Canada, and Latin America. Existing Standard subscribers don’t need to panic just yet. Netflix will let them continue paying the lower price fee until October next year. Here’s the statement from the […]... →

Surprise! Netflix just got more expensive. The service’s most popular plan now costs $9.99. Existing customers will have a grace period, but the price is effectively immediately for subscribers in US, Canada and parts of Latin America. Netflix quietly raised prices for Europeans in late August. The price increase raises its Standard plan to $9.99 a month. This is the plan that streams… Read More... →

Mino Games had a rare hit in the Mino Monsters free-to-play mobile game with 7 million downloads and $10 million in revenue to date. And that’s why it has been able raise new funding and move on to Mino Monsters 2: Evolution. The San Francisco company is announcing it has raised $2.2 million in funding […]... →

Everyone dreads them: The annual performance review. After all, it’s hard for employees to do much with a yearly sit-down where some past accomplishments and failings are outlined, and a vague improvement plan with far-off objectives is set in place. Numerous companies have emerged in recent year to kill such reviews, including pulse survey startups like Tiny Pulse that produce… Read More... →

Центр нанотехнологий и наноматериалов Республики Мордовия (ЦНН РМ) и финский разработчик гибкой светодиодной пленки «Flexbright» подписали инвестиционное соглашение об участии наноцентра в капитале компании и трансфере технологии на территорию России. Об этом было объявлено на совместной пресс-конференции руководства ЦНН РМ и компании Flexbright. Инжиниринговый центр гибких источников света сосредоточится на развитии прикладных решений для российского и глобального рынков. Финские инженеры в сотрудничестве ... →

When we first checked in on hardware startup Butterfleye, they set out to raise $100,000 on Indiegogo to build its smart home monitoring system. Well, it blew through that goal and has raised an unbelievably impressive $604,451. The camera itself promises to cut out false positives when alerting you of movements in your home. An example? A light turning on and off triggers motion for some… Read More... →

Pypestream, a new startup from AdGenesis/Genesis Media co-founder Richard Smullen, is announcing that it has raised $2 million in seed funding. The round was led by Jonah Goodhart, co-founder of Moat and of early-stage investment firm WGI Group. Goodhart told me that Pypestream is trying to solve a big problem: “The call center as a model is absolutely broken.” In other words,… Read More... →

Украинский сервис тригерных email-рассылок TriggMine привлек $300 тысяч на посевной стадии от частного инвестора, имя и доля которого не разглашаются, сообщает AIN.ua. Сделку сопровождал консультант проекта Юрий Титков.  Средства пойдут на выход в Европу и США. Сейчас TriggMine работает на рынках СНГ. Также инвестиции будут направлены на развитие новой версии TriggMine V3, которую можно будет интегрировать в различные каналы (email, SMS, push, звонки) связи с клиентом. Компания планирует запустить предпрода... →

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. AppDirect raises $140M to grow its SaaS app store for enterprises globally AppDirect, a cloud-based marketplace featuring hundreds of software-as-a-service (SaaS) apps, has closed a whopping $140 million Series E round, led by J.P. Morgan […]... →

A service that helps online shoppers save when prices drop, Paribus, has raised $2.1 million in seed funding to continue to grow its business following the startup’s participation in the Y Combinator summer program and TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2015, where it first debuted. The company’s idea is to take a process that consumers were used to managing by themselves when they shopped… Read More... →

A bunch of gaming, tech, media, and sports executives have banded together to acquire a respected esports team and rebrand it as the Immortals. The team, formerly known as Team 8 eSports, will form and operate a number of professional gaming teams that will participate in esports events built around games such as League of […]... →

AppDirect, a cloud-based marketplace featuring hundreds of software-as-a-service (SaaS) apps, has closed a whopping $140 million Series E round led by J.P. Morgan Asset Management, with participation from all existing investors, including Foundry Group, iNovia Capital, Mithril Capital Management, StarVest Partners, and Stingray Digital. This takes the San Francisco-based company’s total funding to $245 million, including […]... →

AppDirect makes it easier for enterprises to buy cloud services from the likes of Box, Google, Symantec and others (and serves as a kind of referral service for these businesses). The company today announced that it has raised a $140 million funding round led by J.P. Morgan. All of the company’s existing institutional investors, including Foundry Group, iNovia Capital, Mithril Capital… Read More... →

For most consumers who aren’t Scrooge McDuck, learning about personal finance is like dental checkups—boring, sometimes painful, but necessary. Vinod Nair, the founder and chief executive officer of MoneySmart, wants to change that. The site, which publishes articles and lets users compare services like home loans and credit card, tries to make personal finance fun (or at least… Read More... →

European Nest-competitor Tado has raised $17.1 million to help grow its home climate-control business and “accelerate product innovations” and global expansion. Some notable names participated in the round, including Siemens’ venture capital unit and Statkraft Venture Capital, the investment arm of one of Europe’s biggest renewable energy companies. This effectively doubles the company’s total funding […]... →

Impossible Foods, a four-year-old, Redwood City, Ca.-based company at work on a new generation of meats and cheeses made entirely from plants, has raised $108 million in new funding from a powerful group of backers. Investors in the round, which was led by UBS, include Viking Global Investors and earlier backers Khosla Ventures; Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates; and Horizons Ventures, which… Read More... →

AdmitSee, a two-year-old, 10-person, San Francisco-based startup, has just finished raising $1.8 million in seed funding to take on pricey college admissions consultants. If things work out as planned, it could be taking on LinkedIn next. AdmitSee was founded in 2013 by former University of Pennsylvania classmates Lydia Fayal and Stephanie Shyu, who’d observed — along with… 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. Code42 raises $85M to prevent company data from being held hostage Code42, a security startup that recently raised $85 million in investor funding, is focused on preventing just such a scenario. The endpoint security […]... →