Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

EXCLUSIVE: Dremio, a startup founded by two former MapR employees who have developed the Apache Drill open-source project, has taken on more than $10 million in funding after just two months of operation. The eight-person startup is working out of space furnished by two of its investors: Redpoint Ventures’ San Francisco office, and Lightspeed Venture Partners’ […]... →

Онлайн-кинотеатр Ivi.ru привлёк инвестиции на сумму $3,5 млн от фонда Buran Venture Capital. Об этом сообщает газета «Ведомости».... →

Amino, a startup that’s built 41 different mobile community apps (so far), is announcing that it has raised $6.5 million in Series A funding. I first wrote about the company a little more than a year ago, when it raised a $1.65 million seed round. Co-founder and CEO Ben Anderson told me that the idea was to reinvent the traditional online forum with a smartphone-optimized experience… 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. Video conferencing company Blue Jeans raises $76.5M Blue Jeans Network, a company with web and native mobile applications for video conferencing, is announcing today a $76.5 million round of funding. Companies have plenty of […]... →

Three-year-old Premise, an economic data tracking platform, has raised $50 million in Series C funding from earlier backer Social + Capital Partnership and new investor Valor Equity Partners, which pitched in $35 million. Valor’s Antonio Gracias, who is also a director at Tesla and SpaceX, is joining the board. He joins the company’s earlier board members Chamath Palihapitiya,… Read More... →

VCs strive to find passionate founders. Well, it’s hard to find someone as passionate about computer-aided design (CAD) software as Jon Hirschtick, the cofounder and CEO of three-year-old, Cambridge, Ma.-based Onshape. It was back in 1993 that Hirschtick founded his first 3D modeling software company, SolidWorks, selling it four years later for $316 million to the multinational 3D… Read More... →

Shanghai-based workplace collaboration platform Teambition announced this week that it has raised $12 million in Series B funding from investors including NLVC, IDG, Vangoo Capital, and Gobi Partners. Teambition is an online platform that allows for workplace collaboration on things like events, tasks, posts, and cloud-based file libraries. Immediate comparisons that come to mind include Planner, Asana, Basecamp, Wunderlist, Trello, […]... →

Российский стартап в сфере телемедицины UNIM запустил облачную платформу для дистанционной диагностики онкологических заболеваний Digital Pathology и вышел на международные рынки. Об этом Firrma сообщили в компании. В сентябре 2015 года платформу подключили специализированные лаборатории Германии, Великобритании, Чехии, Норвегии и Украины. В 2014 году UNIM привлекла инвестиции в размере 14,5 млн рублей от Фонда развития интернет инициатив и частного инвестора Алексея Басова. Digital Pathology — это облачная... →

CliniCloud, a company that is building a connected home medical kit, has just announced a $5M seed funding round and a new retail partnership with Best Buy. The round was led by Tencent and Ping An Ventures. Founded by Dr. Hon Weng Chong and Dr. Andrew Lin, Clinicloud is a device that digitally records respiratory and cardiovascular sounds. The devices records these biometrics by… Read More... →

NoviCap, the invoice trading marketplace headquartered in London but with offices in Barcelona and a customer base largely in Spain, has closed a $1.7 million seed round. Backers include Partech Ventures, Techstars Ventures and Cabiedes & Partners. Read More... →

Blue Jeans Network, a company that provides cloud-based video conferencing services, has raised $76.5 million in its fifth round of financing. NEA led the Series E round, joined by Accel Partners, Battery Ventures, Glynn Capital, Norwest Venture Partners, and Quadrille Capital. Jeter Ventures, a new fund launched by MLB all-star Derek Jeter, also participated. When Blue Jeans launched in… Read More... →

Blue Jeans Network, a company with web and native mobile applications for video conferencing, is announcing today a $75.5 million round of funding. Companies have plenty of options if they want to hold a video conference for employees or partners. There’s LogMeIn’s join.me, Citrix’s GoToMeeting, Cisco’s WebEx, Logitech’s Lifesize, Google Hangouts, Microsoft Skype/Lync, and Zoom, […]... →

Акционеры фонда Prostor Capital приняли решение больше не поддерживать практику Media for Equity в связи с тем, что на ее развитие требуется гораздо больше времени и ресурсов, чем предполагалось в начале. Об этом Firrma сообщил Алексей Соловьев, управляющий директор Prostor Capital. «Мы несколько недооценили масштаб усилий, который необходимо приложить для того, чтобы запустить эту практику в жизнь, и одновременно переоценили степень готовности рынка к этому продукту, особенно со стороны медиа-партнеров. Не... →

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan have been quietly amassing a portfolio of both philanthropic and venture investments in education from a $120 million commitment to Bay Area schools to the funding they contributed to Altschool’s most recent $100 million round. Now they’re adding another educational technology company to the group. They’re expanding a… Read More... →

Fresh from announcing a $15 million raise, U.K. restaurant payment app Velocity is acquiring Cover. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Cover, an app that lets customers pay for meals from their phone, has amassed roughly 350 restaurants in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco and raised $7 million in investor funding. The company was in […]... →

CoverHound, a site that lets people search for, compare and buy auto and property insurance both through its own site and Google’s insurance search, is today announcing that it has raised a further $33.3 million in funding as it adds one more large and strategic investor to its list of backers. Insurance giant ACE Group is leading the Series C investment, and CEO Keith Moore tells… Read More... →

French music streaming service Deezer has filed for IPO on the Paris-based stock exchange Euronext. Planned to take place at the end of the year, the company isn’t disclosing how much it hopes to raise or its expected valuation. Read More... →

Венчурный фонд QIWI Venture профинансировал стартап Panda Money и запустил с ним пилотный проект. Как сообщила Firrma управляющий партнер фонда Ольга Туржанская, инвестиции составили до $100 тысяч. Инвестор получил в проекте миноритарную долю, до 20% капитала компании. В результате сделки стартап переехал на платформу QIWI Wallet. O QIWI Venture Корпоративное инвестиционное направления группы компаний QIWI, направленное на развитие инноваций. Инвестиционный фокус QIWI Venture направлен на проекты в области ... →

CloudFlare, a company offering a content-delivery network (CDN) with security features to make sure websites stay online and load quickly around the world, is announcing today a $110 million funding round with major strategic investors: Google Capital, Microsoft, Baidu, and Qualcomm. The news comes a few days after CloudFlare announced a partnership with Baidu, provider […]... →

Основатели Cinarra Systems рассказали о работе с японскими партнерами, российских программистах и рынке мобильной рекламы... →