Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

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 […]... →

Skurt, a startup that delivers rental cars to you, just raised a $1.3 million seed round from Upfront Ventures, Hipmunk CEO Adam Goldstein, Wonga founder Errol Damelin, Whisper President Mark Troughton and GoodRx Co-founder Scott Marlette. Skurt, which positions itself as doing for car rentals what Uber did for taxis, has agreements with independent car rental companies that have an excess… Read More... →

Robin Systems, a service that essentially makes it easier for businesses to set up a data-centric high-performance IT infrastructure, today announced that it has raised a $15 million funding round led by a subsidiary of USAA and DN Capital, with participation from Hasso Plattner Ventures and other existing investors. This round brings Robin System’s total funding to $22 million. In… Read More... →

Last December, Sony Pictures was the subject of a massive hack that brought its operations to an abrupt standstill. Subsequently (after much back and forth with the attackers) a swath of its internal data, emails, and personal information were leaked all over the Internet. Though the leak itself was highly damaging for Sony, so was the hijacking of […]... →

Frame.io, a startup that improves the collaboration process around video production, is announcing that it has raised a $2.2 million seed round led by Accel Partners. Co-founder and CEO Emery Wells previously worked in video post-production, and he said Frame.io emerged from his own frustrations about the tools available to work with clients, team members and other collaborators. Read More... →

YouNow, a four-year-old, New York-based social network that connects audiences and broadcasters in real time, has raised $15 million in new funding co-led by earlier backers Venrock and investor Oren Zeev, with participation from Comcast Ventures. The company has now collected $30 million altogether from investors, including Union Square Ventures, which led its Series A round in 2013. VCs… Read More... →

Neumob, a service that helps mobile app developers get their in-app content to users faster, today announced that it has raised an $8.5 million Series A round led by Accel Partners. Additional investors include Shasta Ventures, Eniac Ventures and Lightbank Ventures, as well as a number of private investors, including RealNetworks founder and CEO Rob Glaser. Read More... →

Harmonix Music Systems, maker of the upcoming Rock Band 4 music video game, has raised $15 million in equity funding. The funding is unusual since Harmonix was founded way back in 1995, and because investments in music games are going through a kind of revival. The money from the Foundry Group and Spark Capital will be […]... →

ZeeMee, a platform that wants to help students bring their college applications to life, told TechCrunch exclusively Thursday it had raised a Series A round of $5.8 million led by BlueRun Ventures. Prospective college students today have been on social media for most of their adolescence. ZeeMee wants to help those students use the medium they know so well to showcase talents and interests… Read More... →

Dome9, a startup with cloud-based software for deploying and managing security configurations on cloud infrastructure, is announcing today an $8.3 million round of funding. Dome9 allows admins to examine firewall rules, tables of IP addresses and ports, and incoming web traffic for individual instances. And it’s easy to drill down to get answers to impromptu […]... →

Сервис маркетинговых исследований AGELON, который является резидентом бизнес-инкубатора ИТ-парка города Набережные Челны, создал совместное предприятие «Агелон-Рус» с исследовательским агентством России, название которого не раскрывает. Об этом Firrma сообщили в бизнес-инкубаторе. Инвестиции обеих сторон в запуск проекта составят около $100 тысяч. Средства пойдут на развитие продаж и маркетинг проекта на рынке СНГ.  «Агелон-Рус» получит приоритетное право на развитие проекта и использование профессиональног... →

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В седьмой акселератор Фонд развития интернет-инициатив (ФРИИ) вошли 24 проекта. Об этом Firrma сообщили в фонде.  Стартапы начали работу на площадке 24 сентября. На начальном этапе в 22 компании будет вложено по 800 тысяч рублей, а также профинансировано участие в программе акселерации в размере 600 тысяч рублей. В обмен ФРИИ получит долю в бизнесе финансируемых компаний в размере 7%. Стартапы SweetCard и Convead предпочли самостоятельно оплачивают свое участие без привлечения дополнительных инвестиций от ф... →

When it comes to transporting that new couch you bought from the store room to your living room, Dolly wants you to stop mooching off your friend with the truck. Dolly is basically an Uber for furniture and other large items. The service isn’t meant to help you move all of your stuff into a new place, loads are pretty much confined to a few items that can be transported in a single… Read More... →

As tech companies compete more ferociously for hires across Silicon Valley, a layer of third-party technical recruiting companies is emerging to help startups quickly sift through qualified candidates without spending lots of time on interviewing. One of them, Lytmus, has been in the works for more than two years and has raised $7.2 million from NEA and Accel. It was co-founded by Abhay… Read More... →

Today, educational startup General Assembly announced a series D round of funding of $70M. Here’s what CEO Jake Schwartz had to say about the news, including the addition of a new board member: Today we are announcing a new round of funding for General Assembly, representing over $70 million in capital from a group of leading investors. Our new investors are Advance Publications and… Read More... →

Managing a complex modern IT infrastructure is hard. NodePrime, a San Francisco-based startup that’s emerging from stealth today, wants to make it easier for companies to map, monitor and control their data centers. The company also today announced that it has raised a $7 million seed round with participation from the likes of Menlo Ventures, NEA, Formation 8, Ericsson, Initialized… Read More... →