Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

Docady, an iOS app that lets you store and manage all your important documents, has been doing well in the App Store since its official launch in mid-July, including being featured by Apple as a ‘best new app’ for the last few weeks. And to help continue with that momentum, the Tel Aviv-based startup has just closed a $1.5 million funding round. Read More... →

A virtual reality fishing app has helped Resolution Games get funding. The VR game studio started by Tommy Palm of Candy Crush Saga fame has raised $6 million in funding. Google Ventures led the investment round in Stockholm, Sweden-based Resolution Games. It’s one more sign that virtual reality has hot prospects as the next big platform […]... →

With messaging apps like WhatsApp, Line, and Viber fighting for growth around the world, is there room for smaller, newer players? Charge Messenger thinks so and to prove that point, it just announced $1.7 million in seed funding and a new web client that lets users sync chats on their iOS and Android devices to desktop. Read More... →

Analytics platform ChartMogul has just completed raising a new seed round of funding, adding $900,000 to its coffers. Point Nine Capital led the round that the company will use to accelerate its product development including providing analytics for PayPal. ChartMogul declined to discuss its valuation. Launched in December, Berlin-based ChartMogul helps Software as a Service […]... →

Образовательная платформа Coursera, в которую вложился российский инвестор Юрий Мильнер, привлекла $49,5 млн в раунде С.  Возглавила раунд венчурная компания New Enterprise Associates, также приняли участие International Finance Corporation, Kleiner Perkins, Caufield & Byers, Times Internet.  Средства пойдут на международный рост компании и расширение контента. Компания собирается запустить ряд новых специализаций и ищет новые пути для работы с промышленными партнерами, чтобы создать эти курсы. Coursera пла... →

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. Coursera raises $49.5M to help it expand to Latin America, China, and India Coursera wants to accelerate its global expansion, so it went out and raised some more cash. The online education service has […]... →

Фонды Impulse VC и The Untitled вложили деньги в онлайн-сервис по поиску персонала JungleJobs. Об этом сообщает РБК со ссылкой на партнера Impulse VC Кирилла Белова. Привлеченные инвестиции пойдут на запуск двух новых продуктов. Остальные подробности не раскрываются.   До этого компания не привлекала инвестиций, она развивалась на деньги основателей и партеров, чьи имена не раскрываются. О ImpulseVC ImpulseVC — фонд, основанный владельцами и топ-менеджерами Sape.ru, инвестирует в компании в сфере eCommerce,... →

Spare5 lets businesses outsource menial tasks like tagging and describing images, cleaning up data and classifying content to smartphone users who want to earn a few cents while standing at the bus station. It’s basically a mobile-centric version of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk and it now has another $10 million in the bank thanks to a Series A funding round led by Foundry Group,… Read More... →

The fast-growing online education service Coursera today announced that it has raised a $49.5 million Series C funding round led by New Enterprise Associates. Other investors include Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and International Finance Corporation. Times Internet Limited (TIL), which owns the Times of India and other media properties, also participated in this round. Read More... →

Coursera wants to accelerate its global expansion, so it went out and raised some more cash. The online education service has raised $49.5 million in the first closing of its Series C round of fundraising. The company expects to bring in an additional $10.5 million by this fall to bring its total to $60 million. […]... →

It’s been party time for mobile, with massive growth and disruption helping VCs to raise huge funds, entrepreneurs to raise massive rounds, and valuations to skyrocket. With 89 mobile Internet unicorns now worth almost $1 trillion, it’s no surprise that folks from Silicon Valley to Shanghai are asking what’s going on with return on investment. Read More... →

Facebook just made making your donation to Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption a bit easier more visible. Today, Facebook announced that the company is opening up its donate button as an available call-to-action for all non-profits’ pages and linked advertisements. A Facebook spokesperson told TechCrunch in a statement: Every day, people use Facebook to raise awareness and support… Read More... →

Белорусский стартап SplitMetrics, разработавший сервис для увеличения конверсии мобильных приложений, привлек инвестиции от фонда  Embria Ventures. Информацию об этом Firrma подтвердил сооснователь проекта Евгений Невгень. Сумма сделки не разглашается. Оценка компании составила $3 млн (pre-money valuation). Средства пойдут на расширение команды и укрепление позиций на рынках США и Азии. SplitMetrics планирует открыть офис в Сан-Франциско, так как большинство клиентов компании находится в Кремниевой долине. ... →

Building off the strength of a successful open source project, a new startup that provides newsfeed development and management as a service — Stream — has raised $1.75 million in its first round of funding. Read More... →

Everything But The House (EBTH), an online estate sale marketplace, has pulled in $30 million in new funding to help people who are downsizing sell their stuff to bargain hunters and collectors around the world. Greenspring Associates led the Series B round, with participation from previous investors Greylock and Spark Capital, which brings the company’s funding total to $43… Read More... →

Cavendish Kinetics, a Silicon Valley radio chip design company, has raised $36 million to make chips that it says could transform the performance of smartphones. The funding is a rare event in the semiconductor industry, a $335 billion business that is dominated by gigantic chip companies such as Intel and Qualcomm. Triquent Semiconductor, a division […]... →

Freee, a Tokyo-based cloud accounting and payroll service that was launched in March 2013, today announced a $30 million Series C round that takes its total raised funding to date to $43 million. Existing investors in the round include DCM and Recruit Holdings, with Japan Co-Invest Limited Partnership coming on board for the first time. […]... →

As the European startup scene has matured over the last few years so too has the VC scene. But a handicap has always been the issue of follow-on funding. Gradually, however, the most successful firms have managed to raise new funds based on past successes. One such has been Lakestar, the early investors in Spotify, Skype and Facebook. Read More... →

Boulder, Colorado-based Tradiv is raising a $1 million round as it gears up to launch its B2B marketplace for cannabis cultivators, marijuana infused product companies, and dispensaries. That’s right: The B2B pot ecosystem is unfolding right before our eyes. Backed by Cannabis accelerator CanopyBoulder and accelerator partner Micah Tapman, Tradiv revealed the raise in a public filing with the U.S. Securities and […]... →

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. Fyber raises $169M in convertible bond to expand mobile advertising business Fyber has raised as much as 150 million euros, or $169 million, in a convertible bond to continue the company’s expansion into the […]... →