Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

We’ve been tracking Import.io since it launched on our TechCrunch Disrupt Europe stage in Berlin in 2013, and they’ve come a long way. This startup, which effectively turns business web sites into data and APIs, raised a ‘seed-plus’ round of $4.5m back in 2014. But today it announces a significant upgrade, completing a $13 million Series A round of funding. It’s… Read More... →

Like Knip, FinanceFox is another startup founded in Switzerland that is moving the insurance brokerage process online. Its mobile app lets you manage of all your existing insurance and get advice regarding gaps in your coverage or ways to save money on your insurance requirements going forward. Read More... →

Skyscanner, one of the oldest and largest flight search engines on the Web, has raised its first major round of funding to the tune of £128 million ($192 million). Founded out of Edinburgh, Scotland’s capital city, in 2002, Skyscanner is Europe’s largest travel search engine by traffic, and the world’s second largest after Kayak. However, […]... →

Издательский дом Forward Media Group, принадлежащий Полине Дерипаске, инвестировал в совместную компанию с холдингом Look At Media. Как сообщил Firrma сооснователь LAM Алексей Аметов, основатели холдинга сохранили операционный контроль. Сумма сделки и доля инвестора в новой компании не раскрывается. Сама сделка была закрыта в декабре 2015 года. В результате сделки управление брендами Furfur, The-Village, Wonderzine, а также на временно замороженный сайт Look At Me, перешло к Forward Media Group. Новая юрлиц... →

Издательский дом привлек инвестиции от Forward Media Group... →

MyMusicTaste, a Seoul-based startup that gauges fan interest to help figure out where to plan concerts, plans to expand throughout Asia after landing a $10 million Series A led by Softbank Ventures Korea. 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. Toast raises $30 million for Android-powered point-of-sale system to challenge Square Toast announced that it has raised a $30 million Series B funding round to support its Android point-of-sale (POS) system for restaurants. This latest […]... →

Blinkist, a Germany-based startup that gives you the gist of well-known nonfiction books in 15 minutes or less, has raised €4 million ($4.3 million) to accelerate product development and expand in U.S. and across Europe. Founded out of Berlin in 2012, Blinkist uses human subject-experts to condense popular nonfiction titles into abridged versions, and includes […]... →

It was only last July that HomeToGo, a European ‘metasearch’ engine for holiday rentals, raised €6 million in Series A funding. And now competitor Holidu has gotten in on the fundraising action. The Munich-based company has closed a €5 million Series A round led by EQT ventures. Also participating is Venture Stars, and Senovo, who join existing angel investors led by… Read More... →

Guardant Health, a three-year-old, Redwood Shores, Ca.-based company whose non-invasive genomic sequencing test for cancer requires just two vials of blood, has raised nearly $100 million in Series D funding roughly one year after closing on $90 million for its Series C round. The financing was led by OrbiMed Advisors, with earlier backers participating, including Khosla Ventures, Sequoia… Read More... →

В конце 2015 года мы расспросили самых активных бизнес-ангелов о том, в какие технологии верят. Сегодня своим видением поделится Виталий Полехин.  Какие направления для инвестирования вы считаете перспективными в интервале 3, 5 и 10 лет, соответственно?  5 лет – слишком большой срок для венчурной индустрии в наши дни. 10 лет – вообще фантастика и космос. А вот в течение 3 лет мы станем свидетелями того, как наша обычная жизнь очень сильно изменится под влиянием технологий. Поэтому наиболее перспективными, я... →

Last summer, gaming tech company Razer said that it was working with Intel on a webcam that would take in-game video recording to a higher level. Today, at CES in Las Vegas, the company is taking the wraps off that product. Stargazer is Razer’s new $200 camera, shipping in Q2, that will let game players record themselves in high definition, with the focus on catchy new features, such… Read More... →

When Chris Comparato joined his former colleagues at Toast, a service that includes a point-of-sale tool for restaurants, raising new financing to continue scaling the company was near the top of the list. And so it happened. Today, the company said it had raised $30 million in a round led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with Google Ventures participating. The company says it has more than… Read More... →

There’s been “a very big shift” in the thinking of many online publishers, according to JW Player President Chris Mahl. Yes, many of them are looking at Facebook and YouTube as platforms where they can build awareness, but he argued that they’re “really concentrating on driving traffic on their own sites.” “That’s where you as the publisher… Read More... →

Toast announced today that it has raised a $30 million Series B funding round to support its Android Point of Sale system for restaurants. Its latest investment was led by Bessemer Venture Partners and will be used to improve the company’s growth, both in talent hiring, product updates, and marketing. Additional investors include GV (formerly […]... →

Virtuix, maker of the Omni virtual reality treadmill, said today it is testing the waters for a “mini-IPO” under new regulations that allow companies to raise money in a new way. Austin, Texas-based Virtuix has begun shipping the Omni, a new product that allows you to run on a treadmill-like platform while wearing virtual reality goggles. […]... →

BlueShift, a B2C marketing automation vendor, has raised $8 million in series A funding. Most marketing automation solutions address the B2B market, but B2C marketers increasingly desire similar automation capabilities. Additionally, most marketing automation vendors focus on rules-based segmentation, as opposed to machine-learning-based one-to-one personalization. To address these challenges for B2C marketers, BlueShift was founded […]... →

Малазийский стартап с российскими сооснователями Bfab привлек посевные инвестиции от фондов 500 Startups, KK Fund и компании Captii. Сумма сделки не раскрывается, однако известно, что она представляет собой «шестизначное число». Валютой сделки были американские доллары. Сервис позволяет в режиме реального времени бронировать посещения салонов красоты. Клиенты могут посмотреть рабочий календарь салона и записаться в любое время суток. Как сообщается, в бета-версии продукта к сервису подключено 200 салонов кр... →

Quartzy, a lab supplies marketplace, announced it has closed a $17 million round in Series B financing to help the startup build up the supply of lab equipment offered to customers. The startup launched out of Y Combinator four years back and has since partnered with several academic institutions, including Stanford to offer an alternative marketplace for pricier lab supplies. Quartzy does so… Read More... →

Proof, if proof were needed, that democracy is a cat and mouse game of PR these days… Civil rights campaign organisation, the Open Rights Group, is running a crowdfunding campaign to try to raise £20,000 to fund a challenge to the U.K. government’s own massive PR machine which is in the midst of driving the draft Investigatory Powers bill through Parliament and onto the statute… Read More... →