Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

Tastemade, the maker of food and lifestyle videos, has raised a $40 million financing round led by Goldman Sachs. Participating investors in the Series D round include, Redpoint Ventures, Comcast Ventures, Liberty Media and Scripps Networks. Founded in 2012, Los Angeles-based Tastemade says it has 100 million monthly active viewers on its Tastemadenow programming and over 1 billion views of… Read More... →

Songkick, the company behind the eponymous cross-platform app that lets you track when and where all your favorite bands are playing live, has raised an additional $10 million in funding from Access Industries. Founded in 2007, Songkick had raised $32.6 million before today’s round from a range of notable investors, including Y Combinator, Sequoia Capital, […]... →

Songkick, the concert discovery app and ticketing company (after it merged with white-label artist-to-fan ticket seller CrowdSurge), has raised a further $10 million in funding from previous backer Access Industries, owner of WMG. It follows a $16 million Series C from Access, Sequoia, and Index, announced in June. Read More... →

Компания «Селектел» запустила в Санкт-Петербурге дата-центр «Цветочная-2» на тысячу серверных стоек, который стал крупнейшим на Северо-Западе. Инвестиции в проект составили около 1 млрд рублей, рассказали vc.ru в компании.... →

After finding a fully functional laptop discarded in a rubbish skip near their home, Bethany Koby and Daniel Hirschmann realized this was the spark they were looking for to create a new kind of technology education startup. The wife and husband team created ‘Technology Will Save Us’ (TWSU) in 2012 to marry hardware and software ‘making’ in a way that had;t been done before. Read More... →

A U.K. startup that creates DIY gadget-building kits for kids has closed a £1.2 million ($1.8 million) seed round led by SaatchInvest, with participation from European seed-stage VC fund Backed, among a handful of other individual investors. Founded out of London in 2012, Technology Will Save Us is one of a number of companies across […]... →

Springboard, an India-U.S. company formerly known as SlideRule, has raised a $1.7 million seed round to accelerate its concept of learning through mentors and a community. Each mentor provides a weekly catch-up session with their students, and Springboard partners with other MOOCs for courses, and creates its own where it sees gaps in content. Read More... →

Составлен Firrma. Стратегический партнер РВК. При поддержке НАБА и Venture Club Рейтинг бизнес-ангелов – один из самых ярких и интересных рейтингов, которые делает Firrma вместе с партнерами вот уже третий год. В этот раз мы внесли в его методологию кардинальные изменения. Раньше мы во многом базировали его на экспертных оценках, но с этого года решили положить в основу, как и в случае с фондами, статистику. Теперь ее для этого достаточно, рынок и само ангельское движение за последние пару лет сделали серье... →

ФРИИ говорит, что стартап Weatlas не достигал запланированных показателей.... →

A year ago, UploadVR was formed as one of many meetups for developers interested in virtual reality. Today, the company has raised $1.25 million in seed funding from China’s Shanda Group. That tells you how fast things are moving in the world of VR, which is expected to be a $30 billion market by 2020, […]... →

NextEv, a Chinese electric car company potentially taking on Tesla and Faraday Future, has tapped Padmasree Warrior for the U.S. CEO position. Warrior will also head up software development and the user experience globally for the Shanghai-based company. According to Warrior, NextEv has already pulled in half a billion dollars of the $1 billion it plans to raise from the likes of Sequoia… Read More... →

If on-demand is the future of delivery, a startup called Bringg aims to help established businesses better compete with the likes of Amazon and Uber going forward. The company has now raised $5 million in Series A funding to further develop its web and mobile platform that businesses to move into the on-demand era by providing features like real-time driver tracking, dispatching,… Read More... →

Datavail, a company that offers database administration for enterprises, took in a $47 million investment led by Catalyst Investors, the VC firm announced today. Tahosa Capital,  Lumerity Capital Partners, and Boulder Ventures also contributed to the funding round that gives Datavail a total of $60 million in venture funds. Catalyst’s Tyler Newton and Susan Bihler, […]... →

Textio CEO Kieran Snyder always loved taking a quantitative approach to how language worked with her studies in linguistics. And when she and her co-founder Jensen Harris were leaving Microsoft to start a new company, it was only natural that it would be centered around language in some way. That’s how Textio, a startup that analyzes text for how well words and phrases perform in… Read More... →

When Sequoia Capitals Michael Dixon met Clover Health CEO Vivek Garipalli, he said he knew he wanted to invest. The catch: it took 18 months to convince him. But that finally happened, with the company today announcing a $35 million financing round led by Sequoia Capital. Clover Health works by tracking inputs from a person’s medical history and determining who the highest-risk… Read More... →

)People seem to be comfortable buying an ever-growing number of things online, but are they ready to purchase their cars that way? Vroom says they are, and it’s making a couple of big deals to move forward with that vision. The New York City-headquartered startup is announcing that it has raised $95 million in Series C funding, and it has also acquired competitor Texas Direct Auto.… Read More... →

Фонд развития интернет инициатив (ФРИИ) и краудинвестинговая площадка StartTrack представили исследование российского и международного венчурных рынков. В исследовании проанализировано количество венчурных сделок в России, США, Европе и в Азии, средние суммы инвестиций в разных странах, динамика сделок, раунды, на которых инвесторы предпочитали вкладывать деньги в проекты, а также наиболее популярные по числу сделок сегменты. Согласно исследованию, в России за первые 9 месяцев 2015 года была совершена 241 в... →

It may seem like every time you check the headlines a new company is getting its data stolen. For the past 12 years Digital Guardian has been striving to help companies classify and protect data on their systems so that they can avoid being the next ones in the news. Today the company is getting some more capital to help grow its cybersecurity products. Digital Guardian just completed a… Read More... →

Фонд Юрия Мильнера DST Global и немецкий Global Founders Capital могут возглавить новый инвестиционный раунд индийского сервиса доставки RoadRunnr. Об этом сообщает The India Times. Предполагаемый объём раунда – 300 крор (около $60 млн). Сделка может быть закрыта в ближайшие две недели. По данным одного из источников издания, в раунде может также принять участия инвестиционная компания Леонида Богуславского ru-Net. Недавно Юрий Мильнер вложился в RoadRunnr как частный инвестор. Сумма инвестиций и подробност... →

Verlocal, a marketplace for classes and tours, raised a $2.65 million seed round from VenturesLab, Seven Seas Partners, Amidzad Partners, and Big Basin Capital, the startup shared today. Verlocal is like an Airbnb for experiences, where locals can host lessons for travelers such as this DIY Ugly Sweater Workshop. Oddly, Airbnb already offers its own Experiences, although it has severely downplayed […]... →