Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

Bounce Exchange, a startup that helps websites strategically advertise by analyzing user behavior, has pulled in $6.45 million in new funding. 500Friends founder and angel investor Justin Yoshimura led the Series A-1 round, with participation from Contour Venture Partners, Primary Venture Partners, and New York Yankees’ All-Star Alex Rodriguez. According to BounceX founder and CEO… Read More... →

Фонды Runa Capital и Maxfield Capital инвестировали еще $2 млн медицинскую платформу Drchrono. Информацию о сделке Firrma подтвердил директор по корпоративным коммуникациям Maxfield Capital Надир Хабдулин. По словам его словам, эта сделка была промежуточным раудом инвестирования. Доля инвесторов не раскрывается, однако как и в остальных сделках, доля Maxfield Capital не превышает 20% компании.  Сервис Drchrono планирует разработать и добавить к своему функционалу электронную запись к врачам через Apple Watc... →

Today, June 5th, is World Environment Day. Its celebration began in 1972 at a UN (United Nations) conference. The aim of this conference was to raise worldwide awareness concerning the environment. Do you know what environment means? According to Wikipedia, it is: "The biotic and abiotic surrounding of an organisms, or population, and includes particularly the factors that have an influence in their survival, development and evolution.... →

Super Evil Megacorp, creators of hit touch screen multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game Vainglory, has raised $26 million in funding. The funding is a big endorsement for Super Evil Megacorp’s plan to create hardcore esports games on mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones. The new round was led by Index Ventures, with support […]... →

GUEST: Last year, when we published a blog post identifying the 10 coolest New York City enterprise startups, few, if any, of those companies were household names. Since I wrote that piece, the companies have gone on to raise more than $100 million combined, and at least one, if not two, have their sights on an […]... →

C1X is announcing that it has raised $5.1 million in Series A funding. Founder and CEO Mukundu Kumaran spent seven years as an engineering director at Yahoo. He said that during that time, he saw the complexity of the ad-tech industry, and now his vision at C1X is “to simplify how the basic advertising transaction works.” Read More... →

Пробизнесбанк отключили от системы электронных срочных платежей ЦБ (БЭСП), в банке работает временная администрация. Фонд Life.SREDA, получивший средства от акционеров группы "Лайф", в декабре 2014 стал стратегическим инвестором "Рокетбанка": Для Life.SREDA и Рокетбанка сделка является стратегической. Финансовая группа «Лайф», которая объединяет семь универсальных коммерческих банков в разных регионах страны, рассматривает возможности сотрудничества с инновационным банком.... →

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It feels like every other day: Another company raises a massive round of funding. We tend to assume that a company that’s raising money must be doing well. However, the truth is that venture capital funds’ incentives drive them to fund companies that should have folded long ago. These “zombie companies” are money pits, ultimately shrinking the returns of entire funds… Read More... →

Never forget that the formula for writing for the web is simple: it must be clear, concise, and compelling. We've covered how to make it clear and concise. Let's look at what it really takes to make it compelling. Yesterday, we saw how you can make copy compelling by raising the stakes with cancer and death. Today, we are going to expand on that with a total of 13 tips. But ultimately,... →

Dinner Lab, a membership-based club that gives you access to private dinner parties in unique locations throughout your city, announced it is has raised a $7 million Series A led by James River Capital. The company also received follow-up funding from all current investors, including Dr. John B. Elstrott, the Chairman of the Board of Whole Foods. This latest round comes about a year… Read More... →

GameOn Technology has raised $1.5 million in seed funding from investors that include football legend Joe Montana. The startup hopes its GameOn app will change the  way sports fans watch and talk about big games. The investors include Quest Venture Partners, XG Ventures, SkyStar Ventures, and Montana’s new venture fund, Liquid 2. Another investor is the […]... →

Clutter, the on-demand storage service based out of Los Angeles, has today announced that it has expanded its offering to cover all of the San Francisco Bay Area. The company also announced that it has raised an additional $1.3 million in funding, bringing total funding to $3.3 million. The idea behind Clutter is simple. Through a website, users can put in an order to have anything stored… Read More... →

A startup working to bring offline brick-and-mortar consignment shops into the e-commerce age, Snobswap, has raised over a million in seed funding to expand what it describes as its “luxury online mall.” While today, these mom-and-pop shops would have to set up their own online stores using a platform like Shopify, for example, or perhaps market their items via social media… Read More... →

Один из самых активных ангелов страны Виталий Полехин – глава Клуба инвесторов бизнес-школы СКОЛКОВО, заместитель председателя административного совета Национальной ассоциации бизнес-ангелов и участник VentureClub – объясняет, зачем ангелы организуют ассоциации и кому от этого польза.     Успешные предприниматели, управленцы и просто люди с деньгами часто сталкиваются с желанием не только преумножить свой капитал, но и найти новые бизнес-возможности. Отличным примером являются именно ангельские инвестиции в... →

Chinese internet giant Tencent is getting its tentacles into India’s healthcare space after it lead a $90 million Series C round for medical search startup Practo. The startup raised $60 million as recently as February, and it confirmed that Google Capital, Yuri Milner, Sofina, Altimeter and existing investors Sequoia and Matrix also took part in this new raise. Read More... →

Less than two months after SoftBank’s Pepper robot went on sale in Japan, another intelligent humanoid is poised to make its way into Asia. That’s because Boston-based Jibo just closed an $11 million strategic investment round to (eventually) bring its “social robot” to households in Taiwan, Japan, Korea and China. Read More... →

SavingGlobal launched in early 2014 to enable German savers to access the best fixed deposit rates in Europe, not just from banks in their home country. However, the plan was always to offer the same service — the ability to shop for the best rates and switch easily — to anyone in Europe not just Germany, thereby creating a true single European market for the savings deposit market. 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. Hybrid storage maker Tintri raises $125M Tintri, a company that sells storage boxes packing both fast solid state drives alongside traditional hard disk drives, is announcing today a $125 million round of funding. o […]... →

Gig economy or not, it looks like part-time or flexible jobs are becoming a more structural part of the labor market. But software hasn’t necessary improved to help contractor-based businesses to manage their payroll. So a team of Intuit veterans went through Y Combinator to build a platform called Payable that will easily let contractors measure and bill their hours and… Read More... →