Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

While Spotify is acquiring startups expand its messaging and social features, Pandora is also raising its game in the artist-to-fan communications sphere for musicians to better target Pandora’s 80 million users. Today, the music streaming company is launching a service called AMPcast — a service to let musicians “speak to their fans” by way of audio messages… Read More... →

Spot instances on AWS can help you save quite a bit of money over paying for a regular virtual machine on EC2. In return, though, these machines may shut down at any time when demand for regular machines increases. Spotinst helps business manage both the cost and management of these spot instances, with support for Google Cloud Platform’s preemptible machines and Azure, which… Read More... →

Фонд Pulsar Venture Capital заявил, что предоставит приоритетные места на участие в международной акселерационной программе для стартапов, основатели которых — женщины. Как Firrma сообщили в фонде, в акселератор планируется взять до 15 стартапов, основанных женнщинами. Точно количество будет зависеть от проведенной питч-сессии на Казанской Венчурной Ярмарке. Фонд предполагает, что таким образом обратит внимание на  недостаточное количество женщин-технологических предпринимателей в отрасли. «Это часть нашего... →

Crimson Hexagon is announcing that it has raised $20 million in additional equity funding. Founded in 2007, the Boston-headquartered company helps brands and ad agencies track conversations across social media. It says its customer base has grown by more than 65 percent in the last 12 months and now has 10,000 active users. Customers include Starbucks, Walmart and NBC. Crimson Hexagon… Read More... →

Data insight and management startup Zaloni announced today that it has closed a $7.5 million series A round led by Sierra Ventures. Based in Durham, North Carolina, the startup said it will use the funds to further develop Zaloni’s software and its data lake management solution. Managing director of Sierra Ventures, Mark Fernandes, will join Zaloni’s […]... →

GetLinks, a Bangkok-based startup focused on helping tech companies find and hire top talent, has closed a $500,000 seed round. Read More... →

Фонд Fidelity инвестировал $175 млн в сервис обмена фото и видеосообщениями Snapchat, в который ранее вложился фонд Юрия Мильнера DST Global. Snapchat был оценён в $16 млрд как и год назад. Инвестиции являются продолжением раунда F, который компания начала собирать в прошлом году. По данным Reuters, в феврале 2016 года Fidelity купил акции компании по цене $ 30,72 за штуку (из оценки стоимости пакета) – по той же цене, по которой он приобрёл акции Snapchat в марте 2015 года. В третьем катале прошлого года F... →

Lucas Jackson/Reuters Pictures Snapchat has raised $175 million from Fidelity Investments at a $16 billion valuation, according to The Wall Street Journal. Snapchat’s last round of funding in May 2015 reportedly valued the company at $16 billion. The new funding is technically part of that same round, according to the WSJ, as Snapchat had set […]... →

ICX Media, a Washington, D.C. startup promising to help video creators find an audience and make money, announced today that it has raised $2.5 million in seed funding. The company was founded by Michael Avon, Tom MacIsaac, Steve McCord and Joey McCord (pictured above). Three of the four co-founders previously worked together at mobile ad company Millennial Media, where Avon was chief… Read More... →

A startup out of Malmo, Sweden called Mapillary is using crowdsourced photos to create an open source, B2B database to compete with Google’s Street View, and today the company announced a Series A round of funding from an impressive list of backers to help make that ambition a reality. The $8 million from Atomico, Sequoia, LDV Capital, and PlayFair will be used to expand… Read More... →

Wrap Media has raised $4 million it will use to grow its business in Japan. The new funding comes from returning investor Dream Incubator, a Tokyo-based consulting and private equity firm that has also signed a strategic partnership with Wrap Media. The San Francisco-based startup lets its users create interactive media for mobile browsing that are easier to navigate than responsive mobile… Read More... →

Fresh from pulling in $83 million from European insurance giant AXA last month, Africa Internet Group (AIG) — the Rocket Internet-backed company behind e-commerce site Jumia — has announced that it has raised €300 million ($326 million) in fresh funding. Read More... →

Tokyo-based Mercari, the Japanese startup behind a consumer-to-consumer marketplace app of the same name, announced today that it has fundraised $74 million (8.4 billion yen) in a series D round.... →

Eight, the startup formerly known as Luna, announced today that it has raised $6 million in Series A funding. The company makes a smart mattress cover that can track your sleep, change temperature (the temperature can even vary across different parts of the cover) and send data to other Internet-connected devices. It says it has sold 6,000 units through crowdfunding and pre-orders. Co-founder… Read More... →

When it comes to online advertising, one concern publishers, agencies, and marketers share is in determining where programmatic ads are being displayed. Everyone wants to get their money’s worth, but what happens when ads are served on sites where brands don’t have an audience? Pathmatics offers actionable data from across the industry in order to promote […]... →

GoTenna, the device for people who want to stay connected when they don’t have cell signal, has found a natural launch partner — outdoor equipment retailer REI. Daniela Perdomo, goTenna’s CEO and co-founder, told me that REI has signed on to be the startup’s exclusive retail launch partner. For the next three months, the only place you’ll be able to buy goTenna,… Read More... →

Online social game creator FlowPlay has cut a deal that allows its Vegas World social casino game players to spend money in the virtual world to raise money for the real-world nonprofit American Cancer Society during the month of March. The deal is the latest in a trend that helps gamers do good, and it could provide a […]... →

Augment, a Paris-based Augmented Reality (AR) startup announced this morning that they raised more than $3 million from Salesforce Ventures to further expand company operations and also specific integrations with Salesforce software. This brings the total investment amount raised since launch to $4.7 million. Read More... →

Augment is about to get, uh, augmented with $4.7 million in funding. The enterprise augmented reality company uses iPads and smartphones to help people visualize how a new retail kiosk might look in a real store. Augmented reality could hold even more promise than the much-hyped virtual reality, which has focused on gaming and entertainment […]... →

MedyMatch Technology bills itself as an artificial intelligence healthcare startup. It’s applying AI in the form of “deep vision and advanced cognitive analytics” to the analysis of medical imaging scans to help radiologists or emergency department physicians recognise hard to spot abnormalities and in turn make better decisions. Read More... →