Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

If you spent a lot of time eating jars of tamales and reading Stephen King novels as a kid like I did you’ll know that Mystery Science Theatre 3000 was the best thing ever (aside from Siskel & Ebert’s movie review show). When it died a lot of nerds were sad. Well send a time flare back to your previous self because MST3K raised almost $6 million to bring back a full season of… Read More... →

The NHS, the U.K.’s publicly-funded health body, has teamed up with Tinder to help raise awareness of organ donation among young people. Over the next fortnight, the popular dating app is enlisting the help of a handful of local celebrities, including Olympic Gold Medallist Jade Jones, Made in Chelsea’s Jamie Laing, and Emmerdale’s Gemma Oaten, who […]... →

Cloudyn, a startup with a cloud service that shows how much money you’re spending on cloud infrastructure, is announcing today that it has taken on an $11 million round of funding. In addition to offering granular information on how much your infrastructure deployment costs on Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Compute Engine, Cloudyn […]... →

Фонд Imperious Group вложил $350 тысяч в британский сервис InstantAPI, который помогает создать, управлять и монетизировать API любых масштабов. Об этом Firrma сообщили в фонде.  В сделку также вошли и другие инвесторы. Их имена и суммы вложений не раскрываются.  Пока сервис работает в закрытом режиме. Среди первых клиентов InstantAPI - Softlayer, Orange, Dell, Tata, Citybank, NHL, Vodafone, IBM. Полученные инвестиции позволят открыть публичную версию для всех желающих, усилить технологию и внедрить дополни... →

Инфрафонд РВК купил долю 10% суммарно в четырех инжиниринговых компаниях группы АМТ&C: «Магнетит»,«ФМТ», «Фармаг» и «ПМТ и К». Об этом Firrma сообщили в фонде. Сумма инвестиций не раскрываются. Средства пойдут на реализацию проекта по внедрению энергоэффективного мотора-генератора для гибридной силовой установки на заводе «КАМАЗ», а также других инжиниринговых работ с использованием новых магнитных технологий. Группа компаний AMT&C специализируется на разработке и изготовлении изделий промышленного назначен... →

Korea’s Yello Mobile has made a name for itself raising $100 million and using it to pick up more than 60 startups to build its mobile apps business, which now serves 18 million users. Now, the startup is raising again: Yello Mobile has racked up another $47.2 million in funding, led by existing investor Formation 8 — financing that is being done as convertible debt at a… Read More... →

GUEST: Famo.us raised $25 million last year, bringing its total funding to over $30 million. Fifteen months after its most recent raise, the company “laid off a big chunk of the team, including its VP of Engineering, Head of Open Source, and a dozen engineers” and switched directions for the third time. Famo.us had started as […]... →

Asia accounts for nearly half of the mobile learning revenues in the world. Thousands of hagwons, or “cram schools,” line the streets in South Korea, which has about 15 percent of the global tutoring market. Parents spend an average of $1,000 per month on private tutoring — an estimated 20 percent of the monthly cost to raise a child there. In India, 7.5 percent of… Read More... →

Венчурная компания Леонида Богуславского ru-Net инвестировала в платформу CupoNation, которая предлагает промокоды для покупок в интернет-магазинах. Объем раунда составил €10 млн. В сделке приняли участие Rocket Internet, Holtzbrink Ventures, New Enterprise Associates (NEA), e.ventures, Deutsche Telekom Strategic Investments (DTSI), Silicon Valley Bank и Columbia Lake Partners. Средства пойдут на рост компании. В апреле этого года компания  ru-Net вышла из индийской FreeCharge, которая представляет собой мо... →

Seerene, an analytics platform that helps companies see how their other software is performing, has raised $5 million in seed funding and opened an office in Hong Kong, its first in Asia. The round was led by Earlybird Venture Capital and will support Seerene’s international growth. Read More... →

Составлен Firrma. Стратегический партнер РВК. При поддержке EY Каждый год Firrma при поддержке партнеров высчитывает активность венчурных фондов страны. Этот год не стал исключением. Ниже приведен рейтинг активности фондов в 2015 году. В этом году мы собрали гораздо больше данных, чем раньше, и изменили методологию. Советуем ее изучить перед тем как смотреть сам рейтинг, чтобы правильно его понять. Мы представляем Рейтинг «классических» венчурных фондов, а также Рейтинг посевных фондов, Рейтинг новичков и п... →

Posted by randfishPresentations are so much better when your audience isn't bored — when they're engaged with what you're saying, and attentive, and wowed. But what's the secret formula to giving a great talk? Where do you start? In this week's Whiteboard Friday, Rand will help you boost your presentations to the next level with six tips that have spelled success for him. Click on the whiteboard image above to open a high resolution version in a new tab! Video TranscriptionHowdy, Moz fans, and welcome to an... →

DataScience, the data science startup with the name (and URL) that every other data science startup wants, announced today that it has raised $22 million in Series A. The company says that it uses a combination of in-house data scientists, proprietary technology and custom data models to help businesses do things like predict a customer’s lifetime value and analyze the common features… Read More... →

CultureIQ announced today that it has raised $3 million in seed funding. Founded by former SecondMarket CFO Greg Besner, the New York City-based startup offers what it calls “culture management software.” That includes tools for surveying employees and analyzing the results in real-time, as well as a “culture strategy group” that helps customers explore programs… Read More... →

Gradle, the startup behind the Gradle open source build automation software, is announcing today that it has taken on $4.2 million in funding. This is essentially the coming-out party for the startup, which has 35 employees. Gradle automates the process of compiling code, testing it, and creating files with all the necessary dependencies. It’s highly […]... →

Российский рекламный стартап GetShop.TV привлек инвестиции в обмен на 15% проекта. Об этом Firrma сообщили в компании.  Сделка состоялась в сентябре 2015 года. В раунде приняли Игорь Лутц, Константин Синюшин в лице The Unitled Retail Labs, а также члены Venture Club, бизнес-ангелы Александр Бородич, Дмитрий Пучков и Федор Суздалев. Постинвестиционная оценка компании составила примерно $1 млн.  Средства пойдут на доработку продукта и масштабирование продаж, а также на альфа-тестирование технологии покупки из... →

It’s been a while since we heard from Server Density, the UK.-based SaaS server monitoring startup, but sometimes that’s the nature of quietly going about building a business. Today, however, the largely bootstrapped company is disclosing that it has raised $1.5 million in seed funding led by SP Ventures. Read More... →

SnapLogic, a company that helps connect data from legacy applications to the cloud or to a centralized internal data lake, announced a $37.5 million round today. Investors include Microsoft and Silver Lake Waterman, the growth capital arm of Silver Lake along with existing investors Andreessen Horowitz, Ignition Partners and Triangle Peak Partners. Today’s investment brings the total… Read More... →

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Mobile carriers are looking for ways to catch some of the growth in smartphone usage beyond their basic role as network providers, and that trend is having a knock-on effect on startups that help those carriers: ItsOn, a cloud-based platform founded by ex-Qualcomm, Nokia and Yahoo execs that helps carriers configure, market and sell mobile services on the fly, has raised a further $12.5… Read More... →