Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

Uber just closed a new round of funding that will value the company at more than $50 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal. The newspaper says that Uber has raised close to $1 billion in the round, which brings total equity financing to more than $5 billion. The WSJ reported that investors in this latest round include Microsoft and Indian media company Bennett, Coleman, and Company.… Read More... →

Klarismo, which takes existing MRIs and other kinds of body scans to build a 3D model of a person, has raised $2.1 million and launched out of Y Combinator. Klarismo is an online service where users are able to take a much deeper look at their body’s internal structure. It takes MRI scans and other kinds of scans that people are getting already and then uses that to build a 3D model of… Read More... →

Суммарный объем инвестиций корпорации «Роснано» в нанотехнологические проекты за первое полугодие 2015 года составил 6,46 млрд рублей, в том числе 5,26 млрд рублей прямых инвестиций и 1,2 млрд рублей через партнерские фонды. Об этом говорится в отчете компании. Выручка компании за 6 месяцев 2015 года составила 3,6 млрд рублей, что на 1,7 млрд рублей больше по сравнению с аналогичным периодом прошлого года. Как сообщается в отчете, прирост выручки связан, в том числе, с поступлениями от выхода «Роснано» из п... →

Какова ситуация с венчурным бизнесом в регионах? Каков профиль ангелов? Есть ли интерес к венчурным проектам, есть ли проекты вообще? Об этом в колонке Эдуарда Фиякселя – члена VentureClub, члена административного совета НАБА, президента Ассоциации бизнес-ангелов «Стартовые инвестиции», профессора, заведующего кафедрой венчурного менеджмента в НИУ ВШЭ. Наша ассоциация «Стартовые инвестиции» существует 10 лет – это старейшая ассоциация в России. Так как я участвовал в создании нескольких других региональных ... →

Cameras are standard in smartphones these days, but they’re still incredibly limited when compared to the average DSLR. Light, a startup developing multi-lens cameras for smartphones, wants to raise our expectations. The company announced today that it took in $25 million in funding to bring DSLR camera qualities to our phones. The round was led […]... →

Iwoca, one of the booming cluster of FinTech startups coming out of London, has raised a $20m series B round from the VC arm of Germany’s CommerzVentures, Acton Capital Partners, the Munich-based private equity and VC firm Redline Capital and other existing investors, in order to grow the lending platform’s European business. Iwoca offers flexible financing to Europe’s 20… Read More... →

UK-based crowd equity platform Crowdcube has raised £6m ($9.3m)from stockbroker Numis, Tim Draper, his London-based VC firm Draper Esprit and existing backer Balderton capital. As a result Crowdcube is now valued at £51m. The move will also now it to offer a way for investors to access companies which are about to go public, bringing IPO investment opportunities to the platform. IPOs will… Read More... →

Smartwatch underdog Olio has raised a $10 million Series A led by New Enterprise Associates. The cash will go to expand Olio’s manufacturing prowess and bring on new hires for the budding company. In addition to the raise, the company has announced a number of new models including a 24 carat gold model for $1,195 on a leather strap. We first met Olio last March when they announced the… Read More... →

Sales workflow startup PersistIQ has raised $1.7 million in seed funding. This is one of those stories where the startup says it raised the money months ago, got busy and only decided to announce the news now. Investors in the seed round include Point Nine, Salesforce Ventures, Y Combinator and undisclosed angels. (PersistIQ was incubated last year at Y Combinator.) Read More... →

The demographic of health-conscious consumers is growing rapidly, and yet there is no dominant online player that provides high quality, organic, natural products to those consumers. Thrive Market, an LA-based startup that just closed a $30 million Series A round, is looking to do just that. The company aims to be a hybrid of Whole Foods and Costco, where users pay $60/year for a membership… Read More... →

GoButler is launching its text-based personal assistant out of beta today, and announcing an $8 million series A. GoButler is “like an Amazon for the on-demand world,” says CEO Navid Hadzaad. The free service utilizes existing on-demand apps and e-commerce sites like Uber, Seamless, and Expedia to get you whatever you want just by sending a text […]... →

FreedomPop, the U.S. wireless carrier startup that has been building a business based on completely free voice and data services, has raised another $10 million in funding from two strategic investors, the pan-Asian mobile carrier Axiata and an unnamed tech investor based in the U.S., the company is announcing today. The deal with Axiata will mean that FreedomPop will be expanding its… Read More... →

Jun Group was founded back in 2005, but according to founder and CEO Mitchell Reichgut, the video ad company has never accepted any venture funding — until now. “We really have been independent since day one,” Reichgut said. (Jun Group has taken money from Western Technology Investment, but it was debt, not equity financing.) Read More... →

Communications apps that strike a chord with users across different markets are hot property these days, and it looks like another one of them may soon enter the so-called unicorn club. TechCrunch has learned that Truecaller — a caller ID app that now has 150 million users — is looking to raise around $100 million at a $1 billion valuation. We’re hearing that Truecaller… Read More... →

GitHub, the software development collaboration and version control service based on the popular open source Git tool, today announced that it has raised a $250 million funding round led by Sequoia Capital. Andreessen Horowitz, Thrive Capital and Institutional Venture Partners also participated in this round. The company, which was founded back in 2008, has now taken a total of $350 million… Read More... →

While eBay is doubling down on its core business after its split from PayPal, an upstart out of Europe is looking to muscle in on the business where eBay first made its name, collectibles. Catawiki, a Dutch online auction business, has raised $82 million to scale its business on the continent and beyond. The Series C was led by Lead Edge Capital — an investor in other… Read More... →

Netherlands-based online auction house Catawiki raises $82M Series C round.... →

With both the Shopify and Etsy IPOs, the last year has been a big one for tech companies catering to independent online retailers. Now Tictail, a Swedish company that has migrated to the United States, is hoping to make its mark with a product that’s somewhere in between those two platforms. They’ve just raised $22 million in funding from their existing investors including… Read More... →

Equity crowd funding platform Seedrs has raised a $15.6 million (£10 million) Series A round led by Woodford Patient Capital Trust plc (WPCT) and Augmentum Capital, the money from which will be used to launch in the US market. Seedrs had previously raised $7.2 million from Faber Ventures and it’s own crowd-funding campaign. Furthermore, Seedrs is to launch a £2.5 million crowd… Read More... →

AltspaceVR raises $10.3 million for its shared VR experiences platform.... →