Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

Riding electric boards is hot. Future Motion has raised $3.2 million for tis one-wheeled electric skateboard, dubbed Onewheel. The Onewheel is part of a wave of electric skateboards, hoverboards, and other devices that help people get around to places faster. It was part of a wave of personal transportation devices that were on display at […]... →

Lamudi, a real estate listings site backed by Rocket Internet, is in the money today after closing a fresh investment worth €29 million ($31.4 million) to grow its business in Asia and Latin America. Read More... →

Фонд SOL Ventures Сергея Опарина и Левона Оганесяна инвестирует в ИТ-проекты уже третий год. За это время он достаточно редко попадал на радары СМИ о венчурном бизнесе. Firrma записала интервью с управляющим фонда Сергеем Опариным, в котором он рассказал о стратегии и принципах работы SOL Ventures. Какова стратегия фонда? Менялась ли она со дня его основания в 2013 году? Мы инвестируем исходя из нескольких важных принципов. Мы делаем ставку на «ярких» предпринимателей. Поэтому для нас важно глубокое знакомс... →

If you have young children, or your children aren’t so old that you can still remember what a complete and utter pain clunky car seats can be, you might want to acquaint yourself with three-year-old, Ra’anana, Israel-based mifold. The founders of King Digital Entertainment did. In fact, after seeing the Indiegogo campaign of the company and its accompanying video, they reached out… Read More... →

Pinterest. Instagram, Tumblr. The future of the web is visual, but how does anyone make money on that? By understanding what’s in the images people post and connecting them to where you can buy what you see. That’s Curalate’s job. The image recognition marketing startup just raised $27.5 million led by NEA, bringing it to $40 million in total funding. If a picture is worth… Read More... →

Алексей Поликарпов, бывший коммерческий директор компании «Тематические медиа» (издания «Хабрахабр», «Мегамозг») инвестировал в сервис по доставке еды «Нужен ужин». Как сообщил Firrma Алексей Поликарпов, сделка состоялась в январе 2016 года и составила 2 млн рублей. Доля инвестора в стартапе не раскрывается по соглашению сторон. Известно, что по итогам сделки Алексей Поликарпов назначен коммерческим директором сервиса, а также его исполнительным директором по совместительству. Осенью 2015 года стартап привл... →

When companies have to pick what kinds of services they want for their operation — like marketing or human resources — they can easily be paralyzed by choice. That’s why Vamshi Mokshagundam decided to start Siftery, a database of sorts where companies list their software stacks. The company just raised $4 million from Felicis Ventures, Founders Fund, and Venrock among… Read More... →

AdTech has been lumbering along in the last few years, with a number of M&A moves to consolidate the market – not least the purchase by Verizon of AOL, allegedly (in the main) for it’s ad platform. But there remain niches where AdTech is actual innovating. To that end, London-based Ad tech firm Grapeshot has raised $8.5m in funding from European-based investors IQ Capital,… Read More... →

Of the many categories of products that are hard to buy online, one of the most challenging is underwear — and specifically bras. Even at the best of times — when you are physically in a store with a veritable sea of bras at your disposal to try on — the process can be painfully unrewarding, with two bras purportedly made for the same proportions fitting completely… Read More... →

Tattoo culture is by now very well established and of course with it has come ways of expressing that culture online. Thus, Tattoodo has styled itself as a “digital lifestyle hub for all things tattoo-related.” In English, that means it publishes content, has community and a marketplace. The Copenhagen-based startup has now raised $2.5 million from a number of high-profile… Read More... →

Magic Leap has been successful in keeping a lot of its technology under wraps — the augmented and virtual reality technology company has yet to release a product — but its fundraising has been an open secret. And today it is finally being confirmed: the startup announced that it has raised $793.5 million in a Series C round of funding, at a valuation that a spokesperson tells us… Read More... →

OutSystems, an Atlanta-based service that helps enterprises quickly build line-of-business apps, today announced that it has raised a $55 million funding round led by North Bridge Growth Equity. Previous investors in the company include ES Ventures and Portugal Ventures. OutSystems isn’t exactly a new company anymore. It was founded in 2001 and now has over 600 enterprise customers and… Read More... →

Pencil + Pixel wants to use bleeding edge technology to upgrade your digs. Eventually. Called Modsy, the service still isn’t publicly available but the company is today announcing it raised an $8 million Series A to push its mission towards a public launch. The company soft launched its innovative design service in mid-2015. It blew me away. In its pre-launch state, a user sent the… Read More... →

Spotcap, the Rocket Internet-founded fintech startup that operates an online lending platform for small businesses, has beefed up its coffers with €31.5 million in new funding. Read More... →

Кирилл Клоков – директор по продукту в стартапе ezhome, сооснователь бизнес-инкубатора МГУ, а также выпускник стендфордского акселератора StartX – написал для Firrma колонку о важных аспектах привлечения инвестиций в Кремниевой Долине.  Почему инвесторы из долины инвестируют только в компании из долины? По одной простой причине – у них нет времени. Каждый венчурный инвестор сидит в совете директоров 4-5 компаний, играет в гольф с другими инвесторами и ходит на прогулки на выходных – такой спокойный и нормал... →

Kaizen, a Tokyo- and San Francisco-based user interface marketplace and testing platform, plans to increase its presence in the United States after raising an $8 million Series B. Read More... →

Фонд развития интернет-инициатив (ФРИИ) объявил о начале работы своего восьмого акселератора. Как сообщили Firrma в ФРИИ, в новый набор вошли 28 проектов, из которых 7 стартапов будут проходить акселерацию за свой счет.   В 21 проект из этого набора акселератора ФРИИ вложил по 2,1 млн рублей, из которых по 900 тысяч рублей пойдут на оплату программы акселерации. В обмен на инвестиции фонд получил по 7% этих стартапов. Постинвестиционная оценка каждой проинвестированной ФРИИ компании составит 30 млн рублей. ... →

The last 5-10 years have been an extraordinary time for early stage tech founders to raise money. But easy access to capital has ingrained some bad habits among founders. There has always been the risk of over-funding your company or not being able to find a funder for your next round, but now it’s far more common to see founders blithely accepting deal terms that could kill their… Read More... →

2015 was not a good year for IPOs — it was actually the worst year for tech IPOs since the financial crisis in 2009. More and more startups are opting to remain private for longer periods of time. And while we still haven’t seen any IPOs in 2016, the slowest start since 2009, eventually venture-backed companies need to go public — if only to raise additional financing to… Read More... →

Два проекта с российскими корнями ManyChat и ArrowPass прошли отбор в американский акселератор 500 Startups и получили от него по $125 тысяч. Об этом Firrma сообщил сооснователь ManyChat Микаэл Ян и сооснователь ArrowPass Мирослав Сарбаев. ManyChat – платформа, которая помогает бизнесу продавать и поддерживать клиентов через популярные мессенджеры (Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Viber, Telegram, и т.д). Проект объединяет все чатовые API (Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Viber, Telegram, и т.д.) в один интерфейс... →