Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

Rocket Internet’s Global Fashion Group (GFG), an umbrella group that houses the German company’s fashion-focused e-commerce services, is making a double announcement today after it secured €150 million ($167 million) in fresh funding and made two acquisitions in Brazil. Read More... →

In her new book, “How to Raise an Adult,” former Stanford University Dean of Freshmen Julie Lythcott-Haims argues that overparenting has grown to worrying extremes over the last decade-plus and that unchecked, it will be the ruin of society as we know it. She noticed it in her own parenting, in fact. “There was a time when I was a finger-wagging dean, then realized:… Read More... →

ScoreBeyond, a service that helps students prepare for standardized tests like the SAT, said it has raised $2.8 million in a round led by Khosla Ventures. The ScoreBeyond app gives students a daily progress report of their skills as they prepare for the test, as well as daily exercises to improve their skills in certain subjects. Dogan has a background in product management for… Read More... →

Classy, a San Diego-based startup, has raised $18 million in new funding from Mithril Capital Management and Salesforce Ventures to bring non-profits and social enterprises into the digital age. Classy powers fundraising campaigns, event management, and communication with donors for mission-driven organizations. The company charges a monthly fee for its SaaS, which non-profits can customize… Read More... →

Израильский музыкальный сервис Music Messenger, получивший инвестиции от Романа Абрамовича на сумму $15 млн, исчез из магазинов приложений App Store и Google Play. Об этом ЦП сообщил один из пользователей сервиса.... →

Bridging tech’s gender diversity gap one job placement at a time, PowerToFly, the online hiring platform for women, has raised $6.5 million in its latest round of funding. Read More... →

Earlier this year Los Angeles-based Cargomatic, announced it had raised $8 million to expand its platform. Why was this interesting? Well, Cargomatic hopes to become an ‘Uber for truckers’, by connecting shippers and truckers who are available to help move their cargo. Truckers would get to make more money, but the shipping would be routed more efficiently towards the truckers… Read More... →

Moawia Eldeeb has one of the more unfathomable and inspiring stories I’ve ever come across while working in Silicon Valley. He was born to a farming family in Egypt and then made his way to Queens as a child where he earned $20 a day working in a pizza shop. He was in and out school for years, then caught up on Khan Academy and then later made it into Columbia University’s… Read More... →

This is the best time to raise money for your startup. At least since 1999. But raising money can be a double-edged sword for entrepreneurs — and receiving a high valuation can cut two ways. First, some context. According to the April 2015 MoneyTree report from PwC, investments in later-stage companies rose by 50 percent, to $4.2 billion, in the first quarter of 2015, the largest… Read More... →

Distil Networks, a company that analyzes website traffic and blocks malicious bots, announced a $21 million Series B round today. Bessemer Venture Partners led the round and David Cowan from BVP will join the Distil Networks board of directors. Investors Foundry, TechStars, ff Venture Capital, Idea Fund and Correlation Ventures also participated. Today’s investment brings the total… Read More... →

An initial public offering "remains something to aspire to," according to CEO Tom Bogan, but he would not say when that might happen.... →

Kentik (formerly CloudHelix), a cloud-based networking analytics company, disclosed Tuesday that it had closed a $12.1 million Series A funding round in addition to announcing that it was now launching its major service from stealth, Kentik Detect, a SaaS product that enables “full visibility across an unlimited number of networks of any size for real-time, actionable insights… Read More... →

As Airbnb closes in on a major round of financing that will reportedly value it at $24 billion, smaller startups riffing on the same model of renting out private homes are also rising up. Onefinestay, a five year-old startup out of London that focuses on renting out private luxury homes, has raised $40 million — a Series D round of funding that the company plans to use to keep growing… Read More... →

Фонд Titanium Investments и компания ТМТ Investments вложились в новостное и рекомендательное приложение Drippler.  Общий объем раунд составил $ 4,5 млн. Кроме ТМТ Investments и Titanium Investments, в сделке приняли участие iAngels, Реувен Агасси, Янки Маргалит, Дэвид Асия и ряд других зарубежных частных инвесторов. Drippler представляет собой персонализированный новостной агрегатор и рекомендательный сервис, подсказывающий полезные функции и приложения для смартфона. В мае 2014 года ТМТ уже вложила в Drip... →

Инвестиции в американский проект littleBits — самая крупная сделка Grishin Robotics... →

Sophos, the security company that makes antivirus software, firewall hardware and other products for networks, individual users and servers, is going public this morning on the London Stock Exchange, with Sophos Group plc to trade as “SOPH.” In its initial public offering, the company will sell 34.8% of its shares at 225 pence each (or 156,521,740 shares). It plans to raise… Read More... →

Zumper, the platform to list, find, and apply to apartment rentals has raised $6.4 million as a Series A1, a year after raising a $6.5 million Series A round. This round was again led by existing investors Goodwater Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Zumper is an end-to-end real estate platform, taking renters from search through to application and close. The company also… Read More... →

EXCLUSIVE: Machine Zone's funding attempt seems puzzling.... →

PayRange, which makes a small device that plugs into vending machines that enables customers to pay with credit cards, said that it has raised $12 million in venture financing. The company produces a device that plugs into vending machines that interacts with an app. It uses Bluetooth to connect to the app, wherein customers can make a purchase. The device works with basically any vending… Read More... →

On-demand service Postmates just closed a $80 million round of funding, valuing the company at more than $400 million. The round was led by Tiger Global Management, and follows a $35M round closed in February. Still developing…. Please refresh Read More... →