Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

Artificial intelligence startup Diffbot announced today that it scored a $10 million series A round led by Tencent, Felicis Ventures, and Amplify Ventures. The Palo Alto-based company says its technology “uses computer vision and NLP algorithms to extract and structure any web page into the world’s largest structured database… with no human curation or oversight.” Diffbot’s […]... →

Компания ru-Net Леонида Богуславского повторно инвестировала в провайдера мобильных платежных услуг Payleven. Объём раунда D составил $10 млн. В сделке также приняли участие  Holtzbrinck Ventures, B Cinque, New Enterprise Associates (NEA) и MePay. Всего стартап привлек около $51 млн. На что конкретно будут потрачены средства не говорится. В компании заявляют, что в дальнейшем продолжат международную экспансию, разработку новых продуктов и привлечение новых пользователей.  Впервые Ru-Net инвестировала в Payl... →

The days of Square clones popping up, everywhere you looked and capitalizing on Square’s conservative approach to global expansion, are long gone. But those startups are not. And today, one of them is announcing a Series D round. Payleven, a mobile payments startup originally incubated in 2012 at Berlin’s Rocket Internet, says it has raised a $10 million growth round from a… Read More... →

Veniam, which provides mesh network for automobiles, has raised a $22 million Series B round to bring Wi-Fi hotspots to more vehicles. The latest investment includes funding from Verizon Ventures, Cisco Investments, Orange Digital Ventures*, Yamaha Motor Ventures, True Ventures, Union Square Ventures, and Cane Investments. The company plans on using the funds to bring its […]... →

Toss Lab has raised $2.5 million in fresh funding for JANDI, an enterprise communication tool that is tailored for companies in Asia. Along with a previous seed round, this brings Toss Lab’s total pre-Series A funding to $4.5 million. Read More... →

Онлайн-сервис объявлений Avito впервые выплатил дивиденды. Их размер составил $230 млн. Это 95,8% накопленной прибыли компании. Как сообщает «Коммерсант», компания выплатила дивиденды в четвертом квартале, после того как Naspers получила контроль над ней. В отчёте шведской компании Vostok New Ventures (VNV) говорится, что она получила $30,6 млн. Ей принадлежит 13,3% Avito. Согласно отчёту, доля в Avito по состоянию на 31 декабря 2015 года оценивалась в $338,5 млн, за год оценка инвестиции выросла на 59,2%. ... →

An under-the-radar startup that’s been quietly cornering the international student accommodation market for the past five years has raised $60 million from a number of high-profile investors. Launched initially as Overseas Student Living (OSL) in 2011 by an expat living in China, the web-based platform that matches students with professional landlords was rebranded as Student.com […]... →

Smart gardening startup Edyn announced today that it harvested a $2 million seed round. The Oakland, California-based startup also announced plans for an international expansion, starting with Japan. Edyn built a smart gardening system that helps plant enthusiasts to “stay connected to [their] garden” by regularly monitoring the soil and water conditions, along with temperature and […]... →

Lantern, a mental health startup that offers tools to deal with stress, anxiety and body image has raised a $17 million Series A round led by the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s venture arm with participation from previous investors such as Mayfield and SoftTechVC. UPMC Enterprises, the hospital’s venture arm, has invested large sums of money in 12 other health startups… Read More... →

CrunchBase, a service that surfaces information about startup funding, venture capital investments and people in the startup ecosystem, was spun out of TechCrunch and its parent company AOL/Verizon late last year. At the time, the new company raised a funding round led by Emergence Capital, with AOL/Verizon still holding on to a significant stake in the company. Today, CrunchBase announced… Read More... →

Robit is launching an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign to raise money for a domestic robot that runs apps as if it were a smartphone. The cute little robot rolls around your home and performs chores as commanded by the Raspberry Pi computer that serves as its brain. It’s an awful lot of technology on wheels, and Robit […]... →

Alibaba-backed Paytm, one of the bigger e-commerce startups competing against Amazon in India, is raising money again, just months after a reported $680 million round. Sources close to the company say that Paytm is now looking to raise $400 million by June to help with the launch of Paytm’s new payments business, Paytm Payment Bank. The news comes at the same time that… Read More... →

Фонд Runa Capital повторно вложился в школьный стартап Schoolmint.  Он выступил лид-инвестором раунда объемом $5,6 млн. В сделке также приняли участие  Reach Newschools Capital, Fresco Capital, the Govtech Fund, and Kapor Capital, Crosslink Capital, Maiden Lane Ventures и CSC Upshot (американские и китайские венчурные фонды, аффилированные с AngelList. Средства пойдут на расширение базы школ до 2000 учреждений, с которыми работает стартап. Сейчас у Schoolmint со школами в 70 городах, 30 штатах двух стран. П... →

Американский сервис AngelList провел аналитическое исследование, согласно которому платформа привлекла $163 млн для 441 стартапа в 2015 году. Это на 56% больше показателей предыдущего года. Об этом сообщает Techcrunch. Всего в прошлом году в сделках приняло участие 3379 инвесторов. Около 40% сделок – частные раунды (170 стартапов привлекли $89млн от частных инвесторов) и в 40% участвовали фонды. Привлечение инвестиций на платформе происходит несколькими  способами. Первый - на основе синдицированных сделок.... →

Digital enrollment, where parents can go online on their desktops or mobile phones, to register their children for school, seems like an obvious way to harness the power of the internet to simplify and digitize a transaction that still relies on analog methods far too often. The need is so apparent that it’s no wonder SchoolMint, a software as a service tool that for digital enrollment… Read More... →

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U.K.-based fintech startup WorldRemit has raised $45 million from TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC Corp. and Silicon Valley Bank. This takes WorldRemit’s total funding to $192.7 million, after the company raised a whopping $100 million almost exactly a year ago. Founded out of London in 2010, WorldRemit is a money-transfer service aimed at helping migrants send […]... →

DFJ, the 31-year-old, Sand Hill Road venture firm, is announcing a new, $350 million fund this morning — the firm’s 12th early-stage vehicle. We chatted with managing director Josh Stein yesterday about the effort, which he says took about two months from start to finish. The biggest takeaway: Expect more of the same from the firm, which typically plugs between $10 million and… Read More... →

ThinkingPhones, a communications startup for enterprises, announced today that it closed a $112 million financing round. The startup also announced that it has rebranded itself as Fuze, the name of a company that ThinkingPhones acquired back in November. Fuze says it offers enterprises “seamless business productivity” through its voice, video, text and collaboration apps. Summit Partners led the round, […]... →

Директор по продукту в стартапе ezhome и сооснователь бизнес-инкубатора МГУ Кирилл Клоков на прошлой неделе написал для Firrma колонку о том, как привлечь инвестиции в Кремниевой долине. Мы решили расспросить его о важных аспектах, которые он не отразил в своем тексте. Почему нельзя просить денег у инвестора из Кремниевой долины сразу? Инвесторы из Долины меньше всего хотят инвестировать в компании, которые просят деньги. Как это ни парадоксально, они хотят инвестировать в компании, которым все предлагают д... →