Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

IBM announced today that it’s acquired Ustream, a video streaming service, to bolster its existing “portfolio of video services.” News of the deal first broke yesterday, when Fortune wrote that IBM paid $130 million for the company. IBM confirmed the deal today but has yet to confirm the price. This acquisition follows IBM’s purchase of Clearleap — a […]... →

Российский миллиардер Юрий Мильнер вложился сразу в два стартапа, один из них –американская финансовая компания LendUp, второй – лондонское транспортное приложение Citymapper. Мильнер принял участие в инвестиционном раунде B приложения Citymapper на сумму $40млн совместно с фондами Index Ventures, Benchmark Capital и частными инвесторами Томом Стэффордом и Майклом Линтоном. Об этом сообщает TechCrunch.  Инвестиции данного раунда пойдут на значительное расширение команды. Компания планирует нанять работников... →

Nubo, whose software enables employees to access company files on their own mobile devices, has raised $7 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Magma Venture Partners and Motorola Solutions Venture Capital. Read More... →

Olo, the digital ordering business, has raised $40 million in funding from The Raine Group. The capital will be used to expand its recently launched Dispatch delivery service. With over 150 restaurant groups as clients, New York-based Olo works with large chains including Chipotle, Five Guys and Jamba Juice to power their online ordering and pick up business. Olo provides the white label… Read More... →

Some more big news for the world of open source. MariaDB Corporation — the startup formerly known as SkySQL and building for-profit solutions on the SQL fork managed by the MariaDB foundation — has raised another $9 million in funding and announced a new CEO, Michael Howard, a veteran executive from the enterprise world. The funding brings the total raised by MariaDB to just over… Read More... →

Waldo Photos announced today that it has raised a $5 million seed round led by Upfront Ventures to fund its photo-finding platform. The company plans to use the funds to not only launch its service to the public in the next 2 to 3 months, but also increase hiring and partnerships. Started by Rodney Rice […]... →

Malwarebytes, a security company that started when its cofounder was still a teenager fixing his parents’ infected computer, has come a long way from its bootstrapped roots. Today the startup’s software is used by millions of consumers and some 70,000 businesses to protect from and clean up computer viruses, worms, trojan horses and more. And now, to grow further, it is… Read More... →

This morning, the Bay Area venture firm Scale Venture Partners is announcing the close of its newest fund,  Scale Venture Partners V, L.P., with $335 million, up from the $300 million fund it closed in May 2013. Scale, once the venture arm of Bank of America (it split off from the bank 10 years ago), says its capital came from a wide array of pension funds, foundations, funds of funds… Read More... →

Шесть проектов вошли в Starta Accelerator, запущенный в Нью-Йорке венчурным фондом Starta Capital. Об этом Firrma рассказала сооснователь акселератора Людмила Голубкова. По её словам, в первую очередь участие в акселераторе было предложено портфельным компаниям фонда Starta Capital: платформе для навигации внутри помещений Navigine, разработчику мобильного приложения для 3D сканировавших объективов и помещений GeoCV, разработчику фитнес-браслета Healbe. Затем принять участие в акселерационной  программе пре... →

CREO is a new startup in India with big ambitions. It not only wants to create a new Android-based operating system, but also produce its own smartphones. The Bengaluru-based company announced today that it has raised $3 million from Sequoia India, Beenext Ventures, and India Quotient. Read More... →

Инвестиционная компания Columbus Nova, связанная с президентом фонда «Сколково» и владельцем холдинга «Ренова» Виктором Вексельбергом, стала совладельцем издательства Gawker Media. Как передает The Wall Street Journal, компания Columbus Nova выкупила миноритарную долю акций Gawker Media. Сумма сделки не раскрывается. Известно, что по итогам сделки представитель Columbus Nova войдёт в совет директоров издания. Привлеченные инвестиции пойдут на поддержку издания Gawker в связи с судебной тяжбой издания на сум... →

Riding the coattails of a ‘small pieces, loosely joined’ approach to the enterprise, Belgium startup PieSync offers a platform that connects a plethora of cloud applications and syncs contacts stored in those apps two-way. That’s no mean feat considering the risk of data corruption or overwriting an important contact’s information, which is why, says PieSync, companies… Read More... →

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Cumulus Networks, a startup selling a version of Linux for data center networking hardware, has closed a $35 million round of funding. The valuation of Cumulus has fallen below what it was two years ago for an earlier round, cofounder and chief executive JR Rivers told VentureBeat. Participants in the round include Andreessen Horowitz, Battery […]... →

It’s easier than ever to start making a game, and one of the companies responsible for this democratization of development is getting an influx of cash. Marmalade Technologies has secured $5 million in funding. Investment firm Bloc Ventures led the round. Marmalade will use this money to bolster its game-development engine, which is also known as […]... →

Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, updated as the day unfolds. Tip us here if you have a deal to share. Norwest Venture Partners raises $1.2 billion for its 13th fund Norwest Venture Partners announced that it has raised $1.2 billion for its 13th fund, which it’ll use to support its sector and stage independent investment […]... →

So about this time of year my inbox gets flooded with junk from Sundance. Reps, PR, invites to parties; Raise a chalice with Matt Damon and Stella Artois at Sundance! [sure, why not]; Raise a glass with Canon [sense a trend?]; See the Extraordinary Difference Vaseline is Making [what?]. You get the picture. But for the last couple of years, the big inbox trend for Sundance has been VR. In… Read More... →

Jopwell, the Y-Combinator-backed diversity and hiring recruiting platform dedicated to helping blacks, hispanics and Native Americans get jobs in tech, has raised a $3.25 million seed round from Magic Johnson Enterprises, Andreessen Horowitz, Kapor Capital, Omidyar Network, Valar Ventures and others to scale its operations and product capabilities. This round brings its total funding to more… Read More... →

FreedomPop, a wireless Internet provider whose SIM cards include free basic mobile service plans, has raised a fresh $50 million in capital, taking its total funding to almost $110 million. Founded out of Los Angeles in 2011, FreedomPop has built its mobile offering around giving away free mobile data, text messages, and talk time, in the […]... →

Glassbreakers, the mentorship platform for women and enterprise software solution for scaling inclusion efforts, has raised $1.98 million from Social Leverage, bringing its total funding to ~$3 million. The new funding will enable Glassbreakers to further invest in the development of its platform. The Glassbreakers enterprise software is geared toward companies with at least 10,000 employees. Read More... →