Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

Новосибирский картографический сервис «2ГИС» привлёк инвестиции на сумму $40 млн от фондов Baring Vostok и ru-Net. Они стали миноритарными акционерами, сообщили vc.ru в компании.... →

Dan Lewis wasn’t convinced that a startup that connects small trucking companies to people who need shipments was going to work. But he went door to door in a warehouse district in Seattle, and one problem kept coming up: smaller trucking businesses couldn’t grow because they weren’t able to connect with businesses that needed shipping without dozens of phone… Read More... →

Semiconductor startup Flex Logix Technologies has raised $7.4 million to commercialize its technology for designing flexible semiconductor chips. Mountain View, California-based Flex Logix has come up with a way to design cores for field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) that allow a chip to change its identity, even after it has been shipped. A chip startup can […]... →

Российское приложение   для интерактивного изучения русского языка Survival App и сервис индивидуализации банковских карт Icard победили в инвестиционном конкурсе International Competitive Start Up Fund. Об этом Firrma сообщили в Enterprise Ireland. Стартапы получат по € 50 тысяч инвестиций для развития идеи, а так же полную визовую поддержку для переезда и ведения бизнеса из Ирландии. Всего на конкурс было подано 87 заявок, примерно треть из которых из русскоговорящих стран. В результате оценки 20 самых ус... →

Мобильная коммерция растет по всему миру, на данный момент она составляет 35% от всех транзакций e-Commerce по всему миру. Об этом сообщается в отчете Criteo о состоянии мобильной коммерции за третий квартал 2015 года. Результаты отчета, основанные на анализе 1,4 миллиарда персональных данных на уровне транзакций, демонстрируют, что 50% покупок совершается в процессе поиска и вовлечения различных устройств. Лидирующие позиции по количеству транзакций занимает Япония, Великобритания и Южная Корея. Исследов... →

Резидент кластера информационных технологий фонда «Сколково» компания «Трансновация» стала участником акселератора StartUp Chile и привлекла первый раунд инвестиций в рамках государственной программы правительства Чили. Об этом Firrma сообщили в фонде.  Также компания получила место в коворкинге и оформление годовой визы в Чили в ускоренном режиме. Еще организаторы программы StartUp Chile оказывают содействие в подборе компаний-партнеров для реализации проекта. «Трансновация» реализует проект на основе алго... →

As the Internet matures and becomes more crowded with services and data, startups building services to make better and more accurate sense of what’s out there are seeing their stars rise. In the latest development, SimilarWeb, an Israeli company that provides websites and mobile app publishers with intel about their own traffic and that of competitors, has raised $25 million in funding… Read More... →

Фонд Millhouse, управляющий активами российского предпринимателя Романа Абрамовича, вложит до 10 млн в венчурный фонд Altair Capital Игоря Рябенького, сообщают «Ведомости». Роман Абрамович вложит в Altair до трети его совокупного капитала. В новом раунде в фонд будет вложено $20 млн, общий размер фонда составит около $30 млн. Таким образом, Millhouse вложит до $10 млн. Фонд уже привлек около 20% от необходимой суммы. Остальные переговоры продолжаются. Летом фонд вышел из площадки по продажи подержанных авто... →

The psychology of seed-stage investing is complex. As the one raising money, it’s easy to fall into the trap of treating the process like a transaction. But at the seed stage, neither investors nor the startups can make accurate predictions on numbers alone. Investors look for other data points to evaluate the opportunity, such as the strength of the team and who else has already… Read More... →

GUEST: Every VC says they are looking for great founders that are solving real problems in big markets. So why is it that so many “good” companies that seemingly meet these requirements still fail to raise money from VCs? Venture capital is a hits driven business, with ~4.5 percent of dollars invested generating ~60 percent of […]... →

Another month, another billion for Uber… The ride-hailing business is reportedly raising yet again — planning to raise close to $1 billion in new investment according to the NYT citing “people close to the matter”, with investors looking at a valuation of between $60 billion and $70 billion for the six-year-old startup. Read More... →

Often, off-grid rural villages in places like Africa have their electricity generated by energy devices, like solar panels and batteries, donated by non-profit organizations and charities. The problem, however is that model is not sustainable and relies of yet more charitable hand-outs. What’s required is to make clean energy scale in self-supporting way. Luckily the rise of the mobile… Read More... →

It’s easy enough for IT costs to get out of control. That’s where Numerify, a software service that helps large companies keep track of choke points and better manage their internal IT services, comes in. The company raised $37.5 million in venture financing led by Tenaya Capital, with Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners participating. Numerify’s goal is basically… Read More... →

In today's media climate of irrational entrepreneurial exuberance, it's all about raising that venture capital. Reality, however, is much different. Most businesses, especially of the freelance and solopreneur variety, will never raise money from investors, nor should they. Bootstrapping is even making a comeback that resembles a movement in reaction to the silliness of the venture world. In today's episode of Unemployable with Brian Clark,... →

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. Former Google exec raises $28M to start shipping his smart payment terminals Last year, Osama Bedier introduced what he deemed the future of payment terminals: a developer-friendly payment point of sale that accepts everything […]... →

Clutter, the storage service that uses professional movers to load and unload your stuff, has today announced the close of a $9 million in Series A funding, led by Sequoia. As a part of the deal, Sequoia partner Omar Hamoui, who led the round, is joining the Clutter board. Clutter operates under a simple premise. Instead of spending capital on it’s own storage facilities, it leases… Read More... →

Kinetic charging battery startup Ampy — which makes a wearable spare battery pack charged by human movement — has closed an $875,000 seed round. Read More... →

Last year, Osama Bedier introduced what he deemed the future of payment terminals: a developer friendly payment point of sale that accepts everything from Apple Pay, Samsung Pay, Android Pay, to chip based credit cards. In order to deliver on the promise of the new payment terminal, Poynt needs to ramp up manufacturing. Today, the company is announcing […]... →

If you’re only going to buy one robot, then you might as well buy something that can be configured into 100 different robots. That’s the premise of CellRobot, a new modular robot designed and built by KEYi Technology of Beijing. The company has finished the product, and has now launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise the […]... →

Венчурные инвесторы вложили 59,5 млрд рублей в компании российского интернета в 2014 году. Об этом сообщают «Ведомости» со ссылкой на аналитиков Ассоциации электронных коммуникаций (НП «РАЭК») и Высшей школы экономики (НИУ ВШЭ) по данным Фонда развития интернет-инициатив (ФРИИ). По данным исследования, за 2014 год прошло 282 сделки на различных стадиях — от посевного этапа до поздних раундов и выходов. На выходы пришлось 87% от всей суммы сделок. В частности, покупка Авто.ру и «Кинопоиска» «Яндексом». ФРИИ ... →