Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

The same day that U.S.-based ridesharing startup Lyft said it’s on track to hit $1 billion in gross annual revenue this year, The New York Times is reporting that it’s also in talks to raise $500 million in a fresh funding round that would leave it valued at around $4 billion. That wouldn’t be a surprise given […]... →

One of the most sought-after, but never quite dominated, frontiers in online media and marketplaces has been centered on local communities. There have been many attempts, most famously and disastrously with AOL’s Patch effort, and there are some very promising platforms like Nextdoor, which raised more than $100 million earlier this year. But hyperlocal marketplaces and media are far… Read More... →

SDK management startup SafeDK launches with $2.25 million in funds from an investment led by StageOne VC. SafeDK said its service monitors third-party SDKs in real time to warn developers about prospect privacy, performance, and stability issues. By doing so, developers can choose to turn off certain SDK features without affecting the app’s functionality. Headquartered […]... →

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. Earnest raises $275M to help millennials manage their financial futures Lending platform Earnest wants to help millennials manage their finances. To build out its offering of loans and other financial management tools, the company has […]... →

Descartes Labs, a startup with image recognition technology that can help companies answer questions related to agriculture, is announcing today a $5 million round of funding. The startup can work with satellite images to predict what will happen next. To do that, Descartes Labs depends on a type of artificial intelligence called deep learning. The […]... →

Founded by Marwan Forzley, a former executive at Western Union, Align Commerce is using the blockchain technology and Bitcoin as an alternative way to transfer money among small and medium-sized businesses in the same way that other companies have leveraged the technology for peer-to-peer money transfers or payments to individual contractors. Read More... →

Lending platform Earnest wants to help Millennials manage their finances. To build out its offering of loans and other financial management tools the company has raised $75 million in funding, plus $200 million worth of loan capital from New York Life. Battery Ventures led the round which saw participation from Adams Street Partners and Maveron. The funds will be […]... →

When a company is breached a critical step of the recovery process is seeing exactly what happened, including where the vulnerability was exposed and what exactly the hackers had access to. ProtectWise is hoping that their product, which helps companies record live-streams of their network activity, can help their clients get to the bottom of critical issues much more quickly than… Read More... →

Irvine-based Numecent said today it has raised a new round of $15.5 million from a broad range of European investors as the company seeks to expand its cloud-based services beyond Windows. The series B round includes $4.5 million from Deutsche Telekom, with the rest from “European industrialists, family offices and private equity firms,” according to Numecent. Deutsche […]... →

The lending segment of the financial services industry has been one of the areas that has attracted the most interest from venture investors with mature companies like SoFi raising a massive $1 billion round. Earnest raised $75 million in equity and the company received another $200 million in debt from a syndicate of mostly undisclosed insurance companies led by New York Life. Read More... →

Корпорация Net Element, владеющая российскими платежными системами TOT Money и PayOnline, отказалась от продолжения сделки по привлечению инвестиций от американских фондов Candlewood Investment Group (бывшее подразделение бывшее подразделение Credit Suisse Grou) и Tenor Opportunity Associates. Об этом сообщают Cnews со ссылкой на материалы Американской комисси по ценным бумагам (SEC). Летом 2015 года стало известно, что Net Element планирует привлечь инвестиции на общую сумму $34,5 миллионов от фондов Candl... →

Cleaning startup Cleanify has raised $1.8 million in seed funding. That might not seem like much money when compared to the $50 million round that Handy just raised, or the nearly $40 million that Homejoy raised before shutting down. However, the Cleanify model is a bit different. Instead of offering its own on-demand cleaning services, Cleanify aggregates the listings of existing cleaners.… Read More... →

Институт Стволовых Клеток Человека получил статус венчурного партнера Фонда посевных инвестиций Российской венчурной компании (ФПИ РВК). Об этом Firrma сообщили в компании.  От сотрудничества ФПИ РВК и ИСКЧ планируют получить синергические эффекты, которые позволят инновационным биотехнологическим компаниям быстрее масштабировать бизнес, сэкономить время и деньги на разработку и выход на рынок, а также сократить время между раундами инвестиций, предоставить разнообразие в инструментах финансирования. В каче... →

Imagine you’re 14 and in the next two years you’re going to have to make a decision about what higher education course you’ll do, if any. You go to your careers teacher, and in a depressed voice they throw some leaflets at you and head back to their bottle of whisky (ok, well, that was MY careers teacher). How much better could this picture be? Well, now a startup aims to… Read More... →

EXCLUSIVE: Atlanta-based Salesfusion, a marketing automation platform serving B2B small and medium-sized businesses, is raising $13.5 million in a series B funding round. Investors include Noro-Moseley Partners, BLH Venture Partners, Alerion Ventures, Tech Square Ventures, and Hallett Capital. Marketing automation adoption rates remain highest among B2B enterprises, but interest from the B2C and SMB segments is […]... →

Разработчики платформы DoubleClick анонсировали два заметных нововведения для брендов и издателей, которые позволяют оптимизировать ставки на основе видимости рекламных объявлений. Инициатива была реализована в рамках кампании Active View. Теперь оптимизатор ставок Active View доступен всем рекламодателям платформы через интерфейс DoubleClick Bid Manager. Кроме того, разработчиками платформы была запущена версия Active View для мобильных приложений. Основываясь на результатах анализа целой совокупности си... →

CashKaro, which claims to be India’s largest cashback and coupon site, is planning to expand into new countries after raising a $3.8 million Series A from Kalaari Capital. Founded in 2013 by husband-and-wife team Swati and Rohan Bhargava, CashKaro works with more than 1,000 e-commerce sites and makes money through their affiliate programs. Swati Bhargava told TechCrunch that… Read More... →

The company announced that it has fundraised 1 million yen (about $815,000) from Salesforce Ventures, the investment arm of Salesforce.com, as well as from Incubate Fund.... →

GUEST: Just over a week ago Facebook’s CTO Mike Schroepfer promised to “effectively build a teleporter” by 2025, and even hardcore, optimistic techies had to raise an eyebrow in questioning cynicism. Reassuringly perhaps, he was talking about using virtual reality to transport us, as opposed to Star Trek’s dream of disassembling, shipping, and reassembling a physical […]... →

Mavrck, a startup that helps marketers recruit customers to create promotional content, has raised $5 million in Series A funding. There are plenty of other companies working on influencer marketing, but Mavrck co-founder and CEO Lyle Stevens said they usually identify influencers without helping brands “activate” them, or they’re focused on how to… Read More... →