Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

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... →

CCP Games, the company behind the massively multiplayer online roleplaying game EVE Online, just raised another $30 million from Novator and NEA. But this time, the funding round isn’t about supporting the 12-year-old MMORPG, it’s all about virtual reality games. Read More... →

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. Eve: Valkyrie creator CCP Games raises $30M for virtual reality games Virtual reality pioneer CCP Games has raised $30 million to continue with VR game development. The funding shows the level of excitement, even for old game […]... →

Wachwith, a startup offering an alternative to the standard pre-roll and mid-roll ads that delay or interrupt online videos, has raised $8 million in Series B funding. The company says its technology can analyze the content of a video, then use that data to find the right moments to place “interactive overlay” ads. So instead of interrupting a video, these ads just sit… Read More... →

More interesting developments for Digg, the Internet curation site that was founded way back in 2004 but was acquired and relaunched by Betaworks in 2012. The site has announced a “Series A” of $4 million, and it’s named former COO Gary Liu as its new CEO. This is effectively Digg’s second Series A — the company in its previously independent state had raised over… Read More... →

Digg, the viral news site gunning for a comeback, today announced a $4 million raise led by a subsidiary of Digital Garage, a Tokyo-based startup incubator and investor. In a company statement, Digg says the cash will be used to “power Digg’s accelerating growth in users and revenue, the expansion of community and network features, and new products […]... →

Varsity Tutors, the platform that connects elite tutors with students, has just closed a $50 million Series B funding round led by Technology Crossover Ventures and Adam Levine, frontman for Maroon 5 and judge on The Voice, as well as education executive Stuart Udell. Varsity Tutors is based out of St. Louis and looks to pair students with the most brilliant tutors available — folks… Read More... →

Российский проект Astro Digital занял второе место на конкурсе стартапов SLUSH 100 pitching competition. Об этом Firrma сообщили в фонде «Сколково», который представлял проект на конкурсе. Всего на конкурсе было представлено 100 проектов, которые были отобраны международным пулом инвесторов из более чем тысячи подавших заявки стартапов. В полуфинал прошло 20 компанд, из которых определилась четверка финалистов. Первое место занял австралийский проект CareMonkey – приложение для обмена данными, рекомендациям... →

Forget instant messaging, photo messaging, ephemeral messaging, or any other kind of “messaging” — Israeli startup Yallo is going all-in on the humble telephone call. First launched for Android earlier this year, Yallo is a slick call-recording app for both inbound and outbound calls that works with your existing mobile telephone number. And today it […]... →

CCP Games, creator of Eve Online and a pioneer in virtual reality games, has raised $30 million to continue with VR game development. The funding shows there’s a lot of excitement, even for old game companies like CCP, in augmented and virtual reality, which tech advisor Digi-Capital expects to be a $150 billion industry by […]... →

Eight years ago, Aaron Batalion and three friends created a Facebook app called “Hungry Machine.” It was pretty successful…so successful that it turned into LivingSocial, which was one of the first startups to raise a “magical” billion dollars. I refuse to use the creature’s name to describe this “club.” Along with cofounding the company,… Read More... →

EXCLUSIVE: Huuuge Games, a new social casino game studio, has raised $4 million in a first round of funding led by Korea Investment Partners. It’s late in the cycle to start a social casino game company, but Huuuge games says it will set itself apart by making casino games “truly social.” Huuuge Casino is more social than […]... →

Eventboard, a company that provides software to make conference rooms more efficient, may be based in Salt Lake City, Utah, but that doesn’t mean it hasn’t found its way into the guts of Silicon Valley. “We’re right downtown, we have a lot of presence in Silicon Valley and San Francisco specifically, but we’re building a company that is on par with a lot of the… Read More... →

NextVR, a startup that promises to give consumers rich VR experiences for live events has raised a $30.5 million Series A led by Formation 8 the WSJ reports. Notably the raise was also participated in by Comcast Ventures and Time Warner Investments, suggesting that NextVR’s proposition of allowing couch surfers a stadium experience for sporting events and concerts is garnering… Read More... →

ClassPass, the fitness startup that lets you pay $125 for unlimited fitness classes from dozens of gyms and boutiques, has just confirmed to TechCrunch that it raised $30 million in Series C funding led by Google Ventures. Existing investors, including General Catalyst and Thrive, also participated in the round. VentureBeat first reported the news yesterday, but ClassPass founder and CEO… Read More... →

Fiverr, a microtask marketplace for people to buy and sell just about any type of service, has raised $60 million in funding to “aggressively attract the vast majority of freelancers who still operate offline,” the company said. Today’s news takes Fiverr’s total funding past the $110 million mark, and it’s double the amount of its […]... →

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. Udacity raises $105M at $1B valuation to fuel international growth Online education startup Udacity, whose students have gone on to join the likes of Google and Facebook, is now a $1 billion company. Today the education […]... →

Swrve’s marketing automation platform is seeing some strong uptake with mobile app makers, and the company has picked up a new $30 million funding round to keep the good times rolling. Swrve says mobile developers have now installed its software development kit (SDK) a billion times. The round was led by Evolution Media Partners (EMP), TPG […]... →

Online education startup Udacity, whose students have gone on to join the likes of Google and Facebook, is now a $1 billion company. Today the education company shared that it talked its way into a $105 million investment from Google Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, media company Bartelsmann, and others in order to expand internationally. Udacity’s international plans aren’t exactly new […]... →

Udacity, the coding education service, has sprouted a magical horn. The company announced on Wednesday it had raised a $105 million Series D round. With a total valuation of $1 billion, the company has now joined the growing ranks of unicorns.  The round was led by international media, services and education company Bertelsmann with Scotland’s Baillie Gifford, Emerson Collective… Read More... →