Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

EXCLUSIVE: ClassPass is getting a significant vote of confidence from Google Ventures in the form of cash. The fitness platform has raised $30 million in venture capital with Google Ventures participating, sources familiar with the matter tell VentureBeat. The new funding follows a $40 million raise announced in January. ClassPass has risen to prominence since it got its start […]... →

PeerSpace, a short-term meeting space reservations marketplace, has announced a $5 million Series A round of financing led by Foundation Capital to propel growth. Existing investor Structure Capital also participated in the round. The startup is a bit like Airbnb but for empty meeting spaces. The idea is to utilize creative spaces in the cities the platform operates instead of the same old… Read More... →

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When Craig Shapiro and his team at Collaborative Fund are making investments, they don’t exactly ignore the devil on their shoulders. They look for companies that fall somewhere in the nexus between companies that will address the broader interests of the world around them — but also generate a return on their investment, Shapiro says. “At our core we really believe that… Read More... →

В России начала работать инвестиционная платформа Startup.Network, которая выступает посредником между предпринимателями и инвесторами при поиске финансирования и заключению сделки. Об этом Firrma сообщил представитель компании. До выхода в Россию платформа Startup.Network работала на венчурном рынке Украины, где была более известна под названием Startup.ua. По собственным данным, за 5 лет существования сервиса, через него проектам удалось привлечь около $10 млн. Средний размер инвестиций сейчас составляет ... →

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. H2O.ai raises $30M round led by Paxion Capital Partners Machine learning developer H2O announced today that it took in a $20 million series B funding round.  Paxion Capital Partners and Nexus Venture Partners led […]... →

Atlassian, the company behind collaboration software like HipChat and JIRA, has filed paperwork with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to go public. The company is seeking to raise $250 million from the public market through its Initial Public Offering (IPO) and will trade on the NASDAQ stock exchange under the symbol “TEAM”. The […]... →

Another enterprise software company has filed to go public: Atlassian, the company that owns services like Slack competitor HipChat, JIRA, and Confluence, has filed an F-1 form with the SEC to go public on NASDAQ under the ticker “TEAM”, with the initial public offering expected to raise around $250 million. A draft registration was originally submitted confidentially to the SEC… Read More... →

H2O is an open source platform for data scientists and developers who need a fast machine learning engine for their applications. H2O.ai, the company behind the service, today announced that it has raised a $20 million Series B funding round led by Paxion Capital Partners (the new firm of GoPro board member Michael Marks) and existing investors Nexus Venture Partners and Transamerica. New… Read More... →

The iPad helped introduce the concept of interactive books, where stories are accompanied by games and other tappable animations to complement their tales. But a company called Hullabalu offers a twist. Instead of digital stories with interactive bits, kids advance the story’s progress by interacting with the world and playing with the characters. Now the company has raised an… Read More... →

Шотландская тревел-компания Skyscanner, специализирующаяся на поиске авиабилетов, отелей и проката автомобилей, планирует привлечь инвестиции по суммарной оценке, превышающей $1 млрд. В октябре 2015 года компания также объявила об открытии трёх новых офисов и значительно обновила мобильные приложения.Главный редактор vc.ru побывал в штаб-квартире Skyscanner и взял интервью у её представителей — Дмитрия Хаванского и Илариона Копалейшвили, отвечающих за пиар и маркетинг на российском рынке, а также Карлоса Го... →

CB Insights, a company that offers access to reports and data on privately held companies and venture capital investments, is announcing today some funding of its own — an initial $10 million round of institutional funding. Public companies, investors, and even media outlets pay for CB Insights’ work — the company counts 325 customers, including […]... →

Six months after departing from Yahoo, Mike Kail has reemerged as the cofounder and CIO of a security startup called Cybric. His new company, cofounded by Ernesto DiGiambattista, Andrew Gilman, and Sean Walter, is launching today with $1.3 million in seed funding behind it. Kail left Yahoo nearly six months ago after a lawsuit revealed that he may have been receiving kickbacks […]... →

Инвестиции Яндекса в "Кинопоиск" составили более 80 миллионов долларов. Google не потратил на собственные модифицированные результаты поиска практически ничего.... →

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Remember the Robotic Dragonfly? The little drone was an early crowdfunding success story, netting over a $1 million in pledges on Indiegogo in 2012. At the time, it was one of the first crowdfunded gadgets to raise more than a million dollars. The project promised a tiny robot that can fly like a bird and hover like an insect — and for $99, too. Bad news, friends. This little drone is… Read More... →

Seed rounds are all about the sizzle, the exciting promise of the future if things go as dreamed. Risk is high — but the reward, if it works, is far greater. Smart people with great ideas and strong skills can raise money based on their passion, vision and tenacity. But when it comes time to raise a Series A, it’s all about the steak — what you’ve accomplished. Read More... →

Mobile payments company Square Inc, headed by Twitter Inc Chief Executive Jack Dorsey, said it expects its initial public offering to price at between $11 and $13 per share, valuing the company up to $4.2 billion. The company, which expects to raise over $403.7 million, had initially set a fundraising target of $275 million when […]... →

Payments company Square has set its IPO offering to price at $11 to $13 per share. This will raise up to $403.7 million, and value the company at at approximately $4.19 billion. This valuation would be actually be well below its last round of private funding, when its Series E round valued its shares at $15.50, with a $6 billion valuation. But since this is just the initial pricing, the… Read More... →

167 российских стартапов получили инвестиции за три квартала 2015 года. Об этом говорят предварительные данные анализа российского венчурного рынка, который проводился изданием Firrma. Всего за три квартала 2015 года было объявлено о более 266 венчурных сделок с участием российских инвесторов или стартапов. При этом, 51 проект привлек деньги от Фонда Развития Интернет Инициатив (ФРИИ), что составляет примерно 30,5% от всех российских проектов, получивших инвестиции. Данные исследования собирались из публичн... →