Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

With both the Shopify and Etsy IPOs, the last year has been a big one for tech companies catering to independent online retailers. Now Tictail, a Swedish company that has migrated to the United States, is hoping to make its mark with a product that’s somewhere in between those two platforms. They’ve just raised $22 million in funding from their existing investors including… Read More... →

Equity crowd funding platform Seedrs has raised a $15.6 million (£10 million) Series A round led by Woodford Patient Capital Trust plc (WPCT) and Augmentum Capital, the money from which will be used to launch in the US market. Seedrs had previously raised $7.2 million from Faber Ventures and it’s own crowd-funding campaign. Furthermore, Seedrs is to launch a £2.5 million crowd… Read More... →

AltspaceVR raises $10.3 million for its shared VR experiences platform.... →

Pay-Per-Virtual Reality could become a…thing thanks to Altspace. The VR chat room and communication platform just raised a $10.3 million Series A to give us a digital place where we can hang out. But with this funding bringing Altspace to $15.7 comes a need to device a business plan. While Altspace is focused on growth now, it’s co-founder and CEO Eric Romo tells it could… Read More... →

Occipital made its first splash years ago with the RedLaser barcode scanning app and 360 Panorama app. Since then, however, it has moved into the 3D scanning and computer vision space and the company today announced that it has raised a $13 million Series B round from Intel Capital, Shea Ventures, Grishin Robotics and previous investor Foundry Group. This new funding round brings… Read More... →

Blockspring, a service that connects to spreadsheets like Excel and Google Spreadsheets to easier import data, said it has raised $3.4 million. Instead of having to write specific code to import and sort data in a spreadsheet, Blockspring has several connections to services like Google Search that will automatically populate spreadsheets with data. The company plans to release several… Read More... →

China Rapid Finance, which claims to be the country’s largest online consumer lending marketplace, has closed a $35 million Series C led by Broadline Capital. The round pegs the company’s pre-money valuation of $1 billion. China Rapid Finance is reportedly gearing up for an initial public offering in the U.S. Read More... →

Tripping.com, a search engine for long-term rental properties, has secured $16 million in new funding to build out its one-stop shop for vacation homes. While a variety of hotel booking platforms, as well as Airbnb, have the short-term vacation rental space covered, Tripping is geared toward longer trips, with an average stay of just over a week. Steadfast Venture Capital led the Series B… Read More... →

Kareo, a startup that provides small medical practices the tools they need to run their business, has pulled in $55 million in funding to accelerate expansion in doctors’ offices across the country. Montreux Equity Partners, a late-stage health tech fund, led the round, with participation from Silver Lake Partners as well as all previous investors including Greenspring Associates… Read More... →

MacroFab, a platform to help hardware startups prototype and manufacture PCB boards, has raised a $2 million seed round led by Techstars Ventures. Any company that has worked with manufacturers to produce PCB boards knows how hard it can be. The process is old fashioned and time intensive, with lots of back and forth between the manufacturer and client. Prototyping PCBs is also very… Read More... →

Yozio, which helps developers acquire more mobile users without spending tons of money on app-install ads, will expand its growth platform after landing a $7 million Series A. The round was led by Foundation Capital, with participation from firms including Illuminate Ventures, Webb Investment Network, and AME Cloud Ventures. Read More... →

French hardware and IoT startup Smiirl hit pretty early on the idea of a mechanical Internet of Things-styled ‘Like’ counter for Facebook that bridges the digital and physical worlds, enabling businesses to proudly display their ‘social proof’. Read More... →

Структура «Газпрома» «Газпром СтройТЭК Салават» купит у «Роснано» 49% производителя антикоррозийных покрытий для труб «Метаклэя», сообщает «Коммерсант». Сумма сделки составит 800 млн рублей. Когда будет закрыта сделка не уточняется. Рыночная стоимость пакета была оценена в 703 млн рублей. «Роснано» вложило в проект 1,1 млрд рублей, общие инвестиции — 1,9 млрд рублей. По данным источника «Ъ», продажа «Метаклэя» во многом связана с его финансовым состоянием. Из-за роста производства увеличилась дебиторская за... →

Компания «Роснано» и «СМП банк» Аркадия и Бориса Ротенбергов создадут совместный фонд «Роснано I». Целевой размер фонда «Роснано I» составит 30 млрд рублей, первоначальный – 12 млрд рублей. «Роснано» вложит 5,94 млрд рублей и  столько же – «СМП банк», 120 млн рублей –  управляющая компания проекта, которая еще не создана. Остальные акционеры фонда пока не известны. Предполагается, что они будут определены в течение 2015–2018 годов.  Фонд будет создан в формате инвестиционного товарищества. Планируется, что ... →

The phone offers significant improvements over its predecessor in its cameras, display, and processor.... →

Deliveroo, the ‘on-demand’ startup that offers food delivery from premium restaurants that don’t traditionally offer a take-out service, appears to be on somewhat of a roll. Today the company is disclosing $70 million in new funding, money it plans to use for further international expansion. Read More... →

Основатель KupiVIP и CarPrice Оскар Хартманн (на фото) и сооснователь консалтинговой группы FCG Владимир Лупенко запустили площадку для инвестиций в коммерческую недвижимость AKTIVO. Об этом Firrma сообщили в компании. На момент запуска, сайт не работает. По словам представителей компании, объем начальных инвестиций от сооснователей составил 100 млн рублей. Всего в проект планируется вложить около 1 млрд рублей в течение первых трех лет. Выход на точку безубыточности запланирован в течение одного года. Согл... →

This year is shaping up to be an interesting one for tech media in Asia. Singapore-based E27 is latest technology-focused blog from the region to raise funding, after it closed a $650,000 bridge round ahead of a planned larger raise before the end of 2015. Read More... →

GUEST: The RAISE Act deserves the kind of bipartisan support the JOBS Act received in 2012.... →

Vizio Inc., maker of cheap TV sets and other electronics, filed a prospectus Friday with U.S. regulators to raise up to $172.5 million in an initial public offering of Class A common stock. BofA Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank Securities and Citigroup were listed as underwriters for the offering. The firm did not disclose in the documents how many shares would be made available or which market… Read More... →