Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

Optimizely, the company that has become synonymous with A/B testing, has raised $58 million in Series C funding. The round was led by Index Ventures, with general partner Ilya Fushman joining Optimizely’s board of directors. Optimizely has now raised a total of $146 million. Also participating in the new funding were past investors Andreessen Horowitz, Bain Capital Ventures, Battery… Read More... →

The online testing platform Optimizely said today it has raised a new $58 million funding round, which it will use to support its rapid growth in the web and mobile content optimization space. The San Francisco-based company has become perhaps the best-known A/B testing platform for marketers, app developers, and publishers. Its customers use the platform to run […]... →

Doctolib, the Paris-based startup that helps patients find doctors and schedule appointments, has raised $20.5 million to help it expand into six new European countries. In addition to fueling new growth, the latest investment demonstrates the kind of maturity that France’s boosters hope to see more of from its growing startup economy. Stanislas Niox-Chateau, the company’s […]... →

Oyster, the “Netflix for books,” made headlines last week when the company announced it was shutting down. News then broke that Oyster’s cofounders and CEO would be joining the Google Play Books team in what looked like a thinly veiled “acqui-hire.” This announcement raises some important questions about what it takes to survive, not just in the e-book business,… Read More... →

Fresh juice delivery turned healthy meal delivery startup Thistle switched over to a subscription-based healthy food business today. Thistle launched last summer in San Francisco’s Mission neighborhood. I remember walking by one day and seeing a pop-up out in front of West of Pecos. I can’t recall now what it was I tried, but I do remember the concoction was delicious and made me… Read More... →

While companies have long been using social media influencers as native advertising, these influencers have traditionally been limited to online “celebrities” known for their large follower base. Although often successful, this strategy forces companies to bet on quality over quantity, essentially deciding that one tweet from someone with 100,000 followers will lead to more… Read More... →

Belgium startup Xpenditure has closed $5.7 million in Series A funding. The Brussels-based company offers an expense management platform aimed at enterprises, SMEs and sole traders — basically anybody who has to track and action expenses — and, ultimately, promises to do away with the need to manually file monthly expense reports. Read More... →

(Reuters) – Messaging startup Symphony said on Monday it had raised more than $100 million in a new round of funding from investors including Google, Switzerland’s UBS Group AG and European venture capital firm Lakestar. Symphony’s chat service allows financial firms, corporate customers and individuals to put all of their digital communications on one centralized […]... →

In my prior life as a seed investor, I helped many companies raise Series A, some raise B and a few raise C.  First time founders often ask about the process, once it’s clear there’s likely to be one, and while I always had a view from the outside, alongside or sometimes with the Venture firms, now that I’m a VC with my own Series A Term Sheet (TS) signed, I thought… 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. Segment raises a $27M round to expand its ‘partner ecosystem’ Segment, a service that lets users collect consumer data for analytics and marketing, announced today that it closed a $27 million funding round. […]... →

Segment, a Y Combinator-backed startup that allows businesses to use a single API for event tracking in order to send data to hundreds of different tools and databases, including Google Analytics, MailChimp, KISSmetrics, Omniture, Mixpanel, Quantcast, Flurry, and much more, today announced an additional $27 million in Series B funding, led by Thrive Capital. Existing investors Accel… Read More... →

Netflix is raising the price of its most popular package from $8.99 per month to $9.99 per month starting today. The updated price applies to new users in the U.S., Canada, and Latin America. Existing Standard subscribers don’t need to panic just yet. Netflix will let them continue paying the lower price fee until October next year. Here’s the statement from the […]... →

Surprise! Netflix just got more expensive. The service’s most popular plan now costs $9.99. Existing customers will have a grace period, but the price is effectively immediately for subscribers in US, Canada and parts of Latin America. Netflix quietly raised prices for Europeans in late August. The price increase raises its Standard plan to $9.99 a month. This is the plan that streams… Read More... →

Mino Games had a rare hit in the Mino Monsters free-to-play mobile game with 7 million downloads and $10 million in revenue to date. And that’s why it has been able raise new funding and move on to Mino Monsters 2: Evolution. The San Francisco company is announcing it has raised $2.2 million in funding […]... →

Everyone dreads them: The annual performance review. After all, it’s hard for employees to do much with a yearly sit-down where some past accomplishments and failings are outlined, and a vague improvement plan with far-off objectives is set in place. Numerous companies have emerged in recent year to kill such reviews, including pulse survey startups like Tiny Pulse that produce… Read More... →

Центр нанотехнологий и наноматериалов Республики Мордовия (ЦНН РМ) и финский разработчик гибкой светодиодной пленки «Flexbright» подписали инвестиционное соглашение об участии наноцентра в капитале компании и трансфере технологии на территорию России. Об этом было объявлено на совместной пресс-конференции руководства ЦНН РМ и компании Flexbright. Инжиниринговый центр гибких источников света сосредоточится на развитии прикладных решений для российского и глобального рынков. Финские инженеры в сотрудничестве ... →

When we first checked in on hardware startup Butterfleye, they set out to raise $100,000 on Indiegogo to build its smart home monitoring system. Well, it blew through that goal and has raised an unbelievably impressive $604,451. The camera itself promises to cut out false positives when alerting you of movements in your home. An example? A light turning on and off triggers motion for some… Read More... →

Pypestream, a new startup from AdGenesis/Genesis Media co-founder Richard Smullen, is announcing that it has raised $2 million in seed funding. The round was led by Jonah Goodhart, co-founder of Moat and of early-stage investment firm WGI Group. Goodhart told me that Pypestream is trying to solve a big problem: “The call center as a model is absolutely broken.” In other words,… Read More... →

Украинский сервис тригерных email-рассылок TriggMine привлек $300 тысяч на посевной стадии от частного инвестора, имя и доля которого не разглашаются, сообщает AIN.ua. Сделку сопровождал консультант проекта Юрий Титков.  Средства пойдут на выход в Европу и США. Сейчас TriggMine работает на рынках СНГ. Также инвестиции будут направлены на развитие новой версии TriggMine V3, которую можно будет интегрировать в различные каналы (email, SMS, push, звонки) связи с клиентом. Компания планирует запустить предпрода... →

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. AppDirect raises $140M to grow its SaaS app store for enterprises globally AppDirect, a cloud-based marketplace featuring hundreds of software-as-a-service (SaaS) apps, has closed a whopping $140 million Series E round, led by J.P. Morgan […]... →