Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

uBeam’s getting ready to ship its wireless phone chargers, so its 26-year old CEO Meredith Perry has hired some hardware industry veterans to whip the business into shape. Former Apple and Palm finance leader Monica Hushen will be Ubeam‘s new CFO, and Cisco, Palm, and Nokia VP Jeff Devine is joining as COO. The firepower for the hires comes from a new raise. In April I reported… Read More... →

Triplebyte, a technical recruiting platform started by former YC partner Harj Taggar and two SocialCam alums Ammon Bartram and Guillaume Luccisano, just raised $3 million from a long list of investors in the YC family. Those backers include Initialized Capital (a fund originally started by Taggar, Garry Tan and Alexis Ohanian), Ray Tonsing’s Caffeinated Capital, SV… Read More... →

Advаnced Dental Cloud разрабатывает онлайн-сервис для моделирования стоматологических конструкций на основе сканирования... →

Raising money is a big concern for everybody in the game ecosystem, and it isn’t getting any easier. The game industry has gone through multiple boom-and-bust cycles on the console side, and we’ve seen that repeat itself in new market categories such as social networking, mobile, social casino games, social sports, and esports. This year, […]... →

Acquia, the eight-year-old service provider that helps businesses tailor their websites to internet browsers and mobile application users, has raised $55 million in a late stage round of financing. The move comes as the battle to manage the customer experience continues to heat up. Giants likeSalesforce is looking to own the customer experience as it relates to the customer record, marketing… Read More... →

Стартап Advanced Dental Cloud получил инвестиции от казанского бизнес-ангела из сферы девелопмента. Об этом Firrma сообщили в бизнес-инкубаторе IT-парка, чьим резидентом является проект.  Сумма вложений не раскрывается. Известно, что стартап до сделки был оценена в 85 млн рублей.  Привлеченные средства будут направлены на подготовку к выходу на рынок, разработку маркетинговой и имиджевой упаковки. Как сообщается, команда проекта планирует провести ребрендинг, закрепить охрану прав на интеллектуальную собств... →

EXCLUSIVE: Visionary Realms wasn’t successful in its crowdfunding campaign last year to raise money for its next-generation massively multiplayer online game, Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen. But EverQuest creator Brad McQuaid and his team didn’t give up. And today, they’re announcing they have raised a seed round to fund development of the title. The new seed […]... →

Building a lifestyle brand is nothing like building say…an app. Higher degree of difficulty for sure. That’s not stopping Tristan Walker, though. Today, his company Walker & Company Brands has announced a $24M Series B round of funding. That brings its total funding to $33.3M. The company is known for its health and beauty products for people of color, including the… Read More... →

Ometria launched in 2013 with a mission to help online retailers make better use of data, and, in turn, compete harder with the likes of Amazon and more data-driven players in the market. But more data insights alone doesn’t equate to more effective marketing if you don’t take the appropriate action on a per-customer basis. That proved a stumbling block for some of… Read More... →

Фонд Maxfield Capital вышел из аналитической платформы для измерения эффективности спонсорских и маркетинговых кампаний в социальных сетях SponsorHub. Об этом Firrma сообщили в фонде. Стартап был приобретен компанией Rentrak, которая занимается измерением поведения аудитории кино- и телеэкранов. Детали сделки не раскрываются. Технологии проекта будут использованы для того, чтобы предложить клиентам Rentrak продукты для измерения влияния аудитории социальных сетей на телевидение, рекламу, кино и интеграцию б... →

Стартап 2can & ibox, который представляет собой объединение 2can с компанией ibox и предлагает мобильный эквайринг по банковским картам, привлечет  $3 млн для запуска во Вьетнаме. Об этом сообщают «Ведомости». 2can & ibox потратит $0,5 млн из имеющихся денег на развитие продуктов и маркетинг для продвижения в Азии, остальную сумму компания планирует привлечь в новом раунде. 2can & ibox планирует привлечь инвестиции в конце 2015 года. Объем раунда может составить от $3 млн до $6 млн. 2can & ibox также собира... →

More funding developments in the highly competitive world of car services. Didi Kuaidi, an Uber rival based in China, has today confirmed that it has invested in Ola, another Uber rival based out of India, as part of Ola’s latest round of funding. As we reported earlier this month, Ola is looking to raise a megaround of over $500 million at a valuation of $5 billion to expand in… Read More... →

EXCLUSIVE: Dremio, a startup founded by two former MapR employees who have developed the Apache Drill open-source project, has taken on more than $10 million in funding after just two months of operation. The eight-person startup is working out of space furnished by two of its investors: Redpoint Ventures’ San Francisco office, and Lightspeed Venture Partners’ […]... →

Онлайн-кинотеатр Ivi.ru привлёк инвестиции на сумму $3,5 млн от фонда Buran Venture Capital. Об этом сообщает газета «Ведомости».... →

Amino, a startup that’s built 41 different mobile community apps (so far), is announcing that it has raised $6.5 million in Series A funding. I first wrote about the company a little more than a year ago, when it raised a $1.65 million seed round. Co-founder and CEO Ben Anderson told me that the idea was to reinvent the traditional online forum with a smartphone-optimized experience… 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. Video conferencing company Blue Jeans raises $76.5M Blue Jeans Network, a company with web and native mobile applications for video conferencing, is announcing today a $76.5 million round of funding. Companies have plenty of […]... →

Three-year-old Premise, an economic data tracking platform, has raised $50 million in Series C funding from earlier backer Social + Capital Partnership and new investor Valor Equity Partners, which pitched in $35 million. Valor’s Antonio Gracias, who is also a director at Tesla and SpaceX, is joining the board. He joins the company’s earlier board members Chamath Palihapitiya,… Read More... →

VCs strive to find passionate founders. Well, it’s hard to find someone as passionate about computer-aided design (CAD) software as Jon Hirschtick, the cofounder and CEO of three-year-old, Cambridge, Ma.-based Onshape. It was back in 1993 that Hirschtick founded his first 3D modeling software company, SolidWorks, selling it four years later for $316 million to the multinational 3D… Read More... →

Shanghai-based workplace collaboration platform Teambition announced this week that it has raised $12 million in Series B funding from investors including NLVC, IDG, Vangoo Capital, and Gobi Partners. Teambition is an online platform that allows for workplace collaboration on things like events, tasks, posts, and cloud-based file libraries. Immediate comparisons that come to mind include Planner, Asana, Basecamp, Wunderlist, Trello, […]... →

Российский стартап в сфере телемедицины UNIM запустил облачную платформу для дистанционной диагностики онкологических заболеваний Digital Pathology и вышел на международные рынки. Об этом Firrma сообщили в компании. В сентябре 2015 года платформу подключили специализированные лаборатории Германии, Великобритании, Чехии, Норвегии и Украины. В 2014 году UNIM привлекла инвестиции в размере 14,5 млн рублей от Фонда развития интернет инициатив и частного инвестора Алексея Басова. Digital Pathology — это облачная... →