Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

Blue Jeans Network, a company with web and native mobile applications for video conferencing, is announcing today a $75.5 million round of funding. Companies have plenty of options if they want to hold a video conference for employees or partners. There’s LogMeIn’s join.me, Citrix’s GoToMeeting, Cisco’s WebEx, Logitech’s Lifesize, Google Hangouts, Microsoft Skype/Lync, and Zoom, […]... →

Акционеры фонда Prostor Capital приняли решение больше не поддерживать практику Media for Equity в связи с тем, что на ее развитие требуется гораздо больше времени и ресурсов, чем предполагалось в начале. Об этом Firrma сообщил Алексей Соловьев, управляющий директор Prostor Capital. «Мы несколько недооценили масштаб усилий, который необходимо приложить для того, чтобы запустить эту практику в жизнь, и одновременно переоценили степень готовности рынка к этому продукту, особенно со стороны медиа-партнеров. Не... →

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan have been quietly amassing a portfolio of both philanthropic and venture investments in education from a $120 million commitment to Bay Area schools to the funding they contributed to Altschool’s most recent $100 million round. Now they’re adding another educational technology company to the group. They’re expanding a… Read More... →

Fresh from announcing a $15 million raise, U.K. restaurant payment app Velocity is acquiring Cover. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Cover, an app that lets customers pay for meals from their phone, has amassed roughly 350 restaurants in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco and raised $7 million in investor funding. The company was in […]... →

CoverHound, a site that lets people search for, compare and buy auto and property insurance both through its own site and Google’s insurance search, is today announcing that it has raised a further $33.3 million in funding as it adds one more large and strategic investor to its list of backers. Insurance giant ACE Group is leading the Series C investment, and CEO Keith Moore tells… Read More... →

French music streaming service Deezer has filed for IPO on the Paris-based stock exchange Euronext. Planned to take place at the end of the year, the company isn’t disclosing how much it hopes to raise or its expected valuation. Read More... →

Венчурный фонд QIWI Venture профинансировал стартап Panda Money и запустил с ним пилотный проект. Как сообщила Firrma управляющий партнер фонда Ольга Туржанская, инвестиции составили до $100 тысяч. Инвестор получил в проекте миноритарную долю, до 20% капитала компании. В результате сделки стартап переехал на платформу QIWI Wallet. O QIWI Venture Корпоративное инвестиционное направления группы компаний QIWI, направленное на развитие инноваций. Инвестиционный фокус QIWI Venture направлен на проекты в области ... →

CloudFlare, a company offering a content-delivery network (CDN) with security features to make sure websites stay online and load quickly around the world, is announcing today a $110 million funding round with major strategic investors: Google Capital, Microsoft, Baidu, and Qualcomm. The news comes a few days after CloudFlare announced a partnership with Baidu, provider […]... →

Основатели Cinarra Systems рассказали о работе с японскими партнерами, российских программистах и рынке мобильной рекламы... →

Чьи бумаги попадут под льготное налогообложение по новой инициативе Минэкономразвития?.... →

Google’s public campaign to help funding migrant and refugee relief around the world has met its goal of $11 million after three days. A company spokesperson tells VentureBeat that a total of $14 million was raised, which includes additional funds raised by employees. In total, Google says it will be donating $7 million towards the cause, of […]... →

A few months ago, I took a ride down the 101 in an Audi that had been modified to self-drive down Bay Area highways. It was a company called Cruise that was started by the founder of Socialcam, Kyle Vogt, who had done undergraduate research a decade ago in autonomous vehicles. After hitting one out of the park with consumer mobile apps when Socialcam sold to Autodesk for $60 million, Vogt… Read More... →

While there’s no shortage of online website builders today, most are focused on providing professionals or small business owners with an easy-to-use set of tools to quickly create their own web page without having to hiring an outside development firm. A company called Padlet, however, has gone in a different direction. Its simple and collaborative website creation platform can be used for… Read More... →

Российский стартап GeoCV стал резидентом американского акселератора Rothenberg Ventures River. Об этом Firrma сообщили в компании.  GeoCV стал одним из 14 компаний второго набора. Всего в акселератор было подано более 600 заявок со всего мира. Акселерационная программа будет проходить в Сан-Франциско. Акселератор River фонда Rothenberg Ventures был создан в конце 2014 года для быстро растущих компаний в области виртуальной и расширенной реальности. По данным фонда, 13 компаний первого набора акселератора пр... →

Firrma публикует первый ежемесячный рейтинг посевных проектов от the Untitled venture company Константина Синюшина. Мы продолжаем после августовских летних каникул публиковать ежемесячный рейтинг малоизвестных проектов, которые, так или иначе, представляют действительный инвестиционный интерес на российском стагнирующем венчурном рынке, поскольку основной актив победителей нашего рейтинга это огромный отраслевой и предпринимательский опыт команд, без которого сегодня их перспективные бизнес-модели и инновац... →

Clover Health, an insurance startup based out of San Francisco, is hoping that with its data-driven approach it can rebuild healthcare for senior citizens from the ground up. It wants that by tracking all the inputs of a person’s medical history from insurance claims and determining who the highest-risk patients are. Clover health then works with those patients to help them become… Read More... →

Servy, an app that lets restaurants offer a partial discount in exchange for private feedback, has just closed $800K in seed funding. Investors include RiverPark Ventures, Beacon Fund, Food-X, DreamIt Ventures, and Nick Kenner, CEO and Founder of Just Salad. Most online restaurant reviews are either written because of a fantastic or awful experience. Either way, these reviews live online… Read More... →

Chances are you’ve never heard of Tascent, but the biometrics identity company with a focus on iris recognition systems already has customers around the world, including Dubai International Airport, London Gatwick Airport and a number of high-security facilities in the United States. The company recently acquired the Identity Solutions business unit of AOptix Technologies and to… Read More... →

Just two months ago, I wrote about seed funding for GitLab, a startup that provides open-source software for managing source code repositories. Today the startup is back at it, announcing a new $4 million series A round. All of the new money came from previous investor Khosla Ventures. “They’re really on a roll!” as a […]... →

GitLab, the open source Git-based collaboration platform for developers, today announced that it has raised $4 million in Series A funding from Khosla Ventures. The YC-backed company, which offers both a free community edition, a free SaaS version and a paid enterprise edition of its service, says it will use the additional funding to accelerate growth and expand its global operations. Read More... →