Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

It feels like every other day: Another company raises a massive round of funding. We tend to assume that a company that’s raising money must be doing well. However, the truth is that venture capital funds’ incentives drive them to fund companies that should have folded long ago. These “zombie companies” are money pits, ultimately shrinking the returns of entire funds… Read More... →

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Dinner Lab, a membership-based club that gives you access to private dinner parties in unique locations throughout your city, announced it is has raised a $7 million Series A led by James River Capital. The company also received follow-up funding from all current investors, including Dr. John B. Elstrott, the Chairman of the Board of Whole Foods. This latest round comes about a year… Read More... →

GameOn Technology has raised $1.5 million in seed funding from investors that include football legend Joe Montana. The startup hopes its GameOn app will change the  way sports fans watch and talk about big games. The investors include Quest Venture Partners, XG Ventures, SkyStar Ventures, and Montana’s new venture fund, Liquid 2. Another investor is the […]... →

Clutter, the on-demand storage service based out of Los Angeles, has today announced that it has expanded its offering to cover all of the San Francisco Bay Area. The company also announced that it has raised an additional $1.3 million in funding, bringing total funding to $3.3 million. The idea behind Clutter is simple. Through a website, users can put in an order to have anything stored… Read More... →

A startup working to bring offline brick-and-mortar consignment shops into the e-commerce age, Snobswap, has raised over a million in seed funding to expand what it describes as its “luxury online mall.” While today, these mom-and-pop shops would have to set up their own online stores using a platform like Shopify, for example, or perhaps market their items via social media… Read More... →

Один из самых активных ангелов страны Виталий Полехин – глава Клуба инвесторов бизнес-школы СКОЛКОВО, заместитель председателя административного совета Национальной ассоциации бизнес-ангелов и участник VentureClub – объясняет, зачем ангелы организуют ассоциации и кому от этого польза.     Успешные предприниматели, управленцы и просто люди с деньгами часто сталкиваются с желанием не только преумножить свой капитал, но и найти новые бизнес-возможности. Отличным примером являются именно ангельские инвестиции в... →

Chinese internet giant Tencent is getting its tentacles into India’s healthcare space after it lead a $90 million Series C round for medical search startup Practo. The startup raised $60 million as recently as February, and it confirmed that Google Capital, Yuri Milner, Sofina, Altimeter and existing investors Sequoia and Matrix also took part in this new raise. Read More... →

Less than two months after SoftBank’s Pepper robot went on sale in Japan, another intelligent humanoid is poised to make its way into Asia. That’s because Boston-based Jibo just closed an $11 million strategic investment round to (eventually) bring its “social robot” to households in Taiwan, Japan, Korea and China. Read More... →

SavingGlobal launched in early 2014 to enable German savers to access the best fixed deposit rates in Europe, not just from banks in their home country. However, the plan was always to offer the same service — the ability to shop for the best rates and switch easily — to anyone in Europe not just Germany, thereby creating a true single European market for the savings deposit market. 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. Hybrid storage maker Tintri raises $125M Tintri, a company that sells storage boxes packing both fast solid state drives alongside traditional hard disk drives, is announcing today a $125 million round of funding. o […]... →

Gig economy or not, it looks like part-time or flexible jobs are becoming a more structural part of the labor market. But software hasn’t necessary improved to help contractor-based businesses to manage their payroll. So a team of Intuit veterans went through Y Combinator to build a platform called Payable that will easily let contractors measure and bill their hours and… Read More... →

Фонды Emery Capital и Starta Capital инвестировали  $1,15 млн в компанию GeoCV, которая разрабатывает мобильное приложение для получения 3D-моделей объектов и помещений с помощью мобильных устройств с 3D-сенсорами. Об этом Firrma сообщили в Emery Capital. Раунд возглавил фонд Emery Capital. Средства будут выделены поэтапно – на данный момент компания получила $400 тысяч. Привлеченные инвестиции  пойдут на запуск тестовых продаж в США и России этой осенью и на дальнейшую разработку продукта. Приложение GeoCV... →

Work management solution Workfront (previously known as AtTask) today announced that it has raised a $33 million Series E funding round led by growth equity firm JMI Equity, which also previously led the company’s $38 million Series D round last year. Greenspring Global Partners and Atlas Peak also participated in this round. The company has now raised a total of $95 million.… Read More... →

Mobile analytics startup Amplitude is announcing that it has raised $9M in Series A funding. When we wrote about Amplitude last year, we noted that they’re trying to undercut competitors like Mixpanel with lower prices and a freemium product. Today it’s going even further in that direction with a new plan that offers Amplitude’s basic features for free, as long as… Read More... →

Fastly, a content delivery service (CDN) service that focuses on helping companies deliver dynamic content to their users faster, today announced that it has raised a $75 million Series D round led by ICONIQ Capital. Existing investors Amplify Partners, August Capital, Battery Ventures, IDG Ventures and O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures also participated. This brings Fastly’s total… Read More... →

Leanplum, a service that helps developers and marketers engage with mobile users through personalized messages, dynamic UI optimization and A/B testing services, today announced that it has raised a $11.6 million Series B round led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Shasta Ventures, which led the company’s $4.8 million Series A round, also participated in this round. The company… Read More... →

Tintri, a company that sells storage boxes packing both fast solid state drives alongside traditional hard disk drives, is announcing today a $125 million round of funding. Tintri’s hardware is designed for storing and serving up data for individual virtual machines (VMs), several of which can run on a single physical server. Admins can set […]... →

DST Global, the venture capital and growth equity firm led by Yuri Milner, has raised $1.7 billion for its fifth fund, according to a filing with the SEC. The fund has been registered in the Cayman Islands. The identity of the new fund’s backers has not been disclosed, but a source close to DST told […]... →

Bright, a solar panel installation and distribution startup pulled in $4 million in seed money to build out its solar software and financing team. The startup launched out of the last batch of Y Combinator and began building in Mexico last year. Energy is expensive and often complicated in the country, costing upwards of $4,000 USD in hot summer months in some cases, according to the… Read More... →