Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

After launching two of the most popular photo editing apps for iOS, Israel’s Lightricks announced today that it has taken its first round of venture capital. The company raised $10 million from Carmel Ventures, also based in Israel, to help it accelerate product development. So far, the company has released Facetune in 2013 and Enlight earlier […]... →

DoubleDutch is hoping its company can make measuring the success of your event as easy as skipping rope, and now they’ve got some more cash to make it happen. The company announced Wednesday that they had raised $45 million in Series E funding. The round was led by KKR with participation from Bessemer Venture Partners, Index Ventures and Enspire Capital. The events performance… Read More... →

PRESS RELEASE: G5, the leader in maximizing digital marketing effectiveness for the property management sector, today announced the closing of a $76 million investment led by Radnor, Pa.-based Peak Equity Partners, a private equity firm focused on...... →

Марко тен Ваанхольт – известный серийный предприниматель и инвестор, создатель экосистемы для стартапов BootUp Startup Ecosystem и фонда BootUp Ventures. Интересуется стартапами в области Mobility, Security, Ad Tech, Robotics, Internet of Things. До этого работал на руководящих позициях в SAP, Yahoo и Oracle. Марко написал для GVA LaunchGurus, GenerationS и Firrma.ru статью о том, какие тренды сейчас есть на инновационно-венчурном рынке и как стартапу обратить на себя внимание инвестора. Когда я путешеству... →

Бизнес-ангел Павел Баскир запустит в Москве и Московской области сеть кружков робототехники под маркой и технологией проекта «Лига роботов» из Новосибирска. Об этом Firrmа рассказал сам Павел. Инициатива поддержана департаментом образования Москвы, с которым создана рабочая группа по пилотному запуску в Москве сетевой (совместной) формы реализации образотвательных программ со школами. Инвестиции в московский проект составили несколько миллионов рублей. Это средства Павла Баскира и партнеров. Всего в сентябр... →

Germany’s StyleLounge, which operates a metasearch engine for clothing and lifestyle products, has raised a €2.3 million Series A round of funding. Read More... →

Content discovery company StumbleUpon was unable to secure more venture capital funding and is now letting go of dozens of employees in a new round of layoffs, VentureBeat has learned. The company had just under 100 employees and will have around 30 by the end of this week, a source familiar with the matter told […]... →

Bounce Exchange, a startup that helps websites strategically advertise by analyzing user behavior, has pulled in $6.45 million in new funding. 500Friends founder and angel investor Justin Yoshimura led the Series A-1 round, with participation from Contour Venture Partners, Primary Venture Partners, and New York Yankees’ All-Star Alex Rodriguez. According to BounceX founder and CEO… Read More... →

Фонды Runa Capital и Maxfield Capital инвестировали еще $2 млн медицинскую платформу Drchrono. Информацию о сделке Firrma подтвердил директор по корпоративным коммуникациям Maxfield Capital Надир Хабдулин. По словам его словам, эта сделка была промежуточным раудом инвестирования. Доля инвесторов не раскрывается, однако как и в остальных сделках, доля Maxfield Capital не превышает 20% компании.  Сервис Drchrono планирует разработать и добавить к своему функционалу электронную запись к врачам через Apple Watc... →

Today, June 5th, is World Environment Day. Its celebration began in 1972 at a UN (United Nations) conference. The aim of this conference was to raise worldwide awareness concerning the environment. Do you know what environment means? According to Wikipedia, it is: "The biotic and abiotic surrounding of an organisms, or population, and includes particularly the factors that have an influence in their survival, development and evolution.... →

Super Evil Megacorp, creators of hit touch screen multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game Vainglory, has raised $26 million in funding. The funding is a big endorsement for Super Evil Megacorp’s plan to create hardcore esports games on mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones. The new round was led by Index Ventures, with support […]... →

GUEST: Last year, when we published a blog post identifying the 10 coolest New York City enterprise startups, few, if any, of those companies were household names. Since I wrote that piece, the companies have gone on to raise more than $100 million combined, and at least one, if not two, have their sights on an […]... →

C1X is announcing that it has raised $5.1 million in Series A funding. Founder and CEO Mukundu Kumaran spent seven years as an engineering director at Yahoo. He said that during that time, he saw the complexity of the ad-tech industry, and now his vision at C1X is “to simplify how the basic advertising transaction works.” Read More... →

Пробизнесбанк отключили от системы электронных срочных платежей ЦБ (БЭСП), в банке работает временная администрация. Фонд Life.SREDA, получивший средства от акционеров группы "Лайф", в декабре 2014 стал стратегическим инвестором "Рокетбанка": Для Life.SREDA и Рокетбанка сделка является стратегической. Финансовая группа «Лайф», которая объединяет семь универсальных коммерческих банков в разных регионах страны, рассматривает возможности сотрудничества с инновационным банком.... →

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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... →

Never forget that the formula for writing for the web is simple: it must be clear, concise, and compelling. We've covered how to make it clear and concise. Let's look at what it really takes to make it compelling. Yesterday, we saw how you can make copy compelling by raising the stakes with cancer and death. Today, we are going to expand on that with a total of 13 tips. But ultimately,... →

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... →