Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

We’re terrible at managing our financial affairs. At least that’s why there’s a need for services like Mint, Level, and dozens of other companies — all eager to make it easier for us to save money and plan our day-to-day monetary affairs better. But aboutLife wants us to think about the bigger picture: the long-term. […]... →

French startup accelerator Numa started as a non-profit organization fifteen years ago. Since then, everything has changed in the French tech ecosystem. Numa doesn’t have the same name, office, business model and now shareholders. After successfully raising $1.1 million (€1 million) in a crowdfunding campaign, the organization has sold more equity to third-party investors —… Read More... →

Венчурная компания ru-Net Леонида Богуславского инвестировала в индийское мобильное приложение доставки продуктов из магазинов PepperTap. Объем раунда B составил $36 млн. В сделке также приняли участие Snapdeal, Sequoia India,  SAIF Partners, JAFCO, BeeNext. Средства пойдут на доработку технологии и экспансию в 75 городов Индии. На данный момент стартап работает только в 17 индийских городах и, по собственным данным, обрабатывает около 15 – 17 тысяч заказов в день.   Индийский стартап уже поднял два раунда ... →

Interviewed, a company that provides simulations for job candidates, has closed a $2 million seed round with participation from YC, SV Angel, Red Swan Ventures, and Jason Calacanis, among others. The company also announced that after six months it have given almost 100,000 job assessments, with that number growing from 240 assessments the first month to 43,500 assessments last month. Read More... →

Американский компания Airbnb, которая представляет сервис по аренде жилья, купила стартап Lapka, основанный российским предпринимателем Вадимом Мармеладовым, сообщается на сайте стартапа. Сумма и подробности сделки не раскрываются.  Как рассказал основатель проекта Вадик Мармеладов изданию Slon, Airbnb купил Lapka не из-за технологии, а из-за команды (так называемое, acqhiring). После поглощения Lapka будет делать новые продукты в составе Airbnb.  О Lapka Lapka разрабатывает предметы «интернета вещей». Стар... →

Justin Hefter wants world peace through games. And today, he is launching an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign to raise money for Bandura Games, which is creating a mobile game called RunZoo that aims to bring together people from multiple cultures. As Hefter told us a couple of weeks ago, the aim of RunZoo, an endless runner game, is […]... →

PepperTap, a nine-month-old grocery delivery service in India, has closed its third round of investment this year after announcing a $36 million raise. Read More... →

В издательстве «Манн, Иванов и Фербер» вышла книга «Работа рулит!» автор которой – вице-президент Google по персоналу Ласло Бок – рассказывает о том, как работают с людьми в корпорации Google. Firrma публикует фрагмент книги, где рассказывается о принципах подбора персонала в условиях ограниченных ресурсов.  Мы в Google выдвигаем на передний план инвестирование в людей. Основная часть времени и средств, выделенных на нужды рекрутинга, уделяется привлечению, оценке и воспитанию новых кадров. В среднем мы тра... →

Yes, friends, the (not really) unimaginable has happened: the titan that is Facebook is down. We don’t usually raise our eyebrows too high when Facebook goes down for a minute, but it’s been in and out for a good 20 minutes no. For a company that makes millions in revenue per day, every minute is tens of thousands of dollars in ad revenue lost. We’ve hit up Facebook to try… Read More... →

Today, publishing platform Medium announced that it has brought in $54M in new capital in a series B led by new investor Andreessen Horowitz. That makes the total raised for Ev Williams’ Medium a hefty sum of $79M. From head of operations at Medium, Andy Doyle: We are pleased to announce that Medium recently raised $57 million in capital. The round was led by new partner Andreessen… Read More... →

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... →