Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

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... →

Breather, the on-demand private room service has raised $20M led by Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures. The series B brings Breather’s full raise to $27M. This round also had participatin from Real Ventures, RRE Ventures, Slow Ventures and SOS Ventures. Valar will join the board. The Breather rooms were set up as “secret places” within cities like New York that allow you to… Read More... →

Портфельная компания Биофонда РВК «Семиотик» вышла на рынок Индии и заключила с местной компанией Yashraj Biotechnology Ltd. соглашение  о поставке  исследовательского углеводного микрочипа (гликочип) для количественного определения гликан-связывающих белков. Об этом Firrma сообщили в РВК. Гликочип «Семиотик», представляет собой тонкую пластинку из пластика, содержит библиотеку полисахаридов (гликанов). По данным компании, на чипе можно расположить до 600 гликанов и с их помощью диагностировать около сотни ... →

Dwnld, a build-your-own-app startup from early Pinterest investor Fritz Lanman and Alexandra Keating, has raised $12 million from Greylock Partners. Founded out of New York in 2014, the new cash influx will be used to expand its current services with new tools “centered on engagement and monetization to support more publisher verticals.” As with similar […]... →

Although not on the scale of Take Eat Easy, perhaps we should chalk this up as another Belgium startup showing early momentum. Book2Meet, the meeting room booking platform, has raised a €2 million funding round. Read More... →

Fresh meals delivered to your home weekly on a subscription basis have become a big business in recent years. Today that trend is confirmed as Rocket Internet pumps $84.7 million or 75 million Euros into HelloFresh. Prior to this the startup had raised $193.5 million. The company — billed as “wholesome home cooked meals with no planning, no shopping and no waste”, and now… Read More... →

Hello Fresh, the Berlin-based company that delivers meal kits and recipes to subscribers, announced today that it has raised another $85 million. The company, which is a product of Germany’s Rocket Internet’s startup factory, had previously raised $149 million back in February, primarily from Rocket. This time, the round was led by Baillie Gifford, a […]... →

HelloTech has confirmed that the company just closed a $12.5M Series A led by Madrona Venture Group with participation from Upfront Ventures, CrossCut Ventures, and Accel Partners. This round brings total funding to $17M, after a $4.5M seed round in February. TechCrunch first reported news that the company was raising a Series A in late August. Currently live in Los Angeles, the company… Read More... →

In the time leading up to starting her next company, LearnUp co-founder Alexis Ringwald spent six months at unemployment centers throughout the San Francisco Bay Area trying to learn exactly what was holding job seekers back amid the recession. One of the things she saw was a mismatch between the kinds of customer service and entry-level skills employers wanted to see with new and untested… 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. Lightspeed raises $61M to expand its point of sale to retailers and restaurants worldwide As more mobile point-of-sale systems crowd the field, Montreal-based Lightspeed just snagged $61 million in funding to grow adoption of […]... →

Envoy, which provides early elderly care with a concierge service for tasks like delivering groceries, has raised $3 million and is launching today. Envoy’s pitch is that it provides a one-to-one concierge with seniors that don’t quite need full-time assistance, but periodically need help with tasks like running errands and for in-home help like plumbing. These tasks are… Read More... →

As our lives get busier, who will take care of the elderly members of our family? If you’re a fan of the on-demand economy, then Envoy might be just the thing. It’s a family concierge service for seniors and family caregivers, and today it has launched in San Antonio, now making it available in 17 markets […]... →

Lumity, which devises and recommends health care plans to employers by comparing employee profiles against its own historical data, said today that it has raised $14 million. Social+Capital led the round, with True Ventures and Rock Health participating. Read More... →

Panopoly.io, a new data warehousing platform that recently launched its private beta, today announced that it has raised a $1.3 million seed round from the likes of Blumberg Capital, 500 Startups, and FundersGuild. The service sits on top of Amazon’s Redshift service. Panoply.io founder Yanic Leven argues that his service enables its users to “get a modeled scalable cloud… Read More... →

As more mobile point of sale systems crowd the field, Montreal based Lightspeed just snagged $61 million in funding to grow adoption of its platform among mid-market retailers and restaurants worldwide. Though Square and PayPal are increasingly staking their claim to various retailers large and small, there are still a few alternative players competing to put a […]... →

Iron.io today announced that it has raised a $8 million Series A round led by Baseline Ventures with participation from Bain Capital Ventures, Divergent Ventures, Ignition Partners, and Cloud Capital Partners. The company previously raised a total of $5.5 million in seed funding. The company’s two flagship products are the IronMQ message queue service and the IronWorker worker platform… Read More... →

As Square gears up for a public listing that may come as soon as next month, another startup that makes point-of-sale systems for restaurants and other retailers has raised a big round of funding. Lightspeed POS, a startup based out of Canada that provides apps and other services for managing and selling inventory across both online and offline shopfronts, has picked up $61 million, money… Read More... →

Iron.io, a startup with “task processing” software that can automatically do computational work in parallel or according to a specific schedule, is announcing today an $8 million round of funding. The startup was founded back in 2010, but things have become more interesting in the past year with public cloud market leader Amazon Web Services […]... →

Voice interaction platform ivee has begun an Indiegogo campaign for those interested in purchasing its smart voice assistant, throwing its hat into the ring to do battle against the likes of Amazon Echo, Google Now, Siri, Cortana, and the like. The company is looking to raise at least $50,000 over the next 46 days. With […]... →