Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

Nearly all startups use the same methodology to figure out when to raise their next round of capital. The founder projects the planned burn rate and estimates the day they will run out of cash. Then they subtract a margin for fundraising approximately four months from the date the company’s bank account will be empty, and declares the difference the fundraising-process start date. Read More... →

HackerOne, makers of a bug bounty platform where companies pay hackers to find vulnerabilities in their products, announced a $25 million Series B round today. The round was led by NEA. Benchmark, its lead Series A investor, also participated along with several prominent individual investors including Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff, Digital Sky Technologies Partner Yuri Milner, Dropbox… Read More... →

Have you ever been hungry at a sporting event but didn’t want to deal with the lines? Well VenueNext has raised $9 million to roll out an app for your lazy ass. From mobile ordering to in-stadium directions, VenueNext is a technology platform that is working to change the way fans experience live venues. The company just closed its Series A, with participation from strategic investors… Read More... →

Фонд «Сколково» и сингапурский акселератор HaxAsia запустили совместную акселерационную программу для hardware-проектов в Москве и Сингапуре. Об этом Firrma сообщили в фонде. Цель программы — подготовить и развить проекты от прототипов до готовых продуктов, довести их до этапа массового производства или выпуска пилотной партии, а также тестирование потребительского спроса через краудфандинг на IndieGoGo и Kickstarter. Акслерационная программа пройдет в два этапа — в Москве и в Сингапуре. Первая часть програ... →

Jelli, makers of an ad platform for radio broadcasters to digitise how they fill space on their airwaves — think “AdWords for audio” — has raised a $21 million round of funding to grow its business as it prepares to expand to other kinds of audio services — specifically streamed music. The Series B round comes from a mix of strategic backers and top shelf VCs… Read More... →

AtScale, a tool that aims to provide the "glue" between Hadoop and traditional business intelligence tools, has raised a $7 million Series A round.... →

Snowflake Computing, a startup that has built data warehouse software based in the Amazon Web Services cloud, announced a new $45 million funding round and made its software generally available. Snowflake made a big splash when it came out of stealth mode in October with $26 million in funding and a superstar chief executive, Microsoft […]... →

Clinton Foy joins firm as managing director with gaming expertise.... →

Yotpo, a platform that helps businesses with original content marketing, just announced the closing of a $15 million funding round. This brings total funding so far by the company to $30 million. Read More... →

Snowflake, a novel data warehousing service that’s run by former Microsoft server and tools executive Bob Muglia, is coming out of beta today. In addition, the company today announced that it has raised a $45 million Series C round led by Altimeter Group, with participation from previous investors Redpoint Ventures, Sutter Hill Ventures and Wing VC. At first glance, data warehousing may… Read More... →

Dollar Shave Club, the subscription service for razors (and more!) has closed a $75 million Series D round at a pre-money valuation north of $500 million dollars. This funding comes less then a year after a $50 million Series C, and brings total fundraising to $143 million dollars. Participants included existing investors like Venrock, TCV, and Forerunner Ventures. Dragoneer Investment Group… Read More... →

Dropoff, an on-demand delivery service, has raised $7 million in new funding to be the logistics provider for businesses of all kinds. Greycroft led the Series A round, with participation from new and existing investors including Correlation Ventures, Texas Atlantic Capital, and Wild Basin Investments. Dropoff launched in Austin in November of last year, and expanded to Houston in January.… Read More... →

Soomla gets game developers to share anonymized user data so that every game studio can benefit.... →

Artificial intellgience (AI) startup DigitalGenius has closed its first round of venture capital (VC) funding, nabbing $3 million from a number of participating parties.... →

Commercializing a new tool to bring the basic eye exam into the palm of a doctor’s hand could save the eyesight of nearly 1 billion people worldwide. That’s the goal that Zhou Yaopeng and Marc Albanese, two former photonics researchers who met at Boston University nearly a decade ago, have set for themselves and for their two-year-old startup, Smart Vision Labs. Read More... →

If you care about tech news in Asia — and you should! — then the chances are that not only do you read us here at TechCrunch — thanks and hi! — but you might also be aware of Tech In Asia. Well, today is an interesting day for our friendly rival which just raised $4 million. Read More... →

GUEST: Title IV of the 2012 JOBS Act kicked in today. Now, the fastest growing private companies in America can conduct Mini-IPOs and raise up to $50 million from anyone.... →

«Альфа-Банк» запустил в ограниченном доступе сервис для упрощенной покупки акций крупных компаний «Простые инвестиции». О принципах работы сервиса ЦП рассказали представители кредитной организации.... →

A new hair extensions startup in San Francisco’s East Bay called Mayvenn is changing the old brick-and-mortar distribution model for buying longer locks — by giving stylists their own online hair stores. Most hair extensions are imported to th... →

В ноябре 2013 года Фонд развития интернет-инициатив на отчётном мероприятии представил Владимиру Путину 29 стартапов, которые получили инвестиции от организации. Издание РБК выяснило, как встреча с президентом отразилась на судьбе стартапов и их основател... →