Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

Startups around the world are snapping up funding to solve an important problem: how to eat healthy, delicious meals with the least possible amount of effort. The latest is Jakarta-based meal delivery service Berry Kitchen, which just raised a $1.25 million Series A led by Sovereign’s Capital, with participation from East Ventures. Read More... →

Former Disrupt Battlefield participant Self Lender has raised a $1.5 million round of seed capital from Silverton Partners, who wrote the full check. The new cash comes after the firm raised a prior total of $535,000 from TechStars, Kickstart Seed Fund, and Galvanize Ventures. To date, Self Lender has raised $2.035 million. The company uses loans to help individuals establish, and in some… Read More... →

There’s been a lot of talk in venture circles lately about “signaling risk” and seed-stage investments. The gist: When earlier backers are high-profile venture firms, and these firms decide not to participate in a startup’s next round, it hurts the company’s ability to raise a Series A round. Although this concern isn’t exactly new, recent numbers… Read More... →

Ангел и основатель компании SmartHub Богдан Яровой рассказывает о свободном графике бизнес-ангела, просторе для творчества и финансовых преференциях венчурного рынка ранних стадий. Богдан насчитал целых семь причин стать отчаянным инвестором ранних стадий. Причина 1. Внутренний рост За 20 лет работы в банке я прожил все фазы развития этого сектора: от чистого адреналина на старте до построения хорошо систематизированного бизнеса. К сожалению, теперь в этой индустрии основное внимание уделяется не развитию, ... →

Last year’s $500 million acquisition of DeepMind by Google undoubtedly put Artificial Intelligence (AI) squarely in the minds of investors and media alike. So much so that there’s a tendency to re-badge any tech comprising of algorithms and machine learning as AI. However, regardless of where that line starts and stops, Munich-based Neokami claims it’s the real deal. Read More... →

PSafe, the leading antivirus player in Brazil, is announcing a $30M Series D to take its security and privacy app suite to the rest of Latin America. Read More... →

It’s proving to be a busy week for big-hitting VC firm Tiger Global in India. It led a $100 million investment in music streaming service Saavn, put up media startup News In Shorts’ $20 million Series B raise, and today it led a $10.2 million round for medical service Lybrate. Read More... →

GitLab, the startup behind the eponymous open-source Git repository management software for storing and collaborating on source code, announced today that it has raised a $1.5 million seed round. In many ways, GitLab is similar to GitHub — you can explore projects on the web and host your own projects online for free, for instance […]... →

Influitive, a Toronto-based company focused on advocate marketing, announced this morning that it has raised $30.5 million in Series B funding. Advocate marketing means turning customers into advocates for your company, encouraging them to make positive reviews and referrals. Read More... →

Raise your hand if you've ever encountered a situation like the one described below: It's time again for your annual marketing budget meeting. You're confident that what you've put together is going to knock the leadership team's socks off. You begin rocking through your amazing slide deck, chock full of powerful data points such as the number of Facebook Likes and banner ad clicks. Everything seems to be going great,... →

Octopus, a Tel Aviv startup that makes cloud-based physical security systems for large facilities, has raised $2.5 million from Singulariteam. The company will use the funds to expand in the U.S. and Asia. In China, its growth plans will be helped along by the fact that two of China’s biggest Internet companies, Tencent and Renren, are Singulariteam backers. Read More... →

Аналитик проектного офиса холдинга OZON и экс-сотрудник венчурного фонда ABRT, работавший там с компаниями ecommerce и enterprise software-сегментов, Петр Жегин с цифрами в руках изучает рынок электронной коммерции в России.  Недавние слияния с привкусом безысходности, экспансия азиатских компаний, трансграничная торговля и, возможно, другие факторы понизили уровень оптимизма в отношении интернет-торговли в России. Однако, признавая существующие трудности, не стоит забывать о возможностях, которые зачастую ... →

Аналитик проектного офиса холдинга OZON и экс-сотрудник венчурного фонда ABRT, работавший там с компаниями ecommerce и enterprise software-сегментов, Петр Жегин с цифрами в руках изучает рынок электронной коммерции в России.  Недавние слияния с привкусом безысходности, экспансия азиатских компаний, трансграничная торговля и, возможно, другие факторы понизили уровень оптимизма в отношении интернет-торговли в России. Однако, признавая существующие трудности, не стоит забывать о возможностях, которые зачастую ... →

Корпорация Net Element, владеющая российскими платежными системы TOT Money и PayOnline, намерена привлечь инвестиции на общую сумму $34,5 миллионов от фондов Candlewood Investment Group и Tenor Opportunity Associates.  Сделка состоит из нескольких частей и предполагает продажу акций и векселей корпорации. На первом этапе Net Element получит $10,5 миллионов, из которых $5,5 миллионов были сразу же переведены на счет компании. Остальные средства корпорация может привлечь при условии, что инвесторы выкупят все... →

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. WeWork raises a hefty $433M funding round Coworking space startup WeWork today disclosed a $433.9 million funding round in a new document on file with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The valuation of […]... →

Language-learning startup Babbel has raised $22 million to help expedite product development and expansion across the Americas. Today’s announcement takes the company’s total known funding past the $30 million mark, including $10 million raised in 2013, though it did raise a “significant” undisclosed amount way back in 2008. The latest round was led by new investor […]... →

DigitalOcean, the fast-growing cloud infrastructure service for developers, today announced that it has raised a $83 million Series B round led by Access Industries, with participation from previous investor Andreessen Horowitz, which led the company’s $37 million Series A round last year. Access Industries previously invested in the likes of Rubikloud, ironSource, Beats and Cyanogen.… Read More... →

Apester is announcing that it has raised $8 million in Series A funding. We wrote about the company back when it was a social game startup called Qmerce. Now it offers tools for online publishers to create polls, surveys, personality tests and video quizzes, then embed them in their articles. Read More... →

The Berlin- and New York-based language learning service Babbel today announced that it has raised a $22 million funding round led by Scottish Equity Partners. Other participants in this round include previous investors Reed Elsevier Ventures, Nokia Growth Partners, and VC Fonds Technology Berlin. The company, which was founded in 2007, says it plans to use this new round to drive further… Read More... →

Confluent, the startup providing commercial support for and building tools on top of the Apache Kafka open-source software, announced today a $24 million funding round. The news comes just eight months after Confluent spun out of LinkedIn with $6.9 million in tow. Apache Kafka, officially described as a distributed high-throughput publish-subscribe messaging system, has become […]... →