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Russian food delivery company secures $5 million from international marketplace Joom

November 12, 2020

iGooods, a major product delivery company in Russia, has agreed a “strategic partnership” with Joom. This Russian-founded international marketplace has disbursed 325 million rubles (around $4.9 million at the current exchange rate) in exchange for a  10% stake in iGooods. The deal was closed in mid-August, as announced by the companies.  Last year iGooods already attracted …

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Moscow city aims to launch experimental platform for AI technologies

November 12, 2020

Sberbank, the state-owned financial and digital giant, is discussing with the city and country authorities the creation of a dedicated platform and framework in Moscow to experiment AI technologies. Participants in the experimental site would benefit from a privileged legal and tax framework and be allowed to leverage the Russian capital’s huge data volumes.  The …

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Prisma Labs raises $6 million from Belarusian investor to develop new products

May 2, 2019

Prisma Labs, the Russian company which made the news in 2016 with an art filter app based inspired by neural networks, has just secured $6 million. The round was led by Haxus, the fund of Belarusian investor Yuri Gursky, which already invested in the company at the seed stage in 2016 – along with Mail.Ru …

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Russian supermarket delivery service attracts $1.9 million from local investors

November 12, 2020

iGooods, a Saint Petersburg supermarket delivery service, has attracted 123 million rubles (roughly $1.9 million at the current exchange rate) in exchange for a 24.6% stake in the company. The news was reported by Russian business daily Vedomosti this Monday. The investors included Moscow-based venture fund SOL Ventures, ex-partners at the venture fund Quadriga Capital Russia, …

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Why startups from Eastern Europe are so strong in face recognition and augmented reality

January 9, 2018

Russian-speaking engineers seem to have some special skills, or secret sauce, to develop face recognition and related AR technologies, if judging by the number of startups with roots in Eastern Europe that have made the news over the past few years. Emerging from Russia, Belarus and Ukraine in particular, they have topped international contests, received …

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Prisma’s next AI project is a fun selfie sticker maker called Sticky

May 2, 2019

What do you do after garnering tens of millions of downloads and scores of clones of your AI-powered style transfer app? Why, keep innovating of course. Meet Sticky, the next app from the startup behind Prisma, which turns selfies into stylized and/or animated stickers for sharing to your social feeds. Sticky is launching today on iOS, with …

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Cybersecurity company Wallarm secures $2.3 million after graduating Y Combinator

December 14, 2016

Wallarm, a cybersecurity startup with Russian roots, has just secured $2.3 million in equity funding. The round involved Gagarin Capital — an investment firm which is particularly active in Eastern Europe, having backed MSQRD and Prisma, — Partech Ventures and unnamed individual investors. A resident of Skolkovo, the Russian international tech hub under completion, Wallarm has developed “a complete solution for blocking …

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Facebook is working on its own Prisma-style art effects app for video

October 27, 2016

Russian apps Artisto and Prisma made a splash over the past couple of months with their cloud AI-powered effects apps for photos and video. But Facebook, too, is in the running, reports The Next Web. In an interview at The Wall Street Journal’s WSJDLive conference, Facebook’s Chief Product Officer Chris Cox demonstrated an app the …

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After initial success in Russia, neural network-inspired apps Artisto and Prisma become international hits

October 17, 2016

Less than two months after launch, video editing mobile app Artisto has broken into the top 5 of the App Store and Google Play in the USA for the Photo & Video category. Launched in early August by Russian Internet company Mail.ru Group and its US subsidiary My.com, the app — the first of its kind — allows users to edit …

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ICQ integrates neural network-based technology

September 2, 2016

Last week Mail.ru Group, a major, LSE-listed Russian Internet group, announced that the new version of ICQ for Android now allows processing images using a neural network-inspired technology. “ICQ is the first messenger to seamlessly integrate neural networks,” the group stated. With this update, ICQ users can transform a photo into a painting in just one tap. The …

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Russian programmers launch neural network-based food discovery app in US cities

October 3, 2016

After Prisma, the much-hyped mobile app that instantly transforms pictures into artwork, and Artisto, a similar app for videos, Russian programmers are affirming their particular talent in developing technologies inspired by neural networks. This time, this approach is being applied to food recommendations with ‘Borsch,’ a new mobile service launched over the past weeks in …

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