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Sberbank’s SBT Venture Capital invests in social network for investors

December 15, 2014 March 1, 2016

SBT Venture Capital, the venture arm of Russia’s national savings bank Sberbank, has invested in eToro, a social network for investors. The Cyprus based social network allows members to follow the activities of their fellow investors in real time. The company’s stated mission is to “revolutionize the way people interact on the financial markets, making the …

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Life.SREDA invests in mobile bank Rocketbank

December 5, 2014 March 1, 2016

Last week Life.SREDA, the venture arm of Russian finance group Life, announced its investment in mobile bank Rocketbank. The amount of the transaction has not been disclosed, but an unnamed source close to the deal told Russian tech blog Firrma.ru that the fund’s stake in Rocketbank does not exceed 10%. Life, which is made up of seven commercial banks across Russia, …

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Russia’s SBT Venture Capital invests $5 million in Southeast Asian credit company

December 5, 2014 March 1, 2016

SBT Venture Capital, the venture arm of Russia’s national savings bank Sberbank, has invested $5 million in fintech service Advanced Merchant Payments (AMP). AMP’s platform allows banks to offer unsecured short-term loans to small businesses, using data analysis to decide whether to offer loans to businesses without a credit history. It was founded in 2009 …

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Mail.ru group to sell headhunter business to investor consortium led by Elbrus Capital

November 25, 2014 March 1, 2016

Mail.ru Group, a leading, LSE-listed Russian Internet group, is to sell 100% of shares in HeadHunter (hh.ru) to a consortium of investors led by direct investment fund Elbrus Capital. The deal, which is worth a total of 9.85 billion rubles (a little less than $210 million at the current exchange rate), is still “subject to third-party approval,” the group announced. It expected to …

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Maxfield Capital invests $1.7 million in UK’s Patients Know Best

November 19, 2014 November 19, 2014

Maxfield Capital, a venture fund operating globally from its offices in Moscow, New York City and Tel Aviv, has invested $1.7 million in Patients Know Best, a British company which has designed a cloud platform for managing patient details. Patients have an account with the site, which h holds all of their medical records. They can access …

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SeoPult acquires social network authentication service uLogin

November 17, 2014 November 17, 2014

Last week leading Russian SEO management company SeoPult announced the acquisition of social network authentication service uLogin. The deal’s price tag was to disclosed. This takeover comes in the wake of Intel Capital’s $35 million investment in Gigya, a California-based customer login management service similar to uLogin. uLogin was launched in 2011, and allows websites to …

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Online logistics startups raises $150,000

October 31, 2014 October 31, 2014

Russian IT startup Gruzopoisk has received $150,000 investment from private investor Oleg Zakharchenko. The business angel’s investment has bought him a 10% stake in the project, which is valued at $1.5 million, as well as an active role in management of the company. He will be responsible for the product’s promotional strategy. Gruzopoisk is a …

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Semiconductor sensor developer receives $1.9 million grant from Skolkovo

October 29, 2014 October 29, 2014

Thin Film Technology has received a grant of $1.9 million from Skolkovo, the international tech hub under completion on the outskirts of Moscow. The firm was founded in 2006, and has been working with the Skolkovo innovation center since 2011. It develops semiconductor sensors for measuring pressure, vibration levels and other physical parameters in unstable and aggressive environments. …

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Almaz Capital, Fastlane Ventures and e.Venture inject $2 million in CarPrice.ru

October 28, 2014 October 28, 2014

Last week online car sales and valuation service CarPrice.ru received $2 million in seed investment. The principal investors were Almaz Capital, Fastlane Ventures, e.ventures along with several other Russian and foreign funds. The company was founded very recently, in June of this year, by Edward Gurinovich, Oskar Hartmann, Alexander Danilov and Artem Bolshakov.

Guard Capital invests $2.8 million in doctor social network

October 17, 2014 October 17, 2014

Moscow based fund Guard Capital has bought 15% of DoktorNaRabote, a Russian social network for doctors, for $2.8 million. The project’s cofounder Stanislav Sazhin stated that the business angels from whom Guard Capital purchased its stake left the company having made tenfold profits. DoktorNaRabote was founded by Andrey Perfilev and Stanislav Sazhin on 14th October 2009, so it will …

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Fastlane’s Autospot secures $3 million in Series A round

October 10, 2014 October 10, 2014

Car sales website AutoSpot has received $3 million investment from Russian venture fund SOL Ventures, tech entrepreneur Sergey Gabestro and a number of previous investors in the company. The news was reported earlier this month by Firrma.ru, an online publication on the Russian startup and venture scene. Launched in November 2013 by Moscow startup incubator Fastlane Ventures and business angel Dmitry …

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Moscow Seed Fund looking for new investors

October 3, 2014 October 3, 2014

Moscow Seed Fund, the venture arm of the Moscow city authorities, has announced its latest competition to recruit investors for joint seed and pre-seed stage investment in their projects. The fund is looking for individual investors and companies, both Russian and foreign. As part of its programme, the fund offers concessional loans to innovative projects at …

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