Venture / Private equity

eSports startup Learn 2 Play agrees up to $3 million investment plan with VCs and angels

April 26, 2018

Confirming the appeal of eSports projects, Russian startup Learn 2 Play announced earlier this week that it raised nearly $1.1 million from a pool of venture funds and business angels. These investors, who have received a minority stake, include VC funds Buran and ru-Net, Anton Inshutin (InVentures Partners), Jarom Severson (Chess.com), Erik Allebest (Chess.com) and Lev …

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Fort Ross Ventures launches $200 million fund to help US startups enter Russian market

May 15, 2018

Listen to the audio version of this article: Last week Fort Ross Ventures announced a $200 million fund for US startups interested in the Russian market. Formerly known as Money Time, this venture fund is committed to support the “exponential success” of US tech startups by “leveraging the potential of the enormous Russian marketplace.” Fort Ross will …

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Far behind the US, well ahead of Russia: Europe’s VC market reaches new heights

May 15, 2018

Listen to the audio version of this article: EU, Turkish and Israeli startups raised a record €25 billion in 2017 – up €8.6 billion (+52.4%) from 2016, which was also a record year  increase. These and other key numbers and trends are revealed in “Next Station: Europe,” a new industry report published by Tech.eu with support …

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Israeli VC integrator Prytek gains support from Igor Rybakov and Da Vinci Capital to develop activities in Russia

April 20, 2018

Prytek, a firm that invests in tech startups and distributes their solutions in emerging markets, is strengthening its activities in Russia. The Israeli-headquartered company, which began commercializing the solutions of its portfolio companies on the Russian market in late 2017, will now also invest substantial amounts (around $2 million per deal) in local startups. This …

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Grishin Robotics and monashees+ invest in Brazilian bike-sharing service

April 19, 2018

Grishin Robotics, an international venture fund with Russian roots, and Brazilian venture fund monashees+, led a $9 million seed round for the Brazilian stationless bicycle-sharing platform Yellow. The terms of the deal have not been disclosed. The news was reported earlier this month by the Russian online publication VC.ru, based on exchanges with the fund Yellow …

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Target Global supports fast-growing European travel platform TravelPerk

April 16, 2018

Target Global, a Berlin-based international venture fund with Russian roots, led a $21 million series B round for Barcelona-based business travel platform TravelPerk. Another leading investor in the round was London-based Felix Capital. The news was announced last week by the startup . The round also involved existing investors, including Boston-based Spark Capital, European VC firms Sunstone …

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SDVentures invests $2 million in top US Blockchain fund

April 17, 2018

Social Discovery Ventures (SDVentures), an international technology and investment group with Russian roots, has contributed $2 million to a new $150 million fund launched by Blockchain Capital. The news was reported in late March by Russian online publication Firrma.ru based on its exchanges with SDVentures. Founded in 2013, San-Francisco based Blockchain Capital touts itself as a “the …

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Russian-Belarusian fund invests in precision farming startup

January 10, 2019

AgroDroneGroup, a Russian startup that uses drones and computer software to closely monitor the condition of soil and crops, has raised 25 million rubles (some $440,000) in investment from the Russian-Belarusian Venture Investment Fund (RBF Ventures). The news was reported in late March by the Skolkovo Foundation, which cited Firrma. The deal, in which the …

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Starta Ventures launches hybrid fund to invest via smart contract security tokens

April 10, 2018

Starta Ventures, a tech investment group with Russian roots operating internationally, has launched a venture fund with original characteristics. Investors may not only join the new fund, dubbed Starta Capital Fund II, as LPs, they may also take directly their own equity stake in any company in which the fund will invest. This mechanism is …

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Mail.Ru Group and MegaFon invest $26 million in taxi-hailing service CityMobil

November 12, 2020

Last week Mail.Ru Group and MegaFon, two LSE-listed Russian Internet and mobile leaders, announced the acquisition of a majority stake in CityMobil, a Moscow-based taxi-hailing service. After the completion of the round, Mail.Ru Group and MegaFon will respectively own a 26% stake and an up to 31% stake in the company in exchange for capital …

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Flint Capital and Maxfield Capital invest in AI

April 10, 2018

In late March Flint Capital, a fund with Russian roots operating internationally, participated in a $11.3 million Series A round for Audioburst, an Israel-based audio search startup. The news was reported in late March by Calcalistech. The round was led by Samsung, which invested $4.6 million through its venture arm Samsung Ventures, with participation from Japanese …

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Pavel Terentiev of Addventure: “Building a $100m business in Russia is a no-brainer, but growing further is more challenging”

April 4, 2018

Pavel Terentiev is Managing Partner at AddVenture, a fund launched in 2008, at the very early days of the Russian venture industry. In this exchange, he recalls the spectacular development of the Russian venture scene over the past ten years, and explains how savvy entrepreneurs and investors can seize the opportunities of the undergoing digital …

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