Venture / Private equity

VC investment falls 40% in Q1 2014 – Seasonal variation or worrying contraction?

June 18, 2014

Venture investment volumes in Russia fell 42% as the number of completed deals dropped 38% in Q1 2014, says Rye, Man and Gor Securities (RMG), an independent Moscow-based investment company, in their latest quarterly report published with the participation of East-West Digital News. In what appears to be a new low for at least the …

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TMT Investments injects $200,000 into US startup Whale Path

June 13, 2014

Last week TMT Investments, a UK-headquartered venture fund backed by Russian businessmen, announced the completion of a $200,000 investment in Whale Path, a Sunnyvale, California-based startup that offers an on-demand business research platform for companies. Whale Path says it typically delivers fully customized reports to its clients three times faster and at half the price compared to traditional business research …

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Buran raises additional capital and extends coverage to Central and Eastern Europe

June 12, 2014

Last week, Moscow-based fund Buran Venture Capital announced the first milestone for its second fund raising operation since launching in 2012. Buran plans to increase its committed capital to $30 million – up from the current $15 million – by October 1, 2014. Buran’s new LP is O1 Group, a Moscow-based holding company that invests …

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SpinUp Partners leads Russian startups to global markets via Singapore accelerators

June 11, 2014

Over the past months Russian seed-stage fund SpinUp Partners has invested in two Asian startup accelerators – a pioneering move among Russian funds, which usually consider California the prime destination in their global investment strategy. In March, SpinUp Partners was the secondary investor in an international consortium that injected $2.1 million into Singapore-based Joyful Frog …

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Interactive app for children KidBook raises $300,000

June 11, 2014

KidBook, a startup with an interactive library of educational and training multimedia books for children, has raised 10 million rubles (approximately $300,000) in its first round of funding. The funds, which have been provided by a group of individual investors led by serial entrepreneur Vladimir Kanin, will be used to prepare new content, develop an …

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IIDF invests $1.3 million in mobile medical alert system

November 12, 2020

Knopka Zhizni (“Life Button”) has raised 45 million rubles (approximately $1.3 million) from IIDF (FRII in Russian), a $200 million seed and early-stage fund launched last year. The news was reported yesterday by IKS Media. Founded in November 2010 by MBA students of the Skolkovo Management School, the startup has developed a mobile medical alert system for the …

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Russia’s RDIF and Rostelecom team up with international partners to “eliminate digital inequality among Russian regions”

June 9, 2014

The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) and international infrastructure partners will take part together in the financing of a Rostelecom project to eliminate digital inequality among Russian regions, the national telecom operator announced in late May. Total investment by the fund and its partners in the project could come to 67.5 billion rubles (about $1.9 …

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Russian-American startup iBuildApp raises another $200,000

June 9, 2014

Mobile app builder iBuildApp has raised $200,000 from Starta Capital and Nikolay Belykh. iBuildApp is an international project that enables clients to build and manage mobile apps. As well as being a resident of Moscow’s Skolkovo IT-Park, the project also has its headquarters in Foster City, California. This investment brings the total invested in the project …

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Flint Capital increases committed capital, invests in Israel – and launches “venture art” concept

June 5, 2014

Last week, Flint Capital a Moscow-based venture fund launched last year, announced that it has increased its committed capital to $50 million – up from $30 million previously – following an agreement with a new and undisclosed LP. This contribution will be directed towards Israel, where the fund intends to invest in at least in 10 …

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New Russian fund plans to invest up to $100 million in P2P and fintech startups across the world

June 4, 2014

Finam, one of Russia’s most well-established financial groups, has teamed up with Skagit Investment, a Moscow-based IT investment company, to launch an international venture fund, christened FinSight Ventures, which aims to raise $50 million to $100 million. The news was reported  last week by Russian business daily Kommersant based on exchanges with top executives from …

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Maxfield Capital invests in Israeli English-learning app SpeakingPal

June 3, 2014

Moscow-based venture fund Maxfield Capital has invested more than $1 million in Israeli startup SpeakingPal, a mobile platform for language learning based on voice-recognition technology. SpeakingPal, which has won a range of edutech-sector awards, has more than 2.2 million registered users and has also partnered with Educational Testing Service (ETS), the creator of the TOEFL and TOEIC tests, to …

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