Flint Capital has led a $20 million round of funding for Job Today, a Luxembourg startup which operates jobs marketplaces in London and Spain. Also involved in the round are Accel Partners, Mangrove Capital Partners, and Channel 4’s Commercial Growth Fund, Business Insider reported last week. Launched in Russia in 2013, Flint initially targeted domestic startups. Since then, …
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Findo, an artificial intelligence (A.I.) startup that’s setting out to help people find information buried in documents, files, email attachments, and more, has announced a $3 million funding round from Flint Capital, a fund with Russian roots, with an additional $1 million expected from a handful of “well-known” Silicon Valley angel investors. The news comes …
Russian service marketplace YouDo.com announced today the completion of a $6.2 million Series C financing round, led by Sistema Venture Capital. Existing investors Flint Capital, United Capital Partners and QIWI shareholder Sergey Solonin also took part in the round. The terms of the deal have not been disclosed. Launch in 2012, YouDo’s platform matches those …
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A Russian startup is launching in the U.S. this week to target the lucrative online lending market. Blackmoon launched initially in Russia last June, and has since rolled out into Poland, Latvia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, and Finland. Today, it opens its New York office and will begin the process of integrating with lenders in the …
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Virool, a San Francisco-based video ad startup founded in 2011 by a Russian team, has closed a Series A round of $12 million. The funding, which comes from Menlo Ventures, Yahoo Japan, 500 Startups and Flint Capital, will accelerate the company’s North America, Latin America and Europe plans. The company also aims to develop across the APAC region “with the strategic sense of …
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YouAppi, a San Francisco-based startup that has developed a Big Data-driven solution for mobile marketing, has raised $13.1 million from an international consortium of investors, including AltaIR, Emery Capital and Flint Capital, three funds with Russian roots. Also participating in this Series B round are Click Ventures, Digital Venture (Ukraine), Global Brain (Japan) and Hawk Ventures (USA) as well as …
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Russian venture fund Titanium Investments has injected $1 million in MUV Interactive, an Israel-based developer of innovative technologies for wearable interfaces. The investment, which will help the startup start serial production of Bird, its first product, took the form of a convertible loan, Russian business daily Kommersant reported today. The transaction brings the total amount raised by the startup …
Venture funds with Russian capital or Russian origins were far from being inactive this summer, which saw more than two dozens of significant deals made public and several new funds and accelerators launched. The invest-abroad trend, which started a few years ago, has been accelerating recently, as witnessed by the number of deals which involved US, Israeli, Asian and Australian …
In late June Tel Aviv-based Drippler, which provides personalized recommendations on apps, features, and accessories, announced that it raised $4.5 million in Series A funding which involved two Russia-connected funds – Titanium Investments, which led the round, and TMT Investments. Also contributing to the capital injection were iAngels, Reuven Agassi, Yanki Margalit, David Assia and Christian Gaiser. Selected by …
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Israeli startup Klear, formerly known as Twtrland, has raised $1.5 million in new funding from Altair and TMT Investments, two international venture funds with Russian backers. The company defines its product as “a social intelligence platform that helps you do smarter marketing.” It has rebranded to Klear, since the platform now looks at data from Facebook and Instagram in …
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Earlier this week Russian-Israeli startup Medviser announced that it has received half a million US dollars in investment from Roman Abramovich. The transaction was made via an undisclosed entity belonging to the Russian billionaire. It valued the company at $1,7 million post money, with the investor receiving a 30% stake. Medviser was founded in mid-2014 by Anna Danishevskaya, …
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Cream Finance, a European company that provides short-term consumer loans, has raised $6.2 million (€5 million, both debt and equity) from Flint Capital, a globalized Russian venture fund launched last year. Founded in 2010, Cream Finance is the parent company of CreditOn, LendOn, and CreditOne, consumer credit services that operate in Latvia, Czech Republic, Poland, Georgia, …
