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Auto technology startup Bright Box secures $1.5 million from Leta Capital

Leta Capital, the venture arm of Russian IT security solution provider Leta Group, has invested $1.5 million in Bright Box, a Russian company specialized in developing tech solutions for the auto industry. Bright Box’s solution, chistened Remoto, allows clients to remotely control vehicle functions such as climate control and locks via their mobile phone and to receive …

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Guard Capital invests $2.8 million in doctor social network

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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TC Disrupt winners – “pale imitations of Russian startups?”

Twelve months ago at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, Russia had its very own ‘pavilion’ on Startup Alley featuring some of Skolkovo’s best projects. How times have changed… This year Stanislav Sazhin, CEO of social network for health professionals, “Doctor at Work”, commented that “last year there was a whole crowd from Russia. This year it …

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Russian robots to keep households safe and sound

There are currently plenty of solutions on the international market that allow customers to ensure domestic safety with the help of special wireless sensors (motion sensors, smoke detectors, etc.). But these sensors have a number of drawbacks, such as incomplete coverage and lack of video confirmation, while multifunctional sensor devices are fairly expensive and are …

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Dream Industries is opening a new coworking space in the Central Telegraph building

On the 7th April we will open DI Telegraph right in the heart of Moscow and welcome the brightest, boldest and bravest start-ups from Russia and around the world to occupy it. DI Telegraph coworking has been created to bring together developers, startups and creatives in one space and provide them with all the raw …

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Angel investment grew fourfold in 2013

Russia’s National Association of Business Angels (NABA), Atom Partners, a Moscow-based investment consultancy and high-tech investor, and RVC, the state-owned fund of funds dedicated to innovation, have presented the results of their 2013 business angel investing study. Tapping into a wide variety of open information sources, the partners found in their report that Russian business …

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Forbes identifies Russia’s top 10 venture capitalists

Last week, the Russian edition of Forbes released a list of 10 top Russian venture capitalists whom it identified as being “the most successful.” In the last four years, these investors have earned approximately $3.6 billion from mainly Internet-related projects. The ranking uses the same methodology as American Forbes for The Midas List, the global …

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TA Venture Managing Director and IDCEE organizer Viktoriya Tigipko: “Kiev is an entry point for international VCs for Central and Eastern Europe”

Not only is Mrs Tigipko one of these exquisitely educated and beautiful ladies one can meet in Kiev, she also is an inexhaustible source of ideas and energy when it comes to innovation and venture activity. In a mere three years, she has transformed a Kiev event, IDCEE, into the international face of the East-European startup and venture scene. …

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Onetwotrip acquires US hotel booking startup DealAngel, Bright Capital celebrates first exit

Moscow-based online flight ticket retailer Onetwotrip.com, one of the fastest growing startups on the Russian scene, has fully acquired DealAngel, a startup that has developed an advanced hotel booking technology. The news, revealed earlier this week by the Russian business daily Vedmosti, was confirmed to East-West Digital News by Onetwotrip’s founder and CEO Peter Kutis.

Tvigle launches new SaaS platform to distribute and monetize video content

At a moment when the Russian online video market is witnessing notable evolutions due to the tightening of the copyright legislation, Tvigle.ru, a major Russian video entertainment portal, has launched an enhanced version of its SaaS video publishing platform. Christened ‘Video Publisher Cloud,’ the platform allows publishers to convert, store, and distribute their video content, …

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