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TMT Investments injects $250,000 into ‘Internet of everything’ startup Weaved

Last week TMT Investments, a UK-headquartered venture fund backed by Russian businessmen, announced the completion of a $250,000 investment in Palo-Alto headquartered Weaved in exchange for a 2.69% stake in the company’s capital. Weaved’s mission is “to become the ‘DNS’ for the Internet of Everything”. To that end, it is developing software and services that allow devices to be securely connected via …

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Maxfield Capital invests in Israeli English-learning app SpeakingPal

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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Parallels secures more than $5 million from Maxfield Capital and takes a stake in Xform Computing

Last week Maxfield Capital, a Moscow-based $100 million venture fund, announced it had acquired a “minority stake” in Parallels in exchange for a capital injection of “more than $5 million.” A global provider of cloud enabling and desktop virtualization solutions founded by a Russian team in 1999, Parallels has “attractive IPO or M&A [perspectives],” the fund …

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Russian-American startup iBuildApp raises $525,000 to develop in Asia and Latin America

iBuildApp, a California-based startup with Russian roots, has raised $525,000 from Eugene Miller and Constantine Filin to further develop its mobile app building technology and expand internationally. The iBuildApp platform allows anyone to build mobile applications for iPhone and Android without any programming skills. Templates are available for different industries, from banks and restaurants to universities, schools …

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German web hosting startup Cloudpartner.de secures €1.5 million from Runa Capital

Berlin-based web hosting startup cloudpartner.de has raised €1.5 million from Runa Capital, a Moscow-based venture fund operating internationally. This Series A round – the terms of which have not been disclosed – will help the company provide managed services from infrastructure based entirely in Germany. With the many privacy concerns raised after the extent of the US government’s international espionage operations became known, Cloudpartner.de …

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TechCrunch Moscow’s 4th edition will “detox innovation”

The fourth edition of TechCrunch Moscow will take place on Dec. 8-9, 2013, with the participation of leading Russian and international technology entrepreneurs and investors. This year, TechCrunch Moscow’s key theme is “Innovation Detox.” We will take a step back from exploring new frontiers and focus instead on how technology is affecting our lives, from …

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Mail.ru Group “invades America”

Earlier this week the Mail.Ru Group, a top Russian Internet group listed on the London Stock Exchange, announced the US launch of My.com, which is developing English language communication and entertainment applications. By installing its subsidiary in the heart of Silicon Valley, the group is following in the footsteps of Russian tech giants such as …

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New fund and incubator ImpulseVC to invest $65 million in Russian Internet startups

A new early stage technology support entity called ImpulseVC was launched last week in Moscow to invest in new media and web-based entertainment startups. ImpulseVC includes a venture fund, an accelerator and an incubator. The founders of Sape.ru, a six-year-old online exchange that buys and sells links from a wide variety of websites and is estimated …

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JavaScript error tracker Qbaka raises $200,000 in seed-stage funding from Maxfield Capital and angel investor Igor Ryabenkiy

Last week Maxfield Capital, a Moscow-based $100 million venture fund, and Altair, the investment vehicle of serial business angel Igor Ryabenkiy, announced a seed-stage investment in Qbaka, an award-winning startup developing a solution to track JavaScript errors on web services. The round amounted to $200,000, but may be completed with other investors, Qbaka’s co-founder Andrey …

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New $30 million fund expects 45% return rate; makes first investment in task outsourcing service Youdo.com

Former executives of Finam Global, the venture arm of leading Russian financial group Finam, have launched a $30 million high-tech fund to invest in “fast-growing markets of considerable size.” Christened ‘Flint Capital,’ the fund comes as the fifth sizeable one launched in Russia since the beginning of the year – after FRII, a $200 million …

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$100 million Russian fund Maxfield Capital invests in Java application hosting platform Jelastic

Last week Palo Alto, California-based startup Jelastic, which offers a cloud-based hosting platform for Java application developers, announced that it has secured an investment from Maxfield Capital, a $100 million Russian venture fund that focuses on the IT and Internet segments. The startup, which has Ukrainian and Russian roots, also announced the appointment of Silicon …

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