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Center of Mathematical Finance
25 April 2015
Weekly overview of the venture capital industry
Authors: Uvarov Leonid (USA Overview) Batojargalov Bimba (Russia Overview)
Russia Weekly Overview
The creators of the reverse calls widget, CallbackHunter, launched acampaign called #спасибопацаны, supported by a further 9 Russiancompanies: JivoSite, LPGenerator, K-50, Mokselle, amoSRM, Uptimus,eLama, Sipuni.
10 Russian Startups united to give business “grants”
The Ministry of Communications will create a road transportation management service
The service will be designed to combine the municipal, regional and federallevel of public transport by coordinating the work of transport operators.Custom service will inform about changes public transport timetables.
Resaissance Insurance and MetaBeta will help startups to fully monetize
Participation in the program is open to projects from all segments of theeconomy. Priority is given for start-ups focused on auto and tourist markets.
BlaBlaCar is the largest service of joint road trips in EuropeThe BlaBlaCar company after the acquisition of the German startupCarpooling.com and Hungarian service Autohop became the dominant playerin its market
The most significant deals in Russia
Date Investor Target company Sum Industry Goal
21 April 2015 Angels Altair Capital $30m Technology, education, fintech
To invest in Israel ecosystem
21 April 2015 IIDF Bortnikov Fund 2do2go $11,25m Posters, media
Expand the product production
17 April 2015 Angels Roster $0,25m Social network Business devlopment
16 April 2015 Maxfield Capital eMoov $2,3m E-commerceReal Estate
Business developmentRecruitment
21 April 2015
Roman Abramovich and other music performers
Music Messenger $30m Entertainment Product development
ü Solomoto raised about $8 – 10 millions from Blumberg Capital Venture Fund by selling 25% of shares in March 2015
ü Estimated value is about $ 30 – 40 mln
ü Estimated revenue is about 5 million rubles per month
Business Model
SOLOMOTO – Project of the Week. Russia
• Solomoto is a marketing platform (SaaS) that gives small and medium businesses the power to unlock their digital marketing potential
• The platform is incredibly user friendly and does not require any tech knowledge
Investments
Sources: company web-site, rbc.ru/technology_and_media/
Markets
10%
90%
CIS
Russia
Team
30 thousand of users overall
Founder, CEO
Pasha Romanovsky
Founded in April 2014
USA Weekly Overview
vMicrosoft Announces Azure Service Fabric
vInternet ad revenue reaches record high in 2014
vTask management app Trello now boasts 8M users
vWhatsApp rolling out voice calling to all platforms
vGoogle Launches Its Own Wireless Service
Sources: techcrunch.com, vator.tv, venturebeat.com
The most significant deals in USA
Target company Sum Investor Goal
$145MDeveloping new
products;; Expanding operations
$15M Expanding course catalog
$30M Expand into new cities
$3MProduct development and engineering team
expansion
$50M Expanding to new cities inside the U.S.
Sources: techcrunch.com, vator.tv, venturebeat.com
Overview
ZIRX – Project of the Week. USA
Investments
Founded in April 2014
ZIRX, the leading on-demand valet and car services company
• Launched its on-demand valet service in San Francisco in June 2014
• Has grown revenue and users more than600x since launch
Series A $6.4M 09/2014
Series B $30M 04/2015