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Center of Mathematical Finance
2 May 2015
Weekly overview of the venture capital industry
Authors: Uvarov Leonid (USA Overview) Batojargalov Bimba (Russia Overview)
Russia Weekly Overview
"M.Video" has decided to develop as an online company. More than half of its customers are beginning to purchase from the site, so it will open new points in places most favorable to the ex
M.Video is online company
Russian Venture Company has launched a «corporate» program of acceleration of technological projects
The main partners of the program were started MTS, RusHydro, Jonson & Jonson and other corporations. They will be trained to work with startups.
GetTaxi is conducting a large-scale rebranding
«GetTaxi» changed its name to «Gett» and will launch new services in July 2015. With the updated application, users will be able to order new categories of services: food delivery, cleaning the house, flowers, manicure, massage and so on.
The service will be designed to combine the municipal, regional and federal level of public transport by coordinating the work of transport operators. Custom service will inform about changes public transport timetables.
The Ministry of Communications will create a road transportation management service
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
29 April 2015 Itech Capital Clickky $2m Advertising Business devlopment
27 April 2015 Psbank Venture Entrepreneurs from Vologda 4,4mRUB E-commerce
Real Estate
Business development Recruitment
21 April 2015 Private Investors MediaSync 10mRUB Media
To increase the effectiveness of
advertising campaigns
Business Model
SCORISTA – Project of the Week. Russia
• Scorista is SaaS-solution, online-service, that allows financial institutions to make fast and qualitative assessment of the solvency of the borrower (for 1 minute)
• The maximum loan amount is 100,000 rubles for one year
• Focuses on PDL and POS lending
Growth dynamics
Sources: company web-site, rbc.ru/technology_and_media/
Team
Founded in February 2013
Credit Organization
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Borrower’s data provided by client
Detailed examination and assessment of the creditworthiness
The decision to grant a loan
Roman Klotchkov Maria Veyhman Ivan Tretyakov
Managing Director
Business Development
Director
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Clients
Investments
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Life SREDA Moscow Seed Fund
USA Weekly Overview
! Uber reportedly launching new merchant delivery app
! PayPal brings its One Touch payments to the web ! Slow Ventures raises a new $65M fund
! Google launches a marketplace to buy patents from Interested Sellers
Sources: techcrunch.com, venturebeat.com
The most significant deals in USA
Target company Sum Investor Goal
$150M Expanding
$2.5M Expanding sales,
marketing and development teams
$50M Expand globally
$15M Innovate platform
$10M Broaden its feature set
Sources: techcrunch.com, vcnewsdaily.com, venturebeat.com
Overview
SCANADU – Project of the Week. USA
Investments
Founded in April 2014
Scanadu is a medical technology company developing devices that allow users to track and
monitor their health Seed $2M 11/2011
Crowdfunding $1.6M 06/2013
Series A $10.5M 11/2013
Series B $35M 04/2015
Sources: scanadu.com, crunchbase.com, venturebeat.com