Team 1's weekly report summarizes industry news and significant projects from Russia and the US. In Russia, Project Rentmania was selected by a European accelerator, VisionLabs was named best startup of the year, and revenue increased for Yandex.Taxi, Avito, and other companies. Significant investments were made in Group-IB, Asian fintech startups, a Vologda startup, and a mobile ad platform. In the US, Secret stopped operations after raising $100 million, Twitter's stock fell on its quarterly report, and investments were made in data, healthcare, and food delivery startups. Spotify raised $350 million at an $8 billion valuation.
Team 1's weekly report summarizes industry news and significant projects from Russia and the US. In Russia, Project Rentmania was selected by a European accelerator, VisionLabs was named best startup of the year, and revenue increased for Yandex.Taxi, Avito, and other companies. Significant investments were made in Group-IB, Asian fintech startups, a Vologda startup, and a mobile ad platform. In the US, Secret stopped operations after raising $100 million, Twitter's stock fell on its quarterly report, and investments were made in data, healthcare, and food delivery startups. Spotify raised $350 million at an $8 billion valuation.
The document provides a weekly overview of venture capital news from Russia and the USA. In Russia, M.Video will focus more on online sales, GetTaxi is rebranding as Gett and expanding its services, and the Ministry of Communications will create a new public transportation management service. The most significant deals include investments in 2do2go, Clickky, and MediaSync. In the USA, Uber is launching a new delivery app, PayPal brings payments to the web, and Slow Ventures raises a new $65M fund. The document also highlights the medical device startup Scanadu and its progress in raising funding rounds totaling over $48M since 2014 to develop health monitoring devices.
The weekly report from Team 4 summarizes Russian and US startup news and deals. In Russia, B2B Center launched a logistics cost calculation service with iCanDeliver, while the IIDF accelerator released its fifth set of projects. MediaSync raised $2 million for mobile advertising and Valery Kashin raised 59.4 million rubles for project management software. In the US, an eye tracking analytics platform raised $5 million, an online job marketplace raised $7.8 million, and a digital health platform raised $12.5 million. The best deal was Scanadu receiving $35 million for mobile medical devices.
This weekly report from Analytics Venture Capital summarizes recent news in Russian and US venture capital markets. In Russia, the final stage of the Russian Startup Tour was held and the IIDF issued grants to 18 projects. Life.SREDA also launched a FinTech ranking and plans to invest $80-90M in Asian startups. VisionLabs won awards for its pattern recognition software. In the US, Onex sold Tropicana Las Vegas, companies collaborated on human crying faces, funds like Flint Capital increased in size, and data storage startup Infinidat raised $150M.
The document is a guide to venture capital term sheets published by the British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (BVCA). It provides an overview of what a term sheet is, the venture capital investment process, common terms included in term sheets, and an example term sheet for a Series A funding round. The guide aims to help those raising venture capital understand typical investment structures and terms to facilitate negotiating term sheets and completing funding rounds.
The document provides an overview of recent developments in the venture capital industries of Russia and the USA. In Russia, 10 startups united to provide business grants, the Ministry of Communications will create a transportation management service, and Renaissance Insurance and MetaBeta will help startups monetize. Significant deals include Altair Capital investing $30M in technology and Blumberg Capital investing $8-10M in Solomoto. In the USA, Microsoft announced Azure Service Fabric, internet ad revenue reached a record high in 2014, and WhatsApp is rolling out voice calling to all platforms. Significant deals include a $145M investment and a $30M expansion into new cities. An overview of the on-demand valet company
This document outlines the pricing and features of three tiers - BASIC, UPPER, and FREE+ - for a machine learning service. The BASIC tier costs $0.3 per model with a $50 monthly fee and allows 100 uploads. The UPPER tier costs $0.3 per model with a $150 monthly fee and allows 500 uploads with additional features like order automation. The FREE+ tier is free but charges $0.15 per model.
The document discusses several sectors within the Internet of Things market in Russia including healthcare, smart homes, transport, and smart buildings. It provides forecasts for growth rates and market sizes for each sector. Overall, it finds that while the Russian IoT market is still behind Western countries and will remain so, it is expected to increase 86% by 2020 to $980 million. Several challenges to growth are outlined such as poor internet coverage, insufficient financing, and lack of coordination within the healthcare sector. Transportation is seen as having potential but developing slowly due to these factors. Smart homes are the fastest growing segment in Russia currently.
The document discusses the Internet of Things (IoT) market in Russia. It provides an overview of how IoT projects make money, the potential Russian market, challenges, and opportunities. Specifically, it outlines five stages of monetization for IoT projects from hardware sales to commodity services. It also analyzes the best investment opportunities in three blocks - short term areas like home automation and healthcare, medium term infrastructure development, and long term artificial intelligence.
The document discusses the Internet of Things (IoT) market, including key statistics. It is estimated that the number of connected devices will grow from around 5 billion in 2015 to over 50 billion by 2020. The total economic value of IoT is forecast to reach up to $6.2 trillion by 2025. The document also examines the growing wearable devices market and provides examples of significant IoT projects in Russia.