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1. Weekly Report
Team 3
CMF MSU
Analytics Venture
Academy

2. Significant news, Russia
RAVI published a review of the venture capital market in
2014. According to it the flexibility of Russian Venture
Industry is the key to countering current crisis.
B2B Center together with iCanDeliver launched
service for the calculation of the cost of the order
and logistics services.
QIWI Group and service LifePay test function of
mobile payment using Qiwi Wallet in various
places in Moscow.
IIDF plans to invest 210 million rubles in the company
Group-IB, specializing in information security, subject to
achievement of certain KPIs.
Source: rusbase.vc
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3. Significant deals, Russia 2
MediaSync Clickky
₽10M
Lead investor
Private investors
$2M
Lead Investor
iTech Capital
Sources: Rusbase
Comindware
₽29,7M
Lead investor
Skolkovo

4. Project of the week, Russia 3
Source: Siliconrus
LiteUp – is a network for artists, producers and
fans. It allows to:
• Read news;
• Publish new music;
• Communicate with fans;
• Buy and sell tickets.

5. Significant news, USA
Twitter acquires ad technology company TellApart
and partners with Google’s DoubleClick.
More than a million people signed into
Periscope in its first 10 days.
PayPal brings its One Touch payments to the
web.
Uber reportedly planning merchant-delivery
service with Tiffany, Louis Vuitton, other brands.
Source: techcrunch.com, crunchbase.com, bloomberg.com
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6. StartUp Million $ Series Main Investors
50 D Scripps Networks Interactive
35 B
Three Leaf Ventures
AME Cloud Ventures
Redmile Group
Relay Ventures
Tencent Holdings
34,3 F GE Ventures
20,5 C
Spark Capital
Scout Ventures
Georgian Partners
OpenView Venture Partners
Launch Fund
15 B
Morado Venture Partners
August Capital
AME Cloud Ventures
GE Ventures
SingTel Innov8
Significant deals, USA 5
Sources: TechCrunch; CrunchBase

7. Project of the week, USA 6
Source: techcrunch
mobile, messaging, on-demand economy
How does it work?
An app that uses a network of
human ‘Operators‘ to fulfill
customer requests
Greylock Partners
$10 million funding
1. Send an instant text
message that you want a
new pair of sunglasses
2. The request is routed to
human Operators with
expertise
3. The Operator messages
you back with purchase
options that you can give
feedback on.
4. Operator sends you
receipts in-line, and has
the product shipped to
you.

8. Meet our brilliant team 7
Alex Demachev - Significant news, Russia
Julia Rusinova - Project of the week, USA
Anna Rakovskaya - Significant news & Significant deals USA
Kirill Yatsushko - Significant deals & Project of the week, Russia