Preply, a platform to find foreign language tutors for home or Skype lessons, has just entered the Polish market with a localized version of its website. Launched in 2012 by Kirill Bigai, Serge Lukianov and Dmytro Voloshyn, the startup initially developed across the Ukrainian, Russian, Belarussian and Kazakhstani markets.
SDI Research, a Moscow-based “semantic data integrator,” will receive a $335,000 grant from Skolkovo for the development of a next-gen semantic master data management (MDM) system to store and sync data. A reported by the Skolkovo Foundation, the effort will require an estimated $670,000 overall. The developer is expected to raise the remaining 50% from other …
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Anews, an international global news-reading service with a built-in behavioral advertising network, has received $2.7 million from TMT Investments, Run Capital, 101 Startup and several individual investors. As reported by Rusbase, TMT Investments and Run Capital each invested $1 million, in exchange for minority stakes in the company. “With its strong team, with a wealth …
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Earlier this week Seattle-based startup LendingRobot completed a $3 million funding round led by Runa Capital, a venture firm operating globally from its offices in Moscow and San Francisco. Club Italia Investimenti II also participated in the round along with individual investors, but the amount of their respective contributions was not disclosed. An automated investment service for online lending, LendingRobot claims to serve more than …
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Just one year after Russia saw the launch of its first hardware-oriented accelerator, DI Group, a Tomsk, Siberia-based high tech group, has launched a “venture fund-accelerator” targeting startups in the fields of smartphones, electronics, gadgets and Internet projects. The acceleration program of up to six months encompasses the industrial design and the marketing aspects of each …
Vaizra Investments, the fund belonging to VKontakte founders Lev Leviev and Vyacheslav Mirilashvili, has invested in startups Moovit and Boxed. Moovit is an Israeli app which helps users to plan journeys on public transport, and Boxed is a US app for wholesale buyers. Moovit monitors levels of traffic and the schedules of different forms of public transport in …
GeoCV, a startup which is developing a mobile app for creating 3D-models of interiors using mobile sensors, has received $100k investment from Starta Capital and the Moscow Seed Fund. Starta Capital provided a third of the funding, with the rest coming from the Moscow Seed Fund. GeoCV will also receive a further $50k from Starta Capital in the …
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Last week Croice, whose mobile app allows you to create photo stories with a background audio, announced its first round of financing with $500,000 brought in by venture fund Imperious Group. Launched earlier this year by Russian entrepreneur Vadim Zhernov, the St. Petersburg-based startup presents its app as “a new media format.” The photo stories, named …
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A tech startup that is looking to make those hellish trips to the shoe store a thing of the past has won a grant of 15 million rubles (approximately $275,000 at the current exchange rate) from Skolkovo Foundation. Fitanny’s virtual shoe fitter compares your foot structure to the type of shoe you’re interested in, and then …
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The founders of MaxTelCom believe their technology can bring fiber-optic networks to every apartment and office, which will boost the quality and speed of the internet by dozens if not hundreds of times compared to what we are familiar with today. The company plans to make its debut on the international market in 2015. The …
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