1. Center of Mathematical Finance
2 May 2015
Weekly overview of the venture capital industry
Authors: Uvarov Leonid (USA Overview)
Batojargalov Bimba (Russia Overview)
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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
1
2
3
Borrower’s data provided by client
Detailed examination and
assessment of the creditworthiness
The decision to grant a loan
Roman KlotchkovMaria Veyhman Ivan Tretyakov
Managing
Director
Business
Development
Director
CEO
0
10000
20000
Clients
Investments
12m
Rub
Life SREDA Moscow Seed Fund
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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
