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.

1. WEEKLY
REPORT
Team 1

2. 1. INDUSTRY NEWS. RUSSIA
PROJECT RENTMANIA WAS
SELECTED BY EUROPEAN STARTUP
ACCELERATOR SAUNA
VISIONLABS WAS RECOGNIZED AS BEST
STARTUP OF THE YEAR IN SKOLKOVO
QIWI SELECTED SEVEN STARTUPS
FOR CREATING SERVICE QIWI TRAVEL
REVENUE OF"YANDEX.TAXI" TRIPLED
IN THE FIRST QUARTER OF 2015.
RVC LAUNCHED AN ACCELERATOR
FOR TECHNOLOGY STARTUPS
GENERATION S 2015
REVENUE OF AVITO INCREASED BY
42% IN I QUARTER OF 2015

3. 2. SIGNIFICANT PROJECTS. RUSSIA
IIDF WILL INVEST 210 MILLION
RUBLES IN THE GROUP-IB
LIFE.SREDA WILL INVEST UP TO $ 90
MILLION IN ASIAN FIN-TECH START-
UPS
VENTURE FUND OF PSB INVESTED
4.4 MILLION RUBLES IN VOLOGDA
STARTUP
ITECH CAPITAL INVESTED $ 2 MILLION
IN THE PLATFORM OF MOBILE
ADVERTISING CLICKKY
FLINT CAPITAL FUND INCREASED ITS
VOLUME FROM $ 50 TO $ 100 MILLION
AND WENT TO THE US MARKET
COMINDWARE RECEIVED 59.4 MILLION
RUBLES FROM "SKOLKOVO" AND
PRIVATE INVESTORS

4. 3. PROJECT OF THE WEEK. RUSSIA
B2B CENTER AND ICANDELIVER
START THE SERVICE FOR
CALCULATION OF THE COST AND FOR
ORDER OF LOGISTICS SERVICES.
DATE AMOUNT INVESTORS
10/11/14 $3,000,000 PRIVATE

5. 4. INDUSTRY NEWS. USA
STARTUP SECRET, SUPPORTED BY
GOOGLE VENTURES, AND IS
ESTIMATED AT $ 100 MILLION,
STOPS ITS BUSINESS
QUARTERLY REPORT OF
TWITTER BROUGHT DOWN
COMPANY QUOTES BY 18%
GOOGLE WILL DIRECT $ 163
MILLION TO EUROPEAN NEWS
MEDIA AND START-UPS IN THE
FIELD OF JOURNALISM
GETTAXI CARRIES OUT A LARGE-
SCALE REBRANDING
MICROSOFT INTRODUCED OFFICE
WITH INTEGRATED UBER,
LINKEDIN AND OTHER SERVICES
APPLE PROHIBITED DEVELOPERS TO
RELEASE APPLICATIONS -WATCHES
FOR APPLE WATCH

6. 5. SIGNIFICANT PROJECTS. USA
BIG DATA STARTUP DATATORRENT
ADDS ON $15M
VALIDIC RAISES ANOTHER $12.5M
FOR HEALTH INTEGRATION
PLATFORM
SINGAPORE’S DOCDOC LANDS
$8.6M SERIES A TO HELP PEOPLE
FIND MEDICAL SPECIALISTS
FOODPANDA RAISES $100M FROM
GOLDMAN SACHS AND ROCKET
INTERNET
GOLDMAN SACHS WILL INVEST $ 50
MILLION IN BITCOIN STARTUPS
CIRCLE
DST GLOBAL INVESTED IN THE P2P-
LOAN SERVICE FUNDING CIRCLE

7. 6. PROJECT OF THE WEEK. USA
DATE AMOUNT INVESTORS
30/04/15 $350,000,000 TECHNOLOGY
CROSSOVER VENTURES
AND OTHERS
SPOTIFY HAD A VALUATION OF $8 BILLION, ACCORDING TO THE
CNBC REPORT
SPOTIFY, ONE OF THE MOST
POPULAR MUSIC STREAMING
SERVICES AVAILABLE TODAY,
HAS RAISED A NEW $350
MILLION ROUND OF FUNDING
TEAM OF PROJECT:
DANIEL EK MARTIN LORENTZON