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.

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Russian
VC
news
Sources:
vedomos-.ru,
• Final stage of the Russian Startup tour 2015 is
held in Krasnogorsk
• IIDF issued 18 projects fifth accelerator
• Life.SREDA launched FinTech Ranking -
fintech-news aggregator and is planning to invest
the remainder estimated to be worth $80M to
$90M, into startups in the Asia Pacific (APAC)

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Sources:
$2M $74K $1M $1,75M
Automated
platform that
enables mobile
applications to
attract audience,
monetize traffic,
analyze and
optimize its
quality
Chain of grocery
stores
Solutions for
operational
management,
combining
design and
process
approaches in a
single working
environment
Group health
insurance
quotes that
enable small
businesses to
estimate their
real out-of-
pocket costs
Startup
Raised
Capital
Investor
Product

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Sources:
VisionLabs
• winner
"Startup
of
the
Year"
award
• so<ware
for
paIern
recogni&on
and
conducts
research
ac-vi-es
in
the
field
of
computer
vision,
data
mining,
and
robo&cs
• included
in
the
list
of
5
best
companies
in
informa-on
technology
cluster
Fund
"Skolkovo"

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USA
VC
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Sources:
• Onex is selling Tropicana Las Vegas to penn national
gaming
• Square Enix, Microsoft, and Nvidia collaborate to produce
a believable crying human face
• Flint Capital Fund increased the amount to $100M in US
• DST Global Yuri Milner fund became the lead investor in the
round E for $150M, service p2p-lending
• Anonymous-sharing site Secret shuts down after just 16
months
• Twitter to pay $533M to buy TellApart

6. $15M $89M $100M $46M
Hadoop
applications
Genome-editing
technique for
altering the
genetic code
American brand
of Chinese-
manufactured
prescription
eyeglasses
and
sunglasses
Genetically
targeted heart
therapies
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Sources:
pevc.dowjones.com,
finsmes.com
Startup
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Capital
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Product

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Project
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Infinidat
Data Storage startup Infinidat raises $150M at $1.2B Valuation
Infinidat has been selling its product InfiniBox for about 18
months and claims Fortune 500 customers