Center of Mathematical Finance

2 May 2015

Weekly overview of the venture capital industry

Authors: Uvarov Leonid (USA Overview) Batojargalov Bimba (Russia Overview)

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

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  

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

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Borrower’s data provided by client

Detailed examination and assessment of the creditworthiness

The decision to grant a loan

Roman Klotchkov Maria Veyhman Ivan Tretyakov

Managing Director

Business Development

Director

CEO

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Clients

Investments

12m Rub

Life SREDA Moscow Seed Fund

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

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

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