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🔹EMERGE launches a free online bootcamp for startups, that will take place on 1 - 5 March 2021.
⚡️Link to apply: https://emergeconf.io/emerge-u#apply
The program will cover all the key steps you need to take in order to get accepted into incubators, accelerators or pitch competitions. Boot camp experts will give practical insights on how to improve your chances to get accepted and how to present your product or manage external communications.
All participants will get EMERGE 2021 ticket discount! Also, at the end of the EMERGE U 10 startups who will get FREE Startup Tickets to EMERGE tech conference (12 - 14 May, 2021) will be chosen and top 3 will be listed in EMERGE 100 emerging startups report.
🚀 The fundraising world lives by its own rules and etiquette. Every now and then potential investors are asked to show various documents from One Pager to Cap Table. Among them is a pitch deck, in other words, the very PowerPoint presentation that we learned to make back in school. But the slides flashing behind your back have a special magic in this case as they can strongly influence the decision to invest in your project.
Let’s find out what slides a pitch deck must include and how to compose it! ⬇️
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🔹 Investments in the imagiLabs startup versus the IT gender gap
The IT labor market is not gender balanced neither in Europe nor in the United States. Even the most advanced companies in theory suffer from a gender gap among employees: 37% of women worked on Facebook last year, while in 2019 their number was less than 0.1%.
🌟 The solution is to normalize the representation of women in computer science — and you can start at an early age. This logic is echoed by today's news: Stockholm EduTech startup imagiLabs raised € 250.000 at the Pre-Seed round.
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🔸Not just bad mood: investments in Mental Health and funding round of the Inflow startup
We have already talked about the latest developments in the field of Mental health: large companies working with suppression of states, emotional burnout, depressive episodes. But a few days ago it became known that the Pre-seed round was raised by the Inflow startup, created by people with ADHD for people with ADHD.
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Do you remember CEO of nect MODEM Misha, who recently told us about crowdfunding and why a startup needs it?
We are glad to present you the second part: pros and cons of crowdfunding 💸
As a reminder, nect MODEM successfully conducted a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo, raising $350,000 from 3000 backers for product development.
You can read more about the startup here.
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💥 Startup Artie challenged the App Store and Epic Games, for which it raised $10M.
🎮 While the monopolists were mired in conflict, the Artie team created a platform that forced everyone to rethink mobile game distribution: now games can be launched directly from other apps and messengers, not just downloaded from stores.
Read more in our article ⬇️
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Broadly speaking, venture capital funds and private equity funds live at the forefront of technological processes. They invest in innovations, move the technology market forward, but at the same time, most of the funds use the same simple programs for their internal work processes that they did at the start of activities. Some switch from Excel to Google cloud products, but with the growth and development of the investment fund, there is a need for a full-fledged specialized IT product.
The AIRR project responded to this market request.
We talked with its founder and CFO of iTech Capital Natalya Chikina about the market of IT products for investors, how the idea of creating AIRR came up and how it has been transformed in the process. ⬇️
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🇺🇦 Results of 2020 in the venture capital sector of Ukraine.
In our new review, we have collected all the main events from the Ukrainian venture market, made a rating of investments in Ukrainian startups, and also compared our forecasts for 2020 and the events that really happened.
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We are about to celebrate Valentine’s Day, but in today’s news, there will be nothing about classic dating apps, nothing even about the IPO of Bumble. It’s about gaming only.
Telling about 2up and Powder startups 🌼
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Clockster is a Kazakh startup that solved the problem with discipline, and was able to improve internal communication and simplify the lives of accountants and HR managers.
It all started with a simple accounting of working hours, and now it has grown into a whole HR system, for which they are ready to pay not only in the CIS, but also in the countries of Southeast Asia.
Read more about Clockster in our new article ⬇️
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Max Skibinsky is an entrepreneur and a venture investor. He is the CEO and co-founder of Vault12. He was also an investment partner in the legendary Andreessen Horowitz for several years. Max has been living in Silicon Valley for over 25 years “making” startups, one of which has been sold to Disney.
Max spoke on air at Angel Talks about Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, explains why foundations have no future, and how we can become investors.
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💸 Have an idea, but no money to implement it?
Fortunately, today there are many answers to the question of where to get funds for the implementation of the project. We understand the main sources of funding and help for startups.
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We found out from iHub co-founder Dimitri Podoliev how Ukrainian business has changed since the Maidan, why Kyiv is getting closer to European IT capitals, and how to get a grant from the Ukrainian Startup Fund.
🦄 iHUB — a network of startup hubs, which combines coworking, acceleration programs and event production in Kyiv, Lviv, Vinnytsia and Chisinau, was founded in 2012. iHub also develops its own startups ― for instance, in April 2020, the Mindly psychologist recruitment service was announced.
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The computer games market is growing gradually, but steadily: experts expect that it will be estimated at $200B by 2023.
This week Latitude startup attracted the interest of investors and raised $3.3 million of investments in the Seed round financing. The company creates games with infinite storylines with the help of AI.
What makes the project special — read in the new note 🎮
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“Users need new specialized social networks,” said the hero of one of our previous articles FLIIST startup. There is a startup that has registered on the Rocket DAO platform, which confirms this thesis: the TeenUP team has launched an educational social network for teenagers.
🌟 The project is actively growing, and we talked to Olga Ivanenko, the CEO of TeenUP, about all the details.
🎈Pre-seed round for a rather large amount of $2M was recently raised by the Latvian FinTech startup ZELF. The process was led by the Austrian venture fund 3VC with the participation of Seed X, Hard Yaka and several private investors, among which the co-founder ICQ can be noted.
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🎮 A separate place in the gaming niche, the news of which we often write, is occupied by the fantasy sports sector. Using characters and behavior scenarios from real sports, fantasy games give access and the opportunity for console and Internet users to simulate a sport game themselves. The entire market for such gaming in 2019 was estimated at $18.6B, and by 2027 experts expect it to grow to $8.6B.
Today it became known about the raise of A round of $50M by the French startup Sorare, a platform for the sale of virtual cards of fantasy football players.
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📣You can understand the fund’s philosophy from its name: The Untitled Ventures prioritizes the achievements of its projects. Perhaps this helped them become one of the key players in the market and bring together two dozen startups, whose products impress even those inexperienced in new technologies.
Managing Partner of The Untitled Ventures Konstantin Siniushin told Startup Jedi what the fund initially focused on and what factors shifted this focus. He also shared what is happening on the Russian venture capital market, why the fund does not have to compete for startups and how they select portfolio projects.
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🔹 $650 thousand a year on automatization― the Ukrainian created 3 CRM and launches a new Supplio startup
4 years ago, the company AI Helps consisted of five people, and among them ― one developer, also the founder, Adam Golovenko. The change in strategy allowed them to grow to 45 people and a turnover of $650 thousand per year.
We talked about these successful changes and the new project.
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🔢 Photomath is an EduTech startup that helps millions solve math problems using AR technology. The app immediately became very popular and continues to increase its turnover as well as attract new investments. This time Photomath received $23M in Series B funding.
🔎 Read more in our article ⬇️
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🔵 Startup Circle raises $4M in financing.
The success of the platform lies in creating a community around itself. Circle users can create discussions, online meetings with community members, moderator jobs, and other necessary things for communication. The main difference is that this is done only under your own brand.
🔎 Read more in our article
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Valentine's Day is over, but the revolution in the world of dating apps continues. 💘 Jigsaw has declared war on the classic dating app model, and it looks like it might win. Yesterday, the project raised $3.7M in Seed financing and now the application has more than 150 thousand users.
What makes Jigsaw different and why Tinder may lose its popularity? All the details are in our new article ⬇️
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M&A deals, or mergers and acquisitions, are deals to sell a company or merge with another business. For startups, M&A deals usually take place when the founders leave, although they can also be done for other purposes, such as merging with another startup to integrate products.
Ekaterina Logvinovich, junior lawyer at SBH Law Offices, tells in detail how a startup should prepare for an M&A deal, what its preliminary stages are, how to define goals for an M&A deal, and other aspects in today's article.
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🧘♀️ The last few weeks have brought a lot of important news from the world of self-care and mental health. The market for apps that allow you to "take care of yourself" with the support of experts or special programs is growing every day and is attracting investment.
Let's see which Mental Health startups have raised new investments and what is the special feature of each one 👇
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🔹 Startup Uptime has raised $16M in Seed rounds
The platform consists of a summary of various educational content that takes no more than 5 minutes. The success is in the fact that EdTech-project has adapted to the current demands of the times and offered its solutions to the market. But now Uptime lends itself to more and more criticism and accusations of bad faith.
Details in the article👇
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🎓 SplashLearn announced yesterday that it had raised $8M in Series C. The project has raised $25M in its 10-year history, and 40 million students are now registered on the platform.
The startup's creators aim to solve one of the main problem faced by the educational system today is the reluctance of children to learn with the old methods and tools.
Read more in the article 🔎
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🔹 Yesterday, the management of the Reddit portal announced that it had raised $250M in Series E. During 16 years of existence, the platform has raised a total of $800 million!
Why the platform has had such colossal growth, and what has influenced it? Find the answers in our new article 👇
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⚡️ We have great news for you:
We decided to simplify the task for novice business angels and together with Anna, the manager of investclub.vc, prepared a large instruction on venture investing, after studying which there will be no questions about how the venture market works.
Read the article and download the guide for free 🔥
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The main competitor of TikTok, Kuaishou, went public, opening its shares in Hong Kong some days ago. The shares showed an increase of 194% of their price during the first day. As a result, the company received $5.4 billion — experts call it the largest listing after Uber’s.
Find the details in the article⚡️
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Indian startup MPL (Mobile Premier League) raised $95M at a valuation of nearly a billion. The previous round was less than six months ago for $90M with a valuation half as much.
MPL is a mobile eSports platform that is only 2.5 years old, but it has already gathered 60 million users in India and 3.5 million in Indonesia.
What is special about this startup? Find the details in the article 😊