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💸 Farfetch sells a black Balenciaga baseball cap for $380. And the exact same noname brand cap will cost $10. It’s 38 times more expensive just because of the brand.
👆Never underestimate the impact of a brand, and a startup should start working in this direction as early as possible.
Darya Ksenzova, brand manager of Zubr Capital Investment Company, the first company managing private equity funds in the Republic of Belarus, will tell you about
🔸 the importance of having a strong brand
🔸and share some practical advice
in today’s article ⬇
#news
🔹 EdTech startup Arbolus raises $6M in funding from Plug and Play Ventures, a well-known VC in the Valley.
🎓 Arbolus is a platform of expert knowledge that enables the preservation of experiences and insights gained from the interaction between companies and professionals.
This technology helps to further leverage the information gained and makes it searchable, which is much more effective than a conventional interview that takes resources away from both parties.
🔎 Read more about Arbolus in our article ⬇
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🇺🇦 Ukrainian startup 3DLOOK raises $6.5M in Series A.
👕This app will help you stop being afraid to buy things online without fitting. 3DLOOK can scan a person's body in just 2 photos and then uses AI to accurately calculate physical parameters (yes, you don't need to take measurements yourself!) and selects the right size of clothes.
Among the company's clients are more than 100 brands, including international ones, such as the giants of the uniform market Safariland and Fechheimer Bros.
⚡ And that's not all the benefits of the startup! 🔎 Read more about 3DLOOK in our new article:
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💥 Recruitment for the Global
Pilots programme is open!
The 12 selected projects will get a boost to enter the global market, assistance in finding international customers, as well as the opportunity to pass to leading accelerators in the US and Europe.
⏰ Deadline: 22 March 2021
👉 More information about the programme and link to the application:
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🕹 The gaming fan platform Overwolf, known for its work with the UGC (User-generated content) marketing tool, raises $52.5M in Series C financing.
The company allows the creation of custom modifications and add-on tools for all types of PC games, and the raised round further highlights how interest in UGC is growing in the gaming industry.
🔎 More info in the article:
📣 From May 12 to 14, one of the largest international technology conferences, EMERGE, will be held online.
As part of the conference, the annual startup competition EMERGE CHALLENGE will be held. Startups with high expert ratings will be awarded in several categories, and the grand prize of this year's competition is €10 000.
⏰ You can apply for participation until April 20.
👉 More information about the conference and applying in the article:
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🇪🇪Tallinn-based startup Promoty raises €1.2M in a crowdfunding round. The round should have ended at the figure of $80 000, but in 28 hours the figure increased.
The platform was founded in October 2017. Promoty focuses on creating partnerships directly between brands and Influencers, thereby getting rid of the often costly and time-consuming agency middlemen.
🔎 More information in the article
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👑 Nearly everyone working with product promotion knows that content is the king of marketing. Old school TV ads are no longer relevant for zoommers and millennials who are actually the most active consumers that will be shaping the market of tomorrow. Native advertising is also not very trusted.
🤔 How to promote a product without causing rejection from the audience? The answer is simple - through the audience itself.👥 It might sound surprising but in recent years almost all successful brands have been using this method. They promote the product through user generated content, also known as UGC.
Let’s see what it is and how to work with it ⬇️
#startup_of_the_day
🔹 The reduction of the number of suicide attempts is the goal set by the Ukrainian startup Bicovery. The team is developing an algorithm to help people with bipolar disorder to recognize the signs of an upcoming of depressive or manic episode in time, which means to adjust the treatment in time.
In an interview with Bicovery CEO Alexander Sharko, we discussed essential information about this disease, MedTech startups and the history of the app. ⬇️
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Today we are back with the CEO of the nect MODEM team, Misha, who has already told us about crowdfunding. 💸
In the third part, Misha shares his personal experience and tell what are the 3 main lessons he learned during the Nect MODEM crowdfunding campaign. Let's watch! 🚀
🙋♀️ A small reminder: nect MODEM successfully conducted a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo, raising $350 000 from 3 000 backers for product development.
You can read more about the startup at the link
🧒 Alpha are the representatives of the newest generation, children of zoomers and millennials born after 2010. By 2025 there will be 2 billion of them in the world.
Today we’ll discuss how alphas use technology and what kind of content they consume.
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#investor_of_the_day
🔸 Last year was hard for lots of people, but as practice shows, hard times are really a time of opportunities. 😺 The founders of the fund with one of the most unusual names in the venture world — cats.vc —-decided to use that period and launch.
How does it feel to create a fund from scratch? Why was this name chosen? How does a "non-boring" venture company work?
About all these facts says Max Chebotarev, Managing Partner of the fund cats.vc.
Read now 👀
🦄 Newness startup raised Seed round of $3.5M last week, led by Sequoia and featuring a number of business angels.
Launched in 2019 by ex-Twitch employees, the project is a streaming platform for beauty bloggers that allows them to develop tools for the specific goals of content creators and the specifics of their community.
News of the day 👐
Today, Turkey is one of the strongest hubs for the development of mobile games (especially puzzles). Last year Zynga, the largest player among mobile gaming companies, acquired the Istanbul-based startup Peak Games for $1.8B. Zynga then acquired Rollic — another Turkish mobile games company.
In 2019, the guys from Peak Games launched their own Dream Games studio, which raised round A of $50M 🤩
Great 🎮
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🛸Today we start the cycle “Technologies of the future”, where we will consider in detail the most popular of them in the near future in our opinion.
🚗 And the first of these technologies is transport, based on an autonomous control system.
How is autonomous transport doing now and will we soon be able to drive a car "without hands"? 😍
Answers in our new article⬇
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📣 Pavel Durov has announced a $1B bond sale to large investors.
Previously, Durov had partially denied that such a thing could happen, but yesterday it became known about the deal.
Interestingly, the investors were two funds from Abu Dhabi. The participants said it was a strategic partnership to strengthen Telegram's presence in MENA region. The participation of a fund from Russia was also mentioned.
🔎 Read more about the deal in our news ⬇
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🎓 Gurucan is an online course platform where you can launch your educational product even with zero technical skills in a few hours.
📲 The platform also allows you to create an iOS or Android app without any coding, which is why competitors’ users switch to Gurucan. The project is already making a profit in Russia and is growing rapidly in the United States.
Gurucan CEO Timur Chernenko spoke about his product, their plans, and the future of online education:
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🎋 The market of psychological services is constantly developing and offering more and more new solutions. The team of LeelaGamIn startup has created an application based on the ancient board game about self-self-understanding, in which a person can find answers to their inner questions.
The interesting fact is that the idea of the startup has appeared during the work on another project of the Phillip Zhuchkov’s team — ScanFace app.
💁How it works and why it has demanded these days — more in today’s interview with the CEO of the project:
👥 Today we're talking about working with community — active, brand-loyal customers of a product who can bring great value to the company for free, in return getting moral satisfaction, network and possibly a new experience.
🔎 In our article you'll learn why a startup needs community and how to work with it. We will also take a look at the LEGO and Red Bull cases😉:
🔹 On Monday, startup SchooLinks announced an $8.3M in series A financing.
🎓 It is an AI-powered platform that helps people choose a career and prepare for college. SchooLinks carefully tracks all a person's interests and educational results, and then provides career guides and information about college applications.
🔎 More information in the article:
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🔹 The beginning of the year pushes us to try to look into the future and build a probabilistic forecast — and over time, see how far it will come true. Last year, we evaluated the prospects for the development of the venture market in 2020 — well, we will not change the tradition now.
What will be the changes in the venture capital market in 2021 and what will affect it?
🔎 Read in our new article:
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🧑⚕️ HelloSelf, which is part of the new Digital therapeutics business, raises £5.5M in Series A financing.
HelloSelf is an online therapy and psychological coaching service that connects users with the best clinical psychologists in the UK and provides online support between sessions using artificial intelligence. Now the company has a team of 150 clinical psychologists, engineers, and developers.
🔎 Details ⬇️
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💸 Heyday announced today that it has raised $5.1M in additional Seed funding.
💬 Heyday is a customer communication platform that makes life very easy for businesses and helps keep in touch. The customer sends a message from social media or email, and Heyday brings all that communication together in one dashboard. Then, the chatbot automates basic responses when possible, or directs the request to the right people. One of the project's clients is the Danone brand.
🔎 Read more in a new article:
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🇺🇦 Yesterday it became known about the success of Ukrainian startup Preply. They managed to raise $35M, which is more than all previous rounds together.
🎓 Preply is an online one-on-one language learning platform, launched in 2013. The service uses machine learning to connect tutors with students wherever they are.
The platform now supports 50 different languages, including Spanish, English, French, and niche languages such as Icelandic, Tibetan, and Catalan.
➡️ Read the news in full
🎓 EdTech giant Coursera goes public on the New York Stock Exchange.
Coursera is already a well-known online learning platform, offering its users courses from leading universities and companies. It was founded in 2012 and managed to raise $443.1M in 11 rounds of financing.
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🔹 AppLovin went public a few days ago. The project was initially said to be unable to attract investment, but AppLovin has embarked on profitable growth, and in 2020 their revenues were about $1.45B.
AppLovin helps developers, using machine learning technology and the project's product prediction algorithms, select the most relevant audience, effectively monetize and run ads
🔎 Read more about AppLovin's success in our new article 👈
🇺🇦 Ukrainian pharmaceutical giant Farmak has continued its cooperation with Sector X Acceleration Hub for 2021. The company is ready to invest not only in MedTech startups, but also expect interesting projects in the field of logistics and marketing.
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📣 When you’re presenting a product in a live broadcast, buyers tend to buy more actively. Streamers startup has launched a solution, which allows online real-estate agents to host online streams.
Today, this solution is used by the largest players on the Russian market, and the team plans to expand to the US and Europe. Co-founders of Streamers Vitaliy Popkov and Dmitriy Fedorov share their plans and insights with us.
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🔱 Why is there no room for new investors in Silicon Valley and what if you still want to get there? How much competition is there among investors in the Valley? How to blend in with other investors there?
Alexandra Johnson, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist, VC.House founder, managing director of HEED Capital, the founder of The Global Technology Symposium (GTS) and the star of VC Kitchen answers these and other questions.
Read now 🔅