Half of 2020 is almost behind. It is full of shocks and for many businesses can be the last. Below is information on investments attracted by startups in 2020.
The British fintech project Revolut positions itself as a bank without branches. All operations are performed through the application on the smartphone. It was included in our selection because co-founder is Vladislav Yatsenko, a native of Ukraine.
In February, the company attracted another round of investments, which tripled its estimate to $ 6 billion. The leading investor was the Technology Crossover Ventures fund.
Preply is an international EdTech marketplace for learning foreign languages. The company was founded by Sergei Lukyanov, Dmitry Voloshin and Kirill Bigay.
The startup attracted a new round in late May, as a result of which the total amount of funds raised exceeded $ 15 million. The lead investor was the London venture fund Hoxton Ventures, the company said.
The American startup Allset is a mobile application with which you can book a table in a restaurant and pay the bill, as well as get recommendations on dishes in a particular institution. The startup was founded by Anna Polishchuk and Stas Matvienko from Ukraine.
The round was led by the EBRD (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development), and was attended by Andreessen Horowitz, Greycroft, SMRK VC Fund and Inovo Venture Partners. Due to the coronary crisis, it almost failed – some investors changed their minds to invest. As a result, instead of the planned $ 12 + million, Allset raised just over $ 8 milli
Ukrainian startup DMarket is working on monetizing items in games. The company was launched in 2017 by the founder of the platform for trading in virtual items skins.cash Vladimir Panchenko, Tamara Slanova and co-founder of the e-sports club Natus Vincere Alexander Kokhanovsky.
In June, DMarket launched a new round, which included Electronic Arts founder Trip Hawkins on the company’s board of directors. Investors include Almaz Capital and Xsolla. The company’s board of directors includes Electronic Arts founder Trip Hawkins.
Zakaz.ua was founded in January 2010 by Ukrainian businessman Yegor Anchishkin (left the project). The company offers an online ordering and delivery service for products from popular supermarket chains.
The deal was closed in late February 2020, but announced only in April. The leading investor was the current shareholder of Zakaz.ua – Chernovetskyi Investment Group (CIG).
ClassTag is a free platform on which parents can communicate with their children’s teachers. The startup was founded by Vlada Lotkina, an emigrant from Ukraine.
The round was announced in June 2020. Investors include AlleyCorp, Contour Ventures, Founder Collective, John Martinson, Newark Venture Partners, Smart Hub and TMT Investments.
Rentberry is a Ukrainian real estate startup. Initially launched in the US market, but later the service was also scaled to Europe and Asia. It was created by Ukrainians Alexei Lyubinsky, Lilia Ostapchuk, Alexander Kotovskov and Denis Golubovsky. The development office is located in Kiev.
In July 2020, Rentberry raised $ 4.5 million, of which $ 2.3 was on the WeFunder microinvestment crowdfunding platform. The round was also attended by Angel Investors Marlborough, McKinsey & Company partner Srikant Inampudi and Invesque CEO Scott White.
3DLOOK is working on the technology of scanning the human body from photos using artificial intelligence, neural networks and 3D technology. The startup was founded in 2016 by Vadim Rogovsky, who previously managed Clickky.
The lead investor of the round, which was announced in early July, was the financial group ICU Ventures. A venture investor from Kazakhstan, Murat Abdrakhmanov, and several angels from the United States and Eastern Europe also took part in the deal.
The startup develops personalized horoscopes: by profession, personality type, talents, astrological predictions, calendars, etc. The founder of the service is Dmitry Tkachenko.
This is the first investment in the company, it was announced in March. The investor was Adventures Lab, founded by Andrei Krivorchuk (formerly a managing partner of CIG).
Mriyar was founded in October 2018. This is a startup that is working on several products – b2b and b2c platforms for the auto parts trade.
The round was launched in late January – at that time the product was still under development. The investment was divided into two tranches: the first $ 150,000 was spent on launching the b2b part of the platform, the rest on finalizing and launching the b2c part of the project.
According to the site https://ain.ua