TechMinsk

14/04/2022

CEO of PigPug, Vitali Karpeichyk in a panel discussion at StartUp Health Festival, held at ViVE in Miami ☀️

In this energizing conversation on the 2022 StartUp Health Festival stage, Eugene Borukhovich of YourCoach Health sat down with his fellow Health Transformer...

13/02/2022

We are proud to share, that one of our portfolio startup Filmustage participates at Berlinale - Berlin International Film Festival and organizes a networking event about digital transformation in pre-movie production.

The event will be attended by a living legend Roger Christian!😎 He won an Oscar🏆 for best art direction, he set decoration for Star Wars and was nominated also for Alien!

Please join the event on Feb 14th, 4:00PM CET and share this information with your network.

Event Schedule Digital transformation of movie pre-production. Artificial intelligence tools. Associated Event Watch event Access: Free access Mon Feb 14 16:00 – 17:00 Download 2022 will be a real game-changer! New technologies and processes are now implemented in all steps of filmmaking. During o...

02/02/2022

Canva has acquired Flourish, a London-based data visualization startup.

The acquisition comes as the visual communications company reached over 75 million monthly active users,up over 30 million in the past 12 months.

Flourish, founded in 2016 by Duncan Clark and Robin Houston, provides data visualization tools so that companies, like BBC, Sky, Deloitte and Moody’s, can turn data points into easily digestible charts, graphs and visuals.

Sydney-based Canva was started in 2013 and has raised over $570 million in venture capital funding over the years, most recently a $200 million venture round last September that valued the company at $40 billion.

The Flourish acquisition follows two other acquisitions made in 2021, including Kaleido and Smartmockups.

The acquisition comes as the visual communications company reached over 75 million monthly active users, up over 30 million in the past 12 months.

31/01/2022

Niklas Adalberth’s Norrsken Foundation has teamed up with thirty unicorn founders and a couple of seasoned venture capital and private equity investors to launch a $200 million fund targeted at African startups.

Africa VC funding reached an all-time high in 2021 at over $4 billion, more than what startups in the continent raised in the two previous years combined. Growth and late-stage deals such as $100 million-plus rounds from unicorns Andela, Flutterwave, Chipper Cash, OPay and Wave and other companies largely propelled this growth.

"Norrsken22 intends to be that growth-stage local-based firm that will enable startups to unlock significant partnerships to grow revenue, find the best talent and facilitate expansion plans across Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa, " said Lexi Novitske, the ex-managing partner at Acuity Ventures Platform.

Ngetha Waithaka, speaking on the fund’s strategy, said Norrsken22 plans to invest 40% of its capital, about $80 million in Series A and B companies and the rest in follow-on rounds from Series C up until exit.

Per sectors, Norrsken22 will rely on its general partners’ years of experience and investment philosophies to back startups in fintech, medtech, edtech and market-enabling solutions such as B2B marketplaces and inventory management businesses.

https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/30/norrsken-vcs-and-30-unicorn-founders-set-up-200m-fund-to-back-growth-stage-startups-in-africa/

Niklas Adalberth’s Norrsken Foundation is in the news again barely two months after opening its Norrsken House in Kigali, Rwanda, which plans to accommodate thousands of entrepreneurs by next year. This time, the foundation has teamed up with thirty unicorn founders and a couple of seasoned ventur...

28/01/2022

Беларусское приложение для сна от команды разработчиков MSQRD стало лучшим на ежегодном конкурсе Golden Kitty Awards 🏆

Loóna - победитель в категории Health & Fitness в конкурсе Golden Kitty Awards от Product Hunt.

Loóna — приложение, которое помогает настроиться на здоровый сон. Пользователи используют Loóna, чтобы уменьшить тревогу, справиться с СДВГ или расслабиться после работы.

В настоящее время команда Loóna насчитывает более 50 человек. В 2020 году Loóna стало «лучшим приложением» по версии Google Play. На сегодняшний день оно насчитывает более 500 тыс. загрузок в Google Play. В июне 2021 приложение выбрали победителем Apple Design Awards в категории «Визуальные эффекты и графика». На тот момент его скачали более 1 млн раз в App Store.

Среди инвесторов Loona: Elefund, венчурная компания из Силиконовой долины, которая стала первым инвестором Calm & Robinhood; Hoxton Ventures, лондонская венчурная компания, в портфель которой входят Deliveroo и Babylon; Elysium, венчурная компания из Силиконовой долины, среди инвестиций которой Telegram Messenger, Flo Health.

Photo: Loóna

https://www.producthunt.com/stories/announcing-the-golden-kitty-awards-2021-winners

26/01/2022

Hanwang Technology Ltd, also known as Hanvon, is an AI facial recognition technology startup.

Founded in 1998, Hanvon has a number of autonomy in the fields of handwriting recognition, optical character recognition (OCR), and handwriting input. The core technology of its intellectual property rights and comprehensive technical level used in China and abroad.

“The new AI-power facial recognition technology can identify everyone in a crowd of up to 30 people “within a second”. The success rate for people without masks is about 99.5%. When wearing a mask, the recognition rate can reach about 95%, which can ensure that most people can be identified,” Hanwang Vice President, Huang Lei said.

https://techstartups.com/2022/01/25/unknown-ai-startup-behind-facial-recognition-surveillance-technology-used-chinese-government-identify-billions-citizens-even-wearing-masks/

TechStartups - Coverage of Technology News, technology startups, Emerging technology, venture capital funding, and Silicon Valley

24/01/2022

Spectrum Labs raises $32M for AI-based content moderation that monitors billions of conversations daily for toxicity

Spectrum Labs provides artificial intelligence technology to platform providers to detect and shut down toxic exchanges in real time.

The round is being led by Intel Capital, with Munich Re Ventures, Gaingels, OurCrowd, Harris Barton, and previous backers Wing Venture Capital, Greycroft, Ridge Ventures, Super{set}, and Global Founders Capital also participating.

Spectrum Labs today works with just over 20 big platforms — they include social networking companies Pinterest and The Meet Group, dating site Grindr, Jimmy Wales’ entertainment wiki Fandom, Riot Games, and e-learning platform Udemy.

“As digital trust and ethical operations emerge as a key factor to help organizations differentiate themselves, we see a huge opportunity to build a Trust & Safety tech layer into enterprise operations,” said Mark Rostick, VP and senior MD at Intel Capital, in a statement.

https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/24/spectrum-labs-b/

Two years into the pandemic, online conversations are for many of us still the primary interactions that we are having every day, and we are collectively having billions of them. But as many of us have discovered, not all of those are squeaky clean, positive experiences. Today, a startup called Spe....

19/01/2022

We are proud of our portfolio company GanttPRO for the awesome results. GanttPRO has been received 23 G2 Winter Awards for 2022. Congrats to the team! 👏👏👏



https://www.facebook.com/GanttPRO/posts/3299132460210638

The G2 Winter 2022 Report is live, and GanttPRO has been awarded again. It is becoming a good tradition: G2 recognizes the success of GanttPRO, giving our online Gantt chart maker the high places in its ratings. We have been delighted to receive awards from G2 in previous seasonal reports. This time

19/01/2022

According to Crunchbase News, in 2021 a total of $643 billion was invested globally, compared with $335 billion in 2020 – that’s 92% growth year over year.
The VC industry has also seen a historic number of exits. A record number of companies went public in 2021, with many at huge valuations: 238 companies debuted on the public markets last year valued above $1 billion. In 2020, only 61 companies went public at this valuation.

“There are three transformative global technology trends that many VCs are watching closely, myself included: the rapid rise of web3, capital flows to less obvious founders, and the continued globalization of venture capital,” Christine Tsai said.

After incredible growth in the past two year, all signs point to a continued abundance of opportunities for startup founders and investors in the year ahead.

17/01/2022

Are you fundraising for your startup?

Raimonds Kulbergs has created list of active Estonian angels. The list includes founders of unicorns such as Bolt and Pipedrive.

"I’ve reached out to every single one of the investors listed and asked for what their preferences, such as ticket size, preferred stage, focus sectors, what try to avoid, how many investments made in the last year, as well as their top investments," he said.

Find more information➡️:
https://raimonds.substack.com/p/46-most-active-estonian-angel-investors

If you're fundraising for your startup, this list should come in handy. And feel free to ask me for an introduction to any of the investors in this list.

13/01/2022

PandaDoc, our portfolio company, has been recognized by TrustRadius with 3 honors in the 2022 TrustRadius Best of Awards in the Electronic Signature software category:
☑Best Relationship
☑Best Feature Set
☑Best Value

To win a TrustRadius Best of Award, each organization had to receive at least 10 TrustRadius reviews from July to November. Winners are ranked in the top three positions of their category by the percentage of positive responses earned.

https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2022/01/12/2365648/0/en/PandaDoc-earns-multiple-honors-in-the-2022-TrustRadius-Best-of-Awards.html

All-in-one document workflow and eSignature provider recognized in three of the most vital areas of the customer experience including Best Relationship,...

13/01/2022

16 Amsterdam-based startups that raised capital in 2021, Skinive among them 💪

Dutch startups and scale-ups raised €4.5B in venture capital in the first three quarters of 2021.
Startups founded since 2000 in the city have a combined value of more than $86B, up from just $12B in 2015, the third-largest total in Europe.

Skinive, TechMinsk portfolio company, raised €297,000 in funding in December 2021.

https://siliconcanals.com/news/startups/amsterdam-startup-funding-2021/

Based on data shared by Ebitwise, we have compiled a list of 16 Amsterdam-based startups that raised capital in 2021.