| Date | Title | Description |
| 04.11.2021 | $100M to invest in Russian-speaking founders around the world | 04 November 2021 The venture firm LETA Capital closes today the investment period of its second fund LETA Capital Fund II and announces the beginning of the investment period of the third $100M LETA Capital Fund III. Its main focus remains ... |
| 27.10.2021 | LETA Capital sold its share in Brain4Net to Kaspersky | 27 October 2021 Kaspersky has acquired Leta's portfolio company Brain4Net. Brain4Net has been developing solutions and services to help enterprises and service providers adapt modern technologies, such as Software-Defined Wide-Area Network ... |
| 21.10.2021 | LETA Capital led $10 Million Series A Prodly Round | 21 October 2021 Prodly, the leading low-code Salesforce DevOps provider, today announced a Series A investment of $10 million led by Leta Capital, joined by TMT Investments, AltaIR Capital, and Flyer One Ventures. Existing investors Shasta ... |
| 02.08.2021 | Novakid Raises $35M in Series B to Support Expansion Into New Markets | 02 August 2021 Novakid, an online language learning platform that provides personalized English learning for kids ages 4-12 through artificial intelligence (AI) and gamification, announces a $35 million Series B round led by Owl Ventures an... |
| 14.07.2021 | Leta's exit: Nayax Ltd. (TASE: NYAX) acquires Weezmo | 14 July 2021 Leta Capital is happy to announce the first exit from Leta Capital Fund II, its portfolio company Weezmo was acquired by Nayax Ltd. (TASE: NYAX), the leading cashless solution provider. Leta Capital was a lead investor in the p... |
| 07.04.2021 | Synthesis AI raised $4.5 million round | 07 April 2021 Synthesis AI, a pioneer in synthetic data technologies, today announced $4.5 million in additional funding as they launch a synthetic data-as-a-service FaceAPI product. The round was backed by existing investors Leta Capital, ... |
| 03.03.2021 | Bright Box joined to My Policy group, a leading provider of services for telematics motor insurance | 03 March 2021 Former LETA Capital portfolio company Bright Box HK Limited (Bright Box) announced that it has become a part of My Policy Group (My Policy), a leading provider of services across intermediation, data and analytics, and product... |
| 24.02.2021 | Leta Capital Led Affise's $8M Series A Round | 24 February 2021 Affise, the global technology leader in partnerships management and automation, today announced a Series A funding round worth $8 million. This recent funding round, led by Leta Capital with the participation of TMT Investm... |
| 01.12.2020 | Leta’s portfolio company Novakid raises $4.25M in Series A financing | 01 December 2020 Novakid, an emerging EdTech brand reinventing learning English as a second language for children ages 4-12 around the globe, raised $4.25 million in Series A round from a group of US, Asia and Europe-based investors. The fi... |
| 29.10.2020 | Leta blog: Apps and Startups powered by GPT-3 | 29 October 2020
Recently, research lab OpenAI announced a new version of GPT-3 — language prediction model. Engineers and Researchers at OpenAI try to design a language model that uses deep learning to produce human-like text. GPT-3 compose... |
| 14.10.2020 | Alex Chachava: The Era of Russian-speaking Tech Entrepreneurs Has Come | 14 October 2020
The following is an interview with Alex Chachava. Alex is a serial IT entrepreneur, founder and managing partner of LETA Capital, as well as the Board Member of a number of portfolio companies and a member of YPO — the world... |
| 25.09.2020 | Leta’s Lists: 100 Russian-speaking Female Tech Founders (2020 edition) | 25 September 2020 It gives us incredible pleasure to share with you this very special list of the most prominent Russian-speaking female leaders of tech companies. Majority of these companies operate internationally while having their roots... |
| 14.09.2020 | Leta blog: How to pick the best industry to go after for a startup? | 14 September 2020 Are you considering starting your own business?
Are you in search of a new fast-paced and lucrative niche for your existing venture to break into?
Are you looking for a new job in a rapidly developing environment, but want... |
| 29.08.2020 | Leta blog: How to estimate Market size? TAM, SAM, SOM | 29 August 2020 If you ever read through the startup pitch deck, you should have seen the slide dedicated to TAM, SAM, SOM. What do these acronyms mean and why are they useful for investors when assessing an investment opportunity? These abb... |
| 21.08.2020 | Alex Chachava: Venture capital is taking over other investment assets | 21 August 2020
Alexander Chachava, a Managing Partner at LETA Capital, explains how the pandemic affected startup financing and why the changes will be long-lasting.
We are entering an era of post-pandemics. The world is gradually adapting ... |
| 31.07.2020 | Leta blog: Russia topped Global Skills Index as the best in tech and data science | 31 July 2020
According to the recent Coursera’s Global Skills Index 2020 report, Russians have the highest skill proficiency in technology and data science among Coursera’s 65 million learners from 60 countries.
In their second edition of t... |
| 09.07.2020 | Leta blog: What is a liquidation preference? | 09 July 2020 In one of my recent posts, I promised to give more information about liquidation preference. As we all know, promises are meant to be kept, hence in this article, I will share details about the types of liquidation preferences,... |
| 17.06.2020 | Leta blog: Typical Russian Speaking IT founder | 17 June 2020 IT and tech sectors have become truly borderless, religion-, ethnicity- and nationality-agnostic in the past several decades. For many people especially minorities and those from under-represented backgrounds, IT and tech have ... |
| 03.06.2020 | Leta blog: R.I.P startups: how many startups survive? | 03 June 2020 We met a lot of tech startups and IT companies within eight years. I wonder how many of them have closed? What industry has the most startups failures?
At LETA Capital, we like to analyze the data that we collect. We analyze it... |
| 12.05.2020 | Press release: Global EdTech Company Receives A-Grade: IntelliBoard Closes Series A Investment | 12 May 2020
Learning management system analytics company IntelliBoard plans for major growth despite a changing industry landscape, with a 2020 roadmap and a new $3.4M investment
IntelliBoard Inc., the premier reporting and analytics platfo... |
| 10.04.2020 | Leta Capital Manifesto | 10 April 2020
We are looking to back startups who create the future today. We support companies in achieving exceptional results. We believe that our goal as an investment firm is to deliver high returns to our investors by financing improv... |
| 09.04.2020 | Leta blog: Reverse Due Diligence. Get to know your investor | 09 April 2020 Choosing a long-term business partner is a difficult task that requires especial attention, as an investment transaction is always a mutual decision by both parties.
"An investor is a full-fledged business partner who can... |
| 08.04.2020 | EdTech startup MyBuddy.ai raised a seed round from LETA Capital to provide children with affordable English as a foreign language tutoring at home | 08 April 2020
April 7th, 2020, San Francisco — MyBuddy.ai, a virtual spoken English tutor for children, raised a $1 million seed investment from LETA Capital to meet sharp growth in demand for online education.
Venture capital firm LETA Cap... |
| 02.04.2020 | Leta blog: Investor rights. Guide to Term Sheets Part 3 | 02 April 2020 This is the third article in a series of blog posts where I talk about the basic concepts of Term Sheet.
In my previous posts, I described the main concepts of the economic and administrative characteristics of the Term Sheet.... |
| 19.03.2020 | Leta blog: [INFOGRAPHICS] Employee Benefits of Startups 2020 | 19 March 2020 Being a startup is hard. Especially when it comes to hiring. A real war starts when you try to fight for a talented candidate with no capacity to offer a competitive salary, not having a renowned employer brand, not to mention... |
| 12.03.2020 | Leta blog: You can’t feed your family with RVPI. How VC funds are evaluated. | 12 March 2020
In February 2020, Leta Capital announced the results of its very first fund launched in 2012. A series of metrics were disclosed by which venture capitalists and their investors consider the effectiveness of the results. In th... |
| 19.02.2020 | LETA Capital discloses the results of its VC fund “LETA Capital Limited” and announces its extension | 19 February 2020
Moscow, February 19, 2020. LETA Capital, a venture capital firm, announces the financial results of its evergreen fund LETA Capital Limited. The fund, which was formed in 2012, has deployed $15M of investments in total up t... |
| 17.02.2020 | Leta blog: Is Your Startup Venture Investable? | 17 February 2020 At LETA Capital we are approached by hundreds of startups yearly, and we shall admit, that some portion of inbound applications come from businesses which are not suitable for venture capital investments at all — the likes ... |
| 12.02.2020 | Leta blog: State of Startups 2019 Through The Lens of LETA Capital | 12 February 2020 We met a lot of tech startups and IT companies during the past year. Some of them we managed to find ourselves, others were introduced to us via our network. (you can send us your company pitch via the form on our website).... |
| 06.02.2020 | Leta blog: Never lie or be afraid. How to communicate with an investor | 06 February 2020 Note: This article was originally written by me in Russian for “Secretmag.ru” (link below), but since the topic is quite important, I decided to translate and share it here.
On a daily basis, I reply to letters and calls fr... |
| 29.01.2020 | EdTech startup Novakid raises $1.5M to promote cultural diversity to kids while learning English. | 29 January 2020
January 29, 2020. Venture firm LETA Capital together with the South Korean VC BonAngels today announced an investment round of Novakid, an online educational platform for children 4-12 years old. The total size of the round ... |
| 25.12.2019 | Leta blog: Shares, Protective Provisions, BoD. Guide to Terms Sheets, Part 2 | 25 December 2019 This is the second post in a series of articles, which describe basic concepts and practical tips related to Term Sheets.
In my first post, I touched upon the economics of an investment deal within startup financing process... |
| 18.12.2019 | Leta blog: Valuation, ESOP, Liquidation Preference, Dilution. Guide to Term Sheets | 18 December 2019 This is the first part of a series of articles dedicated to Term Sheets.
Many entrepreneurs think that the startup financing process is somewhat straightforward. They believe that following the company’s pitch and Q&A t... |
| 27.11.2019 | Leta blog: Learnings From 20 Failed Seed Startups Uncovered By VC | 27 November 2019 Theranos, Beepi, Juicero, Blippar, Jawbone, Wonga — if you are reading this blog post, there is a good chance that you enjoy your career in tech and know what is common about this list of weird names above — these are some ... |
| 13.11.2019 | Leta blog: HOW TO MAKE VC INVESTOR SAY “YES” TO YOUR STARTUP | 13 November 2019 Most tech entrepreneurs consider pitching to VC investors a tough job, but (surprisingly) it’s always as hard for the opposite side — investors. In most cases, investors have to evaluate the startup within under an hour and... |
| 07.11.2019 | Leta blog: What is a convertible loan? | 07 November 2019 Convertible Loan — is a financial instrument typically used for investments in early-stage companies and startups. However, many entrepreneurs still don’t know what it is and how it works.
A VC fund or an angel investor usu... |
| 27.08.2019 | DEVAR: What Factors Tell Us About The Growing Presence Of AR In A Person's Life? | 27 August 2019 The AR / VR 1.0 era began in earnest when Facebook bought Oculus in 2014. This inspired a generation of entrepreneurs, corporations and venture capitalists to create AR / VR at an early stage.
The technology scaled considerab... |
| 09.07.2019 | InDriver launches ride-hail app in fourth African country, Uganda | 09 July 2019 Global ride-hail startup InDriver launches its app-based service in Kampala (Uganda) this week.
After going live in Nairobi in June, the online taxi company now operates in four African countries: Kenya, Uganda, South Africa an... |
| 13.06.2019 | The Russian startup of Cerevrum attracted $2 million from LETA Capital and the co-founder of Oculus | 13 June 2019 Today we officially can announce that we have invested in Cerevrum $1M, Michael Antonov (co-founder of Oculus) has joined the round with $1M. It is the interesting deal and the great company. No one better than the founder (Nat... |
| 15.11.2018 | LETA Capital has won the RVCA national prize for the Best Venture Investor 2018. | 15 November 2018 This year, LETA Capital has won the RVCA national prize for the Best Venture Investor 2018. Suddenly and very nice. We will try to justify high confidence and raise the bar in 2019 even higher!
Thanks to the organizers and ... |
| 26.10.2018 | Leta Capital has raised a second 50 million USD fund | 26 October 2018 Leta Capital launched its second fund in autumn 2017, and just fully subscribed to the whole target size. The capital under management of the second fund is 50 million USD.
The second fund’s strategy follows the paradigm, &q... |
| 16.07.2018 | E-commerce Startup Bllush Raises $1.2 Million | 16 July 2018 Tel Aviv-based e-commerce startup Bllush Visuals Ltd. announced Monday a $1.2 million Seed round led by Moscow-based Leta Capital. Bllush developed a software that matches fashion and design e-commerce brands with product image... |
| 02.02.2018 | LETA Capital invested $3M in AR-platform Devar | 02 February 2018 Today Devar is a partner of the largest international children's brands such as Hasbro, Mattel, and Rovio. Licenses for using the platform and products of augmented reality are sold in 36 countries, and the total circulatio... |
| 22.12.2017 | Zurich Insurance Group acquires Bright Box | 22 December 2017
Bright Box HK Limited (Bright Box) announced today that it has been acquired by Zurich Insurance Group (Zurich). Bright Box was founded in 2012, has operations in Europe and conducts business globally. It provides a turn-ke... |
| 08.09.2017 | inDriver raises $5M for its flat-rate ride-hailing app | 08 September 2017 Ride-hailing app inDriver has raised a $5 million Series A round from Russian venture fund LETA Capital. They aim to use this cash to launch inDriver in India, the USA and Canada, where the service will of course compete w... |
| 10.08.2017 | Global co-working WeWork acquires Unomy | 10 August 2017 Unomy, the premiere resource for B2B sales and marketing lead generation, announced today it was acquired by WeWork to help its team sell enterprise clients on the idea of opening offices in its workspaces around the world.
L... |
| 27.07.2017 | LiveTex has acquired the first LETA Capital's startup, RedHelper | 27 July 2017 The lead provider of omnichannel solutions for customer service, LiveTex has acquired the company, RedHelper.
Five years ago the startup raised $600K from LETA Capital.
The details of this deal are closed. |
| 08.05.2017 | Qmarkets secures $5,2M funding | 08 May 2017 Leading the fund are LETA Capital, Club 100 Plus, and the State of Connecticut's Department of Economic and Community Development.
Qmarkets, the leading provider of collective intelligence solutions for idea & innovation man... |
| 30.03.2017 | LETA Capital injects $1 million in SDN/NFV solution provider Brain4Net | 30 March 2017 Leta Capital has injected an aditionnal $1 million in Brain4Net, a provider of advanced SDN/NFV solutions.
The funding, which took the form of a convertible loan, will be used to fine-tune the company’s solutions, develop new ... |
| 03.06.2016 | Unomy Raises $2.4 Million for Ultimate B2B Sales and Marketing Intelligence Platform | 03 June 2016
Unomy, the premiere resource for B2B sales and marketing lead generation, announced today it has closed its latest funding round to bring the company’s total raised to $2.4 Million. The round was led by JanVest Technologies, Al... |
| 22.03.2016 | The company "Brain4net" raised $1,75M from LETA Capital and Rostelecom’s venture capital fund “CommIT Capital” | 22 March 2016
Brain4Net is a leading Russian software developer of Software Defined Networks (SDN) solutions and Network Function Virtualization (NFV).
Brain4Net is the innovative SDN/NFV solutions provider for large and medium Enterprises ... |
| 09.03.2016 | LETA Capital will be joining to Axis Tel Aviv | 09 March 2016
LETA Capital, Russian corporate boutique venture fund, supports innovative IT and high tech startup companies in their seed or early growth stage.
LETA Capital's made two investments in Israeli companies, and will be joining t... |
| 19.01.2016 | viisights Closes $1.2 Million in Seed Funding Led By TheTime together with, Maxfield Capital, ASF Ventures and LETA Capital | 19 January 2016
) viisights (www.viisights.com), the video intelligence Tel-Aviv based company, announced today it closed $1.2 million in seed funding led by TheTime together with Maxfield Capital, ASF Ventures and LETA Capital. The funds w... |
| 22.06.2015 | LETA Capital will take a part in Demo Day of Startup Sabantuy | 22 June 2015 The LETA Capital venture fund will take part in Demo Day Startup Sabantuy in Naberezhnye Chelny.
During the Demo Day 20 best projects will be pitching to potential investors. It is expected more than 30 representatives of ventu... |
| 02.06.2015 | Managing partner of LETA Capital Alexander Chachava will be speaker on "STARTUP VILLAGE" | 02 June 2015
Managing partner of the venture fund LETA Capital Alexander Chachava will be a speaker on panels "Cybersecurity and countering the threats: innovation", in the discussion "Venture – for robots!" and session ... |
| 27.05.2015 | LETA Capital supported the Skolkovo Cybersecurity Challenge | 27 May 2015 Skolkovo Cybersecurity Challenge provides an opportunity for teams to create innovative solutions to protect the world from cyber-threats. The competition is supported by key cyber security and business experts, as well as major... |
| 27.05.2015 | Managing partner of LETA Capital Alexander Chachava, will be a speaker at the 10th Kazan Venture Fair and 15th Russian Venture Fair | 27 May 2015
Alexander Chachava, managing partner of LETA Capital, will be a speaker at the session "Open innovation: tools of corporate venture".
The Russian Venture Fair is a meeting point for investment professionals. As Russia’... |
| 04.03.2015 | Double Data a developer of Big Data solutions for financial institutions – gets $2,3M investments from LETA Capital and Simile Venture Partners | 04 March 2015
Today LETA Capital and Simile Venture Partners are to announce their decision to invest in Double Data – the developer of Big Data solutions for financial institutions. Total amount of investments – about $2,3M. LETA Capital i... |
| 19.02.2015 | RoboCV, developer of a range of vehicle autopilot, Raises $3M in A Round | 19 February 2015
RoboCV, a developer of a range of vehicle autopilot products, secured $3 million in new investments from I2BF Global Ventures, VTB Capital Russia & CIS Equity Fund, LETA Capital, Columbus Nova, Almaz Capital. The firm a... |
| 30.12.2014 | Happy New Year from LETA Capital team! | 30 December 2014 |
| 21.11.2014 | Connected car platform for mass-market Remoto raises $1.5 Million from LETA Capital | 21 November 2014
Remoto, connected car platform secured $1.5 million in new investments from LETA Capital. The firm also announced the release of remote control car with a mobile application on the BRIC country market. In this regard, the c... |
| 30.09.2014 | 365Scores Raises $5.5 Million in a Round Led by LETA Capital | 30 September 2014
365Scores, a leading mobile sports application company, secured $5.5 million in new investments from LETA Capital, Cedar Fund, Titanium Investments and private investors.
The firm also announced the milestone of exceeding ... |
| 10.09.2014 | LETA Capital - the partner of the global event #hack4good | 10 September 2014 Uniting globally 12-14 September 2014, 3,000+ leading software engineers, hackers, ui/ux designers, product makers, founders, thought leaders and civic-minded organisations will gather in 40+ global cities to hack against ... |
| 02.09.2014 | New blog post by LETA Capital about AI | 02 September 2014 Principal Sergey Toporov talks about the trends of the artificial intelligence market.
http://blog.leta.vc/post/96438931331#.VETRnPl_sw1 |
| 20.08.2014 | New blog post by LETA Capital about money for startups | 20 August 2014 Managing partner Alex Chachava explains why money investor for startup should be in last place.
http://blog.leta.vc/post/95280826336 |
| 18.08.2014 | LETA Capital - partner of "ESET for startups" | 18 August 2014 ESET (Slovakia) opens the competition "ESET startups" for young companies.
https://club.esetnod32.ru/events/contest/startup/ |
| 07.07.2014 | New blog post by LETA Capital about robotics | 07 July 2014 |
| 20.06.2014 | Overview of venture capital investments in Big Data in blog LETA Capital | 20 June 2014 LETA Capital looked at the statistics and analyzed industry focus deals of Big Data in the international market.
http://blog.leta.vc/post/89349442731/big-data#.VETyFvl_sw0 |
| 11.03.2014 | LETA Capital is participant at Startup Sabantuy! 2014 | 11 March 2014 LETA Capital is participant at Startup Sabantuy! 2014 |
| 05.11.2013 | Group-IB management buys out LETA Group’s share | 05 November 2013
LETA Group is announcing it has sold all its shares at Group-IB through a management buyout (MBO). The proceeds from this transaction will be channeled to LETA Capital, a venture fund founded by LETA Group.
In 2010, LETA Gr... |
| 10.10.2013 | Russian developer of transport robots RoboCV LLC raised $500K from LETA Capital | 10 October 2013
Russian developer of transport robots RoboCV LLC raised $500K from LETA Capital. Funds from investments will be directed on development of pre-production prototype.
The Russian company RoboCV LLC, engaged in developments in ... |
| 02.09.2013 | The Venture Fund LETA Capital became the first partner of “Rosinfocominvest” | 02 September 2013 The Ministry of Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation informs about registration of the first partner of State Investment Fund “Rosinfocominvest” - the corporate venture Fund LETA Capital. The Funds will ... |
| 25.07.2013 | Principal Sergey Toporov took part in the discussion at HSE about venture investments | 25 July 2013 Principal Sergey Toporov took part in the discussion at HSE about venture investments. |
| 01.07.2013 | rollApp Announces $1M Round of Series A Funding, Led By LETA Capital with TMT Investments Participating | 01 July 2013
Today rollApp has announced the $1M Series A funding, led by LETA Capital. TMT Investments, which made a seed investment into the company in 2011, is also participating in this round. rollApp plans to use Round A funding to tra... |
| 24.06.2013 | RVC and Ministry of Economic Development released report on implementation innovative development strategy | 24 June 2013 RVC and Ministry of Economic Development released report on implementation innovative development strategy. |
| 12.04.2013 | Managing partner Alex Chachava met with the residents of MSU Business Incubator | 12 April 2013 Managing partner Alex Chachava met with the residents of MSU Business Incubator. |
| 29.03.2013 | LETA Capital and Altair.VC became Business Incubator MSU investment partners | 29 March 2013 LETA Capital and Altair.VC became Business Incubator MSU investment partners. |
| 26.02.2013 | LETA Capital was involved in an affiliate program Rusbase | 26 February 2013 LETA Capital was involved in an affiliate program Rusbase. |
| 14.12.2012 | LETA Capital supports Russian Innovation Convention | 14 December 2012 LETA Capital supports Russian Innovation Convention. |
| 19.09.2012 | E-commerce SaaS solution developer secures $600,000 from Leta Capital | 19 September 2012 Leta Capital, a venture fund, has invested $600,000 in Redhelper, a provider of SaaS solutions for online customer service and behavioral data analysis for e-commerce sites. The transaction valued the company at “more than... |
| 15.09.2012 | Venture fund LETA Group updates the strategy and the name | 15 September 2012 Venture fund LETA Group updates the strategy and the name. |
| 16.08.2012 | StartupMonthly Tour to Russia, Lithuania and Israel | 16 August 2012 StartupMonthly is taking a road trip and has planned programs and socials in various locations in the world. We are traveling to Russia, Lithuania and Israel to help passionate entrepreneurs build successful IT startups that ... |
| 28.06.2012 | Social alarm service Wakie secures $2 million from LETA Capital | 28 June 2012 Wakie secured its Series A round of financing from LETA Capital, the corporate venture arm of Leta Group.
The fund has injected “a little more than $2 million” based on a pre-money valuation of “approximately $7 million,” said ... |
| 07.06.2012 | Leta GIV invests in photo storage startup BaltoStorage | 07 June 2012 Leta GIV, the corporate venture arm of Leta Group, announced an investment earlier this week in Baltostorage, an online service that allows users to store their pictures in a secured way.
The fund invested $350,000 for an undis... |
| 24.05.2012 | Russian startup DisplAir attracted $1M from LETA Capital | 24 May 2012 Venture Fund LETACapital in conjunction with several private investors have signed an agreement to invest $1M in Russian startup DisplAir, which develops interactive nonscreen display that creates a full color physically permeab... |
| 17.05.2012 | Leta Group launches venture fund | 17 May 2012 LETA Group launches venture fund LETA Capital. |
| - | LETA Capital is participant at international Roboforum 2014 | 01 January 1970
LETA Capital is participant at international Roboforum 2014. Panel discussions will include the issue of infrastructure for the development of companies in innovations, trends in the development of artificial intelligence, a... |
