Starta Accelerator is an acceleration program launched by Starta Capital VC Fund in 2015. Mission of Starta Accelerator is to empower Eastern European frontier technology companies through exposing them to USA market. The program was customized for Eastern European founders aiming to adapt to cultural and business environment in the US, complete and define product/market fit, get traction and become part of local startup and investing ecosystem in the U.S.
Starta Accelerator 16/17 LLC is a $3M SPV, holding a portfolio of 21 technology startups selected and accelerated by Starta Accelerator. The SPV owns average of 7% equity in each company at $2M valuation
All 21 companies are at post-product stage and have traction in their home countries and U.S. market. Some of them have already raised further rounds of investment at higher valuations than Starta Accelerator 16/17 LLC nominal portfolio valuations.
Cross Coin is an SPV to be incorporated in Singapore as an ICO friendly jurisdiction with the only purpose to invest in Starta Accelerator. CrossCoin has an option to buy 33% of "Starta Accelerator 16/17" SPV at portfolio valuation price.
The Mission of Cross Coin is to democratize venture investments and become a bridge between crypto and fiat economies. We help venture funds, accelerators and startups to raise capital using crypto assets.
Acceleration vehicle and the Eastern European focus allows us to enter companies at lower valuations compared to U.S. market
Valuation at entry - up to $2 M
Targeted exit @ $10 - $50 M (average 10 X return per company)
We build working ponies - pipeline for M&A deals
Value-add through developing Tech Business competencies in the U.S business environment during 3.5 months in New York
We hire top U.S. professionals who act as part-time team members for startups during the program
Danny Setiawan
Roy Weissman
Anastasia Onegina
Lisa Patti
Saul Orbach
John Varoli & Victoria Zavyalova
Personalized recommendations & dynamic personalized ads
Maximizing email marketing open rates automatically
Mobile app that helps parents motivate kids to use mobile for education instead of entertainment.
Easy to use memory-stick with unlimited storage, cloud-based flash drive with high level of encryption
Agrieye provides high quality vegetation and soil data to family farms to make them effective.
Web application monitoring system that allows CTO's, DevOps, Developers to see what user did before error happened.
AI assistant that helps automating social ads, providing alerts and social media performance stats to Slack.
Zubmill is a cloud platform where any of the 200,000 U.S. dentists can find a labs and send them orders.
First-to-market Supply-Side Platform for advertisers to replace "brand awareness" with "ROI" in their influencer marketing campaigns.
GuildWalls offers gamers an environment with all essential features, required for their everyday life inside and outside the game in one place.
Dress Code uses 3D body modeling and personal recommendations to help you buy apparel with your style, fit and no hassle.
A device which prevents diseases and can save lives by 24/7 health monitoring.
BINO allows you to measure customer experience with the help of mystery shopper visits.
Suretly offers people an absolutely new kind of investment alternative - "crowdvouching".
Cindicator develops trading robots and algorithms for hedge funds and institutional investors using hybrid intelligence technology.
iCoinSoft Exchange Platform allows anybody to launch their own digital asset exchange in 2 weeks time
Anryze is AI powered call tracking service for business calls
Worldwide air quality forecasting with a city block resolution
bNesis is a Unified API service that saves up to 95% of integration time of multiple services with mobile and desktop applications
Hyperverse is a “VR park out-of-the-box” platform, that allows to transform any location into fully immersive entertainment zone.
FriendlyData helps businesses make data accessible by providing a natural language interface for databases.
| Company | E-Contenta (C-Corp DE) |
| Industry | AdTech |
| Model | B2B |
| Short description | Personalized recommendations & dynamic personalized ads |
| Website | https://e-contenta.com/en/ |
| Starta Accelerator | Batch 2 (Fall 2016) |
| Founders |
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| Starta share | 7% |
| Latest valuation (based on last round raised) | $1.9M |
| Rounds raisedAmount/Valuation/Investors | $125K / $1M / Untitled Retail Lab$130K / $1.9M / Starta Accelerator |
| Participance in other acceleration programs | New York Fashion Tech Lab |
| Company | SendPulse (C-Corp DE) |
| Industry | AdTech |
| Model | B2B |
| Short description | Maximizing email marketing open rates automatically |
| Website | https://sendpulse.com |
| Starta Accelerator | Batch 2 (Fall 2016) |
| Founders |
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| Starta share | 2% |
| Latest valuation (based on last round raised) | $5M |
| Rounds raisedAmount/Valuation/Investors | N/A/ $5M / Starta Accelerator |
| Participance in other acceleration programs | No |
| Company | Kidbee (C-Corp DE) |
| Industry | EdTech |
| Model | B2C |
| Short description | Mobile app that helps parents motivate kids to use mobile for education instead of entertainment. |
| Website | http://kidbee.co |
| Starta Accelerator | Batch 2 (Fall 2016) |
| Founders |
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| Starta share | 7% |
| Latest valuation (based on last round raised) | $1.9M |
| Rounds raisedAmount/Valuation/Investors | $130K / $1.9M / Starta Accelerator |
| Participance in other acceleration programs | No |
| Company | FlashSafe (C-Corp DE) |
| Industry | Cybersecurity |
| Model | B2C |
| Short description | FlashSafe is easy to use memory-stick with unlimited storage, cloud-based flash drive with high level of encryption |
| Website | https://flash.so |
| Starta Accelerator | Batch 3 (Winter 2017) |
| Founders |
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| Starta share | 7% |
| Latest valuation (based on last round raised) | $1.9M |
| Rounds raisedAmount/Valuation/Investors |
$9K / $90K / Alexsandr Rumyantcev $130K / $1.9M / Starta Accelerator |
| Participance in other acceleration programs | No |
| Company | Agrieye (C-Corp DE) |
| Industry | AgriTech |
| Model | B2B |
| Short description | Agrieye provides high quality vegetation and soil data to family farms to make them effective. Free UAV with 4 band multispectral camera with data processing by cloud AI at 5 us per acre annually. 15 % economy boost, for 5 us farmer spares up to 100 us of growing cost. |
| Website | http://Agrieye.io |
| Starta Accelerator | Batch 3 (Winter 2017) |
| Founders |
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| Starta share | 7% |
| Latest valuation (based on last round raised) | $1.9M |
| Rounds raisedAmount/Valuation/Investors | $130K / $1.9M / Starta Accelerator |
| Participance in other acceleration programs | No |
| Company | Kuoll, Inc. (C-Corp DE) |
| Industry | DevOps |
| Model | B2B |
| Short description | Web application monitoring system that allows CTO's, DevOps, Developers to see what user did before error happened. |
| Website | https://www.kuoll.com/ |
| Starta Accelerator | Batch 3 (Winter 2017) |
| Founders |
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| Starta share | 7% |
| Latest valuation (based on last round raised) | $1.9M |
| Rounds raisedAmount/Valuation/Investors | $130K / $1.9M / Starta Accelerator |
| Participance in other acceleration programs | Startup Sauna |
| Company | Revealytics, Inc. (C-Corp DE) |
| Industry | AdTech |
| Model | B2B |
| Short description | AI assistant that helps automating social ads, providing alerts and social media performance stats to Slack. |
| Website | https://revealbot.com |
| Starta Accelerator | Batch 2 (Fall 2016) |
| Founders |
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| Starta share | 7% |
| Latest valuation (based on last round raised) | $2.2M |
| Rounds raisedAmount/Valuation/Investors | $130K / $1.9M / Starta Accelerator $150K / $2.2M / Starta Capital, Angel (Eugeny Medvednikov) |
| Participance in other acceleration programs | No |
| Company | ZUBMILL, Inc. (C-Corp DE) |
| Industry | HealthTech |
| Model | B2B |
| Short description | Zubmill is a cloud platform where any of the 200,000 U.S. dentists can find a labs and send them orders. We make a professional page for the laboratories showing their price, portfolio and terms. Every day dentist’s workload includes paperwork and calls with their labs. In Zubmill we have an electronic exchange form which reduces the dentist workload and ensures order accuracy. |
| Website | http://zubmill.com |
| Starta Accelerator | Batch 3 (Winter 2017) |
| Founders |
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| Starta share | 7% |
| Latest valuation (based on last round raised) | $1.9M |
| Rounds raisedAmount/Valuation/Investors |
$50K / $333K / business angel Makarushkin K. $130K / $1.9M / Starta Accelerator |
| Participance in other acceleration programs | No |
| Company | Insense Ads, Inc. (C-Corp DE) |
| Industry | AdTech |
| Model | B2B |
| Short description | First-to-market Supply-Side Platform for advertisers to replace "brand awareness" with "ROI" in their influencer marketing campaigns. |
| Website | https://insense.pro/ |
| Starta Accelerator | Batch 2 (Fall 2016) |
| Founders |
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| Starta share | 7% |
| Latest valuation (based on last round raised) | N/A (convertible note with discount) |
| Rounds raisedAmount/Valuation/Investors |
N/A / $1.9M / Starta Accelerator $260K / N/A (convertible note) / Angels |
| Participance in other acceleration programs | No |
| Company | GuildWalls, Data 12 CO Inc. (C-Corp DE) |
| Industry | Integration Platforms |
| Model | B2C |
| Short description | GuildWalls is a social network for gamers. GuildWalls offers gamers safe and comfortable environment with all essential features, required for their everyday life inside and outside the game in one place. GuildWalls services are simple, fully integrated, complement each other. GuildWalls provide general social network functions, as well as some unique, created taking into consideration gaming specifics. |
| Website | https://guildwalls.com/ |
| Starta Accelerator | Batch 3 (Winter 2017) |
| Founders | |
| Starta share | 7% |
| Latest valuation (based on last round raised) | $1.9M |
| Rounds raisedAmount/Valuation/Investors | $130K / $1.9M / Starta Accelerator |
| Participance in other acceleration programs | No |
| Company | Dress Code A.I., Inc. (C-Corp DE) |
| Industry | Marketplace |
| Model | B2B |
| Short description | Dress Code uses 3D body modeling and personal recommendations to help you buy apparel with your style, fit and no hassle. |
| Website | http://dresscode.ai |
| Starta Accelerator | Batch 3 (Winter 2017) |
| Founders |
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| Starta share | 7% |
| Latest valuation (based on last round raised) | $1.9M |
| Rounds raisedAmount/Valuation/Investors | $130K / $1.9M / Starta Accelerator |
| Participance in other acceleration programs | MEGA Accelerator by IKEA, Startup Sauna Helsinki |
| Company | Cardiomo Care, Inc. (C-Corp DE) |
| Industry | HealthTech |
| Model | B2C |
| Short description | Cardiomo is building a device which prevents diseases and can save lives by 24/7 health monitoring. Cardiomo is designed to alert about early stages or signs of health problems. It can monitor your current vitals and body state indicators (heart rate, EKG, body movements, breathing etc.). It transmits a signal to your phone app for basic analysis of collected data. |
| Website | http://www.cardiomo.com |
| Starta Accelerator | Batch 2 (Fall 2016) |
| Founders |
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| Starta share | 7% |
| Latest valuation (based on last round raised) | $1.9M |
| Rounds raisedAmount/Valuation/Investors | $60K / $600K / Angel $130K / $1.9M / Starta Accelerator |
| Participance in other acceleration programs | No |
| Company | BINO CX, Inc. (C-Corp DE) |
| Industry | Marketplace |
| Model | B2B |
| Short description | BINO allows you to measure customer experience with the help of mystery shopper visits. It’s simple: shopper recruitment, training, scheduling, data validation and payments are fully automated. |
| Website | http://www.getbino.com |
| Starta Accelerator | Batch 3 (Winter 2017) |
| Founders |
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| Starta share | 7% |
| Latest valuation (based on last round raised) | $1.9M |
| Rounds raisedAmount/Valuation/Investors | $130K / $1.9M / Starta Accelerator |
| Participance in other acceleration programs | No |
| Company | Suretly, Inc. (C-Corp DE) |
| Industry | FinTech |
| Model | B2C, B2B2C |
| Short description | Suretly offers people an absolutely new kind of investment alternative - "crowdvouching". Crowdvouching is the practice of financially securing a loan repayment by vouching monetary contributions from a large number of people. Unlike P2P lending, Suretly users (vouchers) do not lend money directly to the borrowers but guarantee to repay the loan to the lender in case of borrower's default. |
| Website | https://suretly.com |
| Starta Accelerator | Batch 3 (Winter 2017) |
| Founders |
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| Starta share | 7% |
| Latest valuation (based on last round raised) | $1.9M |
| Rounds raisedAmount/Valuation/Investors | $130K / $1.9M / Starta Accelerator |
| Participance in other acceleration programs | Generation Startup |
| Company | Cindicator, Vote Inc. (C-Corp DE) |
| Industry | FinTech |
| Model | B2B |
| Short description | Cindicator develops trading robots and algorithms for hedge funds and institutional investors using unique technology with hybrid intelligence. The synergy of our AI trading robots and forecasts from the large pool of diverse analysts creates accurate signals and data points for stock exchange transactions. |
| Website | https://cindicator.com |
| Starta Accelerator | Batch 1 (Winter 2016) |
| Founders |
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| Starta share | 7% |
| Latest valuation (based on last round raised) | N/A (convertible note) |
| Rounds raisedAmount/Valuation/Investors | $130K / $1.9M / Starta Accelerator $250K / N/A (convertible note) / Starta Capital, Eugene Medvednikov, Nokolay Belikh |
| Participance in other acceleration programs | Moscow Stock Exchange Accelerator |
| Company | iCoinSoftware, Inc. (C-Corp DE) |
| Industry | FinTech |
| Model | B2B |
| Short description | iCoinSoft Exchange Platform allows anybody to launch their own digital asset exchange in 2 weeks time and start making revenue by trading and exchanging blockchain of their choice (cryptocurrencies, stocks, smart-contracts, etc) |
| Website | https://icoinsoft.com |
| Starta Accelerator | Batch 3 (Winter 2017) |
| Founders |
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| Starta share | 7% |
| Latest valuation (based on last round raised) | N/A (convertible note) |
| Rounds raisedAmount/Valuation/Investors | $130K / $1.9M / Starta Accelerator |
| Participance in other acceleration programs | No |
| Company | Anryze, Inc. (C-Corp DE) |
| Industry | SaaS |
| Model | B2B |
| Short description | Anryze is AI powered call tracking service for business calls. Anryze provides complete call data, customized analytics, reaction predictions and recommendations in order to improve performance and deliver deep customer insights |
| Website | http://anryze.com |
| Starta Accelerator | Batch 3 (Winter 2017) |
| Founders |
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| Starta share | 7% |
| Latest valuation (based on last round raised) | $1.9M |
| Rounds raisedAmount/Valuation/Investors | $130K / $1.9M / Starta Accelerator |
| Participance in other acceleration programs | No |
| Company | Aerostate, Inc. (C-Corp DE) |
| Industry | GreenTech |
| Model | B2B |
| Short description | Worldwide air quality forecasting with a city block resolution |
| Website | http://aerostate.io |
| Starta Accelerator | Batch 2 (Fall 2016) |
| Founders |
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| Starta share | 7% |
| Latest valuation (based on last round raised) | N/A |
| Rounds raisedAmount/Valuation/Investors | $130K / $1.9M / Starta Accelerator |
| Participance in other acceleration programs | No |
| Company | bNesis, Inc. (C-Corp DE) |
| Industry | PaaS |
| Model | B2B |
| Short description | bNesis is a Unified API service that saves up to 95% of the coding time on integration of multiple clouds, social media and analytics services with mobile and desktop applications |
| Website | https://bnesis.com |
| Starta Accelerator | Batch 2 (Fall 2016) |
| Founders |
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| Starta share | 7% |
| Latest valuation (based on last round raised) | $1.9M |
| Rounds raisedAmount/Valuation/Investors | $130K / $1.9M / Starta Accelerator |
| Participance in other acceleration programs | Startup Wise Guys |
| Company | Hyperverse, Inc (C-Corp DE) |
| Industry | VR |
| Model | B2B |
| Short description | Hyperverse is a “VR park out-of-the-box” platform, that allows to transform any location into fully immersive entertainment zone.Our turnkey solution includes tools for studios and a technology setup — a mix of the best market devices and custom built movement tracking, which makes deployment of VR location fast and affordable. |
| Website | http://hyperverse.io |
| Starta Accelerator | Batch 2 (Fall 2016) |
| Founders |
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| Starta share | 7% |
| Latest valuation (based on last round raised) | N/A |
| Rounds raisedAmount/Valuation/Investors | $130K / $1.9M / Starta Accelerator $400K / N/A / Angels |
| Participance in other acceleration programs | No |
| Company | FriendlyData, Inc (C-Corp DE) |
| Industry | Software, Cloud Computing |
| Model | B2B |
| Short description | FriendlyData helps businesses make data accessible by providing a natural language interface for databases. |
| Website | http://friendlydata.io |
| Starta Accelerator | Batch 2 (Fall 2016) |
| Founders |
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| Starta share | 7% |
| Latest valuation (based on last round raised) | N/A (convertible note without discount) |
| Rounds raisedAmount/Valuation/Investors | $130K / $1.9M / Starta Accelerator $150K / N/A (convertible note) / 500 startups VC fund (USA) |
| Participance in other acceleration programs | 500 Startups |