Fastlane Ventures
VC Fund
Limassol, Cyprus
Fastlane Ventures is a Russian company focused on the development, launch and promotion of innovative internet businesses. Founded in 2010 by a team of experienced entrepreneurs with a track record of successful investments, the company has launched 20 internet start-ups to capitalize on the increasing demand for online services and growing appetite for investment in the Russian internet market by Western and Russian investors. The company has attracted more than $85 million from international investment funds. Key strategic investment partners of Fastlane Ventures are Direct Group, e.ventures and VTB Capital. Among the investors of the company also Intel Capital, Kinnevik, Mangrove Capital, ru-Net, UMJ Russia, and some others to launch companies across the online retail, travel, relationship, health and recruitment areas. The strategic focus of Fastlane Ventures is to target business-to-consumer niche markets with low levels of competition. The Company's aim is to anticipate the not yet satisfied needs of Russian customers. Fastlane Ventures acts as both an operational and investment partner at the same time. It is the sole Russian company that provides an initial seed investment in addition to having a hands-on operational role with its businesses through its team of high calibre professionals. To launch its business quickly and effectively, Fastlane Ventures has adopted proprietary solution called Fast 50, which enables a new venture to launch in just 50 days and ensures an efficient path between launch and exit. Fastlane Ventures has established a team of highly regarded professionals, who possess unique knowledge and expertise in management, entrepreneurship, e-commerce, business development, marketing and PR, investment generation, HR management, web design and much more. Once the new business venture is operating effectively, Fastlane Ventures helps its investment partners realize their investment return through the sale of the business to other strategic investors. This usually takes place approximately 2-3 years after the initial business launch. For more information about Fastlane Ventures and its portfolio companies, please visit http://fastlaneventures.ru/en/
- Total investments:
- 8
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 25%
Last updated:
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Industries Fastlane Ventures invests in
Stages Fastlane Ventures invests in
Countries Fastlane Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
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Round size
- Seed
- $300k–$2M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Automotive 3 (38%)
- E-Commerce 3 (38%)
- Internet 2 (25%)
- B2C 1 (13%)
- Mobile 1 (13%)
Stage
- Seed 4 (50%)
- Angel 1 (13%)
- Series A 1 (13%)
- Series B 1 (13%)
- Series C 1 (13%)
Country
- Russian Federation 5 (63%)
- China 1 (13%)
- Japan 1 (13%)
- Germany 1 (13%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Alexander Tereshko
SEO Yandex/Google
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SEO Yandex/Google | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Azamat Ulbashev
Digital Health
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Digital Health | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Ekaterina Konovalova
Bank Products and Financial Services
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Bank Products and Financial Services | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Marina Treshchova
CEO and Co-Founder
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CEO and Co-Founder | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Natalia Atyasheva
Event Management
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Event Management | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 8 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Kuaishangche
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Kuaishangche is a comprehensive service platform focusing on auto finance. With its cost-effective service advantages and a professional and efficient service team, it has a good market reputation. As a cutting-edge industry, we are adhering to the concept of high efficiency, pragmatic, pioneering and innovative, creating value for customers. Wehave established standardized business operation specifications, comprehensive and reasonable vehicle evaluation system, efficient audit mechanism, and mature and rigorous risk control system. Customers realize the maximization of asset value and realize the vision of auto finance to change their lives. | $1.7M / Angel / Nov 19, 2019 | |
| Founded in 2012, Double Data targets banks and other financial institutions who need to improve their performance for a variety of processes – from customer acquisition and assessment to debt collection. The Double Data software combines Big Data analysis tools, computer-aided learning methods and data mining. | $3.2M / Series A / Mar 10, 2015 | ||
| CarPrice is the largest online auctioneer for second-hand cars in Russia, providing buyers with free online valuations in mere seconds. More than 4,000 dealers from across the country can then determine the best price during an average 30-minute online bidding process to complete auctions.Within a year from being set up, CarPrice became a topthree Russian used car seller operating from more than 20 locations including Moscow, St. Petersburg and the regions. CarPrice achieved this position while an adverse economic environment translated into a 40% drop in new car sales in Russia. The Company intends to increase total monthly auctions from 4,000 currently to 10,000 until the end of 2015.The company's Round B was adjudged as "Deal of the Year" by Venture Awards Russia 2015 (investors included Baring Vostok Capital Partners & Almaz Capital). | $2M / Seed / Oct 28, 2014 | ||
| Car Price is a Motor vehicle company. | $2M / Seed / Oct 28, 2014 | ||
| AutoSpot is a pioneering platform for buying new cars. Company use reverse marketplace model by aggregating offers from official dealers. AutoSpot connects auto dealers directly with customers, integrates dealers’ stocks online and enable customers to choose, compare and shop cars online. This service adds transparency to the process of carpurchase giving customers access to a real time prices for cars and ability to get better offers without bargaining through the auction process. More than 410 auto dealers already joined the system. AutoSpot has a dominating position in the online segment of selling a new cars in Russia which is estimated at $47 billion. By 2022, investors estimate the market share of AutoSpot at 20.5% from online sales in Russia and 5.1% of all sales.At the moment AutoSpot sell circa 1000 new automobiles per month and continue making the platform more scalable and functionally rich including offer of financial products such as auto-loans and insurance. | $1.4M / Seed / Apr 01, 2014 | ||
| Heverest.ru is one of the largest outdoor and sporting goods online retailers in Russia. The company operates in mass and semi-professional sports goods segments, offering a wide variety of clothing, footwear and equipment in most kinds of popular sports and outdoor activities. The portal allows shoppers to conveniently browse through its extensive product catalogue online and securely purchase their items for delivery to anywhere in Russia quickly and cheaply. Since its launch (June 1st 2011), the company has established supplier relations with over 80 suppliers and 200 brands. Currently, more than Heverest.ru website hosts more than 1,5 mln visitors per month. The company is forecasted to reach over €100m in net sales by end of 2015. Heverest.ru was launched in June 2011 and bases itself on successful benchmark model in sports e-commerce, Brazilian online retailer Netshoes. The company is led by Dinesh Shahani and Vladimir Kim. CEO of the company Dinesh Shahani is one of the recognized experts in the sportswear industry and had successfully founded and built "Sprandi" since 1995 which was one of Russia leading sportswear brands. Dinesh has been on the Advisory board of Heverest since last October and has advised the company on its market entry strategy and vision. Heverest.ru was initially funded by a Fast Lane Ventures. Further funding provided by eVenture Capital Partners and Russia’s largest investment fund. Heverest.ru is a Fast Lane Ventures portfolio company. For more information, please visit www.heverest.ru | $6M / Series C / Apr 01, 2014 | ||
| Vitaportal.ru is a Russia based online web portal offering comprehensive and reliable health and medicine information to improve users and their families' health. The medical information published on the portal is all independently reviewed by specialty health care providers and medical institutions to ensure its reliability. The sitealso has certification by HONcode - the internationally recognized symbol for ethical and credible medical information published on websites.Vitaportal.ru was launched in June 2011 by the team of professionals with more than 20 year's expertise in the Russian internet and healthcare industries. The company was initially funded by innovative venture capital company, Fast Lane Ventures, and was modeled on the leading healthcare information site in the United States, WebMD Health Network. VitaPortal:* Is backed by a World Class Advisory Board: Esther Dyson, Peter Frishauf, Milena Adamian* Winner of the Russian Internet Award 2011 in HealthcareVitaportal.ru is a Fast Lane Ventures portfolio company. | $1.4M / Series B / Sep 26, 2013 | ||
| AdMoment is a mobile advertising company that offers an advertising platform which provides intelligent targeting solutions through smartphones. It leverages programmatic-buying and engaging formats to help major brands and their media buyers reach consumers through mobile applications.AdMoment’s platform allows mobile publishers toautomatically identify the parameters of their target groups, including the time, location, device types, weather, and traffic.AdMoment was incorporated in August 2012 and is based in Moscow, Russia. | $300K / Seed / Sep 01, 2012 |
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FAQ
What does Fastlane Ventures invest in?
Fastlane Ventures invests primarily in Automotive, E-Commerce and Internet startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Russian Federation. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Fastlane Ventures invest in?
Fastlane Ventures typically joins rounds of $300k–$2M at Seed. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Fastlane Ventures's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Fastlane Ventures took part in.
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Who are the partners at Fastlane Ventures?
The team at Fastlane Ventures includes Alexander Tereshko (SEO Yandex/Google), Azamat Ulbashev (Digital Health) and Ekaterina Konovalova (Bank Products and Financial Services), among 8 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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