A Ukrainian startup that has launched PatentBot, a chat bot to register patents and trademarks, has raised a new round of angel investment, CEO & Founder в PatentBot Natalia Vladymyrova said on Facebook.
“PatentBot was assessed at a million dollars! You can easily joke about a million dollar baby,” she wrote.
According to Vladymyrova, the startup continues to look for investors for the seed round.
PatentBot is a chat bot to register a trademark, copyright and patent for invention in the United States, Europe and Ukraine, which helps to go through the process of finding a TM to paying state duty within 5-7 minutes. In the Ukrainian market, the project was launched in July 2017, then scaled to the United States, the European Union and China. In 2018, PatentBot entered the acceleration program of the Hong Kong Betatron startup accelerator and was valued at $750,000.
Israel’s Perion Network has acquired Ukrainian startup Septa Communications (Captain Growth) for $3.75 million. According to a press release of Perion Network, Total consideration is up to $3.75 million, partially paid in cash at closing while the remaining consideration is subject to the achievement of certain milestones and retention over the next two years.
“With Captain Growth’s proprietary ‘Value Unlock’ technology, our synchronization will now give brands the critical ability to benefit from putting the best-performing units in front of the right users at the right time – for unprecedented cross-channel engagement,” CEO of Perion Doron Gerstel said.
The acquisition is not expected to have a significant impact on Perion’s financial results.
Perion is a global technology company that delivers advertising solutions to brands and publishers. Founded in 1999 as IncrediMail, in 2011 it was renamed and activities from developing a postal agent to advertising activities.
Septa Communications is an IT development company founded by businessmen Dmytro Bilash and Dmytro Pleshakov in 2017. Captain Growth is a proprietary AI platform to better connect and deliver relevant campaign messages through the entire ad journey.
