Bright Capital

Bright Capital is a venture capital firm, notable for its merchant venturing approach and global reach thought the firm was originally based in Moscow, Russia. Bright Capital invests in a broad range of breakthrough and disruptive technology companies. It built its portfolio in the energy, cleantech, efficiency, water, advanced materials. It also invests in TMT (telecom - media- technology) sector through its Digital fund.

Mikhail Chuchkevich

Managing Partner and Founder

44 past transactions

Goldencell Electronics

Venture Round in 2022
Goldencell Electronics integrates the development, production, marketing, and service of LFP/NCM batteries and cells. Along the whole value chain of lithium-ion batteries, they develop a variety of intelligent properties in cathode materials, cells, PACK, and other industries. Super capacitors, lithium-ion battery material, and lithium-ion battery cells are some of their products.

BIScience

Venture Round in 2016
BIScience Inc. is an Israeli-based provider of business intelligence solutions tailored for companies engaged in online media and advertising. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Tel Aviv with an office in New York, the company offers a range of tools designed to enhance marketing operations across various channels, including display, search, social media, and mobile. Its flagship products include AdClarity Dashboards, which analyze competitors' digital strategies; AdClarity CI, which supports programmatic advertising across multiple platforms; PanelOS, a solution for panel data collection; and GeoSurf, a proxy service that allows users to view online content from local perspectives in numerous countries. BIScience's solutions empower media buyers, campaign managers, and sales teams by enhancing revenue generation, streamlining operations, and providing valuable insights into market dynamics.

Agrivida

Series D in 2015
Agrivida creates an enzyme solution to improve poultry and swine nutrition. GRAINZYME technology from Agrivida is an innovative platform that produces enzymes inside a corn kernel. By simply replacing a small amount of corn, it is a natural, convenient, and profitable way to introduce beneficial enzymes such as phytase, glucanase, and other enzymes into animal diets.

BIScience

Series C in 2015
BIScience Inc. is an Israeli-based provider of business intelligence solutions tailored for companies engaged in online media and advertising. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Tel Aviv with an office in New York, the company offers a range of tools designed to enhance marketing operations across various channels, including display, search, social media, and mobile. Its flagship products include AdClarity Dashboards, which analyze competitors' digital strategies; AdClarity CI, which supports programmatic advertising across multiple platforms; PanelOS, a solution for panel data collection; and GeoSurf, a proxy service that allows users to view online content from local perspectives in numerous countries. BIScience's solutions empower media buyers, campaign managers, and sales teams by enhancing revenue generation, streamlining operations, and providing valuable insights into market dynamics.

Agrivida

Series D in 2015
Agrivida creates an enzyme solution to improve poultry and swine nutrition. GRAINZYME technology from Agrivida is an innovative platform that produces enzymes inside a corn kernel. By simply replacing a small amount of corn, it is a natural, convenient, and profitable way to introduce beneficial enzymes such as phytase, glucanase, and other enzymes into animal diets.

BIScience

Series B in 2015
BIScience Inc. is an Israeli-based provider of business intelligence solutions tailored for companies engaged in online media and advertising. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Tel Aviv with an office in New York, the company offers a range of tools designed to enhance marketing operations across various channels, including display, search, social media, and mobile. Its flagship products include AdClarity Dashboards, which analyze competitors' digital strategies; AdClarity CI, which supports programmatic advertising across multiple platforms; PanelOS, a solution for panel data collection; and GeoSurf, a proxy service that allows users to view online content from local perspectives in numerous countries. BIScience's solutions empower media buyers, campaign managers, and sales teams by enhancing revenue generation, streamlining operations, and providing valuable insights into market dynamics.

Flodesign Sonics

Series A in 2014
FloDesign Sonics is changing the separations and filtration markets through a novel acoustic technology. By leveraging breakthroughs in the use of 3D acoustic standing waves, FloDesign Sonics is able to capture, separate and purify without using physical membranes, chemicals, or centrifugation. Our proprietary technology has numerous applications in a variety of markets including life sciences, oil and gas, food and beverage and industrial processing. The first commercial application is in bioprocess separations where FloDesign Sonics is applying acoustic technology to the manufacturing of life saving bio-pharmaceuticals. For more information, contact info@fdsonics.com

Doctor At Work

Venture Round in 2014
Doctor At Work is a social networking platform for doctors. It also offers its mobile app and enables the practitioners to connect with other doctors, securely collaborate on patient treatment, diagnostic plans, and discover new career opportunities with the vacant positions around their locations. They also conduct new competitions and pay for the clinical cases published in the portal.

Aquion Energy

Series D in 2014
Aquion Energy is fundamentally­­ changing the economics of power generation, transmission and distribution by developing and commercializing cost-effective energy storage solutions that are safe, reliable, and sustainable from nontoxic components as simple as saltwater. Based on the research of Carnegie Mellon University Professor Jay Whitacre, Aquion's proprietary Aqueous Hybrid Ion (AHI™) battery overcomes the pitfalls of conventional energy storage technologies. AHI systems enhance the electrical grid by providing flexible, emissions-free capacity that optimizes existing generation assets and enables broad adoption of renewable energy technologies.

Aquion Energy

Series D in 2014
Aquion Energy is fundamentally­­ changing the economics of power generation, transmission and distribution by developing and commercializing cost-effective energy storage solutions that are safe, reliable, and sustainable from nontoxic components as simple as saltwater. Based on the research of Carnegie Mellon University Professor Jay Whitacre, Aquion's proprietary Aqueous Hybrid Ion (AHI™) battery overcomes the pitfalls of conventional energy storage technologies. AHI systems enhance the electrical grid by providing flexible, emissions-free capacity that optimizes existing generation assets and enables broad adoption of renewable energy technologies.

Auctionata

Series A in 2013
Auctionata | Paddle8 is an online auction platform specializing in art and luxury collectibles. As of February 29, 2017, Auctionata has announced it has ceased operations, declaring insolvency. The company had offices in Berlin, New York, London, Los Angeles, Rome, Zurich, and Madrid. Following the conclusion of its preliminary insolvency proceedings on February 28, 2017, Auctionata Paddle8 AG ceased its German operations. The subsidiaries Paddle8 in the US and Value-my-Stuff in the UK were sold and continue to operate.

Pentalum Technologies

Series C in 2013
Pentalum develops the SpiDAR: a revolutionary, cost effective, patent pending, wind LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) system, for remote sensing of wind. The system targets all three main wind farm applications: Wind resource assessment, Wind farm operation optimization and Wind forecasting. Pentalum is a privately held company, funded by VCs and headed by highly experienced entrepreneurs, professionals in optics, fluid mechanics and atmospheric remote sensing. Pentalum Technologies Inc. was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Rehovot, Israel.

Upstream Commerce

Venture Round in 2013
What if you could always answer every question about your competitors' latest promotions, product assortment, and pricing changes? What if traditional pricing and product intelligence solutions were no longer difficult to use and expensive to maintain? Upstream Commerce turns those notions upside down by offering fully automated solutions. Upstream Commerce puts data where you can easily import it, explore it and analyze it to find new opportunities and make better decisions. Your customers compare e-tailers' prices, availability, shipping policies, and alternative product offerings. You can be one step ahead of your customers (and your competition), enabling you to make educated decisions that will improve conversion rates and increase profits. Upstream Commerce is the leading solution for pricing and product intelligence, helping you proactively adjust your pricing to the most appropriate levels for market conditions. Their tool runs 24-7, collecting, normalizing, analyzing, and reporting on product pricing and related factors. Current "hot" solutions include Predictive Analytics and Price Optimization capabilities. You get the information you need, when you want it, where you want it, and in the formats you need, eliminating all the tedious work normally required to arrive at useful market intelligence.

Billibox

Venture Round in 2013
BilliBox reads and stores retail receipts as data. It allows users to keep track of their expenses and provides them all the information about what, when and where they have bought, how much money they spent. BilliBox lets brands and retailers motivate consumers based on their purchasing habits and history.

NPTV

Venture Round in 2013
NPTV is a technology startup established in 2013. Headquartered in London, it maintains a large R&D center in Moscow. The company is focused on providing scalable, cost efficient platforms to partners and delivering innovative video solutions to customers.

Upstream Commerce

Venture Round in 2012
What if you could always answer every question about your competitors' latest promotions, product assortment, and pricing changes? What if traditional pricing and product intelligence solutions were no longer difficult to use and expensive to maintain? Upstream Commerce turns those notions upside down by offering fully automated solutions. Upstream Commerce puts data where you can easily import it, explore it and analyze it to find new opportunities and make better decisions. Your customers compare e-tailers' prices, availability, shipping policies, and alternative product offerings. You can be one step ahead of your customers (and your competition), enabling you to make educated decisions that will improve conversion rates and increase profits. Upstream Commerce is the leading solution for pricing and product intelligence, helping you proactively adjust your pricing to the most appropriate levels for market conditions. Their tool runs 24-7, collecting, normalizing, analyzing, and reporting on product pricing and related factors. Current "hot" solutions include Predictive Analytics and Price Optimization capabilities. You get the information you need, when you want it, where you want it, and in the formats you need, eliminating all the tedious work normally required to arrive at useful market intelligence.

Wine in Black

Series B in 2012
Wine in Black ist ein exklusiver Online-Shop für alle Weinliebhaber und Freunde des guten Geschmacks!

QM Power

Venture Round in 2012
QM Power, Inc. is a manufacturer of advanced magnetic circuits and electronic controllers for electric motors, generators, and actuators, serving both domestic and international markets. Established in 2006 and based in Kansas City, Missouri, the company specializes in a range of products including synchronous and electronic start motors, as well as fan motors for commercial refrigeration and HVAC applications. These applications cover various equipment such as display cases, vending machines, and agricultural ventilation systems. QM Power leverages proprietary technologies, including QSync and Parallel Path Magnetic Technology, to enhance energy efficiency in its products. The company holds all intellectual property related to electromechanical devices previously owned by Flynn Research and Magnetic Revolutions LLC, and continues to expand its technology portfolio through collaboration with academic and commercial partners. Additionally, QM Power offers financing and service programs to support its product offerings, making its innovative solutions accessible to clients across multiple industries.

RRT Ltd.

Venture Round in 2012
RRT Global is a large company that provides various technologies in the modern oil refining process.

Agrivida

Series C in 2012
Agrivida creates an enzyme solution to improve poultry and swine nutrition. GRAINZYME technology from Agrivida is an innovative platform that produces enzymes inside a corn kernel. By simply replacing a small amount of corn, it is a natural, convenient, and profitable way to introduce beneficial enzymes such as phytase, glucanase, and other enzymes into animal diets.

Fotoshkola

Series A in 2012
Fotoshkola is a privately-held company that operates in the Photography & Photo Services industry. Fotoshkola headquarters are located in Moscow, Russian Federation.

BIScience

Series A in 2012
BIScience Inc. is an Israeli-based provider of business intelligence solutions tailored for companies engaged in online media and advertising. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Tel Aviv with an office in New York, the company offers a range of tools designed to enhance marketing operations across various channels, including display, search, social media, and mobile. Its flagship products include AdClarity Dashboards, which analyze competitors' digital strategies; AdClarity CI, which supports programmatic advertising across multiple platforms; PanelOS, a solution for panel data collection; and GeoSurf, a proxy service that allows users to view online content from local perspectives in numerous countries. BIScience's solutions empower media buyers, campaign managers, and sales teams by enhancing revenue generation, streamlining operations, and providing valuable insights into market dynamics.

4D Energetics

Venture Round in 2012
4D Energetics, Inc (California Corporation) was established in 2010 in Menlo Park, California. Company develops stationary energy storage based on adsorption batteries. Technology is protected by two US patents. Company operates a 2000 sq. ft. manufacturing and laboratory facility in Menlo Park In 2011 Company received seed funding in the amount of $1.16 million on pre-money valuation of $2.5 million from venture capital firm Bright Capital. Pilot production of full-scale battery electrodes was successfully completed. Batteries have been tested internally and independently at Sandia National Laboratory. Company established partnership with two system integrators MegaBess (Korea) and Raytheon (USA), which have extensive network of customers and supply energy storage products with capacities from 1 kW-h to 1 MW-h and with suppliers of solar and wind generators, (Sea Breeze Power, Canada and IT Solar Systems, USA). ATS Automation (designer of facility for producing automotive batteries for Chevy Volt) was selected as a designer and manufacturer of mass production line. Round A financing will be used to start manufacturing and sales of stand alone energy storage systems with capacity from 1 to 100 kW-h for off-grid and micro-grid customers.

CardioDx

Private Equity Round in 2012
CardioDx is a cardiovascular genomic diagnostics company located in Palo Alto, CA. CardioDx develops clinically validated genomic tests to aid in assessing and tailoring care of individuals with cardiovascular disease, including coronary artery disease (CAD), cardiac arrhythmias, and heart failures.

Cloudmach

Series B in 2012
Cloudmach provides users with high-quality 3D gaming experience comparable to the most advanced games. It requires no downloads and no installations and works instantly in a browser, unlike competitor offerings, providing a user with high-performance gameplay. Cloudmach platform is used to develop any type of a game, be it social or casual game, first-person shooter, or MMOG. Cloudmach naturally integrates into Facebook and other social networks. Cloudmach technology is powered by WebGL and backed up with self-built rendering in a cloud (patent pending). Cloudmach Headquaters is located in San-Francisco, CA.

Ener-G-Rotors

Venture Round in 2012
Ener-G-Rotors, Inc. engages in the development and commercialization of drop-in appliance devices that convert low temperature waste heat into electricity. The company was incorporated in 2004 and is based in Schenectady, New York.

Epuramat

Series B in 2012
Epuramat provides compact, chemicals-free, low energy water and wastewater systems for municipal and industrial clients as well as oil-water-separation systems. The Luxembourg-based company has been founded in 2005.

Siluria Technologies

Series C in 2012
Siluria Technologies is a materials innovation company solving global challenges for partners in the natural gas, chemicals and fuel industries. Integrating nanotechnology, biotechnology and chemical engineering, Siluria has developed a solution to the grand challenge of efficient manufacturing: the ability to produce chemicals and fuels from a cheaper, more abundant resource than oil. The company's economically superior, energy-efficient platform converts natural gas into the same materials manufactured today using current industry infrastructure. Siluria's world-class R&D and engineering teams are rapidly commercializing the company's technology to pilot-scale production in close dialogue with the world's largest chemical and fuel companies.Siluria's backers include Alloy Ventures, ARCH Venture Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Altitude Life Science Ventures, Lux Capital, and Presidio Ventures.

Carritus

Venture Round in 2012
Carritus is an online supermarket store.

Doctor At Work

Venture Round in 2012
Doctor At Work is a social networking platform for doctors. It also offers its mobile app and enables the practitioners to connect with other doctors, securely collaborate on patient treatment, diagnostic plans, and discover new career opportunities with the vacant positions around their locations. They also conduct new competitions and pay for the clinical cases published in the portal.

Yuilop

Series A in 2012
Yuilop is a mobile social communication company that blends multiple conversations from a variety of channels.

Upptalk

Series A in 2012
UppTalk (formerly Yuilop) is a cloud-based communications app that enables users to call, text, group chat, and share multimedia for free. It operates over Wifi, 3G, 4G and LTE. The app supports Android, iOS, Windows, and Kindle devices. It can be downloaded for free and used to contact anyone with a mobile or landline phone, including non-UppTalk users. Every user gets free credit upon signing up and they can earn more by inviting friends, watching videos, or checking out UppTalk’s available promotions. UppTalk was launched in December 2010 by Jochen Doppelhammer and is operated from Barcelona, Spain.

Quantenna Communications

Private Equity Round in 2012
Quantenna specializes in providing Wi-Fi solutions. Founded in 2006, Quantenna has demonstrated its leadership in Wi-Fi technologies with many industry firsts in the market. Quantenna continues to innovate with the mission to perfect Wi-Fi by establishing benchmarks for speed, range, efficiency, and reliability. Quantenna takes a multidimensional approach, from silicon, a system to software for Wi-Fi networks, and provides solutions for OEMs and service providers worldwide.

DealAngel

Seed Round in 2012
DealAngel is the first hotel search engine to find hotels priced below their market value. We leverage big data to cut through the ‘Best Offer’ noise and rank by value-for-money. Not just based on how one particular hotel is priced. But based on what ALL hotels in the market are doing.

Solidia

Series A in 2012
Solidia Technologies enables next generation products that offer superior performance while significantly minimizing environmental impact. Solidia is an advanced materials company, focusing on developing scalable solutions for the world of building and construction materials. Their technology enables the design of next generation products made by low energy processes that utilize waste materials and consume CO2. The products offer superior performance and value when compared to cement, concrete and stone while significantly minimizing environmental impact.

Auctionata

Seed Round in 2012
Auctionata | Paddle8 is an online auction platform specializing in art and luxury collectibles. As of February 29, 2017, Auctionata has announced it has ceased operations, declaring insolvency. The company had offices in Berlin, New York, London, Los Angeles, Rome, Zurich, and Madrid. Following the conclusion of its preliminary insolvency proceedings on February 28, 2017, Auctionata Paddle8 AG ceased its German operations. The subsidiaries Paddle8 in the US and Value-my-Stuff in the UK were sold and continue to operate.

SuVolta

Series E in 2012
SuVolta, Inc. develops and licenses CMOS semiconductor technologies that significantly reduce the power consumption of integrated circuits (ICs). Excessive power consumption is generally regarded as the biggest challenge in semiconductors today, affecting all product categories – from high-performance servers to mobile phones to portable consumer electronics. The PowerShrink™ platform enables semiconductor companies to cut chip power in half without sacrificing performance, losing functionality, or having to migrate to more advanced – and costly – semiconductor process node.

Transphorm

Venture Round in 2011
Transphorm is a semiconductor company that produces gallium nitride-based solutions for high-voltage power conversion applications. The company delivers GaN devices and application-driven design support to a growing customer base. It also designs and manufactures JEDEC and AEC-Q101 qualified GaN FETs for design, fabrication, device, and application support.

ODIN

Venture Round in 2011
ODIN is the leader in RFID software and solutions for healthcare, government, IT Assets and social media. ODIN's software is deployed on over 3,500 devices worldwide providing 99.9% accuracy based on physics of RFID. ODIN's EasyEdgeâ„¢ software is the only true operating system - the heartbeat of any RFID deployment. The EasyTAPâ„¢ software appliance with more than ten patents for its innovative algorithms is the central nervous system for RFID. Together they increase accuracy and scalability while reducing integration and support costs. Global corporations in fifty countries leverage ODIN's expert engineers and patented RFID software to achieve accuracy, speed, and visibility for their RFID deployments. ODIN's EasyConnect brings social media to life by connecting real world events and experiences with social media such as Facebook. The analytics and data mining available make targeted advertising 20-30 times more effective than social media demographic advertising. EasyConnect is also one of the fastest ways to build a strong fan base. What makes ODIN's software and solutions so accurate and easy to deploy is leveraging the scientists in ODIN Labs who test every major RFID device before it hits the market. ODIN Labs publishes the RFID Benchmark Seriesâ„¢ and RFID Pricing Guideâ„¢, the industry's most referenced performance and price analyses of RFID equipment. ODIN serves clients from world headquarters in Ashburn, Virginia, and other offices in Boston, MA, Dublin, Ireland and Budapest, Hungary with full-time staff in Toulouse, France. For more information, visit our website www.ODINRFID.com.

CardioDx

Private Equity Round in 2011
CardioDx is a cardiovascular genomic diagnostics company located in Palo Alto, CA. CardioDx develops clinically validated genomic tests to aid in assessing and tailoring care of individuals with cardiovascular disease, including coronary artery disease (CAD), cardiac arrhythmias, and heart failures.

Alta Devices

Private Equity Round in 2011
Alta Devices (www.altadevices.com) was founded in 2007 and is focused on improving the production economics of high efficiency solar PV applications. Alta is currently a development stage company and has received venture capital funding from August Capital, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Crosslink Capital, AIMCo and others. The company is based in Santa Clara, CA.

Genomatica

Venture Round in 2011
Genomatica develops biobased process technologies that enable a better way to produce widely-used chemicals, from alternative feedstocks, with better economics, sustainability, and performance. Genomatica has earned widespread acclaim for its technology; has commercialized processes for the chemical butanediol (for biodegradable plastics and apparel) and for butylene glycol (cosmetics and personal care), and is working on bio-nylon. Awards include the Kirkpatrick Award, for “the most noteworthy chemical engineering technology commercialized in the world” and the ICIS Innovation Award for its Brontide(TM) butylene glycol.

Alion Energy

Venture Round in 2010
Founded in 2008, Alion Energy has fundamentally redesigned the way we build and maintain utility scale solar. As an innovative EPC and O&M solutions provider, Alion Energy combines robotic installation technology with established construction practices to build local, utility scale projects faster and up to 25% less, while producing more energy than standard fixed-tilt projects. At Alion Energy, we have one mission – rapidly lower solar’s LCOE to $0.05/kwh in the U.S. by 2016. This mission required rethinking the entire installation process and not simply making incremental improvements to existing rack systems, which initially copied and retained many of the same materials used for small, residential roof systems. Alion specifically designed a more efficient construction process for utility scale solar plants by using robotic installation technology and established construction industry practices. Now, Alion Energy builds utility scale systems twice as fast and with less than half the labor. At Alion Energy, we go beyond simply building the most cost-effective utility scale solar systems; we build solar plants with LCOEs that can compete with any generation source.

Pentalum Technologies

Series A in 2010
Pentalum develops the SpiDAR: a revolutionary, cost effective, patent pending, wind LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) system, for remote sensing of wind. The system targets all three main wind farm applications: Wind resource assessment, Wind farm operation optimization and Wind forecasting. Pentalum is a privately held company, funded by VCs and headed by highly experienced entrepreneurs, professionals in optics, fluid mechanics and atmospheric remote sensing. Pentalum Technologies Inc. was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Rehovot, Israel.
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