Jun 18, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
East-West Digital News Venture investment volumes in Russia fell 42% as the number of completed deals dropped 38% in Q1 2014, says Rye, Man and Gor Securities (RMG), an independent Moscow-based investment company, in their latest quarterly report published with the...
Jun 11, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia, Southeast Asia
East-West Digital News Over the past months Russian seed-stage fund SpinUp Partners has invested in two Asian startup accelerators – a pioneering move among Russian funds, which usually consider California the prime destination in their global investment strategy. In...
May 29, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, France, News, North America, Russia, Western Europe
East-West Digital News Yesterday, French mobile analytics startup Capptain, which so far had been funded by Moscow-based venture fund Runa Capital, announced it was being acquired by Microsoft. The amount of transaction has not been disclosed, but Runa’s PR...
May 16, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
East-West Digital News May 16, 2014 Yesterday Ozon Holdings, one of Russia’s most established e-commerce players, announced that it acquired a stake in LitRes, the leader in Russia’s fast growing – though still embryonic – domestic e-book market. Neither the size of...
Apr 18, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, North America, Russia
East-West Digital News In a bid to “educate the private sector and raise awareness about economic espionage and cyber counterintelligence,” FBI special agents Lucia M. Ziobro and Vincent B. Lisi warned Boston-area businesses and academic institutions...
