Feb 18, 2015 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
East-West Digital News Maxfield Capital, a venture fund operating globally from its offices in Moscow, New York City and Tel Aviv, has invested an undisclosed amount in Zdravprint, a Russian startup that develops medical 3D-printing technology. It is the first time...
Jan 22, 2015 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia, Southeast Asia
East-West Digital News Just one year after Russia saw the launch of its first hardware accelerator, DI Group, a Tomsk, Siberia-based high tech group, has launched a “venture fund-accelerator” targeting startups in the fields of smartphones, electronics, gadgets and...
Jan 16, 2015 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
Rostelecom, Russia’s national telecom operator, announced yesterday the acquisition of a majority stake in SafeData (LLC Data Storage Centre), a leading operator of commercial data centers, traffic exchange services and content delivery. In a first stage,...
Dec 30, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
Last week Croice, whose mobile app allows you to create photo stories with a background audio, announced its first round of financing with $500,000 brought in by venture fund Imperious Group. Launched earlier this year by Russian entrepreneur Vadim Zhernov, the St....
Dec 10, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, North America, Russia
East-West Digital News Nginx (pronounced “engine-x”), a US-based open source web server publisher with Russian origins, has secured $20 million in a Series B1 round of financing from New Enterprise Associates (NEA). German-American fund e.ventures, Moscow-based Runa...