Mar 29, 2012 | News
East-West Digital News 29 Mar 2012 The Russian venture capital scene, which counted at most two dozen active funds just two years ago, is continuing its impressive growth. Its newest player, an early stage venture fund named Frontier Ventures, has just been announced...
Mar 28, 2012 | News
Russian Law Online 14 Mar 2012 Baker & McKenzie advised RUSNANO on an investment agreement with Domain Associates LLC, a US venture capital firm specializing in leading-edge life sciences technologies. The investment agreement provides a framework for a...
Mar 28, 2012 | News
Russia Beyond the Headlines 23 Mar 2012 The Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (SkTech) plans to establish Russia’s biggest endowment fund, projected at 16.5 billion rubles ($560 million) in 2012 alone. The country’s biggest state-controlled companies will...
Mar 28, 2012 | News
VTB is in negotiations to buy out the 40 percent of Ingosstrakh held by Czech investor Petr Kelner’s PPF private-equity firm and Italian insurance giant Generali, according to a source close to one of the Russian insurance company’s shareholders. This was...
Mar 28, 2012 | News
East-West Digital News 28 Mar 2012 Runa Capital, a Moscow-based fund that began investing outside Russia last fall, is providing $1.5 million in funding to Capptain, a French startup that has developed a SaaS platform for mobile analytics and marketing. Capptain’s...
