Rusnano invests in US portable power technology developer

Sep 20, 2012 | News

East-West Digital News 18 September 2012 Lilliputian Systems, a developer of portable power products for consumer electronics, announced last week it has closed on $40 million of a planned $60 million equity financing round led by Rusnano. The Russian nanotechnology...

Rosneft Seeks to Raise $15Bln to Buy Into TNK-BP

Sep 20, 2012 | News

Moscow Times 19 September 2012 Rosneft is talking to banks about raising $15 billion in debt financing as it inches toward a deal to buy BP’s one-half stake in TNK-BP, bankers said Wednesday. Rosneft and the British oil company briefed President Vladimir Putin...

Lokata Lokata.ru secures new funding from E.Ventures and Bonial

Sep 18, 2012 | News

East West Digital News 17 September 2012 Last week, Lokata.ru, a startup driving Internet and mobile users to offline stores, completed a new round of financing from German-American venture fund E.Ventures (formerly known as E-Ventures Capital Partners) and Bonial...

New Player: WestBridge Advisors’ $500-million fund

Sep 17, 2012 | India, News

Business Standard 13 September 2012 This team of general partners has been together for the past 12 years, something rarely equalled in the Indian venture capital (VC) and private equity (PE) sector. It has raised about $2 billion across six funds and, in the past...