Aug 13, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
East-West Digital News Earlier this month TimePad, a Moscow startup that offers e-ticketing services and other online tools for event organizers, secured an investment from Target Ventures. Since the acquisition of an initial stake earlier this year, the fund has...
Aug 11, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia, Western Europe
TechCrunch FoodPanda, Rocket Internet’s food delivery service, has its paws on yet another round of funding. This time it is $60 million from existing investor Falcon Edge Capital as well as Rocket Internet AG. The money will be used to expand FoodPanda, as well as...
Aug 7, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
East-West Digital News August 7, 2014 Moscow-based company T8 Publishing Technologies is planning to invest no less than 6 billion rubles (approximately $170 million) in an ambitious print-on-demand project, the Moscow authorities announced last week. The company...
Aug 4, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, North America, Russia, Western Europe
East-West Digital News In late July TMT Investments, a UK-headquartered venture fund backed by Russian businessmen, announced the completion of a $250,000 investment in San-Francisco-based fashion rental platform Le Tote. Le Tote provides women with unlimited access...
Aug 1, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
TechCrunch August 1, 2014 There are a host of companies attempting to make settling your bill at a restaurant ‘waiter-free’, by employing a smartphone app and accompanying mobile payment and POS system. These include behemoths such as PayPal, with its ‘Pay At Table‘...
Aug 1, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
East-West Digital News Life.SREDA, a Moscow-based venture capital firm focusing on mobile and online fintech startups, is to invest $1.5 million in Settle, a mobile payment service developed by Kiev-based startup Advice Wallet. Combining mobile payments and a loyalty...
