May 19, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
East-West Digital News March 19, 2014 CrowdSystems, the developer of retail analytics tools based on crowdsourcing technology, announced Friday that it closed a $1 million Series A round of financing from Russian venture fund InVenture Partners at an undisclosed...
May 19, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, MENA, News, Russia, Western Europe
East-West Digital News May 19. 2014 In early May TMT Investments, a UK-headquartered venture fund backed by Russian businessmen, announced the completion of a $200,000 investment in Israeli startup Drippler, in exchange for a 1.86% share. Drippler is a mobile and...
May 18, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, Events, Russia
East-West Digital News is proud to announce Russia’s first internationally-oriented industry event, the e-Days E-Commerce Conference, which will be held on June 6 in Moscow in partnership with comScore, InternetRetailer.com and PwC as well as with western chambers of...
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...
May 14, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, MENA, News, Russia
The NASDAQ-listed Russian search giant Yandex is among the main contributors to a $4.1 million capital injection in SalesPredict, a SaaS technology provider helping B2B companies increase revenues using predictive analytics. Founded in 2012, SalesPredict combines and...
May 13, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Western Europe
TechCrunch May 13, 2014 Earlybird, the Berlin-based VC, turned a spotlight on Central and Eastern Europe earlier this year when it announced the launch of a new $130 million fund dedicated to tech startups specifically from the region — an area full of talent but...