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,...
Jan 6, 2015 | Central & Eastern Europe, Deals, MENA
The Company is a specialized agricultural business with a focus on garlic products. It produces garlic sauce, pickle, mash & powder in addition selling raw garlic. It also provides private labelling based on order for products such as ketchup, mayonnaise, lemon...
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 26, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
As a busy year draws to a close, RusBase has asked 10 Russian venture capitalists what they think were the most important events of 2014. Andrey Romanenko, Run Capital: “Considering that Run Capital was only founded in April, we think this year was a successful one....
Dec 23, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
East-West Digital News A tech startup that is looking to make those hellish trips to the shoe store a thing of the past has won a grant of 15 million rubles (approximately $275,000 at the current exchange rate) from Skolkovo Foundation. Fitanny’s virtual shoe...
Dec 22, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Western Europe
TechCrunch The cloud storage business is already crowded, with leading competitors including Dropbox, Google Drive, iCloud, Box, and OneDrive. Hive.im, which just came out of beta, is one of the latest entrants in the space, but it hopes to stand out by turning cloud...