Oct 28, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
Last week online car sales and valuation service CarPrice.ru received $2 million in seed investment. The principal investors were Almaz Capital, Fastlane Ventures, e.ventures along with several other Russian and foreign funds. The company was founded very recently, in...
Oct 21, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, MENA
Operating since 1970s, the company is involved with the production of caps from a 5,000 square meter facility. Caps are produced for: Water products (produced of organoleptic PE) Carbonated & non-carbonated beverage caps Bottling liquid (i.e. milk, oil) The...
Oct 21, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, News
WARSAW, Oct 21 (Reuters) – Poland’s Alior Bank said on Tuesday it had agreed to buy a 98 percent stake in smaller rival Meritum Bank from two private equity funds and the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) for 353 million zlotys ($107...
Oct 21, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, North America, Russia
East-West Digital News Yesterday Jelastic, a California-based startup with Russian origins, saw one of its innovative solutions picked from five Russian finalists in the SmartCamp contest staged by IBM, as reported by the Skolkovo Foundation. Jelastic received a...
Oct 20, 2014 | Africa, Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
Moscow Times Gaborone — Russia’s Norilsk Nickel, the world’s top nickel and palladium producer, said it had agreed to sell stakes in two African nickel mines for $337 million to BCL, a Botswana-based copper mining firm looking to expand. Norilsk will...
Oct 17, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
Brainly, a global social learning network designed to allow students to help each other with schoolwork, has completed a $9 million Series A funding round with the participation of several major venture funds. Among them are General Catalyst Partners, who led the...
