Oct 29, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
East-West Digital News Last week, the Russian edition of Forbes released a list of 10 top Russian venture capitalists whom it identified as being “the most successful.” In the last four years, these investors have earned approximately $3.6 billion from mainly...
Oct 28, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, North America, Russia
MOSCOW Oct 28 (Reuters) – Russia’s mid-sized Sovcombank is buying the local unit of GE Money Bank, a subsidiary of U.S. conglomerate General Electric, in another departure of a foreign bank from a Russian domestic market dominated by state-controlled...
Oct 28, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, China, East Asia, MENA, News, Russia
TEL AVIV, Oct 28 (Reuters) – The Catalyst Funds will close two private equity funds soon that will bring Chinese and Russian investment to Israeli companies and help the firms break into those markets, one of Catalyst’s managing partners said on Monday....
Oct 24, 2013 | News, North America, Western Europe
New York Times BERLIN – Lucas von Cranach has come a long way since starting his professional career at a German machinery production company in the mid-2000s. After struggling to keep up with the goings-on at his favorite soccer team, F.C. Cologne, Mr. von Cranach...
Oct 23, 2013 | MENA, News
DUBAI, Oct 21 (Reuters) – A Saudi-based investment firm is planning to launch a first-of-its-kind private equity fund in the Middle East that will solely focus on investment in the fast-growing education sector in the Gulf Arab region, its top executive said. *...
Oct 23, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
East-West Digital News Last week ID Quantique (IDQ), a Geneva-based company that develops commercial encryption technologies based on the principles of quantum physics, raised $5.6 million in funding from Quantum Wave Capital (QWave Capital), a Moscow-based venture...
