Oct 10, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, North America, Russia
Do you think that in the eyes of Western creative workers, Russia is the birthplace of bears, Skolkovo start-ups and falling rocket projects that change the world? You will be disappointed – the campaign, which in its first week exceeded the request for Kickstarter...
Oct 9, 2013 | News, North America
Oct 9 (Reuters) – (Reuters) – CACI International (CACI.N) on Wednesday said it would buy Six3 Systems Inc from private equity firm GTCR for about $820 million to strengthen its intelligence support services to the U.S. government, the company’s...
Oct 9, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
East-West Digital News RocketBank, a Moscow-based banking application startup, announced that it received $2 million in funding from Runa Capital, a Moscow-based fund operating internationally. RocketBank’s application, currently available only on iOS, allows users to...
Oct 9, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
East-West Digital News Last week Maxfield Capital, a Moscow-based $100 million venture fund, and Altair, the investment vehicle of serial business angel Igor Ryabenkiy, announced a seed-stage investment in Qbaka, an award-winning startup developing a solution to track...
Oct 9, 2013 | India, News, South & Central Asia
Oct 9 (Reuters) – India is a giant country with a giant population, so it’s no surprise that it’s also the home of a giant e-commerce company backed by a giant amount of venture capital. Flipkart, the “Amazon of India,” has raised $160 million, bringing its...
Oct 9, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
East-West Digital News Fastlane Ventures, Prostor Capital, and Runa Capital have shaken hands to combine two sites in the field of online health and medicine: VitaPortal, which has been funded so far by Fastlane, Prostor, and US business angel Esther Dyson, and...
