Oct 7, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
East-West Digital News Former executives of Finam Global, the venture arm of leading Russian financial group Finam, have launched a $30 million high-tech fund to invest in “fast-growing markets of considerable size.” Christened ‘Flint Capital,’ the fund...
Sep 30, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, North America, Russia, Western Europe
TechCrunch Berlin’s Rocket Internet has of late made a big business out of incubating and growing e-commerce startups in emerging markets, far away from the U.S. where the competitive field is much more crowded. But today comes news of a funding round for portfolio...
Sep 30, 2013 | News, North America
Techcrunch San Jose-based Varentec, a company that builds power management and monitoring solutions for the electric grid, today announced the close of an $8 million Series B round of funding from Bill Gates and Khosla Ventures. The new funding follows its $7.7...
Sep 30, 2013 | News, North America
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 27 (Reuters) – Data-analytics company Palantir Technologies has raised $196.5 million, the company disclosed Friday in a regulatory filing. The Palo Alto-based company, founded by former PayPal executives, builds analytics software for the...
Sep 26, 2013 | News, North America
TechCrunch As Bitcoin, the math-based currency that enthusiasts say could revolutionize online transactions, becomes more mainstream, its supporters have been looking for ways to make it more accessible to investors. Today SecondMarket, a platform where privately-held...
Sep 26, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
TechCrunch Sept 26 A spot of consolidation in the Russian online health services space today. Health advice portal VitaPortal, which raised a $2 million Series A last October from Prostor Capital and Esther Dyson, has merged with ZdorovieOnline.ru, a smaller medical...
