Sep 17, 2013 | East Asia, News, North America
TechCrunch Sep 17 Cinemacraft, a startup that wants to replace static video thumbnails with its interactive Videograms, has raised a $1.5 million strategic funding round from investors NTT DoCoMo, Turner Broadcasting’s Media Camp and 500 Startups. Combined with an...
Sep 17, 2013 | Brazil, Latin America, News, Western Europe
TechCrunch Sept 17 Earlier this year, when Rocket Internet announced a new injection of $500 million into its Germany-based startup incubator, co-founder Oliver Samwer told me that a large focus for it would be emerging markets like Latin America. Today comes some...
Sep 17, 2013 | News, Western Europe
LONDON, Sept 16 (Reuters) – BC Partner’s German pharma company Aenova has successfully raised a new 130 million euro ($172.37 million) leveraged loan to back its planned acquisition of contract development and manufacturing firm Haupt Pharma, banking...
Sep 17, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
East-West Digital News Last week Oktogo.ru announced the acquisition of information portal Travel.ru for a price of “up to $2 million including stock incentives,” according to a company statement. Founded in 1998, Travel.ru is one of the oldest resources in the...
Sep 17, 2013 | News, Western Europe
STOCKHOLM/LONDON, Sept 16 (Reuters) State-controlled Finnish utility Fortum has launched a sale of its power grid in Finland, which could fetch around 1.5 billion to 2 billion euros ($2.67 billion), four people familiar with the matter said. Last week, information on...
Sep 17, 2013 | India, News, North America, South & Central Asia
MUMBAI, Sept 16 (Reuters) TPG Growth, a unit of U.S. private equity firm TPG Capital has invested 1.45 billion rupees ($22.9 million) in Sutures India Pvt Ltd, a privately held medical consumables firm, it said on Monday. Bangalore-based Sutures manufactures and...
