Dec 9, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia, Western Europe
East-West Digital News East-West Digital NewsPhenomen Ventures, a $300 million international venture fund launched last year by Russian businessman Dmitry Falkovich, has invested in Helpling, the online marketplace for household cleaners backed by Germany’s...
Dec 4, 2014 | News, Oceania, Western Europe
SYDNEY, Dec 4 (Reuters) – Private equity firm KKR & Co has invested about $100 million in UK-based agribusiness Sundrop Farms Holding Ltd, which plans to use solar panels and sea water to grow vegetables in a vast greenhouse in Australia’s driest...
Dec 4, 2014 | News, South & Central Asia
TechCrunch You don’t often hear of five-year-old companies raising multi-million dollar seed rounds, but that’s exactly what’s happened in Hong Kong today where biotech firm Prenetics closed $2.65 million for its next-generation prenatal DNA testing. Prenetics...
Dec 3, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, News
East-West Digital News Cream Finance, a European company that provides short-term consumer loans, has raised $6.2 million (€5 million, both debt and equity) from Flint Capital, a globalized Russian venture fund launched last year. Founded in 2010, Cream Finance is the...
Dec 3, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
East-West Digital News Top Delivery, a provider of e-commerce shipment services on the domestic market, has raised an undisclosed amount from Impulse VC. The young company will use the funds to develop further its logistics, customer service and IT systems. It also...
Dec 2, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
East-West Digital News Dashboard Systems, a Russian corporate software publisher, has raised “more than 100 million rubles” (approximately $2 million at the current exchange rate) from Russian IT firm LANIT and fund Buran Venture Capital, Vedomosti...