Nov 21, 2014 | News, Western Europe
Ratos acquires Ledil Says purchase price (enterprise value) for 100% of company amounts to eur 97m, of which ratos will provide equity of approximately EUR 50m * To acquire approximately 67% of the shares in the Finnish LED optics company Ledil Oy from the...
Nov 21, 2014 | News, North America
TechCrunch Youbetme, the startup behind the social betting app of the same name, announced today that it has raised $2.7 million in Series A funding. Youbetme says it launched the app in January. The company bills itself as a way to “bet on anything, at any...
Nov 20, 2014 | News, Western Europe
GENEVA, Nov 20 (Reuters) – The United Nations will spin off its humanitarian news service IRIN as an independent Swiss-based foundation after getting a $25 million 15-year investment from a Hong Kong-based philanthropist. The deal aims to leave the United...
Nov 20, 2014 | News, North America
We’ll need to produce 70% more food by 2050 to sustain a world population expected to grow to 10 billion. Yet agriculture startups struggle to get the funding, manufacturing, and test facilities needed to build tech that could boost food production. To fix that...
Nov 20, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, Events, France, News, Russia, Western Europe
East-West Digital News LeWeb is among the biggest international conference for digital and technological innovations, as well as market investors. Its next edition will take place in Paris on Dec. 9-11. In 2014, Russia, as an official guest of LeWeb, will present the...
Nov 20, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia, Western Europe
East-West Digital News Maxfield Capital, a venture fund operating globally from its offices in Moscow, New York City and Tel Aviv, has invested $1.7 million in Patients Know Best, a British company which has designed a cloud platform for managing patient details....
