May 7, 2013 | News, North America
May 6 (Reuters) – Corsair Components Inc, which makes gaming components for personal computers, has received a $75 million investment from tech-focused private equity firm Francisco Partners, the company said on Monday. Corsair said Chief Executive Officer Andy...
May 6, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
Moscow Times 6 May 2013 Azerbaijan’s state oil fund SOFAZ has agreed to invest around $500 million in a new share offering by VTB, Russia’s second-largest bank, the fund said in e-mailed comments. VTB says it has already received firm orders for all of the...
May 6, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
May 6 (Reuters) – The owners of Russia’s VSMPO-Avisma, the world’s largest titanium company, will offer to acquire its free float from minority shareholders, business daily Kommersant reported on Monday. The company’s chief executive, Mikhail...
May 6, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
SocialMart, a two-year-old Russian product recommendation service for social networks, raised an as yet unspecified amount of investment in late April from Moscow Seed Fund, Moscow City’s venture arm, and Igor Ryabenkiy, a serial Russian angel investor. Ryabenkiy...
May 6, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
May 3 (Reuters) – Shares of Russian payment transfer company QIWI Plc rose as much as 2 percent in their market debut, valuing the company at about $901.1 million. The company priced its enlarged offering of 12.5 million American depository shares (ADS) at $17...
May 3, 2013 | News, North America
SJF Ventures conducted the final closing on its third fund with more than $90MM in capital commitments, tripling the size of the previous $28MM second fund. The target for SJF Ventures III was $75MM and the fund was substantially oversubscribed at its final April...
