Nov 20, 2012 | News
East-West Digital News Investors now have a new instrument to identify and assess startups: the Russian Startup Index (RSI), which was tested for the first time last week at the Open Innovations international forum in Moscow. Link to Russian Startup Index (RSI) The...
Nov 20, 2012 | News
East-West Digital News Obninsk, a ‘science city’ in the Kaluga region, announced plans to build its own $40 million high tech technopark. The effort will be funded on a roughly 50/50 basis between federal and regional coffers, the Nanoprom.ru portal reported earlier...
Nov 20, 2012 | News
East-West Digital News Last week, Delivery Hero, a Berlin-based online food ordering company operating in a dozen of countries, and Foodik.ru, announced a merger agreement aiming to “compete for leadership on the Russian market” and “access new international growth...
Nov 19, 2012 | News
East-West Digital News Softline Venture Partners told East-West Digital News that it has just invested $500,000 in Apps4all, a company that carries a community of Russian mobile app developers with a variety of media, event, training, research and advertising...
Nov 19, 2012 | News
Moscow Times 16 November 2012 The government authorized the sale of 25 percent in Freight One to Vladimir Lisin’s NTK in what may become a major consolidation in the rail transportation industry, Vedomosti reported Thursday. NTK will buy the stake from Russian...
Nov 17, 2012 | News
East-West Digital News Last week, Russian Internet marketing company ALTWeb Group announced the creation of its venture arm ALTWeb Capital, which will focus on pre-seed and seed stage investments of up to $400,000. The fund is seeking to invest, in particular, in SaaS...
