Mar 12, 2015 | News, Western Europe
Another fintech investment to chalk up in London: Passion Capital has invested an undisclosed level of seed funding in Ravelin, an early stage online fraud prevention startup formed by a team of ex-Hailo employees in January this year. The startup is currently working...
Mar 10, 2015 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
A startup with routes in Russia’s second city has attracted more than $221k in funding on Indiegogo. The company is called iTraq, and has developed a small device whose location can be tracked using a smartphone app. The iTraq device looks just a lot like a standard...
Mar 9, 2015 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
Wall Street Journal The Hong Kong stock exchange, once one of the world’s top venues for IPOs, hasn’t been on the shopping lists of foreign companies for a long time. But a listing plan by a Russian ecommerce retailer could put it back in the fray. Once a market that...
Mar 5, 2015 | East Asia, News, Western Europe
TechCrunch Restaurant reservation service Quandoo, a major European rival to OpenTable, is being acquired by Japan’s Recruit in a deal worth 27.11 billion yen, that’s around $219 million. Berlin-based Quandoo, which was founded in 2012, took a strategic investment...
Mar 5, 2015 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
East-West Digital News Russian company Wicron has attracted 5 million rubles (approximately $80,000 at the current exchange rate) of investment from Ashmanov Partners, a leading Russian web and SEO agency. The transaction took place in December 2014, but was announced...
Mar 4, 2015 | News, North America
Uber is on course to make its first public acquisition with San Jose-based mapping tech startup deCarta in its headlights. DeCarta provides a range of location and map services, including in-map search, location APIs, turn-by-turn navigation and more. A deal to buy...
