Zvooq secures $20 million “to bring legal music streaming to the masses and destroy music piracy in Russia”
East-West Digital News Russian music-streaming platform Zvooq yesterday announced it secured an investment of $20 million in a Series A round led by Ulmart, Russia’s leading online retailer, with the participation of Essedel Capital, a Helsinki-based private equity...
Investment Banking 2.0 Says “Hello World!?”
TechCrunch David Gelles wrote in the New York Times this weekend about how large tech corporations have been conducting more M&A deals with less input from traditional investment banks. Because of my company’s insight into buy and sell-side M&A interest, I...
BlockTrail Secures Cash For Its Bitcoin Transactions Analysis Platform
TechCrunch BlockTrail is a new platform for bitcoin analytics launched today by Amsterdam-based researchers BlockCorp. It’s secured €500,000 ($669,310) in funding from BlockCorp, which was set up by entrepreneur Boaz Bechar and VKontakte co-founder Lev Leviev....
Fitness bracelet Healbe receives $2.6 million investment
Project Healbe has received $2.6 million investment from a group of unnamed private investors, along with Dmitry Chalyy, Alexander Tarakanov, […]