Apr 12, 2014 | France, News, Western Europe
Reuters Germany’s Symrise (SY1G.DE), the world’s fourth largest scents and flavours company, has made a binding offer to acquire French food ingredient maker Diana Group in a deal that would expand its activities into the pet food market. Symrise did not...
Apr 11, 2014 | News, Western Europe
TechCrunch April 11, 2014 Add a new VC to the ranks in Europe: Station 12 is raising £150 million ($250 million), which it plans to invest in Series A and B rounds in the future Netflixes and Maker Studios of the world — in other words, startups in Europe that...
Apr 11, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
GS Venture, the one-year-old venture arm of GS Group, has announced its first international investment. Set up last summer to “support entrepreneurial innovators and startup teams” in Russia, the fund decided to establish presence in Finland with a €200,000 injection...
Apr 11, 2014 | China, East Asia, News, Southeast Asia
April 11 (Reuters) – Shanghai Yupei Group said private equity firm RRJ Capital and SeaTown, a unit of Singapore state investor Temasek Holdings, have agreed to invest $250 million in the Chinese logistics company. The capital raising plus the $200 million it...
Apr 10, 2014 | News, North America
TechCrunch April 10, 2014 Runscope, a service that helps developers test and debug APIs, today announced that it has raised $6 million in a Series A funding round led by General Catalyst Partners, with participation from Lerer Ventures and True Ventures. As part of...
Apr 10, 2014 | News, North America
TechCrunch April 10, 2014 Has there ever been a better time to be a startup focused on providing high-quality food to the hungry masses at an affordable price point? Following in the footsteps of big Series A financings for Sprig and Spoonrocket, today Munchery is...
