Mar 28, 2014 | France, News, Western Europe
TechCrunch March 28, 2014 French startup Sigfox raised a Series B round of $20.6 million (€15 million) from IDInvest and BPIFrance. Existing investors (Elaia Partners, Partech Ventures, Ixo and Intel Capital) also participated. As a reminder, Sigfox wants to create an...
Mar 27, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia, Western Europe
East-West Digital News March 27, 2014 Mobile app developer Iconic Mobile (formerly known as Ipadizer) has raised $1 million from 515 Capital, a London-based investment and consultancy firm. This is the first funding round for the startup – at a pre-money valuation of...
Mar 27, 2014 | News, North America
TechCrunch March 27, 2014 Social customer service company Lithium Technologies will announce on Thursday morning that it has acquired Klout for almost $200 million in cash and private stock, says Fortune. Re/code first reported last month that Lithium and Klout, which...
Mar 26, 2014 | News, Western Europe
Startups March 25, 2014 Seed round backed by founders of Huddle, QXL and former eBay executive E-commerce analytics company Ometria has secured $1.5m seed funding from a group of high-profile investors and entrepreneurs, including Huddle founders Alastair Mitchell and...
Mar 25, 2014 | News, North America, Western Europe
TechCrunch March 25, 2014 The implosion of Mt. Gox is just every other Bitcoin exchange’s gain. Payward, which runs the alt-coin exchange Kraken, said it just raised a $5 million Series A round. Hummingbird Ventures, which is based out of Europe, led the round. Other...
Mar 25, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
Moscow Times March 26, 2014 Russia’s venture capital market, after tumbling from the heights it reached in 2012, is set to stabilize in 2014, Russia investment firm Rye, Man & Gor Securities said in a report released Tuesday. Total venture capital...
