Nov 18, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
East-West Digital News Altair, the venture fund of serial business angel Igor Ryabenkiy, has invested an undisclosed amount in Alytics, a startup developing contextual ad solutions to optimize conversion rates. The investment comes a mere eight months after Ryabenkiy...
Nov 18, 2013 | News, Western Europe
BRUSSELS, Nov 18 (Reuters) – Belgian IBA said on Monday it had completed the sale of its drug discovery arm Cisbio Bioassays business to private equity group Argos Soditic in a deal valuing the business at 25 million euros ($33.7 million). IBA said in a...
Nov 15, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
East-West Digital News Earlier this month, the Moscow-based management company Flint Management launched a venture fund dedicating to developing e-commerce in Ukraine. This move comes just weeks after the company announced the creation of Flint Capital, a $35 million...
Nov 15, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
East-West Digital News Russian fund Addventure announced last week a Series A investment of $1.5 million in в Medbooking.com, an online service for setting appointments with Moscow medical organizations. Medbooking is intended to become an umbrella brand for...
Nov 14, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
The Moscow Times The Cabinet is opposed to the idea put forth by Rosneft’s President Igor Sechin that his firm buy the state’s stake in the port of Novorossiysk, high-ranking officials familiar a report on the facility’s privatization said Monday....
Nov 14, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Western Europe
WARSAW, Nov 6 (Reuters) – Builder Budimex, the Polish arm of Spain’s Ferrovial, will sell one of its companies to private equity firm Equity Investors for 238.6 million zlotys ($77.37 million), it said in a statement on Wednesday. Budimex is Poland’s...