Oct 10, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, North America, Russia
Do you think that in the eyes of Western creative workers, Russia is the birthplace of bears, Skolkovo start-ups and falling rocket projects that change the world? You will be disappointed – the campaign, which in its first week exceeded the request for Kickstarter...
Oct 9, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
East-West Digital News RocketBank, a Moscow-based banking application startup, announced that it received $2 million in funding from Runa Capital, a Moscow-based fund operating internationally. RocketBank’s application, currently available only on iOS, allows users to...
Oct 9, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
East-West Digital News Last week Maxfield Capital, a Moscow-based $100 million venture fund, and Altair, the investment vehicle of serial business angel Igor Ryabenkiy, announced a seed-stage investment in Qbaka, an award-winning startup developing a solution to track...
Oct 9, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
East-West Digital News Fastlane Ventures, Prostor Capital, and Runa Capital have shaken hands to combine two sites in the field of online health and medicine: VitaPortal, which has been funded so far by Fastlane, Prostor, and US business angel Esther Dyson, and...
Oct 7, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
East-West Digital News Former executives of Finam Global, the venture arm of leading Russian financial group Finam, have launched a $30 million high-tech fund to invest in “fast-growing markets of considerable size.” Christened ‘Flint Capital,’ the fund...
Sep 30, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, North America, Russia, Western Europe
TechCrunch Berlin’s Rocket Internet has of late made a big business out of incubating and growing e-commerce startups in emerging markets, far away from the U.S. where the competitive field is much more crowded. But today comes news of a funding round for portfolio...
