Jun 14, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
East-West Digital News The Russian venture fever hit the Tomsk region in Siberia last week with the announced launch of a regional seed-stage fund. The new fund is expected to focus on the support of technology developments across the region’s innovation production...
Jun 14, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, Events, Russia
SPIEF 2013 will provide a unique platform for global leaders to engage with their peers in finding solutions to the most pressing issues affecting the world today: political challenges, the fragility of the global economic recovery, the economic and social fractures...
Jun 13, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
East-West Digital News 11 June 2013 Moscow-based social startup Flocktory announced last week that it has landed a $1.5 million Series A funding round from Digital Ventures, a new Russian venture fund, which has obtained a minority stake in the company. The main...
Jun 13, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
May 31 (Reuters) – PIK Group , one of Russia’s largest home builders, said on Friday it would raise $275 million through a share issue to reduce debt and fund investments. The company, in which Suleiman Kerimov’s investment vehicle Nafta Moskva owns...
Jun 13, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
East-West Digital News 11 June 2013 Last week Runa Capital, a Moscow-based, $135 million tech fund that operates internationally, closed a $3 million funding deal with Playtox, a software developer and publisher that specializes in free-to-play mobile browser games....
Jun 13, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
East-West Digital News 13 June 2013 Russian tech fund Softline Venture Partners and the Moscow Seed Fund announced last week that they have closed a funding deal with ITMan, a startup providing SMB companies with SaaS (software as a service) solutions to control IT...
