Mar 5, 2015 | East Asia, News, Western Europe
TechCrunch Restaurant reservation service Quandoo, a major European rival to OpenTable, is being acquired by Japan’s Recruit in a deal worth 27.11 billion yen, that’s around $219 million. Berlin-based Quandoo, which was founded in 2012, took a strategic investment...
Mar 2, 2015 | Central & Eastern Europe, Events, France, News, Russia, Western Europe
East-West Digital News La French Tech, a government-led initiative that aims to stimulate and promote France’s startup ecosystem, is launching a Russia branch. The kick-off event on Feb. 17 gathered around 100 tech entrepreneurs, representatives of large or...
Feb 28, 2015 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia, Western Europe
East-West Digital News Last week Runa Capital, a venture firm operating globally from its offices in Moscow and San Francisco, announced a €3 million investment in MariaDB Corporation, a global software vendor specializing in high availability, high performance and...
Jan 22, 2015 | News, Western Europe
After garnering over 3 million downloads on iOS, mobile cooking app Kitchen Stories has closed a $1.8 million seed round, including backing from Point Nine Capital, and Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments. Read More
Jan 8, 2015 | News, Western Europe
TechCrunch Samba Networks (formerly Samba Mobile) has closed a £250,000 ($377,000) angel round of investment from Digicel, Mark Charkin (formerly of King.com and Bebo), and other existing angels, followed its pivot last year. The U.K. startup was founded back in 2010,...
Jan 8, 2015 | News, Western Europe
Mister Spex, the European ‘online optician’ (that’s an eyewear online retailer, to you and me), has picked up a new $40 million round in funding led by U.S. investment bank Goldman Sachs. The Berlin-based company’s existing backers also participated, including...
