Apr 16, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, News
TechCrunch April 16, 2014 HeiaHeia, a Finnish startup offering a social and corporate wellness platform that helps employees live a healthier lifestyle — and, presumably, perform better at work — has raised €1.5 million in funding led by Finland’s Wallstreet Financial...
Apr 14, 2014 | News, North America
NY Times April 14, 2013 Quora, a question-and-answer website, didn’t need to raise money. It had barely touched $60 million in venture capital that it accepted just two years ago. Yet the California company, which has no revenue and just 70 employees, recently...
Apr 11, 2014 | News, Western Europe
TechCrunch April 11, 2014 Add a new VC to the ranks in Europe: Station 12 is raising £150 million ($250 million), which it plans to invest in Series A and B rounds in the future Netflixes and Maker Studios of the world — in other words, startups in Europe that...
Apr 11, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
GS Venture, the one-year-old venture arm of GS Group, has announced its first international investment. Set up last summer to “support entrepreneurial innovators and startup teams” in Russia, the fund decided to establish presence in Finland with a €200,000 injection...
Apr 7, 2014 | News, North America
TechCrunch April 7 After Mark Zuckerberg, Peter Thiel and other Silicon Valley notables plunked down capital in a $40 million growth round for San Francisco-based artificial intelligence startup Vicarious, a few more billionaires showed up. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos,...
