Dec 9, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
East-West Digital News iTech Capital, a Russian PE & VC fund, announced earlier this week that it has invested $10 million in Ticketland, a major Russian event ticketing company. More than two million tickets for more than 40,000 events are marketed annually via...
Dec 9, 2013 | News, Oceania
HONG KONG/SYDNEY, Dec 9 (Reuters) – Bankers in Australia have much to cheer this Christmas as fees from underwriting IPOs surge 10-fold this year, and many are now betting on an equally active year in 2014 as a slew of private equity exits keep the market busy....
Dec 8, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, East Asia, News, Russia
The Moscow Times Businessman Richard Hainsworth has sold out of local rating agency RusRating, shifting his attention to building an international rating business in Hong Kong. The new owner, Alexander Zaitsev, vowed Friday that he would expand the agency and...
Nov 27, 2013 | News, North America, Western Europe
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 21 (Reuters) – Online music-streaming service Spotify has raised $250 million in a new funding round, making it one of the world’s most richly capitalized start-ups. The new funding round was led by Technology Crossover Ventures, a...
Nov 22, 2013 | France, News, Western Europe
Les Echos Business In the market for private aviation, the young company Wijet plans to make business aviation as accessible as a taxi. Wijet has now raised €1.5 million from investors. Four years after its launch, the taxi-jet airline Wijet continues to score points...
