Nov 25, 2014 | Deals, France, Western Europe
The Sunday Times November 16, 2014 A FAMILY of winemakers from Burgundy will descend on a prestigious club in St James’s, central London, next week. They will be uncorking some of their finest bottles to whet investors’ appetites for what is believed to be the first...
Nov 24, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, North America, Russia
In California, Ukrainian developers have launched the startup JetMe, a service which allows users to reserve and pay for flights on private jets to any point around the globe. One of the startup’s founders is Yuriy Romanyukha, an associate for Russia-based...
Nov 20, 2014 | News, Western Europe
GENEVA, Nov 20 (Reuters) – The United Nations will spin off its humanitarian news service IRIN as an independent Swiss-based foundation after getting a $25 million 15-year investment from a Hong Kong-based philanthropist. The deal aims to leave the United...
Nov 20, 2014 | News, North America
We’ll need to produce 70% more food by 2050 to sustain a world population expected to grow to 10 billion. Yet agriculture startups struggle to get the funding, manufacturing, and test facilities needed to build tech that could boost food production. To fix that...
Nov 18, 2014 | China, East Asia, News
TechCrunch V-Key, a security software maker for mobile apps, has raised $12 million from Alibaba Group affiliate Ant Financial Services and IPV Capital, a venture capital firm based in China. The Series B round means that Ant Financial now has a minority stake in...
