Apr 26, 2013 | News, North America
New York Times 25 April 2013 Needing financing for his California vineyard, Ed Sbragia turned to a private equity group that invests in wine-related businesses. When Ed Sbragia started Sbragia Family Vineyards, it was an accomplishment that was nearly a century in the...
Apr 26, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia, Western Europe
Walkbase, a Finnish startup that has developed an innovative retail analytics solution, has received a seed capital injection from Russian and Scandinavian investors after four years of R&D. Neither the amount of the round nor the company’s valuation have been...
Apr 26, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
As Russia rapidly emerges as a new hot spot on the world’s innovation map, East-West Digital News, the country’s first international resource on digital industries, has teamed up with influential website The Next Web to offer its unique news and insights to TNW’s...
Apr 24, 2013 | News, North America
Techcrunch 24 April 2013 Google has finally closed the deal on Wavii, a natural language processing startup, for a price that is more than $30 million, we’re hearing from a legitimate source. Both Apple and Google were competing for the Seattle-based startup, and...
Apr 24, 2013 | India, News, South & Central Asia
Business Standard 24 April 2013 (Chennai) The proposed fund-raising, through ECB route will help the firms expand their base International Finance Corporation has decided to, in stages, invest around $10 million (Rs 54 crore) in each of two micro finance companies,...
