May 8, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News
Digital Sky Technologies (DST Global), the global investment fund led by Yuri Milner, appears to be a major investor in German startup incubator Rocket Internet. According to the incubator’s slide deck, found by The Manager magazine, DST has already pumped $315...
May 2, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News
The Moscow Times 1 May 2013 Two Russian tycoons will tap the prodigious cash flows of the country’s largest mining company to help complete their construction projects for next year’s Winter Olympics in Sochi, whose budget has spiraled to a record $50...
Apr 30, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News
Moscow Times 29 April 2013 Transparency in business procedures, cheaper domestic travel and road signs in English would bring more tourists and foreign investors to Russia, Italian Ambassador Antonio Zanardi Landi said on Friday. While large investments become...
Apr 30, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News
FinEx has launched Russia’s first ever locally listed exchange-traded fund (ETF), the FinEx Tradable Russian Corporate Bonds UCITS ETF. The fund has been listed on the Moscow Exchange and provides exposure to shorter maturity liquid Eurobonds issued by Russian...
Apr 19, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News
Around 58 percent of Americans with annual incomes of $25,000 or more are prepared to invest in early-stage startups, according to a U.S. crowdfunding industry study by EarlyIQ, Crowdfund Professional Association, and Crowdfund Capital Advisors. They are prepared to...
Apr 17, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News
Russia’s Far Eastern region of Yakutia (Sakha) is planning to open its own hi-tech park by 2015, the Russian news agency Interfax reported earlier this week, citing a statement by Anatoly Semenov, the CEO of Yakutia, a techno-park already in operation in the area....
