Amazon Snaps Up Online Math Instruction Company TenMarks

Oct 11, 2013 | News

TechCrunch Oct 11 Amazon has announced plans to snap up online education company TenMarks. The company offers an online math curriculum currently, and Amazon VP of Kindle Dave Limp says that together, “Amazon and TenMarks intend to develop rich educational content and...

Partech Brings The Valley’s Venture Philosophy To Continental Europe, Closing $215M

Oct 10, 2013 | News

Techcrunch Oct 9 Partech Ventures, a VC firm that operates from offices in Paris, Berlin and Silicon Valley, has closed a total of $215 million for its Partech VI venture fund and a new seed-focused Entrepreneur fund. Partech’s venture fund will be backed by $175...

CoreOS Receives Investment From Andreessen Horowitz And Sequoia

Oct 10, 2013 | News

Techcrunch Oct 9 CoreOS, a Y Combinator alum, has received investment from Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital for its new Linux-based operating system designed to run like Google would run its own cloud infrastructure. Terms of the deal were not disclosed but CEO...

U.S.-Russia Innovation Corridor Selects Residents for Startup Initiative

Oct 10, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News

Washington, D.C. October 08, 2013 A total of 87 applicants from more than 30 cities across Russia sought to land one of just three residency openings in the U.S.-Russia Innovation Corridor (USRIC), a collaborative innovation initiative led by American Councils for...

Zombies, Russia, Stalingrad: a new project on Kickstarter

Oct 10, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News

Do you think that in the eyes of Western creative workers, Russia is the birthplace of bears, Skolkovo start-ups and falling rocket projects that change the world? You will be disappointed – the campaign, which in its first week exceeded the request for Kickstarter...

Rocket Internet’s HelloFresh Says Hello To $7.5M

Sep 30, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News

TechCrunch Berlin’s Rocket Internet has of late made a big business out of incubating and growing e-commerce startups in emerging markets, far away from the U.S. where the competitive field is much more crowded. But today comes news of a funding round for portfolio...