Investment Banking 2.0 Says “Hello World!?”
TechCrunch David Gelles wrote in the New York Times this weekend about how large tech corporations have been conducting more M&A deals with less input from traditional investment banks. Because of my company’s insight into buy and sell-side M&A interest, I wanted to...
Sakhalin Oil & Gas 2014, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia, September 23-25
The Second Generation of Projects - new breakthroughs and commercial opportunities in Sakhalin & the Russian Far East Innovative technologies for the new wave of projects on Sakhalin and in Russia’s Far East”, featuring presentations and the latest project updates...
GoGoVan Raises $6.5M Series A To Expand In Asia
TechCrunch Hong Kong-based GoGoVan, an app that connects van drivers and users for on-demand delivery services, announced today that it has completed a $6.5 million Series A led by Centurion Private Equity. The company, which launched in July 2013 and currently has...
LatAm’s Navent Takes In Another $20M For Its Regional Online Classifieds Empire
TechCrunch Navent, a Latin American real estate and jobs classifieds company which last raised funding back in November 2012, has closed a $20 million Series C round of funding from global technology private equity firm Riverwood Capital. Navent’s focus is online real...
Two Romanian Photovoltaic Projects Totaling 15 MW
This is an opportunity to acquire a majority stake in two RTB photovoltaic projects based in Romania, totaling 15 MW. The companies have an estimated EBITDA of 2.3m Euros and an estimated EBITDA margin of 88% for 2015. General information about the project: • Project...
Greenhouse Raises $7.5M To Engineer How Startups Recruit…Engineers
TechCrunch Uber, Pinterest, Snapchat, and BuzzFeed all share a not-so-secret weapon in the talent wars: Greenhouse. The recruitment optimization SAAS turns hiring into a science, and guides them through where to source job candidates, what to ask interviews, how to...
Australian Telco Telstra Acquires Video Distribution Startup Ooyala
TechCrunch Streaming video distribution and monetization platform Ooyala is being acquired by Australian telco Telstra, which will invest $270 million to reach a 98 percent ownership stake in the company. This is up from the 23 percent it owned through a previous...
UK Coffee Subscription Service Pact Coffee Raises £2M Series A
Wake up and smell the funding. Pact Coffee, the UK coffee subscription service that delivers freshly roasted beans to your door, has closed a £2 million Series A round led by MMC Ventures. Previous investor Connect Ventures has also participated, as well as Songkick...
Rocket Internet’s FoodPanda Grabs $60M In Fresh Funding
TechCrunch FoodPanda, Rocket Internet’s food delivery service, has its paws on yet another round of funding. This time it is $60 million from existing investor Falcon Edge Capital as well as Rocket Internet AG. The money will be used to expand FoodPanda, as well as...
Nanomedicine Company MagForce Takes $15M From Thiel’s Mithril Capital
TechCrunch MagForce injects iron oxide nanoparticles into a patient and then vibrates them with a magnetic field to generate heat that helps kill cancer cells. It sounds like science fiction but it’s real. That’s why Peter Thiel‘s late-stage investment firm Mithril...
Web App WikiWand Raises $600,000 To Give Wikipedia A New Interface
TechCrunch WikiWand has raised $600,000 from angel investor Saar Wilf to give users of Wikipedia an attractive new interface for the popular site. Though Wikipedia is one of the 10 most-visited sites in the world and an important online repository of information, it...
Two Tap Raises $2.7M Seed Round For Its “Shopping Cart For The Entire Internet”
TechCrunch Two Tap, a Y Combinator-backed startup that aims to become the “shopping cart of the entire Internet,” today announced that it has raised a $2.7 million seed round from the likes of Khosla Ventures, SV Angel, Green Visor Capital, Ryan Petersen, Reddit...