Luxury resort and villas with golf courses in South Africa and Zambia
The Project consists of three estates located on game farms of 10,000 hectares, 20,000 hectares and 8,000 hectares respectively situated in Baviaanskloof, Eastern Cape, South Africa, Nvimbi on the borders of Malawi and Mozambique, and Lake Kariba in Zambia. The three...
New York Based Medical Staffing Company Seeking Venture Capital for Growth
Business Synopsis Established in 2011, this is a professionally managed, 3 year old medical staffing and recruitment Company specializing in placements of all levels of medical professionals. The Company is located in New York with 6 other branches across the US. The...
Etsy Buys French Startup A Little Market In Its Largest Acquisition So Far
Etsy announced today that it has acquired a French company called A Little Market, a Paris-based online marketplace for handmade items. Though terms of the deal were undisclosed, Etsy says that this is its “sixth and largest acquisition to date.” A Little Market will...
Patreon Raises $15 Million Series A, Revamps Site To Focus More On Content
Patreon, a subscription-based funding site for artists, has just raised $15 million in a Series A from Alexis Ohanian, Sam Altman, David Marcus, Joshua Reeves and a bevy of other tech entrepreneurs. There were 17 angel investors and VCs in all who contributed to this...
$38 million not enough for a startup – Ostrovok closes 5th round of funding in 3 years
East-West Digital News Ostrovok.ru, a major Russian hotel booking service, announced last week that it has raised $12 million in a round led by Vaizra Capital, a fund which belongs to Vkontakte co-founders Vyacheslav Mirilashvili and Lev Leviev. A number of the...
Webydo Bags $7M To Turn More Designs Into Hosted Websites
TechCrunch June 21, 2014 Webydo, a software as a service startup that gives web designers the tools to circumvent a more traditional website creation process by excising the need for them to do any manual coding by automatically converting their design into a hosted...
Box Inc. in Talks With TPG for Funding
Wall Street Journal June 20, 2014 Online-storage startup Box Inc., three months after filing for an initial public offering, is in talks to raise a round of funding from private-equity firm TPG that would help buy it time before an IPO, said people familiar with the...
Light Chaser, The Animation Studio That Wants To Be “China’s Pixar,” Raises $20M
TechCrunch June 20, 2014 Light Chaser, the animation studio that aspires to be China’s Pixar, announced today that it has raised $20 million in series B funding led by GGV Capital, with participation from Hillhouse Capital and returning investor IDG. The company was...
HelloFresh Cooks Up $50 Million Series D From Insight Venture Partners
TechCrunch As we inch ever closer to a truly Wall-E world, HelloFresh has secured $50 million in Series D funding led by Insight Venture Partners, with participation from existing investor Phenomen VC. HelloFresh, an on-demand grocery-delivery service, currently sends...
VC investment falls 40% in Q1 2014 – Seasonal variation or worrying contraction?
East-West Digital News Venture investment volumes in Russia fell 42% as the number of completed deals dropped 38% in Q1 2014, says Rye, Man and Gor Securities (RMG), an independent Moscow-based investment company, in their latest quarterly report published with the...
Foodpanda Acquires Russian Competitor Delivery Club
TechCrunch June 18, 2014 Rocket Internet-incubated foodpanda has acquired Delivery Club in a move it says will make the combined companies Russia’s leading food delivery service with over 2,500 restaurants. The value of the deal was undisclosed. Delivery Club, which...
Hong Kong-Based Financial Startup WeLab Raises $14M Series A From Sequoia And TOM Group
WeLab, the startup that runs WeLend, Hong Kong’s first peer-to-peer lending site, has raised a $14 million Series A from TOM Group and Sequoia Capital. The company says it plans to launch a new product in mainland China later this year that will use big data for...