Startups that will compete at the Shift Challenge in Croatia tomorrow
A couple of months ago, we announced that the Shift Conference would be held on May 23rd in Split, Croatia. Thanks to information provided to us by one of the event’s organizers, Ivan Burazin, we can...
View ArticleRussia ad management startup Hiconversion raises seed funding
Russian ad-management system Hiconversion announces that they’ve obtained 223,000 euro from The Moscow Seed Fund and Igor Ryabenkiy of Altair Capital Management. As part of the deal, Moscow Seed Fund...
View ArticleUkrainian IT-Startups: everything you need to know
For the past 6 months the managing partner of AVentures Capital, Yevgen Sysoyev studied 500 Ukrainian IT-companies and held more than 200 meetings. The results of his work are presented in the research...
View ArticleCroatian iStudio Obtains 1 Million Euro From RSG Capital
Croatian iStudio announces that they have raised 1 million Euro in new funding from Slovenian VC RSG Capital. According to iStudio, this agreement follows 6 months of negotiations and will allow the...
View ArticleRussian Mebelrama and American ClipClock Close Their Doors
Russian Mebelrama and American ClipClock have closed within just a week of each other, as reported on other blogs. Although both sites raised millions in funding within the past year, this is another...
View ArticleRussian Frolik Raises 1,17 Million Euro From MTT Group
Russian startup Frolik has obtained roughly 1,17 million Euro from MTT Group. Frolik is service developed by Digital Prom which will help parents to raise their children. It is geared for Android...
View ArticleCoub Raises $1 Million Series A Round From VentureBrothers And Phenomen Ventures
Coub, a service which allows allows users to create 10-second-long looping videos, has obtained $1 million in a Series A round from Phenomen Ventures and VentureBrothers, as first reported by EWDN. The...
View ArticleHungarian Brickflow Launches Public Beta And Prepares To Challenge Storify In...
Hungarian Brickflow, an app designed to allow users to curate social-media slideshows, has just launched its public beta, co-founder Peter Langmar tells us. Langmar, who founded the service with Tamas...
View ArticleQIWI Venture Announces First Investment In Auto-Advertising Service Carbay
QIWI Venture, the venture arm of the QIWI Group, announces its first investment, an undisclosed amount of seed money for the Carbay service. From its launch in January 2013, QIWI Venture has received...
View ArticleLatvian Draugiem Regains Its Position As Leading Domestic Social-Media Network
Latvian social-network Draugiem remains one of the last homegrown leaders in Europe, according to Alexa-rankings analyzed by Italian site Vincos.it. The site’s owner, Vincenzo Cosenza, has broken down...
View ArticleTechChill Baltics Announced For February 13th, 2014
Mark your calendars now as TechChill Baltics returns to Riga on February 13th, 2014, Ernests Stals (host of this year’s event and co-founder of Reach.ly) tells us. Even though the event is still just...
View ArticleUkrainian Dating Service Wishdates Tops 6 Million Users
Ukrainian Wishdates, a dating service designed to connect people by interests, tops the 6-million-user mark, based on the latest statistics from AppDates. The company has done a nice job of retaining...
View ArticleCity Of Moscow-Backed Accelerator API Moscow Opens To Startups
API Moscow, the first accelerator created within the city of Moscow-backed Moscow Technology Incubation Program (MTIP), opens to startups. The program, located at the newly-built Moscow Innovation...
View ArticleEastern Europe Comes To London Seedcamp Week
London Seedcamp Week just finished up last week and there was a presence from Central and Eastern Europe, with Futurelytics, TruckTrack, and GateMe obtaining funding and Language Accelerator,...
View ArticlePolish Red Sky Announces Shorte.st, A Service For Making Money Through Links
Polish web-development agency Red Sky launches Shorte.st a service through which people can make money by sharing shortened hyperlinks, not dissimilar to Adfly. The service, which is self-funded like...
View ArticlePolish Brainly Invests 240K Euro in MailGrupowy.pl
Polish Brainly (branded Zadane.pl in Poland), a service which helps students to learn by offering a an online community where they can post and answer questions and share their knowledge, has invested...
View ArticleRussian Home Design Startup InMyRoom Raises $500K
Russian InMyRoom similar to a hugely successful houzz has obtained $500K (371K Euro) from an undisclosed investor with a international know-how in the field of home and decor. The service that allows...
View ArticleUkrainian Startup Conference IDCEE Releases the Names of the First...
IDCEE generated startup buzz for a few years, and this week once again Ukrainian capital and Viktoriya Tigipko, the conference organizer and the co-founder of the Ukrainian VC fund TA Venture welcomes...
View ArticleStartup Finalists to Pitch At IDCEE Main Stage
We continue coverage of the startup competition at IDCEE. Here are the Eastern European startups that are pitching from the main stage. Hashtago (Ukraine), that has just received grant from Global...
View ArticleA Collaboration Platform for IT Professionals Solaborate Launches Public Beta
The idea of Solaborate is solid. It is designed as an online environment (or should I say a social network) for IT professionals to work, learn and interact with other IT professionals either within...
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