The initial month of summer has shown clearly that entrepreneurs and tech courtesy players are not captivated by blue seas and white sands though cite to work hard, bringing some-more and some-more news from Eastern Europe for this round-up. Check a headlines and make certain that you’ve not missed anything of importance.
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Startups, supports and accelerators
Startup Wise Guys has partnered with UK-based Notion Capital for a tumble ’14 batch.
Russian internet bank Ocean has announced a new $10 million account for FinTech projects.
Russian financial organisation Finam has teamed adult with Skagit Investment to launch an general try fund FinSight Ventures, that aims to lift $50 million to $100 million.
Slovenian Silicon Gardens has launched a micro account programme corroborated by internal and unfamiliar investors to accelerate early-stage startups from Slovenia and a broader segment to a general stage.
The initial Central European Startup Awards winners have been announced.
Russian account Buran Venture Capital has lifted additional $15 million and extended coverage to Central and Eastern Europe.
Polish startup Sher.ly has strike a Kickstarter target of $69,000 within a week.
Estonian accelerator Buildit has presented initial collection of 5 projects.
Russian denunciation training startup LinguaLeo has launched in Turkey and allocated US courtesy maestro Dmitry Stavisky as CEO.
Ukrainian diversion studio West Games went to Kickstarter to lift $50,000 for “S.T.A.L.K.E.R. successor” Areal.
Bratislava’s artistic space The Spot has announced Booster, a three-part programme for early-stage startups firm to launch this entrance September.
Russian developers from Itseez have launched Itseez3D, an considerable 3D scanner app for a iPad.
AppInTop is a new Thailand-based Russian startup that automates mobile promotion chores.
Funding deals and MA
Russian try account Maxfield Capital has invested some-more than $1 million in Israeli startup SpeakingPal, a mobile height for denunciation training formed on voice-recognition technology.
Slovak paywall resolution provider Piano Media has raised a Series C turn of appropriation from its existent financier 3TS Capital Partners and Gründerfonds.
Chicago-based Intersog has acquired Ukrainian IT outsourcing association SoftTechnics.
Croatian startup Bellabeat for parents-to-be has sealed a seed round of $4.5 million.
Russian startup Kidbook, a creator and publisher of educational multimedia calm for children, has raised a $300,000 seed turn from a organisation of private investors.
Russian mobile app builder iBuildApp has raised $200,000 from Starta Capital and Nikolay Belikh.
Polish online selling group LeadR has been sold to a Polish angel financier Łukasz Wejchert.
Strawberry Energy has turn a first Serbian startup to accept a €100,000 investment from Bulgarian try account Eleven.
Russian startup Knopka Zhizni (“Life Button”) has lifted $1.3 million from FRII, a government-backed $200 million seed and early-stage fund.
London-based startup with Estonian roots, Transferwise, has announced a new $25 million appropriation turn from Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures, Index Ventures, Sir Richard Branson and other investors.
Russian try fund TMT Investments has injected $200,000 into US startup Whale Path.
Czech association Videoflot has raised €1 million from Y Soft Venture Capital and skeleton to strech out opposite a large pond.
Ukrainian train sheet height GillBus has raised $3 million to enhance in Russia, South-East Asia and Africa.
Rocket Internet-backed Foodpanda has acquired Russia’s Delivery Club for purported $30 to $50 million.
TMT Investments has invested $250,000 in Weaved, a startup that develops confidence program for inclination connected to a Internet of Everything.
Russian AddVenture and Moscow Seed Fund have invested $300,000 in a food smoothness use ChefMarket.
Slovenian hardware startup CubeSensors has raised $700,000 dollars in aseed turn from a founders of BitStamp, a largest Bitcoin sell height in a world.
Hungarian cybersecurity startup BalaBit has attracted $8 million from C5 Capital.
Russia’s Internet Initiatives Development Fund (known locally as FRII) has announced two seed investments value $450,000 any for startups Easy Ten and Hot Wi-Fi.
Russian try account QWave Capital has invested $1.1 million in LED lamps manufacturer Lunera Lightning.
Naspers has acquired a 30.7% stake in Russian kids products online store Esky.ru for $20 million.
Polish VC account Online Venture and Lithuanian Practica Capital have invested in Lithuanian startup Rewalon.
Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich has invested $10 million in Israel’s StoreDot.
Czech amicable media analytics startup Socialbakers has acquired EdgeRank Checker, a startup that provides discernment for Facebook News Feeds.
Russian-American bite-size e-learning height Coursmos has attracted $530,000 in funding from Russian VC Imperious Group and an unnamed angel investor.
Russian “Yellow Pages’ successor” website Yell.ru has attracted $11m in funding.
Russian hotel engagement use Ostrovok.ru has attracted $12m from VK.com co-founders.
Yandex has acquired vital Russian automobile classifieds website Auto.ru for $175 million.
In other news
Russian hackers have gotten 5 and 8 years in jail for online banking thefts.
Visa and MasterCard will participate in Russia’s new inhabitant remuneration system.
The Samsung Z, a world’s initial Tizen smartphone, will go on sale in Russia in Q3 2014.
US-Israeli router developer Compass-EOS will launch RD and sales bureau in Moscow.
Major Russian developer of mobile free-to-play games Game Insight has moved a HQ to Vilnius, Lithuania.
Pavel Durov, co-founder and former CEO of Russia’s biggest amicable network VK.com, has filed a lawsuit in opposite his former colleagues and VK shareholders over a rights for Telegram.
Yandex has started trade a shares on a Moscow Exchange 3 years after a NASDAQ IPO.
Internet business in Russia is a essential craving value 8.5% of GDP, according to Vladimir Putin.
Ukrainian diversion growth studio Charlie Oscar that works on a steampunk turn-based strategy Gremlins, Inc. is moving to Vilnius, Lithuania.
Google Play Movies has come to 21 new countries, including Poland, Croatia, Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Slovakia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
Russian Yota will launch SIM with NFC support, permitting smartphones to be used as bank cards.
Russia’s heading online tradesman Ulmart has strictly announced a entrance into a new margin of activity: Ulmart Travel.
Russian Internet hulk Yandex has rolled out a new underline for a cloud storage use Yandex.Disk that allows users to siphon their photos from Facebook, including a ones they’re tagged in, to a protected place in a cloud.
Belarusian diversion developer Wargaming has launched World of Tanks Blitz for iOS.
Czech antivirus businessman Avast has suffered an embarrassing forum hack.
Criteo, a Paris-based digital opening promotion company, has announced a central opening of a Moscow office.
Google has non-stop a campus for entrepreneurs in Warsaw, Poland.
Former Russian Microsoft worker has been sentenced in a US to 3 months in jail for stealing and afterwards leaking association secrets.
A group of mechanism programmers from Poland has won a initial Hello World Open in Helsinki, Finland.
Russia will ditch Intel and AMD for ARM-based processors in supervision computers.
Participants in the Coursera crowdsourcing project for translation into Russian have reached the milestone of one million words translated.
Yandex has launched Yandex.City, a Foursquare-like review-based city beam service.
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