Weekly news: startups in Eastern Europe

En route to a startup rating gala event in Kiev Ukraine, I have a few minutes to spare in Schipol to pull together this week’s startup news. Good thing that the Reeder app and Evernote...

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ABRT, Mangrove and Addventure back Russian online furniture retailer HomeMe

Online furniture retailer HomeMe raised $5 million from the venture funds ABRT, Mangrove, Addventure and other investors in exchange for 40 percent of the company, reports Russian RBC Daily. Furniture...

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Polish search engine ranking dashboard startup Positionly raises seed funding

Positionly.com (which also owns Position.ly) has just announced raising $300,000 from Point Nine Capital Mariusz Gralewski, the founder of goldenline.pl and Michal Skrzynski, founder...

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Polish UXPin raises Euro 161,000 from Innovation Nest

Innovation Nest has launched in October 2011 by Piotr Wilam, my fellow alum of London Business School and his business partner Marek Kapturkiewicz (please give me patience spelling...

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Weekly news: startups in Eastern Europe

German Startup Week This week was busy: NEXT Berlin startup conference was taking place, and I attended with an aim connect to the bustling startup scene in Germany. So yes, it is bustling,...

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Croatian startup Farmeron raises a new round of funding

A share of agricultural industry in a country’s GDP is a good indicator of how well the country is doing in its economic development. Back in 2006 (yes, a little old stats but have...

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Ukrainian social discovery website Wishdates is looking for Series A, boasts 1.2 million users

I am not sure whether I should make a parallel with Tagged.com, but Ukrainian Wishdates, a social network for dating and social discovery believes that there is more to it. I tend to “discover”...

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