Russian VC firm Runa Capital has just invested USD 1.5 mln in France-based Ubikod, which has developed an apps management platform called Capptain. The tool allows real-time capture of apps performance and usage data and provides customized reporting and excellent data visualization, and also enables two-way communication with its user base. Ubikod (www.ubikod.com) Ubikod is [...]

Wikimart.ru, the Russian online shopping mall that made it to the Forbes Top 30 Russian Internet Company List, has raised USD 30 million in fresh investments from Tiger Global Management and another Russian investor. Wikimart had previously raised USD 18 million from Tiger Global and another USD 1 million from business angels. Following the latest [...]

Beauty products mail order company Glossybox, which was launched, and is majority-owned (57.5 percent), by the Samwer brothers’ Rocket Internet, has attracted a round of funding from Len Blavatnik’s Access Industries in exchange for a 7 percent equity stake. Yet to be launched in Russia, the company numbers Kinnevik (24 percent) and Holtzbrinck Ventures (7 [...]

One of the Alumni of the Czech Startup Yard, Proactify  , a company offering sales techniques as a service to online retailers, has attracted another round of seed funding, this time from oddly named funds Absurd Capital and Rockaway Enterprises. With its offering still under testing, the company is already collaborating with an online furniture store, presumably [...]