Archives for February 2012

Troika To Make Over $50M, or 10 Times, From Investment In Evernote

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Posted by: admin @ 10:35 [3. 02. 12]

Troika, which is now owned by Russia’s largest bank Sberbank, has returned ten times money it invested in Evernote three years ago. Troika Ventures sold its stake in Evernote to the expansion round backer Sequoia Capital, announced Troika

DST to Acquire 4% of Zalando, “Zappos of Europe”

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Posted by: admin @ 09:15 [3. 02. 12]

The major investor of Zynga, Twitter and Facebook, DST of Yuri Milner from Russia has invested into Zalando, a pan-European online shoe store of Rocket Internet. The German Samwer brothers who have launched Zalando via Rocket Internet business incubator in Berlin also invested into the round. DST will obtain a 4% stake in Zalando as [...]

OZON to Acquire Sapato.ru Online Shoe Store

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Posted by: admin @ 09:57 [1. 02. 12]

‘Amazon of Russia’, OZON has received an approval from the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) of the Russian Federation to acquire online shoe store Sapato.ru, according to the FAS’ web-site. To finance an acquisition, OZON can use proceeds of $100 million round that it raised from Ru-Net, Rakuten, Alpha Associates and Index Ventures last September. Launched [...]