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Avatar Breaks Russia Box Office Records

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

Since release of Avatar in Russia last December, I have watched the movie twice, both in 3D. I shall also go to IMAX movie theater in Moscow to watch it again. According to industry sources, Avatar has broken Russia box office records. Avatar Russia box office reached over $62 million in ...

Bioprocess Capital to Invest $18 Million in Incurion venture with Cleveland BioLabs

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

Russian venture capital fund Bioprocess Capital Ventures has agreed to invest $18 million for a 50% stake in the Incuron joint venture with Cleveland BioLabs, the companies announced on December 30, 2009. The joint venture, Incuron is going to develop the Curaxin compounds for cancer applications. Cleveland BioLabs agreed to ...

EBRD to Invest $30 Million in Almaz Capital Russia Fund I

Sunday, January 3rd, 2010

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has agreed to invest up to $30 million in Almaz Capital Russia Fund I, a Moscow and Silicon Valley-based venture capital fund managed by Almaz Capital Partners, the bank announced on its corporate web-site. The fund was formed in July 2008, when ...

Avatar Confirms Russia’s Box Office’s Second Largest Worldwide

Sunday, January 3rd, 2010

I watched the Avatar movie, in 3D last night. It’s awesome. “There are movies, there is Avatar“, says my friend. I fully agree. For the first time, Russia has brought the highest box office sales over the first weekend internationally (after the U.S. and Canada) with $20.8 million, ahead of ...

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2010!

Sunday, January 3rd, 2010

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Mint Capital Exits jNetX via $50 Million Sale to Amdocs

Sunday, January 3rd, 2010

Moscow-based private equity and venture capital firm, Mint Capital has recently exited its investment in telecom service delivery platform developer jNetX via sale to telecoms customer software provider Amdocs for $50 million, net of debt and cash. The sale was announced by jNetX on October 27. Mint Capital first invested less ...

Top 10 Russian Web Startups of 2009

Sunday, January 3rd, 2010

Russia has become the second largest Internet market in Europe with over 40 million internet users. We at Quintura would like to introduce top 10 Russian internet startups of 2009. The list includes startup internet companies from Russia, which launched new online services and raised venture capital funding in 2009. The ...

Top 10 Internet Entrepreneurs in Russia

Sunday, January 3rd, 2010

Top 10 internet entrepreneurs in Russia: 1. Arkady Volozh and Ilya Segalovich, founding CEO and CTO of Yandex (leading Russian search engine and contextual advertsing provider). 2. Evgeny Kaspersky, co-founder & CEO of Kaspersky Lab (top 5 global internet security software vendor), was awarded the State Prize of the Russian Federation in ...

Top 10 Internet CEOs in Russia

Sunday, January 3rd, 2010

Top 10 CEOs of Internet companies in Russia : 1. Arkady Volozh, CEO, Yandex (largest Russian search engine and contextual advertising provider). 2. Dmitri Grishin, CEO, Mail.ru (largest Russian online portal). 3. Alexey Basov, CEO, Begun (second largest contextual advertising provider in Russia). 4. Sergey Ryzhikov, CEO, 1C-Bitrix (leading web-site CMS vendor in Russia). 5. ...

Top 10 Russian Venture Capital Internet Investors

Sunday, January 3rd, 2010

Top 10 Russian Venture Capital internet investors: 1. Yuri Milner, CEO, Digital Sky Technologies (DST) – Facebook, Zynga, Mail.ru, Astrum Online, Odnoklassniki.ru, Vkontakte, KinoPoisk.ru, HeadHunter (hh.ru), etc. 2. Viktor Remsha, CEO, Finam – Alawar, Begun, Buka, Mamba, MoneyMail, AstroStar.ru, MirTesen, MarketGid, AuKa.ru, Badoo, etc. 3. Artem Yukhin, Venture Capital Investments Director, Troika Venture ...