Russia

Russian private investors are continuing to buy up assets at a discount as overseas companies are being forced by the Kremlin to exit the country at fire-sale prices.

Startup conference Slush has decided to revoke London-based Immigram’s competition win over reports that the company operates in Russia.

Alexander Galitsky, a Ukrainian-born investor active in Silicon Valley, is fielding questions from business partners over his firm’s Russian connections—all while trying to pull his close relatives out of a war zone.

The war in Ukraine has made it challenging for private equity investors to stay on track with their ESG commitments.

Getir was valued at $11.8 billion with its Series E, making the company Europe’s first grocery delivery decacorn. The delivery sector has attracted a wealth of VC funding since the pandemic started, and it shows few signs of slowing.

War in Europe is making geopolitical risk a front-burner concern for venture capitalists, a striking turnabout for an industry that in recent years had epitomized the freewheeling globalization of finance and technology.

Amid the war in Ukraine and increasingly strict sanctions on Russia, we take a look at the most active Russian private equity investors in the past five years and where they are invested.

Fort Ross Ventures, a Silicon Valley firm with strong ties to Russia, discusses the risk that further international sanctions could cut off its ability to call capital from its limited partners.

The future of SoftBank-backed satellite operator OneWeb was cast into doubt after the UK government rejected demands from Russia—which hosts the firm’s satellite launches—that it sell its stake.

Criminal matter, or simple shareholder dispute? The Russian authorities and Michael Calvey’s Baring Vostok Capital Partners have very different opinions.

Over the weekend, documents pointing to a connection between VC Yuri Milner and the Russian government were leaked. We took a look at some of Milner’s past investments.

We took a look inside the PE and VC landscapes of Belgium and Russia and found some interesting facts.

Much has been made of the massive $51 billion Russia has spent on the Sochi Olympics. As it appears the country is betting on itself while seeking to take a bigger place on the international stage, are private equity and venture capital firms doing the same?