Baring Vostok Private Equity Partners returns to Eastern Europe with the first direct investment fund since the 1998 crisis.
Bay Partners X has secured $475m with significant investments from European investors.
Benchmark Capital has closed its new European technology fund with $750m in the kitty.
When it comes to e-business, most brick-and-mortar companies don't like to hang around.
JP Morgan will this year plough $1 billion into its new incubator for e-finance businesses - LabMorgan. Euromoney's Peter Lee reports.
The E150m fund will invest in unquoted European telco and Internet companies.
The groupโs global technical and professional directors are buying the company.
Brainspark and Royal & Sun Allianceโs Global Ventures unit have formed a strategic relationship in order to explore โinnovative new business models in the field of technology and financial services.โ
The fund will focus on investments in Poland, Hungary and other Central European countries.
A final closing of the fund is expected to take place next year.

