BlaBlaCar, the Paris-based global ridesharing giant, will now take a fee from passengers for every booking in Russia and neighboring countries. Since the company launched in the area in 2014, passengers had enjoyed free access to book their trips. They only had to pay cash to the driver to share riding costs. Blablacar says that its approach is to …
French unicorn Blablacar is said to have raised €21.3 million euros from Baring Vostok, a leading Russian private equity firm. The news was reported this morning by Maddyness, an authoritative French tech blog. When contacted by East-West Digital News, Baring Vostok and Blablacar declined to comment on this information, but Maddyness told us that they had access to official …
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Earlier this month Vostok New Ventures, an invesment company listed on Nasdaq Stockholm (formerly known as Vostok Nafta Investment), has injected an additional $2.5 million in Moscow-based online travel agency Onetwotrip.com. This transaction was announced in the company’s H1 2016 activity report, which was published last week. The Swedish fund had already invested $4 million in …
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OneTwoTrip, the Russian travel booking website operating in Russia, Europe and CIS, has secured $4 million in fresh funding from Vostok New Ventures. The deal was disclosed in the nine-months report of the Swedish fund. Launched in 2011, the startup offers online booking of flight tickets and hotels. The startup raised $25 million in two rounds from Phenomenon Ventures and Skype …
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