With $25M, travel site Ostrovok emerges as leader in Russian market

Online hotel booking service Ostrovok nabs $25 million from General Catalyst, Accel Partners, and Yuri Milner to become the top Internet travel company in the Russian-speaking world.

Funding Daily: Hakuna Matata

Life in the tech scene is a lot like life on the Africa savanna. Read more to find out which 15 companies drank from investor watering holes today.

Funding daily: a Russian travel site, safer electric car charging stations, and mobile app building

At VentureBeat, we come across a lot of funding news every day. In order to bring you the most information possible, we’re rounding up the quick-and-dirty details for the funding deals of the day and serving them up here in …