Foreign investors leave Russia after bizarre interview — may return
A group of international investors has pulled out of a planned joint venture fund to invest in Russian companies. The move is significant, because the fund would have been one of the earliest efforts by private foreign investors to put money into young Russian start-ups.
However, one the fund’s members, Eldad Tamir of Israeli financial group Tamir Fishman, tells us in a Q&A (text and picture, below) that he and others in the group may return.
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Among venture firms, DFJ maintains global leadership
Draper Fisher Jurvetson, the Silicon Valley venture capital firm that has been the swiftest to go global, has opened an outpost in Israel. It’s the latest move in an impressive empire-building that now includes 120 investors in 30 cities. It’s also a smart move, given strong growth in other parts of the world.
DFJ has teamed up with an Israeli firm called Tamir Fishman. The two will rebrand the Israeli firm’s next fund as “DFJ Tamir… Continue Reading