Editorial

Would you want to check what’s going on at your favourite nightclub before leaving home? Or, to see whether your desired new piece of furniture fits into your interior (both visually and physically)? And how about charging your mobile gadgets using a new type of socket that combines the traditional charger with two USB slots?

These are just a few things that may come into our daily lives fairly soon if their sponsors succeeded in getting their message through to the moneyed types that were in attendance of the Seed Forum in Riga earlier this week. Read more...

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“Remember Chernobyl? When news broke that the Soviet nuclear reactor had exploded, Alexander called. Only minutes before, confirmation of the disaster had blipped across our Quotron machines, yet Alexander had already bought the equivalent of two tankers of crude oil. … “Buy potatoes,” he said. “Gotta hop”. Then he hung up.” Read more...

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Thus passes the glory of the world. This is the verbatim translation from the Latin phrase “sic transit gloria mundi”, which is an eloquent way of saying that the worldly things are fleeting. This comes to mind when reflecting on the 20th Baltic Financial Forum, which took place in Riga today. It definitely was about finance - but hardly was it Baltic. And with no more than 65 people in attendance it was kind of difficult to think about it as a forum. Read more...

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Following our earlier note summarising the general findings of the European Venture Capital Association (EVCA) special paper on Central and Eastern Europe Statistics 2013 (a full version of which is available here) and a more detailed glance at the investment activity across the region, let’s take a look at the tail end of private equity investment cycle – the exits. Read more...

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In a follow up to an earlier note this is a closer look at the data provided by the European Venture Capital Association (EVCA) special paper on Central and Eastern European Statistics 2013 (the full text of which is available here) to see how the money has been invested. Read more...

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