TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Open banking platforms, where services that might not have previously lived next to each other are now joined up by way of APIs, has been one of the emerging trends of the last couple of years, and today one of the leaders in the space out of Europe has closed a round of funding to expand its business. million in funding.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2021

French startup Alan has raised a $220 million funding round at a $1.67 With today’s funding round, the company can iterate on its core product — health insurance — and everything that makes Alan a super app — a single app that lets you access several services. billion valuation (€185 million and €1.4 billion respectively).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2022

Now, a startup called Deliverect that has built a platform to integrate the many moving parts that go into ordering and delivery for the average restaurant is announcing a big round of funding to pursue the opportunity. The startup has raised $150 million, a Series D round of funding that values the company at over $1.4

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

They can connect this Payhawk account to their existing bank account to load and withdraw funds. As you can see, there are quite a lot of players in this space, meaning that there’s a big market opportunity. Germany, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. Customers get their own account with a dedicated IBAN.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Einride today announced a $500 million tranche of financing as it looks to expand its autonomous and electric trucks into new markets globally. The cash injection constitutes an equity-based $200 million Series C portion from backers including Northzone, EQT Ventures, Temasek, Swedish pension fund AMF, Polar Structure, and Norrsken VC.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Some of the startup’s existing investors are investing once again, such as Cathay Innovation, Eurazeo, Bpifrance’s Large Venture fund, Seaya Ventures and Picus Capital. Overall, it has raised $211 million (€185 million) in traditional equity funding rounds. The company recently expanded to other markets.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

To power the expansion, which will see Lightyear land in 19 new markets, including the Baltics and much of Western Europe, London-based Lightyear has also raised $25 million in a Seres A round of funding led by U.S. Lightyear , a U.K. fintech startup that promises consumers commission-free trading on U.S. launch plans back in 2020.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

Odoo — a Belgium-based provider of open-source-based business software that ranges from inventory management and ERP to human resources and CRM software, marketing tools and more, some 30,000 in all — has received $215 million from Summit Partners. Sikkens is joining the board with this round.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

A startup out of Belgium called Deliverect , which has built a platform to manage all of that through one seamless app, is today announcing a big round of funding. The funding is being co-led by DST and Redpoint Ventures, with OMERS, Newion, Smartfin and the founders also participating.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Interestingly, the lead investor in today’s funding round is Carrefour, the supermarket giant. With $40 million on its bank account, Cajoo now wants to solidify its strong market position in its home country. But Henri Capoul sees it as market validation. But it’s a regulated market.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2022

Comatch originally started in Germany, which means that Malt is also doubling down on the German market with this acquisition. Originally limited to the French market, Malt has expanded to Germany, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands and Switzerland over the past few years.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

The new investment, an internal round led by G Squared alongside Insight Partners, comes just six months after Berlin-based Choco took in $100 million in a Series B round , led by Left Lane Capital, to give the company a post-market valuation of $600 million. and Europe, and to expand into additional markets.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2022

The company has raised nearly $1 billion in its most recent funding round and is already operating in eight markets — including France. It has served 450,000 customers in total across eight different cities in France and Belgium. As for Gorillas’ six other markets, the company could choose a different path.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

4 on the iPhone’s top free charts in the “Lifestyle” category in its home market of France. The company saw how Fruitz had particular reach with Gen Z, a growing audience in the dating app market. As of Feb. 3, 2022, the app was ranked No. There’s no plan to rebrand or wind down Fruitz operations.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

French startup Alan has raised a new €183 million funding round ($193 million at today’s exchange rate). We could see that markets could turn around and we didn’t know how long it was going to last. Teachers’ Venture Growth (TVG), the venture fund of the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board, is leading the round.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2022

Fleet is a bootstrapped startup and hasn’t raised any VC funding. The company is looking at Portugal, Italy, Germany and Belgium for its next markets. When a device is reaching its end of life and is sent back to Fleet, the company gives it to a nonprofit organization, sells it to a refurbishment company or recycles it.

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The Verge

JUNE 27, 2021

The electric Ivy and Ace will only be available in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany this year in order to maintain strict quality control. “We We don’t want to create risks in our supply chain and these markets we know really well so we can give them good service,” says Zonder. “We Something I’ll test later in the review.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Collibra , which provides tools to find, understand, access and analyze data, announced today that it raised $250 million in Series G funding, at a post-money valuation of $5.25 The valuation is a strong reflection of our position in the market,” Felix Van de Maele, co-founder and CEO, told TechCrunch. “If

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2023

representing the latest in a line of European market expansions. back in 2021 , while in recent months it has rolled in to Germany and the Benelux (Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg) region, with plans in place to target Norway this year too. Electric and autonomous trucking company Einride is expanding to the U.K.,

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Scalapay , a buy now, pay later (BNPL) technology provider that has made significant headway with retailers and consumers in Europe and in categories like fashion, has closed a round of funding that it will be using to fuel its expansion ambitions. The startup has raised $155 million at a $700 million valuation.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

With this new product, the company is entering a new market — home cinema sound systems. We are at the high end of the market but we have a product that is an all-in-one audio system,” Devialet CEO Franck Lebouchard told me. We realized that it’s a market that is taking off,” Lebouchard said. and it costs $2,400 (€2,190). “We

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

Not Optional , a policy initiative funded by Index Ventures, has, this week, published an open letter signed by many of Europe’s leading investors, startup associations and entrepreneurs, including those who founded Stripe, Personio, Klarna, Wise, Trustpilot, UiPath and Alan. There are other groups that are enthusiastic but also concerned.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

We also want to enable European venture capital with European funds, European knowledge and European teams Cédric O. New financial incentive to create 10 to 20 large VC funds. Let’s start with late-stage funding. Our goal is to create 10 to 20 funds with more than €1 billion.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

France-based Crew launched in 2020 out of the Belgium-headquartered startup studio eFounders before joining Y Combinator’s accelerator program. Rebel, Secret and Kima are among the seed-stage funds that contributed to the company’s initial tranche. Skalli declined to share annual recurring revenue.)

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Now, OTA Insight — a company that builds business intelligence tools for one of the key sectors in that space, hotels — is announcing a round of funding as it too picks up more business on the upswing. And yet after they arrived they could see that a lot of hotels had spaces and were drastically dropping prices.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Ankorstore is currently live in eight countries — France, Spain, Austria, Germany, Belgium, Holland, Switzerland and Luxembourg. France is the biggest market followed by Germany. And of course, buying from several brands through Ankorstore should simplify your admin tasks. Up next, the startup plans to launch in the U.K.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Belgium, France and Germany makes Amsterdam a natural gateway to those markets. Plenty of good funding rounds, a highly skilled workforce and a strong entrepreneurial culture have given Amsterdam a booming startup ecosystem. Stefan van Duin , partner, Borski Fund. Stefan van Duin, partner, Borski Fund.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Roboto : Amazon announced it is acquiring Cloostermans, a mechatronics company based in Belgium. We like a startup with a fun name : Cryptocurrency is a hot market in Africa, and Tage writes about one blockchain payments startup, called Bitmama, that raised $2 million in pre-seed funding to show what it can do in new markets.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

Up until this point, Gale Healthcare Solutions has been entirely self funded. For instance, one study across acute care hospitals in England, Belgium, Ireland, Spain, Finland and Switzerland found that for every 10% reduction in the proportion of professional nurses at a hospital resulted in an 11% in odds of death.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

In January, localized payments provider PPRO became the latest fintech-as-a-service startup to hit a billion-dollar valuation when it closed $180 million in funding. Those relationships work in both directions, providing partners a way to expand their consumer-facing products, and to help them work with more businesses in more markets.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

London-based Furosystems just launched the Aventa series of pedal-assist e-bikes into the European market. This year the company is planning to grow sales from about 3,000 units to 10,000 by expanding into Belgium, Germany, and the Netherlands. The 25 km/h speed limit can be overridden for markets that allow it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2007

Second Life kiva.org volunteer: Julles Boucher Kiva.org , a micro-finance organization, has funded nearly 17,0000 loans to entrepreneurs in developing countries and last week crossed the $11 million rank. For $25, you can help fund a small loan to someone in need in a developing country. Expanding marketing and awareness.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

The third-generation Cowboy is available in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Spain, the Netherlands, and the UK, with Denmark in the works. US sales will happen someday, but right now, the European e-bike market is ten times the US market, says Cowboy, so it’s not in a rush. Putting €33 million to good use.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 12, 2021

Respondents said they invest around 50% inside Czechia and 50% across Central and Eastern Europe, while some are more focused across CEE generally, with some percentage of the fund supporting startups that have scaled to the U.S. We are solely focusing on the European market, with an impact on the Czech Republic. More than 50%?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 13, 2017

In 2018, Simone began her 31st year as a full time consultant specializing in fund development, strategic planning, and board development/governance. She speaks worldwide, enjoying the opportunity to work with colleagues in places like Mexico City, London, Paris, Italy, Belgium, Australia, New Zealand, The Netherlands, Slovakia.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 20, 2012

A recent episode of the design podcast 99 Percent Invisible chronicled the hoops people jump through to get a bottle of Westvleteren 12, which is produced by the monks of the Abbey of Saint Sixtus of Westvleteren in Flanders, Belgium. The problem is that no one--neither art monks nor community-driven organizations--are entitled to funding.

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