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ManoMano raises $355 million for its home improvement e-commerce platform

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We operate in Europe and we are the industry leader in online sales,” co-founder and co-CEO Philippe de Chanville told me. In addition to France, the startup operates in Spain, Italy, Belgium, Germany and the U.K. In France in particular, the company has been profitable for a couple of years already. billion ($1.42

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Freelancer marketplace Malt acquires consulting marketplace Comatch

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It’s consolidation time in the freelancer marketplace industry. French startup Malt is acquiring Comatch , a competing marketplace focused on consultants and industry experts. 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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AI chip startup Axelera lands $27M in capital to commercialize its hardware

TechCrunch

Several years ago, Fabrizio Del Maffeo and a core team from Imec, a Belgium-based nanotechnology lab, teamed up with Evangelos Eleftheriou and a group of researchers at IBM Zurich Lab to develop a computer chip. “One of the main challenges we’re facing is the availability and accessibility of AI to different groups and industries.

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Choco bites into $100M Series B, at a $600M valuation, to build a more transparent, sustainable food supply chain

TechCrunch

With the food industry a $6 trillion market, Choco CEO Daniel Khachab told TechCrunch he aims to make the food supply chain more transparent and sustainable in order to help increase margins in the food service sector and combat climate change. “It It makes sense to try and solve it,” he added.

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Google will give you free Stadia hardware if you buy a game

The Verge

The free Stadia Premier Edition offer will run in the US, UK, Ireland, Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Austria, and Switzerland. Google’s free offer will run until 11:59PM PT on October 10th, and codes will be distributed by October 20th.

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Hoxton Farms raises £2.7M seed to produce animal fat without animals

TechCrunch

Like other companies in the meat alternative space, the startup is founded on the premise that the traditional meat industry is unsustainable. and Peace of Meat in Belgium/Israel — but also enable it to customise fats for different manufacturers. They don’t taste right and they aren’t healthy.

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Deliverect raises $150M at a $1.4B+ valuation to streamline online and offline food orders

TechCrunch

“We are preparing to scale to meet all of the digital opportunities in the food hospitality industry.” In either case, the challenge is the same: Restaurants and others in the food industry typically work with a number of suppliers and need better ways to organize that into a single platform.

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