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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. So why did the company raise given that it’s already in a strong position to replicate the same model in other European markets? Recommendations and advice will be key to gain market shares. 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. Comatch originally started in Germany, which means that Malt is also doubling down on the German market with this acquisition.

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

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Berlin-based Choco , which has built ordering software for restaurants and their suppliers, is working to digitize the food supply chain and announced $100 million in Series B funding, led by Left Lane Capital, to give it a $600 million post-market valuation. The new round comes just over a year after Choco’s $63.7

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AI chip startup Axelera lands $27M in capital to commercialize its hardware

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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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South Africa’s Flow gets funding to automate social media advertising for real estate agencies

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And it’s evident that proptech, unlike other industries, has lagged in utilizing social media to make sales. The proptech marketing platform is announcing that it has raised $4.5 When buying and selling homes, if you take South Africa, for example, 40,000 agents are marketing 300,000 listings at any time.

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

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It now has its software in use in 20,000 locations across 40 markets, with the number of locations doubling in less than a year. Today its biggest market is Europe, but it’s growing the fastest in North America, so it will also be investing to continue expanding there. (Xu “Food is the last frontier,” Xu said.

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Alan raises $220 million for its health insurance and healthcare super app

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9,400 companies have opted for Alan in France, Belgium and Spain — the company’s home market remains its main market. In order to gain more customers, Alan is betting on three pillars — product innovation, customer satisfaction through additional services, and expansions to new verticals and markets.

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