TechCrunch

JULY 5, 2021

French startup ManoMano has raised a Series F funding round of $355 million led by Dragoneer Investment Group. So why did the company raise given that it’s already in a strong position to replicate the same model in other European markets? In addition to France, the startup operates in Spain, Italy, Belgium, Germany and the U.K.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2021

French startup Alan has raised a $220 million funding round at a $1.67 Alan has to raise more if it wants to insure more people. Many startups try to raise when they’re in a strong position. 9,400 companies have opted for Alan in France, Belgium and Spain — the company’s home market remains its main market.

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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. And that is basically why Einride is having to raise such a large pot of financing now, having already raised around $150 million since its inception including its $110 million Series B last year.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Tink , a startup out of Stockholm, Sweden that aggregates a number of banks and financial services by way of an API so that those can in turn be accessed via new channels, has raised €85 million (or $103 million at current rates), at a post-money valuation of €680 million (or around $825 million). It has now raised €175 million in total.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

It has also raised $109 million (€95 million) in debt financing. Overall, it has raised $211 million (€185 million) in traditional equity funding rounds. The company recently expanded to other markets. It is now available in Spain, Italy, Germany and Belgium. In-store payments represent 30% of payment volume.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

And the company just raised a $112 million Series B round at a $570 million valuation. 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. It should give you an idea of the company’s upcoming market expansions.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

French startup Cajoo is raising some money in order to compete more aggressively in the new and highly competitive category of food delivery companies. 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.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2022

The startup has raised $150 million, a Series D round of funding that values the company at over $1.4 The round comes less than a year after its previous round — a $65 million Series C that it raised last April. Are rivals snacking on Instacart’s core grocery delivery market?

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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 decided to raise again at the start of the year,” co-founder and CEO Jean-Charles Samuelian-Werve told me. We could see that markets could turn around and we didn’t know how long it was going to last.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2020

French startup Ankorstore has raised a $29.9 Ankorstore is currently live in eight countries — France, Spain, Austria, Germany, Belgium, Holland, Switzerland and Luxembourg. France is the biggest market followed by Germany. million Series A round (€25 million) with Index Ventures leading the round.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The startup has raised $155 million at a $700 million valuation. Scalapay has now raised $203 million in total.). Ramping up in this way underscores just how hot the BNPL market is right now, and also how the startup has been faring within that. Why Square is shelling out $29B to snag BNPL player Afterpay.

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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. The startup has raised quite a lot of money and has managed to attract 340,000 freelancers across multiple European countries. Terms of the deal are undisclosed but it involves a mix of equity and cash.

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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

OCTOBER 25, 2022

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. The edge AI hardware market is projected to grow from 920 million units in 2021 to 2.08 billion by 2025.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

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. million Series A, raised at two different periods, a $33.5

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

The proptech marketing platform is announcing that it has raised $4.5 The investment will see co-founders and co-CEOs Gil Sperling and Daniel Levy drive the business’s B2B growth strategy and integrate Flow’s social media–driven real estate marketing platform into existing international property portals and CRM platforms.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

and Belgium. And the company is currently profitable on this market if you look at this segment independently from the rest of the company. The startup has raised $125 million in 2019 and $139 million in 2020. ManoMano raises $139 million for its home improvement e-commerce platform.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2022

” Going forward, it will focus instead on its home market of Germany, as well as France, the Netherlands, the UK and the US, which it says collectively account for 90% of its revenues currently.The announcement came on the heels of a report in the German press last night about the layoffs.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2022

Over the years, Frichti had raised around €100 million in total ($114 million at today’s exchange rate). The company has raised nearly $1 billion in its most recent funding round and is already operating in eight markets — including France. The subcontracting incident of summer 2020.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

Choco , a company aimed at building a more sustainable food system for restaurants and suppliers, brought in another big raise — this time $111 million in what it’s calling a Series B2 round — to boost its valuation to $1.2 million Series A that was raised at two different periods, a $33.5 million round in 2019 and a $30.2

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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. Underscoring the demand for its technology and the bumper year it’s just had, the company has raised $65 million — funding that it will be using to expand its business.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

The latest round, which brings its total funding raised to $83 million, comes approximately a year after raising $14.4 The firm acquired a Netherlands-based drone company, Terra Inspectioneering , in 2018 and invested in Belgium’s drone company Unifly in 2016. . The global UAM market is projected to increase to $1.5

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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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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.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The company has raised $80 million, a Series B led by Spectrum Equity, with previous backers Eight Roads, F-Prime Capital and Highgate Technology Ventures also participating. Founded in 2015, prior to this, OTA Insight had only raised $20 million. They saw that there had to be a better way of managing that. .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

Tablevibe’s founding team includes two former Googlers: Jeroen Rutten, formerly head of Google Search’s product strategy in APAC and Sneep, who was responsible for its app development go-to-market strategy and led large sales teams. Easy Eat AI raises $5M to help Southeast Asian restaurants digitize their operations.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Fintech startup Atlantic Money is rolling out its international money transfer service to more markets and more platforms. The startup previously raised money from Ribbit Capital, Index Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, 20VC, Amplo and Elefund and is regulated as a payment institution in Belgium and the U.K.

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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

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

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

.” This “HubSpot for recruiting” idea blossomed into Crew , a Y Combinator-backed startup that’s raised $2.45 France-based Crew launched in 2020 out of the Belgium-headquartered startup studio eFounders before joining Y Combinator’s accelerator program. million in financing to date.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Belgium, France and Germany makes Amsterdam a natural gateway to those markets. According to a study by KPMG and and NL Times , startups raised $591.2 million raised in the quarter before. The Netherlands’ ecosystem has been flourishing; more than $85 million was invested in regional startups in 2019 alone.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

Prior to this, London-based PPRO (pronounced “P-pro”) raised $50 million in August 2020 from Sprints, Citi and HPE Growth; and in 2018 it raised $50 million led by strategic investor PayPal. Dataminr raises $475M on a $4.1B “That last mile becomes important from a customer service perspective.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

With this new mechanism, fund managers should be able to raise a new fund more easily. And he strongly believes that the ability to raise large growth rounds in Europe will lead to large tech companies down the road. We are starting to see companies like Back Market or Ynsect that are better than American ones.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2007

Expanding marketing and awareness. For example, one morning I worked from my home in California with Joe in NY and a volunteer in Belgium in setting up an information booth. Exposing the Kiva organization to new people in this interesting digital world and raising money to fund loans. What is kiva.org doing in SL?

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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. It recently raised £750,000 (about $1 million) from investors ahead of the Aventa launch. 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.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 26, 2008

Sign on up for Breadline Africa's Blogger Bakeoff , a year-long campaign (October 15, 2008-October 15, 2009) to raise 1 million dollars for Breadline Africa's projects by, "baking bread and giving dough." More Than Burnt Toast baked No Knead Cheddar Batter Bread Interactive Marketing Trends baked Pecan, Raisin and Honey Bread.

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DECEMBER 13, 2017

Lori’s gift is to help nonprofit organizations communicate powerfully so they raise exponentially more money. She is a nationally-recognized master storyteller and fundraising culture change expert helping nonprofit organizations raise nearly $300 million dollars from individual donors.

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