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Dott has raised a new $85 million Series B funding round — this round is a mix of equity and asset-backed debt financing. Belgium-based investment company Sofina is leading the investment. It has raised a lot less money than Bird or Lime and it has taken a different approach when it comes to operations.
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.
French startup Roundtable has raised a $3.2 Roundtable specifically focuses on European startups and works particularly well for startups based in France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. The platform currently charges 1% of the amount raised by the vehicle with a minimum of €5,000 and a maximum of €15,000.
It has also raised $109 million (€95 million) in debt financing. Overall, it has raised $211 million (€185 million) in traditional equity funding rounds. It is now available in Spain, Italy, Germany and Belgium. Tencent, GR Capital and Roosh Ventures are investing in the startup for the first time.
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.
Einride has already been on something of an expansion drive (so to speak) these past few months, launching in Germany back in September followed by Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg last week, with plans in place to target Norway too. These vehicles are already available to shipping companies and carriers in Sweden and in the U.S.
startup that wants to produce animal fat without using animals, has raised £2.7 and Peace of Meat in Belgium/Israel — but also enable it to customise fats for different manufacturers. Hoxton Farms , a U.K. million in seed funding. The round is led by Founders Fund, the Silicon Valley venture capital firm founded by Peter Thiel.
And the company just raised a $112 million Series B round at a $570 million valuation. Germany, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. If you’ve followed corporate card and spend management startups in the U.S., you might be familiar with Brex and Ramp. Payhawk currently has offices in London, Sofia, Berlin and Barcelona.
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.
French startup Cajoo is raising some money in order to compete more aggressively in the new and highly competitive category of food delivery companies. There are a lot of players that have raised a lot of money. Interestingly, the lead investor in today’s funding round is Carrefour, the supermarket giant. But it’s a regulated market.
French startup Ankorstore has raised a $29.9 Ankorstore is currently live in eight countries — France, Spain, Austria, Germany, Belgium, Holland, Switzerland and Luxembourg. In many ways, Ankorstore reminds me of Faire , the wholesale marketplace that has raised hundreds of millions of dollars in the U.S.
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. “We are preparing to scale to meet all of the digital opportunities in the food hospitality industry.”
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. Today’s round is a Series E round and it comes just a year after the startup raised its €185 million Series D.
The startup has raised $155 million at a $700 million valuation. Scalapay has now raised $203 million in total.). It now works with 3,000 merchants in Europe — specifically Italy, France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Finland, Belgium, Netherlands and Austria — and it has yet to move into huge markets like the U.S.
But the close connection Facebook Dating has to the rest of the company’s products has raised concerns in the past. Facebook touts the service’s privacy features, with many of its more personal matching tactics entirely optional.
The startup has raised quite a lot of money and has managed to attract 340,000 freelancers across multiple European countries. Originally limited to the French market, Malt has expanded to Germany, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands and Switzerland over the past few years. Following this acquisition, Malt has some ambitious goal.
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. He added that this investment values the startup at over €2 billion (or over $2.3
French startup Not So Dark has raised an $80 million Series B funding round led by Kharis Capital and Verlinvest, with Convivialité Ventures also participating. While Not So Dark started with a network of dark kitchens, the company abandoned this business model shortly after raising its Series A round.
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. So we built technology,” Braswell says. Studies from the U.S.
Adil wanted to expand the company, which was in Belgium, where it has an operating site, and moved to North Carolina in May. The initial money raised by the company allows them to prove to people that their technology works and to produce it at the trial level. million in total funding to date.
and Belgium. The startup has raised $125 million in 2019 and $139 million in 2020. ManoMano raises $139 million for its home improvement e-commerce platform. When it comes to “softer” metrics, the company now attracts 50 million unique visitors per month, which represents a 70% year-over-year increase.
million Series A, raised at two different periods, a $33.5 Choco is already operating in six markets, including the United States, Germany, France, Spain, Austria and Belgium. Joining in is new investor Insight Partners and existing investors Coatue Management and Bessemer Venture Partners. million round in 2019 and a $30.2
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.
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.
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. . million Series A in February 2021. .
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
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.
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.
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. In addition to the new corridors, Atlantic Money is also launching its mobile app on Android. The company also plans to launch a web app in the future.
Gorillas, according to a presentation it made to investors in March that a source shared with us, has around 700,000 active customers.The news comes on the heels also of rumors we’d been hearing that the company had been raising more funds. “Now even more people will look at this like it’s just a bubble.”
The proptech marketing platform is announcing that it has raised $4.5 And that’s why we’ve just gone through this capital raise to experiment with that essentially.”. It is in talks with partners, mainly property portals and CRM platforms, to expand into Europe (France, Germany, Belgium and the U.K.)
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.
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Easy Eat AI raises $5M to help Southeast Asian restaurants digitize their operations. Aside from Singapore, it’s already used by customers in the Philippines, the Netherlands, Belgium, the United Kingdom and Portugal. Customers fill out their name, email addresses, and then rank the food and atmosphere (for dine-in).
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.
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 Its products help customers comply with local data protection policies and store data securely.
.” 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.
While the company has stopped talking about funding rounds since its Series A in 2015 , Devialet has raised another €70 million across two rounds. Devialet is launching the Devialet Dione today in France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Switzerland. Pre-orders also start today for other markets.
A similar trajectory is being seen across the Atlantic, as nations such as Italy , England and the Ukraine join a rapidly expanding list of countries including Germany, France, Israel, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Denmark, Poland and others who have chosen to supplement their urban transportation networks with modern micromobility alternatives.
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. These funds are Eurazeo and EQT — a French fund and a Swedish fund.”.
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 valuation for real-time insights based on 100k sources of public data.
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. Furosystems appears to be a company with staying power.
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