TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

million Series A led by new strategic investor EIT InnoEnergy, a major accelerator of sustainable energies in Europe that’s supported by the European Union. Aside from Swobbee’s focus on smaller micromobility vehicles, there are a few other differences between the German startup and Gogoro’s business models.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2022

million in a pre-Series A round, to tap the opportunities in emerging markets, where digital lending apps have recently sprung up in droves. The startup is currently working with 30 credit institutions, including digital lenders, micro-finance institutions and banks. million, having realized $800,000 in a seed round last May.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

In India alone, it is estimated there are 1-2 million NGOs in operation of which the vast majority have no online presence, but in the next decade Indian NGOs will join the digital revolution by the hundreds of thousands. Source: Business Insider. Source: 2017 Global Trends in Giving Report. billion by 2050. Source: Global Web Index.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

Sennder , a large digital road freight forwarder based out of Germany, has raised $160 million in Series D financing. In June 2020 it merged with French competitor Everoad, and acquired Uber Freight’s European business last September. The whole digital freight forwarding market is booming.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

A startup tapping into the concept of the circular economy, where people don’t buy items outright but pay an incremental amount to use them temporarily, has raised some funding to scale its business in Europe and beyond. The fresh funding allows us to bring these possibilities to even more people across the world.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

InstaCarro , a digital marketplace that connects used car sellers to dealers in Brazil, has raised $23 million in a Series B round of funding. The startup also plans to use its new capital to “improve the coverage” of its home inspection model and improve the efficiency of its digital auction process, Cafici said. Notably, U.S.-based

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2021

SumUp , a London-based startup that helps businesses power revenues through card payments — by way of physical readers, online payments, invoices and other services — is itself powering up in a big way. and basing their service around small card payment dongles that attached to phones or tablets.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2022

While the pandemic prompted companies to digitize much of the way they do business, not every brand made the pivot successfully. The same survey found that over four-fifths of companies — 82% — were prevented from pursuing digital transformation projects due to the staffing, resources and expertise required.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

Economies of scale are an essential cornerstone for on-demand companies, and to that end one of the hopefuls in the space has raised a big round to grow its business. “All of our business units are growing,” founder and CEO Markus Villig said in an interview this week. . billion ($8.4 billion).

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Business, now more than ever before, is going digital, and today a startup that’s building a vertically integrated solution to meet business banking needs is announcing a big round of funding to tap into the opportunity. The company has started to make some headway into Europe and the U.K. That involves two parts.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

A new report from Endeavor Nigeria reveals that Africa’s digital economy and tech ecosystem is set to experience exponential growth periods. The report is dubbed “The Inflection Point: Africa’s Digital Economy is Poised to Take Off.”. Africa’s digital opportunity. Southeast Asia and Europe.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

In February, Disha , a Nigeria-based platform that allows digital creators to curate, sell digital content, create portfolios and receive payments from their audience globally, announced that it was closing shop. With Flutterwave, we now have a way to drive both value for creators and revenue to sustain the business.

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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.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2022

trillion B2B payments market in sub-Saharan Africa is one where merchants commonly use manual invoices and inefficient processes that burden merchants and make them struggle with their businesses. And then it becomes easier for us to digitize how payment moves between retailers and distributors,” he added. million in seed funding.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

The process of digitizing the operations of mom and pop stores in Nigeria is serious business right now. Europe and Asia, including Michael Novogratz’s, participated in the round. Alerzo claims to have built up a network of up to 100,000 small businesses, 90% of which are women-led. The company is announcing a $10.5

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TechCrunch

MAY 29, 2022

Given the likely global recession, small businesses are reaching for new kinds of financing. Thus, the buy now, pay later business model is now expanding into this B2B world at a rate of knots. But as more companies increasingly move to digital, the need for BNPL for B2B online will grow immensely.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

and Europe have a more competitive iBuyer market with Opendoor, Zillow, Offerpad and Redfin, Japan has a nascent iBuyer industry, according to the company. “The business model is similar in the way that it is an arbitrage model where the difference between the purchase price and the sales price is the profit,” Ito told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

In an interview with TechCrunch, Bhojani, an HBS and Yale College graduate who had previously worked across roles that required extensive travel, such as management consulting and investment banking, said what spurred him to launch Silkhaus was the change in the travel behavior of small-business owners post-pandemic. . “At

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

This June, Amira merged with 27-year-old digital learning company Istation, whose gamified educational content was being used in more than 1,000 school districts. The app gives busy parents on-demand access to scripts and other personalized guidance, drawing on Kennedys expertise and advice from other parenting coaches.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Millions of small and medium businesses still operate inefficiently due to dependency on manual processes, which limits their capacity to grow and scale; this is despite contributing to about 48% of Nigeria’s GDP in the last five years, But the tide is turning. Some include Pastel , Kippa and OZÉ. .

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The Verge

MARCH 15, 2022

Spotify will use its sponsorship as an opportunity to “amplify the work of artists” in a way that brings “the worlds of music and football together, giving a global stage to players and artists” at Spotify Camp Nou, Alex Norström, Spotify’s chief freemium business officer, said in a statement.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

As organizations continue to build out their digital architecture, a new category of enterprise software has emerged to help them manage that process. Ardoq is based out of Oslo and about 30% of its enterprise client base is in the Nordics; the rest is spread between Europe and the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. .

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

In March 2020, the company made headlines for laying off nearly 300 employees in the face of a slowdown in business related to the pandemic. As the pandemic led to increased digitization across the board, employees were suddenly making spend decisions from outside the office and more merchants were accepting digital payments.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Blackshark.ai, the Austrian startup behind the digital globe you fly over in Microsoft’s Flight Simulator, has raised a $20M round A to develop and scale its replica-Earth tech. The potential applications for a planetary “digital twin” are many and various, and the company has a head start even on mapping giants like Google.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

These are tech companies backed by VCs but they also need financial partners due to their capital-intensive businesses in order to do this. The massive digital transformation going on right now has given rise to non-bank and alternative lending companies. Western Europe, U.K., Australia and New Zealand.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

billion European payments giant, has made another acquisition, this time to dig deeper into financial services for small and medium businesses in the region. In addition to payments company Nets/Concardis, Orderbird’s other investors had included Digital+ Partners and Metro Group, and it had raised around $55 million in all.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

They allow businesses such as mobile operators, e-commerce platforms, and logistics companies to embed and enable banking products for their customers. With this new financing, Credable plans to launch four more products this year and partner with businesses in these countries. million seed round. So far, over 1.2

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The fund will be managed by partners Sebastian Peck and Talia Rafaeli, and has aspirations to back breakthrough innovations that accelerate the adoption of digital technology and industrial automation in the real estate, construction and manufacturing sectors. It especially wants to reduce waste and CO2 emissions. ” .”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

creator economy and people doing “side-hustle” businesses. The app provides a hub of financial tools and services for these self-employed side-hustlers, as it provides digital bookkeeping and accountancy services, automates tax returns and comes with access to expert help.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

“The only things that changed were the economics and speed of business.”. Put simply, Kushki aims to help make it easier, cheaper and more secure for businesses across LatAm to send and receive/process digital payments. Europe, APAC and Brazil. It also follows a quarter in which the company grew by 100% year over year. .

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Pipedrive , the sales CRM tool for small and medium-sized businesses, is the latest European company to reach unicorn status. The software integrates with over 100 other apps used in business, for example Google Apps, Trello, Zapier, MailChimp, Yesware and PandaDoc. enterprise software focused private equity firm Vista Equity Partners.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2021

Specifically, clients can buy and sell digital assets (from Bitcoin, Ethereum and Link to Litecoin, PaxG and multiple stablecoins) directly on BlockFi. The startup is also a lender and provider of trade execution services to institutions participating in digital asset markets. . It’s a model that seems to be working in a big way.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

By digitalizing the insurance work for insurers and intermediaries, its platform enables them to save time, focus on their clients and scale their business. . Norwegian investor Kistefos , Markel Digital Investment and an angel investor participated in the latest round. trillion general insurance industry. .

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

“Challenger” startups in banking and insurance have upended their industries, and picked up significant business, by building more customer-friendly tools and services — more personalized, easier to access and usually competitively priced — than those typically provided by their bigger, incumbent rivals.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

that creates digital banks in emerging markets, confirmed to TechCrunch today that it has raised $7.4 Digital banks, neobanks, challenger banks or whatever you may call them, are among the biggest recipients of VC investments in fintech. Fintech Farm , a newly launched fintech startup based in the U.K. million in seed funding.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

In a report analyzing Europe’s general economic health, cost of doing business, business environment and labor force quality, analysts looked for highly educated populations, strong economies, healthy business environments and relatively low costs for conducting business. Claude Donzé , partner, Tomahawk.VC.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2022

The two met through the startup’s investor Cathay Innovation , and the acqui-hire will pave the way for Laiye’s entry into the Europe market, said Wang. Wang also saw a strong “cultural alignment” between his business and the French startup led by a team of young founders. Laiye CEO Guanchun Wang.

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