TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

based fintech that provides finance for small businesses as an alternative to a traditional bank loan or extended overdraft , has replenished its own coffers with £70 million in funding. Providing the financing are previous backers British Business Investments, Paragon Bank and BCI Europe, along with new partner Silicon Valley Bank (SVB).

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JUNE 8, 2022

trillion in revenues this year, which speaks not only to how much consumers are shopping online these days, but also to how many businesses there are out there now selling to them. Most incumbent banks, and now a fair number of neobanks, target small and medium businesses as customers. The e-commerce market is on track to pass $ 5.5

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MAY 20, 2022

The proceeds will be used to scale the business beyond its home base of Sweden. We are now looking to bring more products to market and take our preventive pet insurance beyond Sweden.”. Olsson told me: “We’re all transforming Pet Insurance to become more digital, empathy-driven, and seamless. ”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

In contrast to America, he points out how Sweden is among the most successful societies in the world from a social mobility perspective — referencing its free education and free health care, which sets up as many people as possible for success. “We didn’t have a lot of money,” he tells me.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

Along with that news, it’s launching a crypto trading platform and B2B payments for its small and medium business customers. That number has now grown to 500,000 across a footprint that includes Denmark (its home base is in Copenhagen), Sweden and Norway. The new services join a swelling list of offerings for its users.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

But perhaps more interestingly, HiBob seems to have bucked a broader trend that has seen startups’ and scaleups’ valuations plummet in a sea of corrections and down-rounds — in the past month, Sweden’s buy-now, pay-later fintech Klarna saw its valuation drop 85% to $6.7

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

PideDirecto , a Mexico-based company, is developing a platform that enables local businesses in Latin America to sell directly to their consumers and deliver orders in less than 30 minutes. Fawzi, Samir and Nacoud knew each other from Iraq and studied together in college in Sweden, which is where they met Steiner.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Payments made a huge shift to digital platforms during the COVID-19 pandemic — purchasing moved online for many consumers and businesses, and a large proportion of those continuing to buy and sell in-person went cash-free.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

As Bitpanda wants to grow its white-labeling business , these licenses are key advantages when it comes to signing partnerships with other European fintech companies. The security of our customers’ digital assets, as well as those of our White Label partners, is our top priority.”.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2021

There is a real opportunity for digital healthcare platforms to scale access to team-based care across the region. Webrock Ventures is a Sweden-based investment company that employs a venture-building model. As a Sweden-based telehealth company, Doktor.se Here’s summarized information on the trio.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

With the proliferation of subscription services, combined with our lives becoming almost 100% digital, there’s a rising need to be able to manage these services. Founded in Gothenburg, Sweden in 2016, Minna enables customers to manage subscription services via their existing bank’s app. But most banks don’t have much of an answer.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

If you plan to launch a new startup in France, Denmark or Sweden, there is a new seed fund looking for your pitch. Some business angels like Frédéric Montagnon and Florian Douetteau were quite instrumental in shaping Clustree’s trajectory, so de Raphélis Soissan started investing after exiting her startup.

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The Verge

MARCH 11, 2021

Spotify is making a podcast about its own history , and the first two episodes are well worth a listen for the details on the jump from piracy to streaming, how the company decided to build its business, and the technical details of how it did so.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Spain, Italy, France, Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands, Hungary, Ukraine and Russia. That figure includes both educational users of its free services, as well as enterprises, which pay to build and use games (for example related to professional development or business compliance) on the platform. “We million (€6.3

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The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

To put it into management speak, our digital infrastructure is world-class. We boast the world’s second highest fixed broadband Internet subscription rate only an inch behind Sweden. A conducive business environment. The Dutch have a solid business environment today. The Netherlands remains open for business.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Vertical marketplaces continue to be a key lynchpin in the digital economy, a centralized place where people providing certain goods or services can connect with those specifically looking to buy them, a position that has, it seems, become even more prominent and in-demand in our pandemic economy. Sweden, Norway, Holland and Germany.

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The Verge

JULY 5, 2021

The more you share its digital key the less you pay each month, possibly even turning a profit. Lynk & Co first announced its ambitious approach to car sharing five years ago in its home city of Gothenburg, Sweden, emboldened by studies that say cars sit unused 96 percent of the time.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

But compared with traditional banks, it was the seventh-largest digital financial services provider in that area. Nigerian digital bank Carbon hit $240M in payments processed last year, up 89% from 2019. But unlike Nigeria, India has better unit economics for the lending business and a more friendly regulatory environment.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

After delivering over one million subscription boxes of Japanese snacks to customers in more than 100 countries, Bokksu launched a digital marketplace for premium Japanese lifestyle products, Bokksu Market , in 2018. The fresh capital will also enable Bokksu to accelerate its primary business lines: subscription, market and grocery.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

This is less true than it was in early 2020, as digital education and work is now so commonplace that it’s possible to build a billion-dollar edtech in a single, larger European market. But naturally, nearly every ambitious edtech founder realizes they need to expand overseas to grow at a pace that is attractive to investors.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2021

With products like FinanZero and Nubank – Latin America’s largest digital bank – Brazilians are starting to see more economic mobility and independence from the legacy institutions that dictated their lives for so long. Our business model is very based on the bank’s risk appetite and we saw 60% growth from 2019-2020.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Sweden-based fintech Tink has also been dominant across Europe, while Truelayer and Belvo are holding the fort in the UK and Latin America. This allows users to share their transaction history and balances, confirm their identities, and initiate payments. Plaid leads the way in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2022

More funding for sustainability reporting: Sweden’s Worldfavor , an early mover platform focused on building digital infrastructure to support supply chain transparency and cater to organizations’ ESG (environmental, social, governance) reporting needs, has bagged €10.2 million in Series A funding to step on the growth gas.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2022

We felt that the underlying infrastructure supporting the shift from investment product to digital advice was a more durable, interesting space to be allocating capital to,” the firm said in a recent newsletter. As fintech has exploded in recent years, so has Cross River Bank’s business — as well as investor interest. billion ($2.15

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 8, 2021

The 2009-founded startup has raised more than $290 million to date over its decade+ run but describes itself as just at the beginning of a journey to make a dent in the massive and growing market for temporary work, expecting demand to keep stepping up as more sectors and processes go digital in the coming years.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Existing investors including Atomico, DN, Infravia, Kibo and Quadrille also participated in the round — which the startup said values its business at $2.35BN (post-money). Its business growth rate is 130% annually, with Jobandtalent adding that it’s been EBITDA positive since the second half of 2020.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

In contrast to America, he points out how Sweden is among the most successful societies in the world from a social mobility perspective — referencing its free education and free health care, which sets up as many people as possible for success. “We didn’t have a lot of money,” he tells me.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

That company, too, has a very specialized focus: providing workers’ compensation insurance to small businesses. Shaw’s third startup lends against whole life insurance policies, with the goal of digitizing “many of the traditional time-intensive operations” involved in the process. European digital bank Monese nabs $35M from HSBC.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The following year, Christians and Hahn brought on creative director Navina Pernsteiner to co-found the business and establish Sono Motors as a company and brand. This feature, along with ride-sharing and car-sharing, will be enabled by the Sono app, which also acts as a digital key. It opened for trading on the Nasdaq at $20.06

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2022

PocketLaw launched its product in March 2020 — targeting contract creation, e-signing and management tools at small and medium sized enterprises across all business verticals, touting a service that requires no in-house legal experience for SMEs to tap in.

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TechCrunch

JULY 10, 2022

The Uber Files, which were originally shared with The Guardian and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists , show a company that has knowingly broken laws, gone to extreme lengths to avoid justice, secretly lobbied governments, received aid from top politicians and exploited violence against drivers to drum up business.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

.” In Germany, where Mayd is starting out, the country is in the process of gearing up for an e-prescription system that’s due to go live in January — as part of wider moves to digitize healthcare services (such as by bringing in electronic patient records). “In general we could have done this model two years ago. .”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

But when the honeymoon period ends and the business becomes about, well, running a business, the egos that made the company great could very well also dismantle it. The company also announced a restructuring that would see its EV unit run as a separate business than its internal combustion engine unit.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2023

Last May, TechCrunch reported on a filing that revealed that Better.com had swung to a loss of more than $300 million in 2021 after a rapid-fire decline in business brought on largely by a slowdown in the housing market and a surge in mortgage interest rates. Wise Business cards and sending money with a link. on May 5, 2022.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Make room for yet another preventative health play: Spotify founder Daniel Ek officially confirmed rumors of his new “health tech” startup, Neko, Friday by quietly kicking off a body scanning service in Sweden (via Tech EU ) after four years of stealthy development.

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DECEMBER 6, 2022

From a place of political neutrality, Sweden found that environmental pollution could be an issue of potential cooperation between members of the UN, and hosting a conference on that topic would help boost the UN’s global perception. Come work with us , and let’s put ourselves out of business. .

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AUGUST 11, 2023

Our data licensing and API with X is an incredible business. Our new subscription business [is] growing,” Yaccarino said. The lawsuit alleged that the social network “fuels its business with countless infringing copies of musical ‘compositions, violating Publishers’ and others’ exclusive rights under copyright law.”

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