TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

The business world has a love-hate relationship with coaching. Founders are visionaries: They start with an idea, a talent, a dream, but not necessarily the business know-how. We look up to business magnates, believing that they sailed from a college dorm to the C-suite without breaking a sweat. Should I trust my gut?

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TechCrunch

JULY 30, 2021

Outvio , an Estonian startup that provides a white-label SaaS fulfillment solution for medium-sized and large online retailers in Spain and Estonia, has closed a $3 million early-stage financing round led by Change Ventures. Also participating were TMT Investments (London), Fresco Capital (San Francisco) and Lemonade Stand (Tallinn).

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

Estonia-based Membo — which is backed by Y Combinator and will be presenting at the incubator’s Summer 2021 Demo Day next week — is aiming to take a slice of the premium end of grocery shopping in Europe and a bite out of supermarket giants’ continued dominance of the traditional weekly food shop. .

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TechCrunch

JUNE 27, 2022

Woola (Estonia), Papkot (France), Biotic (Israel), FunCell (France) and Traceless (Germany). Luckily there is no shortage of sustainable packaging startups in Europe. Just take a look: Circleback (Germany), Recup (Germany), Sourceful (U.K.), one • five (Germany), Shellworks (U.K.),

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The startup was founded in Estonia and has 21 employees, with no “head office” as such, with the team spread across Estonia, U.S., But it has had some notable accolades, including getting named app of the year by Google in 2018. Kahoot picks up $215M from SoftBank for its user-generated, gamified e-learning platform.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 26, 2012

They require help to clarify their business proposition, evaluate their value, and identify key partners. As Ben Rooney of the Wall Street Journal reminded us in a recent article , Skype originated with some engineers in Estonia. Often we forget that some of the greatest innovations began outside the United States.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Based in Tallinn, Estonia, Warren’s self-service distributed cloud platform is gaining traction in Southeast Asia, one of the world’s fastest-growing cloud service markets, and Europe. At the same time, the agency’s e-commerce clients were running into challenges as their businesses grew. It recently closed a $1.4

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

The Estonia-based startup’s “special sauce” is using AI-powered video to verify identifies. John Curtius, partner at Tiger Global said: “A reliable IDV solution for today’s digital businesses and consumers has been exacerbated over the past two years as all operations moved online to conduct business.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

Insight Partners led the round, with Wildcat Capital Management and a new strategic backer, the unified business communications giant RingCentral, also participating. The company — co-headquartered in New York and Tallinn, Estonia — has now raised more than $150 million overall, it said.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2022

ERP is a form of business management software that can serve any number of functions inside a company, from marketing and risk management, to supply chain management and beyond. Many small businesses opt for spreadsheets despite being error-prone and difficult to scale as their businesses grow.”

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Startups in this class come from far and away, including Argentina, Austria, Australia, Brazil, Croatia, Denmark, India, Japan, Italy, Latvia & Estonia, Spain, and Taiwan. Privy: online advertising for small/medium-sized businesses. accelerator and brought on two venture partners to help oversee its India investments.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

Today, one of the startups that’s built an interesting, very “hands-on” approach to addressing that problem is announcing a round of funding to expand its business. “We’ve had overwhelming demand and it’s incredible to see how businesses want to adopt us right now,” he said in an interview.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

Now, in a spot of perfect timing, a startup out of Talinn, Estonia, called Ready Player Me — which has built a popular platform for creating dynamic, animated avatars to use across virtual worlds built and operated by others — is announcing $56 million in funding to grow its business.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

Launched in a number of Nordics markets, and on the verge of opening properties in London, the startup seems to be weathering the pandemic, reaching occupancy rates as high as 90% at its existing properties in Estonia and Finland. 10 proptech investors see better era for residential and retail after pandemic.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

Lightyear touts its big USP as being its business model, insofar as it doesn’t charge account fees or commissions on any trades. Launching out of stealth initially in the U.K. launch plans back in 2020. And less than a year after first launching to early U.K. users, it has now ramped up its potential user base by an order of magnitude.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

Bolt , an Uber competitor that is building an international on-demand network of services to transport people, food and other items in cars, scooters and bikes across Europe and Africa, has picked up some strategic funding today to continue expanding its business in emerging markets.

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The Verge

MARCH 15, 2021

Bird acquired Circ , a leading electric scooter rental business in Europe and the Middle East, in January 2020. The company has since launched Bird Platform in countries like Switzerland and Estonia, cheering investors who hope it will lower Bird’s labor and capital expenses.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

You’ll hear firsthand how some of the most successful founders and VCs build their businesses, raise money and manage their portfolios. Proactive CEOs should prioritize European expansion. Early Stage is the premier “how-to” event for startup entrepreneurs and investors.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Initially targeting private individuals and businesses in the U.K., This could be particularly useful for businesses, such as live events or travel, where there could be incentives for individuals to cheat and where operators may be required to prove to insurance companies or government authorities that they are COVID-19 safe.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

In Latin America, the business of trolling threatens Twitter’s disruptive power. Business writer Gordon Pitts pinpoints 2011 as the game-changing year for the Atlantic startup scene. Matthew Carpenter-Arévalo is a former Google and Twitter manager and current CEO of Céntrico Digital , a Latin American-based digital agency.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

Facetime : While Mark Zuckerberg is promising better metaverse avatars, Estonia-based Ready Player Me is delivering. The world has gotten a lot more serious about privacy and data protection, but in many cases business models that rely on personalization of one kind or another have struggled to keep up. See you there! Startups and VC.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Part of this process will have to involve making it easier for consumers and businesses alike to transition to electrification, for example through extending access to electric vehicle (EV) charging stations as the U.S. Spain, France, Germany and Estonia. The likes of Sweden , Denmark , and the U.K.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

“It was very interesting, we did of course see a negative impact from COVID-19 in 2020 but the main reason why we never worried about our business model is that we knew the businesses have never been the only driver of relocations,” Asmussen tells TechCrunch. It offers tiered pricing for the SaaS, based on usage.).

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The Verge

MAY 10, 2021

Scooter sharing is a cash intensive business, with companies routinely spending more on each scooter than they take in with revenue. The company has since launched Bird Platform in countries like Switzerland and Estonia, cheering investors who hope it will lower Bird’s labor and capital expenses. billion, below the $2.85

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

In a post that offers a detailed overview, van de Poel identifies “distinctive characteristics” of businesses that should consider ABM strategies, along with specific recommendations for implementing them. from Estonia, where I’m originally from. Image Credits: Bryce Durbin/TechCrunch. I’ve been living and working in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

She connects people with the businesses and opportunities that expand their lives. Dear Sophie, A few years ago, I moved my startup’s headquarters to New York from Estonia on an E-2 investor visa. More posts by this contributor. Dear Sophie: Can I still get a green card through marriage if I’m divorcing?

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

London and Berlin usually top the lists of European startup hubs, but Central and Eastern European countries like the Czech Republic, Estonia, Croatia and Poland have claimed a growing portion of the startup pie in the past few years. Many older people have a strict understanding of a business and the startup ideas don’t match that.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

A conducive business environment. The Dutch have a solid business environment today. It takes five days to start a business today, ranking us #10 in the world in terms of ‘incorporation’ speed. In addition, Dutch businesses enjoy an effective and efficient political & regulatory environment.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

It’s also had a significant presence in Europe, with its primary R&D operation based out of Tallinn, in Estonia (hence the financial endorsement from the EU), and its first substantial city deployment in Milton Keynes in the UK. People order Starship deliveries via the startup’s iOS and Android apps.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Now Estonia-based eAgronom , another FMS startup, has closed a $7.4 Combined with the global movement toward net zero, eAgronom is an exciting business to be a part of.”. There are plenty of competitors in so-called FMS (Farm Management Software), but so far no global dominant leader has emerged. Agrivi has raised $7.3

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

TechCrunch: In order to be able to access the support package a local startup must be an innovative business that’s up to five years old (or seven in biotech); making up to €5 million in revenue; and have at least 60% of its employees in Spain. This is sample data that we use — that we extracted from business data analysis.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Clarifai wants to bring artificial intelligence into the lives of developers, business operators and data scientists so they can automate and accelerate their model development. In the early days of the company, the market was immature, so Clarifai started selling to small businesses and individuals.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

According to the company, the new financing, comprised of equity, credit facility and debt, will rapidly scale its business and provide a million cars globally to people excluded from traditional car financing. Planet42 also received $10 million in debt funding from private investors.

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TechCrunch

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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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

April 25, 2023 OpenAI previews new subscription tier, ChatGPT Business Called ChatGPT Business, OpenAI describes the forthcoming offering as “for professionals who need more control over their data as well as enterprises seeking to manage their end users.” We plan to make ChatGPT Business available in the coming months.”

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