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

They were joined by existing investors IVP and Accel, bringing Veriff’s total funding to date to $200 million. The new funding means the company is now valued at $1.5 The Estonia-based startup’s “special sauce” is using AI-powered video to verify identifies.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 27, 2022

Woola (Estonia), Papkot (France), Biotic (Israel), FunCell (France) and Traceless (Germany). The investment will be used to fund the opening of its first raw material production plant. Luckily there is no shortage of sustainable packaging startups in Europe. Just take a look: Circleback (Germany), Recup (Germany), Sourceful (U.K.),

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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

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

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

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Katana , an enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform for small- and medium-sized manufacturers, has raised €35 million ($34 million) in a Series B round of funding. Many small businesses opt for spreadsheets despite being error-prone and difficult to scale as their businesses grow.”

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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. On top of that, users can invest in what are known as exchange traded funds ( ETF s), which are essentially investment funds.

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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. billion ). billion, based on a 1.5x

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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

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. million USD) through its Atlantic Innovation Fund (AIF). million USD) through its Atlantic Innovation Fund (AIF).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

Not Optional , a policy initiative funded by Index Ventures, has, this week, published an open letter signed by many of Europe’s leading investors, startup associations and entrepreneurs, including those who founded Stripe, Personio, Klarna, Wise, Trustpilot, UiPath and Alan. There are other groups that are enthusiastic but also concerned.

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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

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. Investors say Indian startup funding could get even hotter after record Q3. from Estonia, where I’m originally from.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

Y-Combinator- backed Localyze has nabbed $12 million in Series A funding led by Blossom Capital for a SaaS that supports staff relocations and hiring across borders. “With the funding, we want to accelerate our expansion in the UK, Ireland, Netherlands, Portugal & Spain, besides our core market Germany. .”

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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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The Verge

MAY 10, 2021

The deal will net Bird hundreds of millions of dollars in cash, which it can use to fund its operations as it continues to chase profitability. Scooter sharing is a cash intensive business, with companies routinely spending more on each scooter than they take in with revenue. billion, below the $2.85

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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. Under your leadership, how much funding has your startup raised? More posts by this contributor.

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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

Now it’s picking up some funding along with an endorsement Europe to further its growth. The startup has received €50 million (just under $57 million at today’s rates) from the European Investment Bank, the funding arm of the European Union. The funding from the EIB ticks a couple of different boxes for the EU.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Now Estonia-based eAgronom , another FMS startup, has closed a $7.4 Given that agriculture is one of the major sources of global emissions today, with this funding, eAgronom says it aims to create a farming-based carbon credits platform. Agrivi has raised $7.3 million, Granular $24.9 million and FarmLogs $37 million.

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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. The latest round brings the company’s total funding raised to $100 million. “We We saw an opportunity and raised the round.”.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Planet42 also received $10 million in debt funding from private investors. 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.

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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

A source tells us Founders Fund is also investing. 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.”

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