TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The plan is to integrate more Kahoot features into Drops’ apps, and to bring some of Drops’ content into the main Kahoot platform. Kahoot picks up $215M from SoftBank for its user-generated, gamified e-learning platform. But it has had some notable accolades, including getting named app of the year by Google in 2018.

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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

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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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. UniPay: mobile payment platform in Brazil.

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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. “Manufacturers already have a tech stack of tools like e-commerce platforms, shipping tools, and accounting software,” Vilosius continued.

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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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The Verge

MARCH 15, 2021

Bird acquired Circ , a leading electric scooter rental business in Europe and the Middle East, in January 2020. The program, which is called Bird Platform, has led some operators to fall into deep debt, OneZero reported last year.

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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. TLcom and 4DX drive $13.1M

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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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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 program, which is called Bird Platform, has led some operators to fall into deep debt, OneZero reported last year. Very few companies operating scooter fleets have succeeded in turning a profit.

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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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

” He spoke to CEO Zach Perret, CTO Jean-Denis Greze and COO Eric Sager about what they learned while working with Visa, and looked at some new platform features designed to build customer trust while eliciting better insights. from Estonia, where I’m originally from. Image Credits: Bryce Durbin/TechCrunch.

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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. Sophie’s podcast, Immigration Law for Tech Startups , is available on all major platforms. More posts by this contributor.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2023

The Tesla and SpaceX CEO first announced his bid to buy Twitter in April 2022, zealously driven to rid the platform of spam bots and protect free speech. Even for one of the richest men in the world, $44 billion is a lot of money to cough up to buy a middling social platform. By October, the platform was his.

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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

MARCH 13, 2021

In Latin America, the business of trolling threatens Twitter’s disruptive power. In January 2021, Prince Edward Island-based ScreenScape Networks was acquired by Spectrio for an undisclosed fee, then Halifax-based storytelling platform Wattpad was acquired by Naver in a deal worth $600 million. More posts by this contributor.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

However, it is unclear whether OpenAI is developing an in-house tuning tool that is meant to complement platforms like Scale AI or serve a different purpose altogether. May 3, 2023 Hackers are using ChatGPT lures to spread malware on Facebook Meta said in a report on May 3 that malware posing as ChatGPT was on the rise across its platforms.

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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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