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. “We have very stable cash flow, which allows us to take on debt,” he said in an interview.

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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

MARCH 14, 2022

Moove, which deals with new cars, is a flexible option for these drivers who want to get into the business of ride-hailing without having to borrow from car owners or taking bank loans to finance cars bought from dealerships. So we’re still a young business. Image Credits: Moove. Those at 48 months are yet to finish their term.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

Open source has become a major force in the world of IT, and today a startup that has built a profitable operation by developing business management software on the principle is announcing a sizable secondary investment on the back of that growth. He added that this investment values the startup at over €2 billion (or over $2.3

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

It plans to use the money to expand its business across Europe on the back of a platform that today is listing close to 4,000 homes in Italy, Spain and Portugal, and has to date (since being founded at the end of 2018) sold some 3,200 properties for an aggregate value of €1 billion, according to CEO and founder Giorgio Tinacci.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

This interview has been lightly edited for clarity. And for us, for the high commissioner, this is a confirmation that Spain is becoming one of the best countries in Europe for startups. It happens to be that this new legal framework for startups is going to become one of the most ambitious in Europe.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The beauty and wellness industry, annually worth some $4 trillion , is underpinned by tens of thousands of businesses and millions of professionals carrying out haircuts, treatments and workouts. million to continue building out its own business. “Our goal is to free that up and automate all aspects of their business.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Since launching business banking in March 2018 and subsequently taking part in the U.K. government’s bounce back scheme for struggling businesses hit by the pandemic, this also now includes more than 280,000 business accounts for sole traders and small to medium sized businesses. million customers.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

In 2024, the company expanded beyond just helping employers with interviews and assessments by introducing a new platform, CodeSignal Learn, which gives tech workers the ability to acquire new technical skills and keep up with industry needs. But theres a shortage of workers who can fill those positions.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

Does this mean that we’ll see recreational use of cannabis for adults becoming a common policy in Europe? After interviewing several active investors in cannabis-related startups, we learned that the regulatory and functional landscape in Europe is just as fragmented as it is in North America. It’s too soon to say.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2020

They had just released their mobile app in April of 2012,” Jhawar told me in a phone interview. Lydia has the largest P2P network in Europe outside of PayPal and has the potential to grow all across Europe with a mobile-first, customer-focused solution. And 2020 has been a busy year for Lydia.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

It plans to use the money to expand in the Netherlands, and eventually across Europe. Tom Peeters, CEO and co-founder of Crisp, told me via online interview that “the differentiation on our model is that we offer quality and convenience. Czech on-demand grocery delivery startup Rohlik bags $230M to expand across Europe.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

Latin America and Europe. JOKR’s team consists of people who created both foodpanda and Delivery Hero, so from the outside at least, they have the chops to build a big business. Latin America and Europe. Speaking at an interview with me Wenzel said: “We are close to the equivalent of Instacart, strongly grocery focused.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

Small enterprises remain one of the most underserved segments of the business market, but the growth of cloud-based services — easier to buy, easier to provision — has helped that change in recent years. Mainly, he said, the startup wants “to build a better ecosystem to help our customers run their own businesses better.”

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

Paknad told TechCrunch in an interview that her OKR-focused business still had $35 million in the bank from its preceding rounds. WorkBoard also wants to grow its international footprint; Paknad noted customers in Asia and Europe and a desire to invest more in those markets. Invest like heck, it appears.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

based cashless payment solutions provider for businesses, today announced that it has raised $3.4 and Europe. It isn’t easy for micro-businesses and solo enterprises, especially those run by migrants, to invest in hardware and buy point-of-sale systems because of how expensive and clunky they can be. Dapio , the U.K.-based

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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. Ironically, now it’s become part of a company that will realistically represent an even bigger rival to Toast in Europe (and potentially elsewhere).

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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

MARCH 9, 2022

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. Erik Bakstad, the co-founder and CEO, said in an interview that the plan is to use the funding for more business development to expand that list of users, but also to invest in its product.

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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

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

In sub-Saharan Africa, only 33% of the urban population has access to public transportation, compared to 75% in Europe and North America, according to UN statistics. The following interview, part of an ongoing series with founders who are building transportation companies, has been edited for length and clarity.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Alice Deng and Lawrence Murata were working at artificial intelligence companies when they found inspiration from their respective family’s businesses to create Slope , which enables businesses an easy way to offer buy now, pay later services. Businesses can get approved in seconds and begin offering the installments.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

“Since then, we have just gotten more ambitious and continued to grow so we needed more money to fuel more growth,” Schwarzkopf said in an interview with TechCrunch. The only things that changed were the economics and speed of business.”. Europe, APAC and Brazil.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 2, 2023

and Europe. However, securing a debt investment often requires even more rigor than an equity investment, so highlighting a debt raise can actually indicate your business’ fundamentals and revenue numbers are strong enough to support repayment. Scott Brown. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

In an interview with TechCrunch, Delano said he and Odunsi, whilst trying to figure out the problems to solve in Nigeria after years of running successful businesses, were left startled by the figures highlighted above: Fewer than than a million new cars sold in an entire continent and more than 17 million in the U.S.

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The Next Web

JUNE 19, 2012

Under the relatively fresh ‘TNW Profile’ banner, we regularly shine a light on great European entrepreneurs and startup founders, to learn more about their journey and their business, and what drives them personally. A good rule of thumb to follow: building a business is what you should focus on when building a business.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

A startup that enables businesses to set up and manage their billing, subscription, revenue operations and compliance has become the newest firm to earn the much-coveted unicorn status. If you’re a business, setting up and managing a subscription service — to ensure recurring revenue — could prove to be a complex process.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

Instead, the team was heads down building out the product and wooing potential customers by holding technical workshops and in-depth interviews over Zoom with 100 merchants — activity that didn’t go unnoticed. Primer says the additional funding will be used for international business development and scaling its team.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 3, 2022

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

Underscoring the demand for its technology and the bumper year it’s just had, the company has raised $65 million — funding that it will be using to expand its business. In the last year, the company processed some $1 billion across 30 million orders for its customers, with business growing almost 750% in the last year.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

A Canadian startup called Nuula that is aiming to build a super app to provide a range of financial services to small and medium businesses has closed $120 million of funding, money that it will use to fuel the launch of its app and first product, a line of credit for its users. before expanding further into countries across Europe.

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2021

Today, a startup that’s built a marketplace to make it easier for freelance developers, designers and others with technical skills with those job opportunities is announcing a significant round of funding to expand its business. Altogether the company has handled some €300 million in business since being founded in 2013.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Today, a Munich-based startup called Personio , which has built a big business out of how to address that issue specifically for small and medium enterprises, is announcing $270 million in funding on the heels of strong demand for its services, and to help it fuel its next steps. “HR processes go beyond HR. .”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2022

than in Europe, meaning a greater chance of him finding his own path compared to Germany. “I More investors are investing in nontraditional businesses. France and Germany do not track race data, though founders and venture capitalists interviewed by TechCrunch revealed anecdotal evidence of persistent racism in both markets.)

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2022

Gamification and social hooks have become cornerstones across every category of consumer apps these days, and today one that’s using these to build out a new e-commerce platform in Europe is announcing a seed round to give its growth a boost. Translating that to today’s internet landscape in regions like Europe and the U.S.

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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. There are others that the company is under NDA with that it cannot disclose.).

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Small and medium businesses, long overlooked in the building of innovative technology, have lately become a key focus in the world of B2B software. The Barcelona startup has raised $120 million, a Series C that is not only one of the biggest for Spain, but one of the biggest currently coming out of Europe.

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