TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2021

Gopuff , the “instant” grocery delivery startup that has been on an acquisition and expansion tear in the last several months to scale its business, is also racing to raise money to fuel those efforts. So for Gopuff, some of the money it’s raised so far has been used to expand organically.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Denis Kalinin works at venture fund Runa Capital as Asia Business development manager, devoted to connecting the Western and Asian VC worlds and bringing long-term value to both. and 11 years in Germany. and 11 years in Germany. Denis Kalinin. Contributor. Share on Twitter. China is becoming a superpower in the tech industry.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

and Germany and invest in its technology platform. The company aims to further develop the front end of its website and mobile app with features to enhance user experience, like a recommendation engine or a business portal for fleet managers. In terms of how the equity will be used, Finn intends to grow its team in both the U.S.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 21, 2013

As the European startup ecosystem matures, you would expect young entrepreneurs to enjoy ever-increasing access to useful advice from mentors, business leaders, experienced entrepreneurs, legal advisors and investors. Be thoughtful about the first money you raise.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Amazon is aiming to support small businesses on its platform by incentivizing customers to buy from them in the run-up to Prime Day. Starting today until October 12th, Prime members will receive a $10 credit usable on Prime Day by spending $10 at certain small businesses on Amazon.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

It plans to use the funding to expand its footprint across metropolitan areas in its existing three markets — the Czech Republic, Hungary and Austria — as well as to break into Germany, Poland, Romania and other countries in the near future. We understand from sources it is around $600 million. raised $20 million.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Lilium Aviation , a five-year-old, Munich, Germany-based, venture-backed startup that designs and makes electric vertical take-off and landing jets, is reportedly seeking tax incentives from the city to build a 56,000-square-foot transportation hub with the promise that it will create 100 high-wage jobs in return.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2022

Comatch originally started in Germany, which means that Malt is also doubling down on the German market with this acquisition. The startup has raised quite a lot of money and has managed to attract 340,000 freelancers across multiple European countries. Malt hasn’t specifically targeted business consultants so far.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

It plans to use the money to expand in the Netherlands, and eventually across Europe. He said: “Food in Holland is €40 billion, in Germany it is 200 billion. You’ll hear firsthand how some of the most successful founders and VCs build their businesses, raise money and manage their portfolios. million to date.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2022

is still the best place in the world for Black startup founders to raise money. Cephas Ndubueze , who is from Germany, echoed similar sentiments. than in Europe, meaning a greater chance of him finding his own path compared to Germany. “I More investors are investing in nontraditional businesses.

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The Next Web

JULY 29, 2013

The main hub for starting a tech business is currently San Francisco. It’s an amazing city, full of people working at tech businesses, and ready to start the next big thing. The costs of living are incredibly high and you will compete with the world’s most successful tech businesses for talent.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

We started with heavy energy consuming projects with a business that was very much ‘brick and mortar’, old school. In 2015, Effy acquired Quelle énergie , a VC-backed startup that could calculate how much money you would save by isolating your roof, changing your windows and more. At first, Effy wasn’t a tech-enabled startup.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

Following this round, the startup has reached a post-money valuation of $2.1 Second, there’s a lot of money floating around for the best performing tech companies. But let’s try to dissect PayFit’s business a bit more to find out how the company ended up here. Other customers are located in Spain, Germany or the U.K.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

The initial focus for investment is on Germany which is particularly reliant on buying gas from Russia — meaning its economy is heavily exposed to the crisis in Ukraine. “At the moment, we’re supporting renewable energy projects across Germany. .

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The Verge

JUNE 8, 2020

“Baillie Gifford is one of the world’s most influential tech investors and their commitment to Lilium represents a significant vote of confidence in both our physical product and our business case,” Christopher Delbrück, Lilium’s chief financial officer, said in a statement.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2022

TripActions , a corporate travel and expenses company, has raised a combination of equity and debt at a post-money valuation of $9.2 The company also acquired a number of travel management businesses, adding to its now more than 2,500 employees. billion, up from its prior valuation of $7.5 Why the deal now, ahead of a looming IPO?

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 13, 2012

Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery — but it’s also an incredible way to make money off the successes of others. Around the web in today’s day and age, clones of popular global sites and businesses are everywhere, and the trend doesn’t seem to show any signs of fading away. The clones. Can they be stopped?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Founded in July 2018 by Cristina Vila, after she experienced the SaaS management problem first-hand while working at London fintech Dopay, Cledara has developed software to let companies track and manage their SaaS usage and spending, including analytics to help understand if it is money well-spent. France, Ireland, Germany and Spain.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

The startup has raised €70 million ($77 million at today’s rates), at what I understand from a person close to the company to be a $2 billion post-money valuation. Along with that news, it’s launching a crypto trading platform and B2B payments for its small and medium business customers. ”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2021

Finch Capital , the early-stage fintech VC with a presence in London and Amsterdam, is acquiring Wirecard Turkey, a subsidiary of Wirecard, the disgraced fintech out of Germany. Since then, various parts of its business have been bought, including one of its largest assets, Wirecard Solutions, which was acquired by the U.K.’s

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The Verge

MAY 27, 2020

Getting moderation right is essential to ads on IGTV’s success because their introduction sets Instagram to compete directly with YouTube, especially if creators start prioritizing their vertical video shoots over landscape and brands spend their money on Instagram ads rather than YouTube.

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The Verge

JULY 21, 2021

For years, Ford promised that it would launch a full-scale autonomous vehicle business, including robotaxis and driverless delivery, by 2021. The announcement also signals that, despite selling its self-driving business to Toyota earlier this year, Lyft is still interested in keeping a toehold in the AV industry.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2021

StudentFinance launched in Spain first, followed by Germany and Finland, with the U.K. StudentFinance’s competitors include (in the USA) Blair, Leif, Vemo Education, Chancen (Germany-based) and EdAid (U.K.-based). million (€4.5 million) seed round co-led by Giant Ventures and Armilar Venture Partners. It’s now raised $6.6

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

Partners will be able to integrate their products on their own and N26 will make it easy to share KYC files (‘know your customer’), transfer money between N26 and partners, etc. If you spent a lot of money on your phone, your insurance plan is going to be more expensive. N26 lets you opt for annual plans to save a bit of money.

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The Verge

JUNE 22, 2020

The company is looking for ways to “create more of a direct funnel for brands,” like bringing people to their website with a promo code automatically inserted, Jay Richman, head of ads business and platform at Spotify, tells The Verge. “I So, it is one step in a larger innovation path to productize the coupon code.”. GIF: Spotify.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

More money for casual job-matching in Europe: Zenjob , a marketplace platform that targets students looking for side jobs in sectors like retail, logistics and hospitality and promises to connect them with employers in need of temporary labor, has closed a $50 million Series D round of funding.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2021

and Germany, which are prominent hubs for global talent. Instead, the South African tech talent company makes money only off companies via two models. In addition, as OfferZen deepens its expansion into Europe into two more countries next year, a chunk of the money will go into growing its operations, product and growth teams.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

Volocopter , the startup out of southern Germany (Bruchsal) that has been developing electric VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) aircraft and a business model for operating them in taxi-style fleets in urban areas, has picked up another big round of funding as it inches closer to its first commercial launches.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2021

Now the company has a presence in more than 3,000 retail locations across Switzerland, Germany, and Austria, and works with restaurant and food service partners as well. No doubt this strong organic (so to speak) growth, and the growth of the meat alternative market in general, made raising money less of a chore.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

GoTo Global, an Israeli mobility company that offers shared micromobility and car sharing services in Spain, Israel, Malta and Germany, is going public on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange through a merger with shell company Nera Tech Media. Adam Neumann is back in the shared economy business with an investment in GoTo Global.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Wave, an African fintech that offers mobile money services in Senegal and Ivory Coast, laid off about 15% of its workforce last month. Wave’s platform is akin to PayPal (with mobile money accounts, not bank accounts). Germany, Nigeria and the U.K. The startup’s other investors include Sam Altman and Partech Africa.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

Founded in November 2019, it took Ankorstore around two years to reach a post-money valuation of $2 billion (€1.75 Some existing investors put more money on the table, such as Index Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, GFC, Alven and Aglae Ventures. Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden. This leads us to today’s funding round.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2021

Canada, Germany and the UK, but it has yet to partner with an outside retailer to display and demo its bikes and treadmills. You’ll hear first-hand how some of the most successful founders and VCs build their businesses, raise money and manage their portfolios.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The money is notable not just for its nine-figure size, but also because of its context. “As a business, we are proud to have been profitable from day one, and are excited to work closely alongside Carlyle and PayPal to build on Shopware’s positioning in the long term.”. They will also stay on as co-CEOs.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2021

“Our goal is to make it as accessible as possible for a very wide audience: from busy parents juggling work, raising children and an active social life to busy professionals in urban areas for whom saving time on essential shopping means they are free to use it for activities they really enjoy,” says the Jiffy founder.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2021

Rapyd’s customer base now numbers about 5,000 businesses, which includes marketplaces (labor marketplaces and marketplaces for goods), e-commerce businesses, other kinds of lenders and any business that might want to incorporate transactions or new financial services into their wider offerings. billion in December 2019.).

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

Lightyear is one of several burgeoning stock trading companies to emerge on the scene, promising an easy inroad for the general public to invest their money in some of the world’s biggest companies, from Apple and Alibaba, to Spotify and Tesla. Trading stocks. And less than a year after first launching to early U.K.

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