TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Leading the round is Berlin-based Cherry Ventures — the first deal, I believe, from newly recruited partner Sophia Bendz, who herself is based in Sweden. making the need for singular platforms to support such e-commerce businesses all the more necessary,” says Cherry Ventures’ Bendz. million in seed funding.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Open banking platforms, where services that might not have previously lived next to each other are now joined up by way of APIs, has been one of the emerging trends of the last couple of years, and today one of the leaders in the space out of Europe has closed a round of funding to expand its business. It is live in Sweden, U.K.,

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Spotify is spending to advertise its advertising solution so that others can spend more money on Spotify. And from Sweden, EV company Polestar may go public via a SPAC , as EV company Cake raises $60 million. Nice to see Sweden do so well in a key business category. Tesla is doing FSD stuff , which confuses us.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The company wants to be at the center of creator monetization Spotify hosted an event on Monday to discuss its ambitions in audio, and one message came through loud and clear: the company wants to play a major role in helping creators make money. Because what we realized is that we’re no longer this kind of small startup from Sweden.

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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

MAY 20, 2022

The behavior has lit up the VC world as startups roll out these relatively simple ups which turn out to be big money-spinners when this insurance angle is attached. The proceeds will be used to scale the business beyond its home base of Sweden. ”

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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

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

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Hello and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Don’t forget that the code “EQUITY” can save you money on Disrupt tickets and TechCrunch+ access. And it makes us here on the show look good!

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

It’s particularly appealing during the pandemic, but he predicted that celebrities will still be excited about “making this much money from their living rooms” after the pandemic ends. He added that celebrities are embracing this as a new source of income. Memmo has now raised a total of $12 million.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2023

The aggressive push into new markets is fueled by the $750 million Series A funding round Zeekr raised in February, which shot the automaker’s post-money valuation up to $13 billion. In the Netherlands and Sweden, Zeekr’s first European markets, the flagship 001 is selling for around $65,000, and the X for around $50,000.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The startup has just announced a $60 million Series B fundraise, money it aims to use to transform the way companies look at last-mile delivery. Zoomo’s business is broken down into B2B and B2C elements. “We really see ourselves disrupting Rivian,” Mina Nada, CEO and co-founder of Zoomo, told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

If you plan to launch a new startup in France, Denmark or Sweden, there is a new seed fund looking for your pitch. Some business angels like Frédéric Montagnon and Florian Douetteau were quite instrumental in shaping Clustree’s trajectory, so de Raphélis Soissan started investing after exiting her startup.

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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.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2023

Sweden-based VC fund Pale Blue Dot bounced onto the scene in 2020 with a €53 million fund to help climate-focused startups. As long as the climate crisis has not been solved, we will need to keep investing more money into tech solutions. biotech-agritech business, climate risk data analytics firm Climate X ; U.K.-based

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

In contrast to America, he points out how Sweden is among the most successful societies in the world from a social mobility perspective — referencing its free education and free health care, which sets up as many people as possible for success. “We didn’t have a lot of money,” he tells me.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

” Occupancy and room-use monitoring is big business across several sectors, and t here are a number of products on the market that function similarly to Minut. We charge for the sensor, but we’re not really trying to make any money on the hardware side. Sweden, France and Spain. It has offices in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Anomaly will use the funds to grow the team (the company currently has 12 employees), and scale up their business by partnering with more insurance companies and healthcare systems. . The paper was unable to find any studies revealing solid ways to save money by reducing administrative complexity.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

We boast the world’s second highest fixed broadband Internet subscription rate only an inch behind Sweden. 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.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2021

However, the concept has picked up steam and credibility again in the past year of pandemic living, a time when people are looking to save money, with many thinking of the part they play in this world of ours, possibly helping to put a little less of our plastic and other waste into it. trillion market globally.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2023

Silicon Valley Bank’s UK subsidiary had representative offices in the Nordics — Denmark and Sweden more specifically. Similarly, Silicon Valley Bank had a representative office in Israel, which means that Israeli founders were ultimately doing business with Silicon Valley Bank in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The team is composed of about 45 tech and product employees based in Stockholm, Sweden, and 20-plus internal employees in the U.S., MAJORITY provides customized services to about seven specific migrant communities by providing them with culturally specific features, such as discounts at local businesses. Larsson said.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

For this week’s Pitch Deck Teardown, I’m (virtually) traveling to Sweden to take a look at the $3 million seed round raised by developer tool startup Encore. 22 — “Start by charging for productivity, add incredible tools for whole orgs” – business model slide. Slides in this deck. 1 — Cover slide.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Existing investors including Atomico, DN, Infravia, Kibo and Quadrille also participated in the round — which the startup said values its business at $2.35BN (post-money). Its business growth rate is 130% annually, with Jobandtalent adding that it’s been EBITDA positive since the second half of 2020.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2021

At the time, Swedish startup Lendo – a precursor to FinanZero – was making waves in Sweden, and the team felt that a similar model would succeed in Brazil, a country known for its bureaucracy and red tape, and thus primed for a streamlined and hassle-free approach to loans. We are close to 3 million visits per month, about 1.5

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2022

As my extremely talented colleague, Ingrid Lunden, put it: “This is the story for a lot of startups, but maybe particularly ironic when it’s a fintech startup built to process and make money…A lot of these payment companies are built precisely on economies of scale. Tink and Klarna are also both headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.

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The Verge

JULY 5, 2021

Lynk & Co first announced its ambitious approach to car sharing five years ago in its home city of Gothenburg, Sweden, emboldened by studies that say cars sit unused 96 percent of the time. The company is now busy ramping up deliveries with about 300 cars delivered so far.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The following year, Christians and Hahn brought on creative director Navina Pernsteiner to co-found the business and establish Sono Motors as a company and brand. Sono has partnered with National Electric Vehicle Sweden (NEVS) to produce the vehicles in its former Saab factory. It opened for trading on the Nasdaq at $20.06

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

If you’re an international Disney Plus customer who lives in the UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Austria, Switzerland, Portugal, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Australia, New Zealand, or Canada — the regions that will get access to Star starting today — that’s great news.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

That company, too, has a very specialized focus: providing workers’ compensation insurance to small businesses. To get a more in-depth look at the state of the E arned Wage Access space, how it should be classified and where the money is going, Karan Bhasin spoke to a few active investors in the space. The Washington, D.C.,

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

Video is distracting and a hassle to fit into busy people’s schedules. Alfred is from a small village in the middle of nowhere in Sweden, I grew up in an immigrant family, and Sam is a working class bloke from Leeds. The business model for now is to take a straightforward 20% cut of the advice fee. Why five minutes?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Einride’s business is threefold. You’re either crazy, or if you’re in it for money, you’re not going to get there, because there are much easier ways to make money. Einride, which he founded in 2016, is his seventh company. It doesn’t exactly make sense to start a company.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Make room for yet another preventative health play: Spotify founder Daniel Ek officially confirmed rumors of his new “health tech” startup, Neko, Friday by quietly kicking off a body scanning service in Sweden (via Tech EU ) after four years of stealthy development.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2023

Last May, TechCrunch reported on a filing that revealed that Better.com had swung to a loss of more than $300 million in 2021 after a rapid-fire decline in business brought on largely by a slowdown in the housing market and a surge in mortgage interest rates. Wise Business cards and sending money with a link. on May 5, 2022.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 21, 2008

Peer referrals are big business; the opinion of a friend or acquaintance is one of the most trustworthy sources of information about products and services, and the presence of peer reviews and ratings has been shown to positively impact sales. You give them special perks, they give you money. How do you support your biggest fans?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2023

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. Our data licensing and API with X is an incredible business. Our new subscription business [is] growing,” Yaccarino said. I don’t care about the economics at all.” is now X Corp. Twitter, Inc.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

billion and post-money equity value of about $2.31 Einride , an electric and autonomous freight company from Sweden, launched its debut NFT , the first-ever sketch of its autonomous Pod, as its first foray into the crypto space. The combined company is expected to have an enterprise value of about $1.77 billion at closing.

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