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

JANUARY 8, 2021

Germany, France, Sweden, Mexico and Colombia); while 750+ employers are signed up to “recurrently manage a large part of their workforce”, as it puts it, including XPO, Ocado, Saint Gobain, Santander, Bayer, eBay, Huawei, Ceva Logistics and Carrefour. .

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

A few things this morning: Instagram is pausing work on the kids-focused version of its social service. 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. You can follow the show on Twitter here. I also tweet.

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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 10, 2022

Challenger banks have become, collectively, a force to be reckoned with in the world of financial services for consumers, and today one of the big players out of the Nordics — Lunar — is announcing growth funding along with two new services to continue filling out its ambition of providing a one-stop super app for its users.

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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. Apple lowers commissions on in-app purchases for news publishers who participate in Apple News.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

PideDirecto , a Mexico-based company, is developing a platform that enables local businesses in Latin America to sell directly to their consumers and deliver orders in less than 30 minutes. Fawzi, Samir and Nacoud knew each other from Iraq and studied together in college in Sweden, which is where they met Steiner.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

Klarna now wants to compete directly with Tink with a new business unit that has its own brand — Klarna Kosma. Tink and Klarna are also both headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. With this new strategy, Klarna is essentially saying that it’s open for business. billion ($2.15 billion at the time of the deal).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

Its target market is “durables,” starting in Sweden. “By durables, we mean goods (and services) that do not need to be purchased often, and typically last for a longer period of time e.g. automotive, a visit to the dentist clinic, or kitchen renovation,” Marandi tells me. Swedish fintech Zaver has raised $1.2M

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Among its shareholders are drone maker DJI and Dongfeng Asset Management, a Chinese state-owned automaker, according to the firm’s business registration filing. They support sustainable business for farmers on earth. ” Registered in China, FJ Dynamics claims to have R&D centers in China, Sweden and the Netherlands.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Vertical marketplaces continue to be a key lynchpin in the digital economy, a centralized place where people providing certain goods or services can connect with those specifically looking to buy them, a position that has, it seems, become even more prominent and in-demand in our pandemic economy. Sweden, Norway, Holland and Germany.

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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

JUNE 10, 2021

A new platform (without a name yet) is launching out of South Africa and it wants to provide accessible quality care for Africans with its telehealth service. Webrock Ventures is a Sweden-based investment company that employs a venture-building model. As a Sweden-based telehealth company, Doktor.se Now, Doktor.se

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

With the proliferation of subscription services, combined with our lives becoming almost 100% digital, there’s a rising need to be able to manage these services. Step in Minna Technologies , which sells in its subscription management services into banking apps. But most banks don’t have much of an answer. It has now raised $18.8

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

As Bitpanda wants to grow its white-labeling business , these licenses are key advantages when it comes to signing partnerships with other European fintech companies. In addition to France, Germany and Austria, Bitpanda also has received regulatory approvals in Czech Republic, Sweden, Italy, Spain, Sweden and the U.K.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

In Africa, a handful of startups have launched in the past three years to provide such services. We’ve seen a wave of API-led financial services companies proliferating around the globe. Sweden-based fintech Tink has also been dominant across Europe, while Truelayer and Belvo are holding the fort in the UK and Latin America.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

trillion in revenues this year, which speaks not only to how much consumers are shopping online these days, but also to how many businesses there are out there now selling to them. Most incumbent banks, and now a fair number of neobanks, target small and medium businesses as customers. The e-commerce market is on track to pass $ 5.5

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

Taing founded Bokksu in 2015 and launched a Japanese snack subscription service in 2016. The fresh capital will also enable Bokksu to accelerate its primary business lines: subscription, market and grocery. and Canada, but delivers its subscription and market services to more than 100 countries, including the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2023

The young automaker has been successful in China in part due to its direct-to-consumer business model, which the company aims to bring to all its new markets. In Kazakhstan, Zeekr’s local partner Orbis Auto, an automotive distributor, will facilitate the development of a sales network and after-sales service in the region.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden. Essentially, Ankorstore helps retailers focus on curation, service while the startup takes care of procurement. And this is the beauty of the business model of wholesale marketplaces. Ankorstore has teams in five countries — France, the U.K., It sells products in 23 European markets.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Three years after launching its mobile lending service in Nigeria , the company set up shop in India , Asia’s second-most populous country in August 2020. But compared with traditional banks, it was the seventh-largest digital financial services provider in that area. ” FairMoney Nigeria team. ” FairMoney French team.

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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. Instead we use fleet sharing services like Greenwheels, Mywheels, or Share Now. You get a loaner vehicle if service needs more than a day.)

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

MAJORITY , a mobile banking service for migrants to the United States, said on Tuesday it had raised $27 million in its Series A funding round led by Valar Ventures. The new feature will allow migrants to bypass onerous identity verification requirements that can bar them from accessing banking services for months at a time, the company says.

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TechCrunch

JULY 11, 2022

Rumors have been circulating for at least the past month that Sweden-based Klarna, best known as a “ buy now, pay later ” service provider, was seeking to raise new funds. European fintech Klarna has confirmed that it has raised $800 million at a pretty hefty valuation drop. billion valuation exactly a year ago.

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 29, 2022

Don't freak out, but your gut is right: Your internet service provider (ISP) is tracking your every click to compile anonymous browsing logs they can potentially sell to advertising companies , or even cough up to government agencies in the interest of censorship. What is a VPN? Let's not get too brazen, here.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Spain, Italy, France, Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands, Hungary, Ukraine and Russia. That figure includes both educational users of its free services, as well as enterprises, which pay to build and use games (for example related to professional development or business compliance) on the platform. “We million (€6.3

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The Verge

MARCH 11, 2021

Spotify is making a podcast about its own history , and the first two episodes are well worth a listen for the details on the jump from piracy to streaming, how the company decided to build its business, and the technical details of how it did so.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

HyperIsland -Hyper Island is a creative business school in Sweden with a unique approach to learning that focuses on collaboration, creativity, and learning-by-doing. Overall, the program led to over 100 collaborations and its impact is ongoing.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

Swedish digital health startup Kry , which offers a telehealth service (and software tools) to connect clinicians with patients for remote consultations, last raised just before the pandemic hit in Western Europe, netting a €140M Series C in January 2020. Kry launches free service for doctors to do video consultations during COVID-19 crisis.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2021

but also quite formidable, all the reason why those focusing on used goods as a big business are trying to up their quality game, as Back Market is doing. Back Market also invests heavily in merchant services, parts sourcing and quality control. Up next, the startup plans to launch in Canada, Greece, Sweden and Slovakia. “We

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

In the latest development, Annotell , a startup out of Sweden that makes software to assess the performance of autonomous systems’ perception capabilities, and how to improve that, is today announcing that it has raised $24 million to expand its business. We also take that seriously.

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TechCrunch

JULY 10, 2022

The Uber Files, which were originally shared with The Guardian and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists , show a company that has knowingly broken laws, gone to extreme lengths to avoid justice, secretly lobbied governments, received aid from top politicians and exploited violence against drivers to drum up business.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2023

arm for £1 to ensure the continuity of banking services. Silicon Valley Bank’s UK subsidiary had representative offices in the Nordics — Denmark and Sweden more specifically. In the U.K., Silicon Valley Bank set up a proper subsidiary. In China, Silicon Valley Bank formed a joint venture with Shanghai Pudong Development Bank.

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The Verge

JANUARY 5, 2022

Ride Pilot will be available as a subscription service to customers in California, the company announced at the 2022 Consumer Electronics Show. Luminar, which is based in Florida, has worked closely with Zenseact’s team in Sweden on a full-stack autonomous driving software for series production vehicles. Image: Volvo.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The likes of Sweden , Denmark , and the U.K. 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. recently announced as part of its $1 trillion infrastructure bill.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

It marks a way for the company to expand on the value proposition of Disney Plus to international customers with the most crucial currency any streaming service has to offer: a bigger library of content. Those shows and movies will instead continue to live on Hulu as part of the separate service instead. Photo: Twentieth Century Fox.

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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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