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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

Sweden, which has a population of around that of Michigan in the United States, punches above its weight in both cultural and business terms. In business terms, Zettle, Ikea, Klarna and Spotify all call Sweden home. In business terms, Zettle, Ikea, Klarna and Spotify all call Sweden home.

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The Next Web

MAY 2, 2013

Adalberth started Klarna with the company’s other co-founders in Stockholm, Sweden, because, he says, the barrier for starting a business was high enough as it was (they were in business school at the time and didn’t really know all that much about the technology industry).

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 20, 2017

My training ground was the streets of Sweden, going door to door as a teenage evangelist. Since leaving the religion, that mindset has stayed with me, and it’s been a core element in the way I approach business. You can learn useful entrepreneurial skills in all sorts of odd places.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

In the lead-up to Tech5 2017 – the annual competition organized by TNW and Adyen which celebrates Europe’s fastest-growing tech companies in the Netherlands, UK, Germany, Spain, France and Sweden – we’re launching a series of remarkable stories of businesses that experienced extreme growth.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

In the latest development, Viva Wallet , a Greek startup building banking services aimed at small and medium merchants, has picked up financing of $80 million, money that it will be using to expand its footprint and the services it offers to users, in particular expanding its Merchant Advance loans business. billion ($1.8

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

But have you heard of what’s going on in Cyprus, Sweden or North Carolina? With its high per-capita income, favourable tax system, sophisticated infrastructure and low business set-up costs the possibilities are prime in Cyprus. Malmö, Sweden. Hong Kong. ?Beijing

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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

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 22, 2020

based fintech that provides finance for small businesses as an alternative to a traditional bank loan or extended overdraft , has replenished its own coffers with £70 million in funding. Providing the financing are previous backers British Business Investments, Paragon Bank and BCI Europe, along with new partner Silicon Valley Bank (SVB).

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 19, 2013

And digital real estate is serious business. Bottom line: It’s not a good idea to build your entire business on someone else’s land. Jon Yau, the buyer of StockPhoto.com , is a great example of someone who not only sees the value in digital real estate, but is also determined to make his new land work for him and his business goals.

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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

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

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. Spotify is spending to advertise its advertising solution so that others can spend more money on Spotify. Tesla is doing FSD stuff , which confuses us.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 29, 2021

The cars will be designed in Sweden (where Geely owns Swedish carmaker Volvo) and will be adapted from Geely’s all-electric five-door Zeekr. News of the deal between Geely and Waymo is another demonstration of just how busy the auto world is with partnerships and collaborations as self-driving and electric tech shakes up old incumbents.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2023

Open source password management platform Bitwarden has made its first known acquisition, snapping up a fledgling Sweden-based startup called Passwordless.dev , which specializes in helping developers integrate passwordless authentication technology into their software.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2022

The proceeds will be used to scale the business beyond its home base of Sweden. We are now looking to bring more products to market and take our preventive pet insurance beyond Sweden.”. What makes Lassie very unique (and our blue ocean strategy) is our preventative business model…. ”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Had we not had a pandemic, vitamins, and the like, delivered through the letterbox, would almost certainly have continued to grow steadily as a business. But with the pandemic, businesses that can speak to our health needs remotely have exploded. and Sweden to expand its footprint.

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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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Candid

JULY 17, 2024

For 20 years, the global communications firm Edelman has studied the influence of trust across government, media, business, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). Respondents in six wealthier nations—the Netherlands, South Korea, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Germany, and Japan—fewer than half of respondents trusted NGOs.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Business transformation is hampered by different parts of one’s life being managed by different silos, each of which looks after one vertical slice of life,” said Berners-Lee in a statement. The startup has signed contracts with governments of Sweden, Argentina and Basque, TechCrunch reported earlier.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

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. The toolkit includes easy methods for any team that wants to improve collaboration and creativity.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 18, 2014

And, one that should be required reading for any leader doing business globally or leading a culturally diverse workforce. "It is only when you start to identify what is typical in your culture, but different from others, that you can begin to open a dialogue of sharing, learning, and ultimately understanding." It''s a fascinating read.

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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

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. From startup-land: Ola is cutting jobs , two delivery logistics startups are merging in Sweden , and Byld Ventures is putting together a venture capital fund to watch.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

But perhaps more interestingly, HiBob seems to have bucked a broader trend that has seen startups’ and scaleups’ valuations plummet in a sea of corrections and down-rounds — in the past month, Sweden’s buy-now, pay-later fintech Klarna saw its valuation drop 85% to $6.7

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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

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

MARCH 22, 2021

Its target market is “durables,” starting in Sweden. Founded by Amir Marandi and Linus Malmén in mid 2016, while both were students at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Zaver wants to accelerate the move away from plastic cards, to mobile payments. Swedish fintech Zaver has raised $1.2M

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2021

Webrock Ventures is a Sweden-based investment company that employs a venture-building model. So essentially, the firm partners with tech companies in Sweden and combines its cash with the company’s business models to create portfolio businesses. As a Sweden-based telehealth company, Doktor.se

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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

MARCH 10, 2022

Along with that news, it’s launching a crypto trading platform and B2B payments for its small and medium business customers. That number has now grown to 500,000 across a footprint that includes Denmark (its home base is in Copenhagen), Sweden and Norway. The new services join a swelling list of offerings for its users.

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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 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

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

In line with that trend, today a startup out of Denmark called Ageras Group , which has built a dual-purpose platform, providing both accountancy software and a marketplace for small and medium businesses to find accountants, is announcing a round of growth funding to expand its business. Sweden, Norway, Holland and Germany.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden. And this is the beauty of the business model of wholesale marketplaces. Creoate and Orderchamp also operate wholesale marketplaces in Europe. A marketplace without inventory. Ankorstore has teams in five countries — France, the U.K., It sells products in 23 European markets.

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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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

Founded in Gothenburg, Sweden in 2016, Minna enables customers to manage subscription services via their existing bank’s app. IDC predicts that by 2050, 50% of the world’s largest enterprises will focus the majority of their businesses on digitally enhanced products, services and experiences. It has now raised $18.8 million (€15.5

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