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Founder Institute doubles down on Europe, now runs 10 startup accelerator programs continent-wide

The Next Web

The newly launched chapters are Zagreb (Croatia), Helsinki (Finland), Istanbul (Turkey), Rome (Italy) and Kyiv (Ukraine). As promised at the end of July , the organization has now announced the launch of five new programs across the continent, doubling its European presence to ten chapters across as many countries.

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FreshBooks reaches $1B+ valuation with $130.75M for its SMB-focused accounting platform

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million in a Series E round of funding, as well as $50 million in debt financing. With the new capital injection, FreshBooks has now raised a total of more than $200 million in funding over its lifetime. The funding comes as an injection of confidence in our mission to digitally enable small businesses.”

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Minka raises $24M from Tiger, Kaszek to help move money more quickly across LatAm

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Bogota-based payments infrastructure startup Minka has secured $24 million in a funding round co-led by Tiger Global Management and Kaszek. I realized I could send a photo of my daughter to her grandparents in Croatia for free, and using only a phone number,” he told TechCrunch.

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Our 7 favorite startups from the Wayra London 2013 demo day

The Next Web

Tank Top TV was at the demo day looking to raise £400,000 in seed round funding. Monetization of the platform is achieved in three ways: ad-funded access for free users, a premium subscription and in-app purchases. by 2016 “or will have been acquired for our discovery technology”. ? For example, here’s Narrato’s own from the event.

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YC grad Wasp land $1.5M seed to help developers build web apps faster

TechCrunch

Wasp CEO Matija Sosic said that he started the company in Croatia in 2019 with his twin brother Martin because they wanted to make it easier for developers to stitch together a group of services into a full stack web application.

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Greece’s Viva Wallet raises $80M for its neobank targeting small business merchants

TechCrunch

The company is live in 23 European markets and plans soon to expand to Croatia, Hungary and Sweden. The funding is notable in part because of who is doing the investing. Hedosophia, the somewhat secretive fund that also has been active in SPACs in the U.S., is also a backer, we have confirmed. billion ($1.8

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6 investors and founders spotlight SaaS, B2B and medtech as Wroclaw’s hot startup sectors

TechCrunch

London and Berlin usually top the lists of European startup hubs, but Central and Eastern European countries like the Czech Republic, Estonia, Croatia and Poland have claimed a growing portion of the startup pie in the past few years. We have a couple of funds that are actively looking for innovative companies to invest in.

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