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

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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

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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 also see promise in food tech, robotics and industry 4.0 (we Investment funds and global players.

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Croatia’s Gideon Brothers raises $31M for its 3D vision-enabled autonomous warehouse robots

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Proving that Central and Eastern Europe remains a powerhouse of hardware engineering matched with software, Gideon Brothers (GB), a Zagreb, Croatia-based robotics and AI startup, has raised a $31 million Series A round led by Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT), the venture and growth arm of Koch Industries Inc., That is our superpower.

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How Bounce beat pandemic disruption and bagged a16z to lead its Series A

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But by summer 2020 there was a temporary unlocking as parts of Europe reopened to tourism — so Bounce focused its efforts on markets like Croatia at that point. ” To fuel the expected boom in growth, Bounce is announcing close of a $12 million Series A round of funding, led by Andreesen Horowitz.

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“We are going to create the best environment for startups in Europe”

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So this generated a lot of uncertainty for investment funds to come to Spain. When you have this legal certainty and a tax treatment that is reasonable, you want to have more VC funds than others coming to Spain and accelerate the investments that we need in Spain in order to close the gap with other European countries.

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9 investors, execs and founders discuss Zagreb’s startup potential

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Startups may not spring to mind when speaking about the beautiful country of Croatia. But Croatia’s entrepreneurs haven’t been quiet: Startups like Infobip and Rimac are significant local hero businesses now, and the region can boast of high-quality talent in the tech, automotive, manufacturing, and agtech spaces.

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