TechCrunch

MARCH 12, 2021

While London, Paris, Berlin and Stockholm feature regularly in tech coverage, the rest of Europe has been busy. The Czech Republic may be better known for beer, hockey and the sights of Prague, but its entrepreneurial community is as ambitious as any. We are trying to be the most founder-friendly fund in the region.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

And the French government is taking advantage of this opportunity to make some progress on the tech startup policy front. In an interview with TechCrunch, France’s digital minister Cédric O shared some news for the European tech ecosystem. New financial incentive to create 10 to 20 large VC funds.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

It plans to use the funding to expand its footprint across metropolitan areas in its existing three markets — the Czech Republic, Hungary and Austria — as well as to break into Germany, Poland, Romania and other countries in the near future. We understand from sources it is around $600 million.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

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. Which sectors is your tech ecosystem strong in? What are the tech investors like in Wroclaw?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2020

Everyone wants to invest in the next big tech mafia. Now, after helping Palantir scale up its senior talent (and pocketing some advisor shares for himself) he invests in the Palantir diaspora out of his fund. Loizos also profiled Lux Capital’s Deena Shakir, who sees space and frontier tech going mainstream right now.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

And if that’s not convincing enough, I’m going to share a few more reasons why the prospects of the Ukrainian tech sector aren’t as bleak as they may seem from the outside. The Ukrainian tech sector is adaptable and export oriented The Ukrainian IT sector gets most of its business from Europe and the United States.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2023

Groupon gets its Czech book : Ingrid reports that Groupon has lost 99.4% of its value since its IPO and now has a new CEO who will run the business from the Czech Republic. Need some more to get you through the long bleak gap of “less tech news” known as the weekend? Big Tech Inc. You’re hired!

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

In April 2021 , Oda (known then as Kolonial) was valued at around $900 million when it raised $265 million from investors that included SoftBank’s Vision Fund. It still lists Oda among its portfolio companies on its site (as part of Vision Fund 2), although it’s not noted as an investor in Oda’s newest financing.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

In addition to bolstering Overhaul’s platform with visibility and risk monitoring tech, the purchase extended Overhaul’s book of business, adding customers in the tech and pharma industries, while extending Overhaul’s geographic footprint to Brazil, Mexico and the Czech Republic.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Founded out of the Czech Republic in 2021, Talkbase launched out of stealth just a couple of weeks back , backed by $2 million in pre-seed funding from a mixture of Czech and U.S. funds, including J&T Ventures, Credo Ventures, Mxv Capital, and Plug & Play Tech Center.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

Previously, Lisa served as the founding CEO of the 1:1 Fund, a project incubated by CFED to build a broad online and high net-worth donor base for children’s savings accounts. Lisa graduated from Mount Holyoke College with degrees in philosophy and critical social thought.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2012

When all was said and done, we received a 2005 seed-funding grant from Full Circle Fund and launched the Refurbished Computer Initiative program. And then the program really got going with a major grant in 2007 from California Emerging Technology Fund. In the first couple of years we distributed around 100 PCs per month.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 1, 2021

Its maker XCDS (aka “eXtended Collaboration Document Systems”), which is headquartered in London, UK with an R&D hub in Prague in the Czech Republic, has been in business for around a decade at this point — but working on office tools for some seven years, per CTO Egor Goroshko, who says they see Collabio as a startup in its own right.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 1, 2021

This is a milestone funding round not just for the company, but its home country: it marks the largest-ever round raised by a Spanish startup. ” The funding is being led by Lugard Road Capital and Luxor Capital Group (the former is an affiliate of the latter), with Delivery Hero, Drake Enterprises and GP Bullhound also participating.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2023

Twitter is being evicted from its Boulder office Court documents show that Twitter owes three months’ rent to its Boulder landlord, and a judge has signed off on evicting the tech giant from that office. The app even appears to have deleted its web page explaining the “government-funded media” labels.

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