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Ageras nabs $73M at a $244M valuation for its accountancy marketplace and bookkeeping tech stack

TechCrunch

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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Emblem is the latest European seed fund in new wave of VC funds

TechCrunch

If you plan to launch a new startup in France, Denmark or Sweden, there is a new seed fund looking for your pitch. While both partners are French natives, Durao has worked in Denmark and has been quite active in the Nordic tech ecosystem. Emblem was founded by Bénédicte de Raphélis Soissan and Guillaume Durao. Just like how the U.S.

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Medusa’s open source e-commerce tool for JavaScript developers aims to take on Shopify

TechCrunch

Merchants building businesses on giant marketplaces often have to think inside the marketplace’s box, but Medusa , a one-year-old e-commerce startup from Denmark, is going after e-commerce platforms, like Shopify and WooCommerce, with its open source alternative aimed at the JavaScript developer community.

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Betsy Beaumon on Benetech's Literacy Program

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Other new international partners in 2012 include the National Library of Korea, Royal New Zealand Institute for the Blind, Studiebogservice (Denmark), South African Library for the Blind, and Celia Library (Finland). Another growing trend is that everyone is a publisher.

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Sweden’s Tink raises $103M as its open banking platform grows to 3,400 banks and 250M customers

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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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Q&A with Mangrove VC partner Michael Jackson: “You don’t build code at a party”

The Next Web

The famously-monikered investor, who now lives in Denmark, was previously the COO at Skype, and has a wealth of experience in founding and building companies. SA: What trends do you see in new business and technology? One of the biggest names behind Luxembourg-based Mangrove is Michael Jackson.

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5 key innovations taking e-scooters to a half-billion rides in 2021

TechCrunch

A similar trajectory is being seen across the Atlantic, as nations such as Italy , England and the Ukraine join a rapidly expanding list of countries including Germany, France, Israel, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Denmark, Poland and others who have chosen to supplement their urban transportation networks with modern micromobility alternatives.

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