TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Forto , a digital freight forwarder which has experienced a boom during the pandemic, has raised another $50 million in funding. “Forto has proven to be essential in a sector which is under increasing pressure amidst a global pandemic and is dominated by fragmented, non-digital incumbents,” added Michiel Kotting, partner at Northzone.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2022

million in a pre-Series A round, to tap the opportunities in emerging markets, where digital lending apps have recently sprung up in droves. The startup is currently working with 30 credit institutions, including digital lenders, micro-finance institutions and banks. million, having realized $800,000 in a seed round last May.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2022

and Europe are on a mission to bring some of that industrial work back to its own shores. Robco , a Munich-based startup that has built a platform for designing low-cost modular robots for small and medium industrial businesses, has picked up €13 million (abut $13.8 annually on average.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

Previous backers Dieter von Holtzbrinck Ventures (DvH Ventures), Helen Ventures, Matterwave, and motu ventures, and new backers Segenia Capital and Hannover Digital Investments (HDInv), are also participating. LiveEO had previously raised €5.25 LiveEO’s platform addresses a specific gap between space tech and enterprise data.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

This June, Amira merged with 27-year-old digital learning company Istation, whose gamified educational content was being used in more than 1,000 school districts. Smalt is looking to bring more workers into the solar industry using its tech-enabled training platform, with a particular focus on reaching immigrants.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

As the industry grapples with the larger questions of how to create viable solid-state batteries or commercialize robotaxi service , the companies listed here are focused on the incremental steps toward a fully autonomous future. The year also saw the companys rapid expansion across Asia and into Mexico, South America, Europe, and Australia.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

The AI industry hit a significant bend in the road toward artificial general intelligence in 2024. And all the while a small AI lab in China was quietly developing new AI models, including reasoning models, that would begin sending shockwaves through the AI industry by the end of 2024. The rest of the industry has followed its lead.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Packaging is a trillion-dollar-per-year industry that, by and large, has some sustainability challenges. The new funding will be used to recruit more primary packaging suppliers to Impacked’s marketplace across North America and Europe, and also enhance its existing sustainability scoring system. The company raised a $2.5

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

Munich-based AM Ventures just closed a $100 million fund focusing specifically on the early growth stages of industrial and commercial 3D printing applications. TechCrunch (TC): 3D printing seems a bit niche — why focus your entire venture fund on that industry? We come from engineering or from the industrial 3d printing domain.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Berlin-based climate startup ecoworks is using digital technologies, AI and industrial robots to tackle a huge and critical problem: Energy inefficient buildings.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2021

Instead, I found an incredible opportunity mid-pandemic in one of the most unexpected places: An ecommerce-focused, AI-driven, image-editing startup in Stuttgart focused on automating the digital imaging process across all retail products. However, Europe has an advantage here thanks to its many accessible cities.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2022

While the pandemic prompted companies to digitize much of the way they do business, not every brand made the pivot successfully. The same survey found that over four-fifths of companies — 82% — were prevented from pursuing digital transformation projects due to the staffing, resources and expertise required.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The firm has an Amsterdam, Copenhagen and Tel Aviv presence, and now has a $160 million sack of funds to deploy across its focus areas: sustainability and technological innovation in the construction, real estate and manufacturing industries. It especially wants to reduce waste and CO2 emissions. ”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

So today’s deep-workers and global digital nomads would probably be interested in a solution. After traveling around Europe to find places to work she became frustrated at how difficult it was to find workable remote-working locations. This is in the ideal world of course. Work From Home is dead, long live Work From Anywhere.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2022

FMCG distributors can onboard retailers in their network on the Duplo platform, collect payments digitally and access real-time insights into business performance. And then it becomes easier for us to digitize how payment moves between retailers and distributors,” he added. Those retailers can become Duplo customers as well.

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The Verge

AUGUST 17, 2021

Mastercard is phasing out the use of magnetic stripes on its credit and debit cards over the next decade, as the industry moves towards more secure or convenient alternatives like chips and contactless payments, the company has announced. A card with an EMV chip and contactless, but not magnetic stripe. Image: Mastercard.

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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. million in funding. .

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Blackshark.ai, the Austrian startup behind the digital globe you fly over in Microsoft’s Flight Simulator, has raised a $20M round A to develop and scale its replica-Earth tech. The potential applications for a planetary “digital twin” are many and various, and the company has a head start even on mapping giants like Google.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

By digitalizing the insurance work for insurers and intermediaries, its platform enables them to save time, focus on their clients and scale their business. . trillion general insurance industry. . trillion general insurance industry. . The company has raised a $1 million seed round to enhance its platform and scale in Asia.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

and Europe have a more competitive iBuyer market with Opendoor, Zillow, Offerpad and Redfin, Japan has a nascent iBuyer industry, according to the company. Sumutasu has adopted an iBuyer model — meaning it buys houses directly from homeowners, renovates them at scale, then resells them to buyers. While the U.S.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

Yuri Gurski, CEO and founder of Palta said: “Palta Brain platform, the foundational powerhouse that drives our consumer digital apps, allows for much faster scaling of both products that we envisage internally, as well as those that come to us from the market.”. 60%) and Western Europe (20%).

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TechCrunch

MAY 29, 2022

But as more companies increasingly move to digital, the need for BNPL for B2B online will grow immensely. We are on the verge of a “digitalization boom,” and Mondu wants to be part of that revolution and drive innovation within the B2B payments space. which is bigger than the global consumer BNPL market.”.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

late last year , Gopuff is officially expanding to Europe starting with France. The reason why we’ve expanded to Europe is because the customers have demanded it,” he told me. “We It also has quite a big team already with 2,000 people working for Gopuff in Europe already — in France alone, there are 600 Gopuff employees.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

and Europe, it’s a different experience in emerging markets where supply isn’t sufficiently pooled together to meet Airbnb-pulled demand. It’s digitizing the process of operating short-term rentals for large and small property owners by providing an operating system that includes tools needed to monetize and manage their properties.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

“Challenger” startups in banking and insurance have upended their industries, and picked up significant business, by building more customer-friendly tools and services — more personalized, easier to access and usually competitively priced — than those typically provided by their bigger, incumbent rivals.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

Post-COVID, food wholesalers are fast digitizing their operations, but many still rely on legacy backend systems. Daniel Holth Larsen, lead investor from Orkla Ventures added: “Cerve hits the nail on the head with its proven value proposition and has the potential to truly change behaviors in B2B food industries.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

The food tech industry is effectively now going into fast food. Into this area has come European startup Poke House , which is effectively industrializing the production of “poke bowls” for food delivery platforms. Our next competitors are gonna be full native virtual brands extremely strong in data analysis and digital brand building.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

Founded in 2016, viAct currently serves more than 30 construction industry clients in Asia and Europe. trillion-dollar industry. The viAct team has not only created a product that drives value for the industry but has also been able to earn the trust of their customers and accelerate adoption.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

As the pandemic led to increased digitization across the board, employees were suddenly making spend decisions from outside the office and more merchants were accepting digital payments. “We TripActions is also planning a broader expansion in Europe, which has grown to represent 30% of its business.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

The London-based company’s technology is built on the Salesforce and Google Cloud platforms so that consumer goods companies can digitally transform product distribution and customer engagement to combat issues like unprofitable promotions and declining market share, Aforza co-founder and CEO Dominic Dinardo told TechCrunch.

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TechNode

JUNE 14, 2024

In a move that surprised many industry professionals, the preliminary duties set to hit Chinese EV imports will rise from the general 10% basis on all of them to between 27% and 48%, with SAIC and those deemed incompliant with EU standards facing the hardest hit. The firm also called for more cooperation between China and the EU.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

As the world has seen a surge in cross-border transactions, digital-first businesses face the challenge of understanding and managing global tax and compliance matters as they grow and scale internationally. In the digital world, businesses and customers transact on a global scale. Enter Dublin, Ireland-based Fonoa.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

Jean-Philippe Barade, partner, L Catterton Europe, and head of the firm’s London office, commented, “We have long been impressed by how Butternut Box has established itself as the trusted brand of choice in the U.K. Since British dog owners spend over £200 million in vet’s fees, overfeeding and unhealthy food is a key issue for owners.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

“Greece is one of the global superpowers in shipping, so when I was working in consulting, I became close to the industry and really fell in love with it.”. After consulting, Diakogiannis spent time in venture capital, were he saw how labor marketplaces are disrupting industries like construction, manufacturing, oil and gas.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Traditional banks miss the digital mark. Fintech holds the potential to fundamentally transform the financial services industry, enabling financial institutions (FIs) to operate more efficiently and deliver superb user experiences (UX). But there’s a digital gap holding FIs back, especially small community banks and credit unions.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

In a report analyzing Europe’s general economic health, cost of doing business, business environment and labor force quality, analysts looked for highly educated populations, strong economies, healthy business environments and relatively low costs for conducting business. Jasmin Heimann, partner, Ringier Digital Ventures.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The Zebra (online insurance marketplace) shared some growth data, for example, and TechCrunch has covered AgentSync (data APIs for the insurance industry) repeatedly in the last few years during its rapid ascent from small startup to unicorn. ” He gave several examples from across Europe and the U.K.: Neoinsurance?

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