TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

Gorillas, the on-demand grocery delivery startup taking Berlin by storm, has raised $44M Series A. Founded in 2014, Rohlik’s funding comes at an interesting and key moment in the online grocery business, in Europe and beyond. which is listed here but is run like a startup) raised more than $1 billion. raised $20 million.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

Economies of scale are an essential cornerstone for on-demand companies, and to that end one of the hopefuls in the space has raised a big round to grow its business. Villig said that even its most mature business, ride hailing, “is seeing double digit growth,” while the newer businesses, being smaller, are expanding even faster.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2021

Oi Yee Choo, chief commercial officer of digital securities platform iSTOX. iSTOX , a digital securities platform that wants to make private equity investment more accessible, has added new investors from Japan to its Series A round, bringing its total to $50 million. million in funding.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Together, digital communications inspire 74% of donors to give. If Facebook extended their fundraising tools to WhatsApp (owned by Facebook) and Facebook Messenger, messaging apps would likely become much more powerful in their ability to raise money for charitable organizations. View: Giving Trends in Europe Data Sheet.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

Payments company Checkout.com is raising once again. But Checkout.com kept growing and growing until it raised one of the biggest Series A rounds ever for a European company — $230 million at a $2 billion valuation. While Checkout.com didn’t actually need to raise to stay alive, Pousaz says VC firms are a form of validation.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

One of the bigger startups in Europe operating a trading platform for cryptocurrency has closed a big round of funding on the heels of very rapid growth, and plans to open its platform to a wider stream of assets. billion. . “In the EU, we probably have less than 10% of the population owning stocks.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

The process of digitizing the operations of mom and pop stores in Nigeria is serious business right now. Europe and Asia, including Michael Novogratz’s, participated in the round. In total, Alerzo has raised more than $20 million since its launch. Omnibiz gets $3M to digitize Nigeria’s informal B2B supply chain.

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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 With the latest round, the company has raised a total of $1.3 And so we broadened the types of expenses employees could submit.”.

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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. It has now raised €175 million in total.

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TechCrunch

MAY 29, 2022

Playter has raised backing to do this, as has Hokodo, Billie and Tranch, to name a few other players. Mondu has now raised a $43 million Series A round led by U.S.-based The company has now raised $57 million to date. But as more companies increasingly move to digital, the need for BNPL for B2B online will grow immensely.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Over the last couple of months, we’ve seen a wave of upstarts launching solutions geared toward digitizing small business operations. These days, small businesses in Nigeria are spoilt with options, in addition to Bumpa, for products that can digitize their operations, including bookkeeping, invoicing and inventory management.

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TechCrunch

JULY 11, 2022

Last year we covered how Barcelona-based startup Impress had digitalized the area of orthodontics, raising a $50 million Series A in the process, somewhat aping U.S.-based Impress has its own chain of orthodontic clinics in southern Europe and plans to expand internationally. based startups such as SmileDirect.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Homa Games is raising a $50 million Series A round led by Northzone. The company is raising this Series A round just seven months after raising its seed round (led by Headline and Eurazeo). Like in many hypercasual games, it features a texture-less stickman character that you move around the digital world.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2022

Bfree , a Nigerian credit management fintech, has embarked on global expansion after raising $1.7 million in a pre-Series A round, to tap the opportunities in emerging markets, where digital lending apps have recently sprung up in droves. million, having realized $800,000 in a seed round last May. Image Credits: Bfree.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Pula , a Kenyan insurtech startup that specialises in digital and agricultural insurance to derisk millions of smallholder farmers across Africa, has closed a Series A investment of $6 million. or Europe with typically large farms, an average insurance premium is $1,000. Agriculture insurance has traditionally relied on farm business.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Umba , a digital bank for emerging markets and aiming first at Africa, has secured a $2 million seed funding round from new investors including Lachy Groom, ex-Head of Issuing at Stripe; Ludlow Ventures; Frontline Ventures and Act Venture.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

To that end, Ejara , a one-year-old company founded by Nelly Chatue-Diop, has raised $2 million to pioneer the usage of crypto and investment services in the region. But only a few players are taking advantage of the market, which can make a case as the next frontier for mobile money and investment apps in Africa.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

Health and wellness apps startup Palta has raised $100 million in a Series B round led by Per Brilioth at VNV Global, with the participation of Target Global and other existing and new investors. 60%) and Western Europe (20%). Palta claims to have 2.4 million active, paid subscribers in their apps. Palta claims to have 2.4

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

As digital natives, many millennials (and younger) live on social media, which makes user-generated storytelling campaigns a great way to empower, inspire and engage this generation. Another benefit of having a user-generated storytelling campaign is the vast amount of digital assets you can collect from the campaign.

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TechCrunch

MAY 30, 2022

Ayoken, an NFT marketplace for creatives, has raised $1.4 million pre-seed funding to enable users grow their revenue streams through digital collectibles. The startup’s marketplace, Ayokenlabs , will feature digital collectibles from musicians, sports brands and influencers from all over the world.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

As organizations continue to build out their digital architecture, a new category of enterprise software has emerged to help them manage that process. Ardoq is based out of Oslo and about 30% of its enterprise client base is in the Nordics; the rest is spread between Europe and the U.S.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 6, 2021

As startups in Africa continue to grow and raise money at a ridiculous pace, so too will their cap tables expand. Raise, a startup building Africa’s Carta is tackling these challenges and has received backing from 500 Startups to scale its technology. Image Credits: Raise.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

Trendyol , an e-commerce platform based in Turkey, has raised $1.5 The new financing also makes Trendyol Turkey’s first decacorn, and among the highest-valued private tech companies in Europe. The new financing also makes Trendyol Turkey’s first decacorn, and among the highest-valued private tech companies in Europe.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2021

expand into other parts of Europe and make some strategic acquisitions. Challenger bank Starling is out raising a new £200M funding round. Digital banking has reached a tipping point,” said Anne Boden, founder and CEO of Starling Bank, in a statement. Gross lending has passed £2 billion, with deposits at £5.4

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

InstaCarro , a digital marketplace that connects used car sellers to dealers in Brazil, has raised $23 million in a Series B round of funding. With the latest round, São Paulo-based InstaCarro has now raised more than $56 million since its 2015 inception. Notably, U.S.-based It, naturally, intends to also do some hiring.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

StudyFree — which connects students with international educational opportunities via a community-driven B2C SaaS model — has raised a $3 million seed investment round led by I2BF Global Ventures, TMT Investments and Techstars. Canada, Europe and Asia. StudyFree has now received a total of $3.6 million in funding.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

Medwing , a European startup building a recruitment marketplace for healthcare workers, has raised €44 million ($47 million) in a Series C round of funding. “Bringing this to a digital marketplace will not only save costs for the healthcare system overall but also increase the service levels for healthcare workers and hospitals.”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Zephr has raised $8 million in a new funding round led by Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments (owned by media giant Bertelsmann). The London-headquarted startup’s customers already include publishers like McClatchy, News Corp Australia, Dennis Publishing and PEI Media.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 8, 2021

a banking-as-a-service (BaaS) platform that aims to build “DeFi for traditional finance,” has raised $16 million in a Series A round of funding led by CM Ventures. Solarisbank raises $224M at a $1.65B valuation to acquire Contis, expand API-based embedded banking tech in Europe. Productfy Inc. , billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

And the evidence comes today with the news that Xayn has now raised almost $12 million in Series A funding led by the Japanese investors Global Brain and KDDI (a Japanese telecommunications operator), with participation from previous backers, including the Earlybird VC in Berlin.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2023

Largely because of their age, houses in Europe can be notoriously hard to heat. In Germany, a similar startup is “ Enter ” (formerly named Baupal) which has now raised a €19.4 Home-owners complete a digital survey, then get an assessment of the energy status of their building, and suggestions on how to reduce their outgoings.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

. — Christine and Haje The TechCrunch Top 3 It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a drone : Dronamics raised $40 million in a pre-Series A round (or really big seed round if you’d rather look at it that way) to start an autonomous cargo drone airline in Europe, Mike writes. cities safer, starting with New York, Haje writes.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2022

The two met through the startup’s investor Cathay Innovation , and the acqui-hire will pave the way for Laiye’s entry into the Europe market, said Wang. Right now, the company generates just about 20% of its revenues outside China, with customers spanning Europe, the Americas and Southeast Asia.

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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

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

” Gotham Greens just raised $310M to expand its greenhouses nationwide To the company’s founder, Source.ag is uniquely positioned to ‘bridge the gap’ between the digital world of AI and the real world of plants, growers and farming,” Kamman says. They quit their jobs and founded Source.ag ” Source.ag

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

It’s now raised a €3.25 Rui Bento, co-founder and CEO at Kitch, said: “We are committed to making available and to keep developing the tools that enable restaurants to retain their independence and to regain control of their digital businesses.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Today the Hong Kong and Malaysia-headquartered startup announced it has raised $23 million in Series B funding to scale its team and product. million Series A announced 10 months ago, and its new round brings its total raised to more than $35 million since 2020. WATI’s last round of funding was an $8.3

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