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. . The company has raised a $1 million seed round to enhance its platform and scale in Asia. India’s insurance platform Turtlemint raises $30 million.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Crowdsourcing the shipping world : Backers delivered $80 million to Xeneta, on a $265 million valuation, for the Norway-based company’s crowdsourcing approach to determining air and sea freight rates, Ingrid reports. Keep reaching for that wallet : The digital wallet just got some open source love, Paul reports. Christine and Haje.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

There are more than 2 billion websites in existence in the world today, millions of apps, and a growing range of digital screens where people and businesses present constantly changing arrays of information to each other. Last week, Shogun — which focuses only on e-commerce and front-end design, raised $35 million.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2021

Corporate training startup Attensi — which originally emerged out of Oslo, Norway — has raised $26 million from New York-based Lugard Road Capital, DX Ventures (a VC fund backed by Delivery Hero) and existing shareholder Viking Venture. The new funding will be used to expand in North America and Europe.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Payments made a huge shift to digital platforms during the COVID-19 pandemic — purchasing moved online for many consumers and businesses, and a large proportion of those continuing to buy and sell in-person went cash-free.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

After raising $215 million from SoftBank to double down on the surge of interest in online learning, Kahoot has made an acquisition to expand the scope of subjects that it covers. The plan is to integrate more Kahoot features into Drops’ apps, and to bring some of Drops’ content into the main Kahoot platform.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Vertical marketplaces continue to be a key lynchpin in the digital economy, a centralized place where people providing certain goods or services can connect with those specifically looking to buy them, a position that has, it seems, become even more prominent and in-demand in our pandemic economy. Sweden, Norway, Holland and Germany.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

The fintech raised an $800,000 pre-seed round in 2020. And we saw that we were perfectly placed on building a fintech solving the problems of Africa’s gig economy workers, freelancers and self-employed digital workers.”. Angel investors like Keisuke Honda of KSK Angels and others from Serbia, Kenya and Norway participated.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2023

When individuals make purchases online, they place items in the digital shopping cart and use a credit or debit card to complete the transaction instantly. Two , an Oslo, Norway startup wants to change that by bringing the world of net payments online and helping speed up transactions by making them digital.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

As with just about any AI and ML-infused software, large data sets are pivotal to 7Analytics’ promise — it gathers data from openly available sources spanning digital elevation models ( DEM ) for terrain, satellite imaging, and climate data, then integrates these sources to make it easier for users to derive insights from.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

Swedish digital health startup Kry , which offers a telehealth service (and software tools) to connect clinicians with patients for remote consultations, last raised just before the pandemic hit in Western Europe, netting a €140M Series C in January 2020. digital doctors appointments it had served up a year ago now exceed 3M.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

The latter incident is also subject to a lawsuit by an Irish digital rights group that’s challenging the DPA’s enforcement finding that there was no security breach.) Google’s Bard AI chatbot took longer to launch in the EU than in some other regions after its lead EU privacy regulator in Ireland raised similar concerns.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

The Series A is pegged for launching in the US (slated for Q1 this year) and the EU (Q2; where it’s eyeing Italy, France and Germany for starters), as well as expanding the product’s capabilities and feature-set with a focus on the buzz around Web3 and digital collectables. For now, Twig accounts are only available in the UK.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Microsoft’s Series S is less powerful and digital-only. The Series X has a 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray drive, but the Series S is digital-only, so you’ll have to download your games rather than buy them on disc. Like Microsoft, Sony also has a step-down digital-only version of its next console, but here, the differences are a lot more basic.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2022

The round brings the startup’s total raised since being founded back in 2018 to €14M. Its biggest markets are its home market of Sweden and the UK so far but it told us it expects traction to pick up in Germany and Norway later this year. Digital first and human touch as needed,” she adds.

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The Verge

JUNE 18, 2020

And given how relatively young the esports industry is compared to more traditional sports, parents don’t have a lot of role models on how to best raise a child to be successful. The Bragaru family also relies on Youssef Ali, Faze Clan’s head of digital, who serves as Patric’s manager and helps with brand deals that Patric may be involved in.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

That said, Norway’s VC community has been somewhat dormant for a while. High-profile players like Northzone and Creandum did well with early entries into Spotify and Klarna, among others, and now Norway is catching up with the rest of the European hubs. In Norway, sustainability-focused companies. More than 50%?

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

Last Monday, inspired by reading about a small protest of Elon Musk and DOGE that happened at a Tesla charging station in Maine , Joan Donovan decided to make a digital flyer inviting people to join her at a protest this weekend at a Tesla showroom in Boston. Tesla sales also fell in France, Sweden, and Norway last month.

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