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

MAY 20, 2022

The proceeds will be used to scale the business beyond its home base of Sweden. We are now looking to bring more products to market and take our preventive pet insurance beyond Sweden.”. Olsson told me: “We’re all transforming Pet Insurance to become more digital, empathy-driven, and seamless. ”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2021

There is a real opportunity for digital healthcare platforms to scale access to team-based care across the region. The pandemic has seen such platforms scale globally, and Africa is not exempt. The pandemic has seen such platforms scale globally, and Africa is not exempt. As a Sweden-based telehealth company, Doktor.se

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Finland, Sweden, Czech Republic and Slovakia). However, the clever part is that the loan is paid back via a pre-agreed percentage of the business’ digital transactions. To date, 2007-founded Liberis has provided over £500 million in financing to 16,000 SMEs across Europe, the U.S. and the U.K. Liberis raises £57.5M

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

Today, a startup from Gothenburg, Sweden called Juni is announcing $206 million in funding — a $100 million Series B and a further $106 million in debt — to build out e-commerce-focused neobank, designed specifically to cater to that growing group of retailers with tools to help them run their business.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

In contrast to America, he points out how Sweden is among the most successful societies in the world from a social mobility perspective — referencing its free education and free health care, which sets up as many people as possible for success. Combined, Klarna is processing over 1 million transactions per day through its platform.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

Cloud-based human resource (HR) platform HiBob today announced that it has raised $150 million in a Series D round of funding at a $2.45 billion valuation. This represents a nearly 50% increase compared to its Series C valuation round just 10 months ago , when it also raised $150 million.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The plan is to integrate more Kahoot features into Drops’ apps, and to bring some of Drops’ content into the main Kahoot platform. Kahoot picks up $215M from SoftBank for its user-generated, gamified e-learning platform. Spain, Italy, France, Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands, Hungary, Ukraine and Russia. million (€6.3

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

With the proliferation of subscription services, combined with our lives becoming almost 100% digital, there’s a rising need to be able to manage these services. Founded in Gothenburg, Sweden in 2016, Minna enables customers to manage subscription services via their existing bank’s app. But most banks don’t have much of an answer.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

PideDirecto , a Mexico-based company, is developing a platform that enables local businesses in Latin America to sell directly to their consumers and deliver orders in less than 30 minutes. Fawzi, Samir and Nacoud knew each other from Iraq and studied together in college in Sweden, which is where they met Steiner. “We

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

With fragmented and unresolved distribution and digital payments ecosystems, game studios have found it difficult to serve African consumers and make a ton of money doing so. Carry1st is a mobile games publishing platform fixing this problem, and today it is announcing the close of its $6 million Series A round.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

If you plan to launch a new startup in France, Denmark or Sweden, there is a new seed fund looking for your pitch. Clustree was a talent management and HR platform that was acquired by Cornerstone OnDemand. Emblem said today that it has raised nearly $54 million (€50 million) for a new European seed fund.

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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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The Verge

JULY 5, 2021

The more you share its digital key the less you pay each month, possibly even turning a profit. Lynk & Co first announced its ambitious approach to car sharing five years ago in its home city of Gothenburg, Sweden, emboldened by studies that say cars sit unused 96 percent of the time.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Sweden-based fintech Tink has also been dominant across Europe, while Truelayer and Belvo are holding the fort in the UK and Latin America. In 2017, Kiaan Pillay worked as the head of operations for South African insurance API platform Root. We’ve seen a wave of API-led financial services companies proliferating around the globe.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Currently it offers a temporary labor service in nine markets globally: Spain, the UK, Germany, France, Sweden, Portugal, Mexico, Colombia and the US — matching workers looking for temp roles with employers in need of casual labor in (with a focus on sectors like manufacturing and logistics).

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

This feature, along with ride-sharing and car-sharing, will be enabled by the Sono app, which also acts as a digital key. 90% of those orders come from Germany or “German-speaking countries” and the remaining 10% comes from countries like the Netherlands, Spain, France, Italy and Sweden, where the vehicles will be manufactured.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2022

We felt that the underlying infrastructure supporting the shift from investment product to digital advice was a more durable, interesting space to be allocating capital to,” the firm said in a recent newsletter. Tink and Klarna are also both headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. in 4 years. Pipe-in hot.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Berlin-based Mayd has spied an opportunity to build out a medicine delivery platform in Europe which partners with the small-scale pharmacies that tend to be the norm on the continent, capitializing on how the pandemic has generally accelerated demand for on-demand delivery. “Most of the US companies they are pharmacies. .

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

In contrast to America, he points out how Sweden is among the most successful societies in the world from a social mobility perspective — referencing its free education and free health care, which sets up as many people as possible for success. Combined, Klarna is processing over 1 million transactions per day through its platform.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2022

Swedish startup PocketLaw — a contract automation software-as-a-service legal tech platform which is mainly focused on SMEs — has pocketed €10 million (~$11M) in Series A funding led by European VC firm, Atomico, to fuel expansion in Europe. Digital first and human touch as needed,” she adds.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2023

extended the deadline to complete its merger with struggling digital mortgage lender Better.com for the third time. Because of this explosive growth trajectory, the UK digital bank reached profitability for the first time. The Netherlands and Sweden in May 2022. The deadline for the merger is now September. on May 5, 2022.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 24, 2020

This is the second of three webinars in a blog and webinar series called 101 Digital Marketing Best Practices for Nonprofits. Topics include: • What to look for in an online fundraising platform. • Presented by: Heather Mansfield , Founder and Editor-in-chief of Nonprofit Tech for Good. Cost: $10.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2022

More funding for sustainability reporting: Sweden’s Worldfavor , an early mover platform focused on building digital infrastructure to support supply chain transparency and cater to organizations’ ESG (environmental, social, governance) reporting needs, has bagged €10.2

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Digip digitizes much of the process, helping its customers file trademarks by themselves instead of going to law firms. If they become subscribers, they can then use Digip’s platform to manage their trademark applications in 180 countries. The platform enables this with a trademark warehouse that has updated trademark data.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Bitpanda says it is the first European retail investment platform that meets these requirements. This principle is firmly embedded in our DNA as a fully regulated investment platform and, in my opinion, critical to the long-term success of our industry. Coinbase is the other well-known company in the database. based company.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

Shaw’s third startup lends against whole life insurance policies, with the goal of digitizing “many of the traditional time-intensive operations” involved in the process. based Chipper Cash customers a way “to access their digital wallets to make transactions in the US and abroad that require a card payment, such as e-commerce purchases.”.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 8, 2021

The 2009-founded startup has raised more than $290 million to date over its decade+ run but describes itself as just at the beginning of a journey to make a dent in the massive and growing market for temporary work, expecting demand to keep stepping up as more sectors and processes go digital in the coming years.

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Tableau

JANUARY 6, 2022

When looking for viz-piration, browsing Tableau Public —a free platform to explore, create, and publicly share data visualizations—is an excellent place to start. Priceless. . Data viz inspiration. Now you know about the challenge, the next thing to consider is what to viz.

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Tableau

JANUARY 6, 2022

When looking for viz-piration, browsing Tableau Public —a free platform to explore, create, and publicly share data visualizations—is an excellent place to start. Data viz inspiration. Now you know about the challenge, the next thing to consider is what to viz. There are millions of vizzes to explore, covering numerous topics and data sets.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

Volvo is testing wireless EV charging with a small fleet of electric Volvo XC40 Recharge cars that will be used as taxis in Sweden as part of a three-year pilot. ” German chemicals company BASF has secured land in Canada planned for a battery materials facility.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Zoomo , the Australian e-bike subscription platform for enterprise and gig economy delivery workers, has come out with a new utility e-bike, the Zoomo One, that it’s hoping will take the place of the humble moped. Solvento , a platform that provides trucking companies with immediate access to capital, raised $4.5

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

After delivering over one million subscription boxes of Japanese snacks to customers in more than 100 countries, Bokksu launched a digital marketplace for premium Japanese lifestyle products, Bokksu Market , in 2018. Australia, Germany, Singapore, Sweden and Netherlands, Taing said. . Bokksu ships its grocery products to the U.S.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

after a period of early testing with “a few thousand” women in Europe (it’s been beta testing in Sweden). Today it’s announcing the launch of its app in the U.S. The 2019-founded U.K. ” Why should women not want to track their hormones? Well, one very big red flag for potential users in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Adobe’s proposed plan to snap up digital design rival Figma for $20 billion has attracted the attentions of the European Commission (EC), which announced today that the proposed merger potentially “threatens to significantly affect competition in the market for interactive product design and whiteboarding software.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Make room for yet another preventative health play: Spotify founder Daniel Ek officially confirmed rumors of his new “health tech” startup, Neko, Friday by quietly kicking off a body scanning service in Sweden (via Tech EU ) after four years of stealthy development.

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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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