TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Juni , a Swedish pre-launch startup that’s building a banking app and platform for e-commerce and online marketing entrepreneurs, has raised just over €2.1 Leading the round is Berlin-based Cherry Ventures — the first deal, I believe, from newly recruited partner Sophia Bendz, who herself is based in Sweden.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Numan , the European subscription service covering erectile dysfunction (ED) and men’s wellness/health needs more generally, has raised $40 million in a Series B funding round led by White Star Capital , with participation from existing investors Novator, Vostok New Global, Anthemis Exponential, Colle Capital and new investor Hanwha Group.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The ability to purchase something at the point of discovery from digital content exists, but checkout technology company Bolt has the opportunity to give that its “one-click” treatment. It announced Monday that it made its first acquisition in Tipser , a Swedish-based technology company enabling direct checkout on any digital surface.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

It brings the total funding raised by Liberis to £200 million, including more than £50 million in equity funding. 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. Liberis raises £57.5M and the U.K.

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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 This represents a nearly 50% increase compared to its Series C valuation round just 10 months ago , when it also raised $150 million. billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

The startup has raised €70 million ($77 million at today’s rates), at what I understand from a person close to the company to be a $2 billion post-money valuation. From what I understand, it is already raising its Series E, which is expected to close in May of this year at an even higher valuation. Augustinus Fabrikker.

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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. It has now raised $18.8 It has now raised $18.8 But most banks don’t have much of an answer. million (€15.5 million (€15.5

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Also this year, we’ve seen France’s Alma raise a $59.4 Klarna, based in Sweden, is said to be considering a direct listing. So, while Affirm wants to check you out everywhere online, providing you with repayment options wherever you travel digitally, Wisetack wants to integrate with a particular set of merchants.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2021

It has raised a total of $22.85 With products like FinanZero and Nubank – Latin America’s largest digital bank – Brazilians are starting to see more economic mobility and independence from the legacy institutions that dictated their lives for so long. million to date.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

and 47% of whom are female, spend a collective 3 billion hours per week on digital games! GlassLab ( [link] ) explores the potential for existing, commercially successful digital games to serve both as potent learning environments and real-time assessments of student learning. Social Impact Through Digital Games. In Education.

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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. Emblem said today that it has raised nearly $54 million (€50 million) for a new European seed fund. And this is only its first close: the firm expects to raise as much as $80 million (€75 million) by the end of the year.

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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

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

But compared with traditional banks, it was the seventh-largest digital financial services provider in that area. Nigerian digital bank Carbon hit $240M in payments processed last year, up 89% from 2019. But its broader vision is not to be just a digital bank but also a commercial bank. ” FairMoney French team.

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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. Webrock Ventures is a Sweden-based investment company that employs a venture-building model. As a Sweden-based telehealth company, Doktor.se and Doktor.se) joined forces to launch this new venture. .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

This makes it the largest round raised by any API fintech startup in Africa at the moment. Sweden-based fintech Tink has also been dominant across Europe, while Truelayer and Belvo are holding the fort in the UK and Latin America. They have raised sizeable rounds with enviable backings as well. Plaid leads the way in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Alongside the equity raise, the 2009-founded startup has secured another chunk of debt financing ($75M) from Blackrock. Existing investors including Atomico, DN, Infravia, Kibo and Quadrille also participated in the round — which the startup said values its business at $2.35BN (post-money).

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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. Spain, Italy, France, Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands, Hungary, Ukraine and Russia. million (€6.3 million), with cash conversion of 40%.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Fawzi, Samir and Nacoud knew each other from Iraq and studied together in college in Sweden, which is where they met Steiner. Latin America’s second wave of digital transformation. Hussein Fawzi and Ronni Samir launched the company with Anders Steiner and Antonio Nacoud in September 2020.

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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

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. This month last year, we reported that the company had just raised a $2.5 With this investment, Carry1st has raised a total of $9.5

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2022

Founded in 2013 (or 2014 depending on the source), the Chicago-based company has raised over $82 million in funding over its lifetime from investors such as FinTech Collective and Oak HC/FT , according to Crunchbase. Its biggest competitor, Bolt, raised “roughly 50 times that figure,” according to The Information. .

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

On September 19, I reported how Boundless Rider and CoverTree each raised millions of dollars to provide insurance for very specialized products. Then, midweek, I covered Pie Insurance’s massive $315 million Series D raise. Ghanaian fintech SecondStax allows investors to access capital markets outside their countries, raises $1.6M.

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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 million in Series A funding to step on the growth gas.

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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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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

In an interview with TechCrunch, France’s digital minister Cédric O shared some news for the European tech ecosystem. With this new mechanism, fund managers should be able to raise a new fund more easily. And he strongly believes that the ability to raise large growth rounds in Europe will lead to large tech companies down the road.

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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

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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

.” In Germany, where Mayd is starting out, the country is in the process of gearing up for an e-prescription system that’s due to go live in January — as part of wider moves to digitize healthcare services (such as by bringing in electronic patient records). “In general we could have done this model two years ago. .”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

While the two companies didn’t share the terms of the deal, Ford originally bought Spin in 2018 for $100 million, and Tier recently raised a $200 million round that it said it would use for acquisitions, among other things, so a ballpark guess would put the number somewhere in between? million to expand its team and operations.

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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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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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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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DECEMBER 6, 2022

From a place of political neutrality, Sweden found that environmental pollution could be an issue of potential cooperation between members of the UN, and hosting a conference on that topic would help boost the UN’s global perception. It could take the form of revenue, or OKRs, or raising a healthy family, or committing to self-care. .

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Apex.ai , mobility software startup founded by Bosch veterans and automated systems engineers Jan Becker and Dejan Pangercic, raised a Series B $56.5 Apex has raised a total of $74 million to date, a figure that includes previously announced investments from Volvo Group Venture Capital, Toyota Ventures and HELLA Ventures.

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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). ” The startup has raised a total of $1.5 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?

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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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