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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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

But have you heard of what’s going on in Cyprus, Sweden or North Carolina? Move over Bangalore, there’s a new Indian metropolis evolving with its finger on the pulse of cloud, mobile and digital technologies. Malmö, Sweden. Pune, India?.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Tink , a startup out of Stockholm, Sweden that aggregates a number of banks and financial services by way of an API so that those can in turn be accessed via new channels, has raised €85 million (or $103 million at current rates), at a post-money valuation of €680 million (or around $825 million). It is live in Sweden, U.K.,

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Post-pandemic, the digitization of health and wellness continues apace. 8 VCs agree: Behavioral support and remote visits make digital health a strong bet for 2021. and Sweden to expand its footprint. Numan’s digital offering helps men take charge of their health discreetly and decisively. Now it’s practically required.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

TechSoup Sweden's Andreas Ericsson shared a cool weekend project on TechSoup's Digital Engagement forum that any organization can adopt for their next event. He printed photos posted on Instagram to document a large gathering in Sweden. from Digital Inspiration to get his printer fully automated.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The startup has already launched savings accounts in Sweden. It’ll compete with other digital banks in Germany, such as N26 and Vivid Money. Klarna also plans to add savings goals and savings accounts. It offers flexible and fixed-term savings accounts. Making sense of Klarna.

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Digital Trends

DECEMBER 28, 2021

The all-electric, self-driving minivan will be designed and developed in Gothenburg, Sweden, before being added to Waymo’s […]. The autonomous-vehicle specialist announced this week that it’s partnered with Chinese automaker Geely to build a Zeekr minivan filled entirely with passenger seats.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

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. Various angel investors have also backed Juni, including NA-KD founder and CEO Jarno Vanahatapio and iZettle’s former chief strategy and communications officer Johan Bendz.

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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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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

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. “We didn’t have a lot of money,” he tells me.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The Lynk & Co brand was first announced in 2016 in Gothenburg, Sweden as a “born digital” alternative to Volvo, the company that spawned Lynk & Co with help from their Chinese parent Geely. Born digital. A member with a car can share their digital key to free members to open their rented vehicle.

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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

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 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

AUGUST 17, 2022

But perhaps more interestingly, HiBob seems to have bucked a broader trend that has seen startups’ and scaleups’ valuations plummet in a sea of corrections and down-rounds — in the past month, Sweden’s buy-now, pay-later fintech Klarna saw its valuation drop 85% to $6.7

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

That number has now grown to 500,000 across a footprint that includes Denmark (its home base is in Copenhagen), Sweden and Norway. “ We look forward to supporting the team in developing next generation digital-first financial services in the Nordics and beyond.”

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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

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. In addition to those French startups, their investments include Growblocks and All Gravy in Denmark, and Ark Kapital and Goals in Sweden. Emblem was founded by Bénédicte de Raphélis Soissan and Guillaume Durao.

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The Verge

MARCH 11, 2021

In the podcast, the Spotify founders discuss the history of piracy in Spotify’s home country, Sweden, to give context about its development environment. It goes into the existence of Sweden’s Pirate Party , an actual political party that once held several seats in the country’s parliament.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

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. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Its 2020 results are here.

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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

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

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

Spain, Italy, France, Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands, Hungary, Ukraine and Russia. Kahoot cites figures that predict that digital language learning will be an $8 billion+ market by 2025 and describes Drops as “one of the fastest-growing language platforms in the world.” million (€6.3 million), with cash conversion of 40%.

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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. They include Sweden’s Raketspel (the company has more than 120 million downloads across its portfolio), Cosi Games and Ethiopia’s Qene Games.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2021

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.

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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. This allows users to share their transaction history and balances, confirm their identities, and initiate payments. Plaid leads the way in the U.S.

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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

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Natural Cycles, the first “digital birth control” to get sign-off from the Food and Drug Administration, is back. The FDA’s initial decision to clear Natural Cycles in 2018 was controversial: the app was blamed for unwanted pregnancies in Sweden and was heavily promoted on social media. Natural Cycles.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

This is less true than it was in early 2020, as digital education and work is now so commonplace that it’s possible to build a billion-dollar edtech in a single, larger European market. But naturally, nearly every ambitious edtech founder realizes they need to expand overseas to grow at a pace that is attractive to investors.

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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

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. “We didn’t have a lot of money,” he tells me.

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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. According to Cédric O, digital transformation is going to profoundly affect the economy in Europe — just like it strongly reshaped the American economy ten years ago. “We But first, let me rewind just a little bit.

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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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The Verge

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Stålenhag’s books — like his debut, Tales from the Loop , which was recently adapted into a TV series for Amazon — pair his eerie digital paintings with brief stories that build out their sci-fi landscapes. I always felt the comics I read here in Sweden were a bit sloppy. that thing is gone. There are some elements.

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