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Identity verification provider Veriff raises $100M Series C co-led by Tiger Global and Alkeon

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Identity verification (IDV) provider Veriff , has raised a $100 million Series C round co-led by Tiger Global and Alkeon. They were joined by existing investors IVP and Accel, bringing Veriff’s total funding to date to $200 million. The new funding means the company is now valued at $1.5

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Bolt raises $709M at an $8.4B valuation to expand its transportation and food delivery super app

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It will be using the funds to continue expanding to new geographies and to bring more consumers and partners to its “super app”; and newer business lines, such as its 15-minute grocery delivery option Bolt Market, will be building out ‘dark stores’ in more cities to expand the service beyond the 10 where its active today.

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Ukraine, Estonia, Chile, Finland: The saga of four accelerators

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At the moment of writing, Seed-DB, a global database of seed stage accelerators, listed 235 programs (both active and defunct) that 5,688 startups had gone through. It’s hard to get the exact data on how many startup acceleration programs are being launched every year, but it’s definitely a lot.

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Sales CRM Pipedrive takes majority investment from Vista Equity Partners to reach unicorn status

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Founded in Estonia and now headquartered in New York, the company has taken a majority investment from U.S. “Pipedrive is now Europe and Estonia’s newest SaaS unicorn,” says Zennström. Pipedrive , the sales CRM tool for small and medium-sized businesses, is the latest European company to reach unicorn status.

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More venture funds are betting on Central and Eastern Europe

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But with new funds lured in by their startups’ talent pool, global mindset, and capital efficiency, this could be starting to change. Sign up here. Central and Eastern Europe have had less venture capital at their disposal than their GDP or population could warrant. Let’s explore.

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Woola raises €2.5M seed led by Future Ventures to replace bubble wrap with wool

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Woola opened a production facility in Estonia and launched its first product in December 2020. Woola’s previous investors include the co-founders of Pipedrive, Bolt and the angel fund Lemonade Stand. Woola says this is enough to fulfill 120% of the global bubble wrap demand. It’s now expanding to the U.K., France and Germany.

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Warren gets $1.4 million to help local cloud infrastructure providers compete against Amazon and other giants

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Based in Tallinn, Estonia, Warren’s self-service distributed cloud platform is gaining traction in Southeast Asia, one of the world’s fastest-growing cloud service markets, and Europe. “Whereas global providers give a personal touch maybe only to a few big clients in the enterprise sectors.” It recently closed a $1.4

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