TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Planet42 , a South Africa-based car subscription company that buys used cars from dealerships and rents to customers via a subscription model, has raised $100 million in equity and debt from a wide range of investors. It became carbon-neutral certified in 2021. TLcom and 4DX drive $13.1M

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

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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TechCrunch

JULY 30, 2021

Outvio , an Estonian startup that provides a white-label SaaS fulfillment solution for medium-sized and large online retailers in Spain and Estonia, has closed a $3 million early-stage financing round led by Change Ventures. Among others, it competes with ShippyPro , which runs out of Italy and has raised $5 million to date.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

The company — co-headquartered in New York and Tallinn, Estonia — has now raised more than $150 million overall, it said. Insight and Wildcat are previous backers, including in Glia’s $78 million Series C round in January 2021.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

Dan Michaeli, the co-founder and CEO who is based out of New York (the company has a substantial operation in Estonia too), said it will be used to continue developing its technology and expanding to address inbound interest for its services after seeing its revenues grow by 150% in 2020.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

Launched in a number of Nordics markets, and on the verge of opening properties in London, the startup seems to be weathering the pandemic, reaching occupancy rates as high as 90% at its existing properties in Estonia and Finland. 10 proptech investors see better era for residential and retail after pandemic.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 27, 2022

Woola (Estonia), Papkot (France), Biotic (Israel), FunCell (France) and Traceless (Germany). It’s now raised a £3 million seed round led by Ecovative Design LLC with participation by Dale Vince, founder of Ecotricity (a green energy company in the U.K.); Just take a look: Circleback (Germany), Recup (Germany), Sourceful (U.K.),

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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 startup was founded in Estonia and has 21 employees, with no “head office” as such, with the team spread across Estonia, U.S.,

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The Verge

OCTOBER 21, 2020

But the close connection Facebook Dating has to the rest of the company’s products has raised concerns in the past. Facebook touts the service’s privacy features, with many of its more personal matching tactics entirely optional.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

Estonia-based Membo — which is backed by Y Combinator and will be presenting at the incubator’s Summer 2021 Demo Day next week — is aiming to take a slice of the premium end of grocery shopping in Europe and a bite out of supermarket giants’ continued dominance of the traditional weekly food shop. .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

Now, in a spot of perfect timing, a startup out of Talinn, Estonia, called Ready Player Me — which has built a popular platform for creating dynamic, animated avatars to use across virtual worlds built and operated by others — is announcing $56 million in funding to grow its business.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Agrivi has raised $7.3 Now Estonia-based eAgronom , another FMS startup, has closed a $7.4 Now Estonia-based eAgronom , another FMS startup, has closed a $7.4 EAgronom is also the recipient of a $600,000 EU grant, and had previously raised $12 million in backing from investors. million, Granular $24.9

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

It is not disclosing its valuation with this investment, but Alastair Westgarth said that this doesn’t rule out raising further funding from investors. It also butted heads around that time with city regulators in San Francisco, and it has yet to return to that city.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

On the competitor front, Asmussen names Estonia-headquartered Jobbatical as its closest rival for relocation support with the same digital focus. Firstbase raises $13M to make remote work suck less. Malt raises $97M at a $489M valuation for its freelance marketplace for developers.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

The latest round brings the company’s total funding raised to $100 million. “We We managed to go a long time without raising more funding,” Zeiler told TechCrunch. “We We saw an opportunity and raised the round.”. Clarifai raises $30M to give developers visual search capabilities.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

Most recently, it raised $182 million in December at a significant hike to its previous valuation (which had been $1.9 Bolt raises $182M to expand its on-demand transportation network in Europe and Africa. Bolt, the European on-demand transport company, raises $109M on a $1.9B billion ). billion, based on a 1.5x

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

To power the expansion, which will see Lightyear land in 19 new markets, including the Baltics and much of Western Europe, London-based Lightyear has also raised $25 million in a Seres A round of funding led by U.S. Lightyear , a U.K. fintech startup that promises consumers commission-free trading on U.S.

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The Verge

MARCH 15, 2021

The company has since launched Bird Platform in countries like Switzerland and Estonia, cheering investors who hope it will lower Bird’s labor and capital expenses. In January, The Information reported that Bird was nearing a deal to raise more than $100 million in convertible debt from some of its existing investors.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

Facetime : While Mark Zuckerberg is promising better metaverse avatars, Estonia-based Ready Player Me is delivering. Andreessen Horowitz led the company’s recent $56 million raise into the company that is building dynamic, animated game avatars for virtual worlds, Ingrid writes. The company raised $9 million. See you there!

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

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. These funds are Eurazeo and EQT — a French fund and a Swedish fund.”. More countries should join the list soon.

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The Verge

MAY 10, 2021

Since then, it has grown to over 100 cities, facilitated over 10 million rides, and raised cash at an unprecedented pace. The company has since launched Bird Platform in countries like Switzerland and Estonia, cheering investors who hope it will lower Bird’s labor and capital expenses.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

” And to help take things to the next level, the London-based company today announced that it has raised $3.5 Spain, France, Germany and Estonia. million from a slew of institutional and angel investors. ” Papaya is already live in five markets, including the U.K.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

All this is happening in the midst of Series A raises, hiring and firing employees, acquisitions, and deciding whether to bridge or shut down the business. And when a problem is work related, it’s often a communication or psychological issue: How do I face my fear of failure? How do I lead a team of 50 for the first time?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2022

What do UiPath, Vinted and Wise have in common? Startup founders in Central and Eastern Europe will soon have more dry powder to chase.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Hamburg-based Localyze is gearing up to launch in North America in the coming months — powered by a fresh raise of $35 million in Series B funding that’s being announced today, a little over a year after it disclosed a $12M Series A. ” Localyze raises $12M for a SaaS that supports cross-border hiring and relocation. .

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Following the success of the Penguin of the Month program, we raised the bar higher to engage with our online followers from around the world by giving them the opportunity to vote for their favourite with our Penguin of the Year. In our Penguin of the Month posts we elaborate on the stories of each bird to raise conservation awareness.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

So we get on par with countries like France, Portugal, Estonia, Croatia, and the Netherlands. Spain’s Factorial raises $80M on the back of strong traction for its ‘Workday for SMBs’ Spain’s Wallapop raises $191M at an $840M valuation for its classifieds marketplace.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

You’ll hear firsthand how some of the most successful founders and VCs build their businesses, raise money and manage their portfolios. Proactive CEOs should prioritize European expansion. Early Stage is the premier “how-to” event for startup entrepreneurs and investors.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

In 2017, Bird and the former CEO of Q1 Labs founded a new cybersecurity company, this one focused on public clouds, called Sonrai Security , which has since raised nearly $40 million in venture capital. Sandy co-founded Q1 Labs and then, after the acquisition, became the CTO of IBM’s security division.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Veriff raises $7.7M Kreindler also says it’s not just about individuals and that Certific has worked with academics in Estonia, North America and in the U.K. In addition, medical director Kreindler has experience with anti-doping in close-combat sports.

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