TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Starling Bank founder Anne Boden says new book ‘isn’t a memoir’ In our recent interview with Boden to primarily talk about her tell it all book on Starling’s founding , she told TechCrunch that her ultimate aim is to get to an initial public offering. expansion and making meaningful in-roads into Europe.

Challenge 96

Challenge Raise Fund Europe 96

TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2022

Moove is targeting seven new markets across Asia, MENA and Europe over the next six months. “As As you can see, this white space that we discovered on mobility fintech, we want to make sure that with this new funding round, we continue to have our first-mover advantage. Moove’s total funding is $174.5 million in debt and equity.

Asia 98

Asia Europe Africa Product 98

TechCrunch

JULY 17, 2022

This will include everything from funding rounds to trends to an analysis of a particular space to hot takes on a particular company or phenomenon. On a high level, it’s no surprise that funding flowing into fintech startups was down both globally and in the U.S. And it wasn’t only funding. Fundings and M&A.

Results 101

Results Fund News Journal 101

TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2022

HR tech platform Darwinbox has more than tripled its valuation to become a unicorn in a new $72 million funding round as the Indian startup leads what an investor calls the “SaaSification of Asia” trend. The new funding follows a year of strong growth for Darwinbox. Why can’t vendors from the US or Europe continue to dominate here?

Asia 98

Asia Fund Platform Tech 98

TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

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.

Estonia 141

Estonia Raise Africa Europe 141

TechCrunch

APRIL 24, 2023

Showing investors are keen on the idea, Haltian recently closed a €22 million (~$24 million) funding round led by Mandatum Asset Management Growth Equity with participation from Varma, Tesi, Ventic and Inventure. Bringing the company’s total funding to date to €40 million (~$43.7 We’re able to customize any.

Fund 103

Fund Build North America Gartner 103

TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

million) funding round for its platform, which aims to create greater transparency on fees in the long-term savings market, such as pensions and the wider asset management market. trillion mature “Defined Benefit” pension schemes market and claims to now work with more than 500 DB pension funds. million ($3.6

Analytics 82

Analytics Fund Platform Africa 82

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Further confirmation that the esports market is booming amid the pandemic comes today with the news that esports “total solutions provider” VSPN (Versus Programming Network) has raised what it describes as “close to” $100 million in a Series B funding round, led by Tencent Holdings.

China 108

China Fund South Korea Offline 108

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Hydrosat , a geospatial data startup, has secured $10 million in seed funding to accelerate the commercialization of its ground temperature analytics product. The decision to seek funding so soon after closing a $5 million round of financing in June was “opportunity-driven,” Fossel said. “We

Analytics 90

Analytics Fund Product New Mexico 90

TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

His burgeoning startup, dubbed Ribbon , wants to make it easy for product teams to recruit and interview users, and to “continuously test and validate their hypotheses” This, it’s hoped, will then lead to better products for users. recipe-box subscription unicorn Gousto. Zoom UX teardown: 5 fails and how to fix them.

Interview 87

Interview Team Product Research 87

TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

One Impression, an Indian influencer marketing platform that does business in markets including Indonesia, Dubai, Europe and the U.S., has raised $10 million in a funding round led by the South Korean gaming company Krafton. The Krafton-led, all-equity Series A funding round also saw participation from Peer Capital.

Influence 98

Influence Platform Fund Marketing 98

TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

It plans to use the money to expand its business across Europe on the back of a platform that today is listing close to 4,000 homes in Italy, Spain and Portugal, and has to date (since being founded at the end of 2018) sold some 3,200 properties for an aggregate value of €1 billion, according to CEO and founder Giorgio Tinacci.

Italy 81

Italy Europe Platform Raise 81

Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

The six-year-old company, which has raised upwards of $40 million in venture funding and served over 2 million students, is now being used across more than 1,800 districts and in 3,000 schools. But theres a shortage of workers who can fill those positions.

Education 90

Education Companies Student Skills 90

TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

This fever is now reaching Europe, where today Capchase raised an additional $280 million in new debt and equity funding, led by i80 Group, following a $125 million round in June. and in Europe, where it has made €100 million available to more than 50 companies in its first month of operation on the continent.

Business 98

Business Raise Platform Europe 98

TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

The latest round, which brings its total funding raised to $83 million, comes approximately a year after raising $14.4 Teppei Seki , COO of Terra Drone, said in an interview with TechCrunch that the company will use the Series B to increase its headcount and fuel its global expansion into Europe, the U.S. and Southeast Asia.

Global 89

Global Fund Japan Belgium 89

TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

There’s been talk of a slowdown in venture funding recently, with TechCrunch looking at it from different angles, including the fintech sector, a PitchBook report and even earlier on how startups should prepare in case it happens. We saw an average of 32% re: % of capital called in a fund’s first full calendar year. That’s new.”.

Fund 97

Fund Question America Raise 97

TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

The investors raised $40 million for their first fund after starting the firm in 2018 and have now closed on $100 million in capital commitments for MAYA’s second fund. With their first fund, they backed over 29 companies in 12 sectors across Brazil, Mexico, Colombia and Chile. Women make up just 2.4%

Fund 79

Fund Brazil America Colombia 79

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Lugano, Switzerland-based venture capital fund Privilège Ventures just launched its fourth fund. The CHF 20 million (just over $20 million) fund is earmarked for women-led early-stage startups across Europe. “We In Europe, the numbers are even more dire. “The numbers are staggering.

Fund 66

Fund Switzerland Europe Italy 66

TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

late last year , Gopuff is officially expanding to Europe starting with France. And yet, in an interview with TechCrunch, Gopuff’s co-founder and co-CEO Yakir Gola was quite confident in his company’s ability to execute well and become a market leader. After launching its service in the U.K. its first foray outside of the U.S.,

France 95

France Service Europe Philadelphia 95

TechCrunch

JANUARY 2, 2023

and Europe. However, after putting all that work in, many founders make the mistake of letting a funding moment pass by without extracting all the value they could have. Publicizing funding news lets you create incremental value beyond the capital investment by highlighting your momentum and driving brand awareness. Scott Brown.

Fundraising 136

Fundraising News Cisco Fund 136

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

fintech that wants to help merchants consolidate their payments stack and easily support new payment methods in the future, has raised £14 million in Series A funding. The young company wasn’t actively fund-raising, having quietly raised £3.8 million in funding announced in May. Primer , the U.K.

Raise 104

Raise Help Paypal Method 104

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

In sub-Saharan Africa, only 33% of the urban population has access to public transportation, compared to 75% in Europe and North America, according to UN statistics. The following interview, part of an ongoing series with founders who are building transportation companies, has been edited for length and clarity.

Tech 92

Tech North America Ghana Uganda 92

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

In an interview with TechCrunch, France’s digital minister Cédric O shared some news for the European tech ecosystem. As the name suggests, this new instrument is in charge of establishing a standard for startup policies around Europe. New financial incentive to create 10 to 20 large VC funds.

Policy 86

Policy Money France Europe 86

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Battery Resourcers , a startup that’s developing a closed-loop approach to lithium-ion battery materials, has raised $70 million in mid-round funding to scale its commercial operations across two continents. Europe has the same concerns the U.S. Europe has the same concerns the U.S.

Resource 87

Resource North America Raise Europe 87

TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

Today, one of the more promising startups out of Europe building software to help SMEs run online businesses is announcing some funding to better tap into both the opportunity to build these services, and to meet a growing demand from the SME segment. ERP overall is forecast to become a $49.5 billion market by 2025.

Online 89

Online Help Europe Business 89

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2020

They had just released their mobile app in April of 2012,” Jhawar told me in a phone interview. Lydia has the largest P2P network in Europe outside of PayPal and has the potential to grow all across Europe with a mobile-first, customer-focused solution. Shortly after, Braintree acquired peer-to-peer payment app Venmo.

Raise 127

Raise Build France Paypal 127

TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

But this July, Forward Partners listed its shares on the AIM , and there are other venture firms in Europe that are also listed. Perhaps fundraising success is part of why the venture model has not seen much disruption in recent decades, apart from rising fund sizes. But the model is not perfect.

Public 99

Public Marketing Help Fund 99

TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

Today, one of those startups has raised a significant round of funding to help it achieve its goals. Existing backers Edison Partners, Soros Fund Management, Greenspring Associates, Raine Ventures, Greycroft and Expansion Capital also put money in the round, which brings Yieldstreet’s total raised to $278.5 This is not just a U.S.

Public 98

Public Raise Malta Greece 98

TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

and Europe, such as Unit , Rapyd and Treasury Prime , have achieved significant scale due to the developed banking systems they enjoy in their markets. Credable, a digital banking infra startup that wants to build Unit for emerging markets, gets funding by Tage Kene-Okafor originally published on TechCrunch

Marketing 86

Marketing Digital Fund Africa 86

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2022

There are more funds, more options, more opportunities, more, more, more. It’s quite easy to harp on the dismal funding and often discriminatory treatment that Black founders receive in the U.S. for venture funds for his startup because there are more success stories of Black founders in the U.S. I can definitely say the U.S.

Germany 90

Germany France Europe Fund 90

TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

Crypto custody platform Fireblocks is quite possibly “the most successful and least-known company in the blockchain space,” as described by its co-founder and CEO Michael Shaulov in an interview with TechCrunch. The latest round brings Fireblocks’ total raised since its 2018 inception to just over $1 billion.

Companies 87

Companies Asia Europe Paypal 87

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2020

The biggest consumer startups managed to attract millions — sometimes even tens of millions — of users and have raised some of the biggest funding rounds in late-stage venture capital. It has four million users in Europe with most of them in its home country. Fintech startups have been massively successful over the past few years.

Profit 134

Profit Paypal France Reflection 134

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Moov, a data-fueled marketplace for used manufacturing equipment , has closed a $41 million Series A funding round led by Tiger Global. Investors joining the round include public semiconductor investor Gavin Baker of Atreides Management, Valor Equity Partners, Avenir Growth Fund, and existing investors.

Global 98

Global South Korea San Francisco Online 98

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

San Francisco-based Bolt is fresh off of raising $393 million in Series D funding in October, bringing total capital raised to date to $600 million. Tipser’s presence in Sweden will now also serve as Bolt’s European headquarters to go with the company’s recent announcement of expanding into Europe.

San Francisco 139

San Francisco Social Media Sweden Site 139

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Tech-talent marketplace MVP Match has raised €5 million ($5 million) seed funding from Stage 2 Capital to double down its strategy for pairing companies with talent from across the globe. Stage 2 Capital launches $80M Fund II targeting B2B software startups. Gloat nabs $90M to build AI-powered internal jobs marketplaces.

Tech 96

Tech Egypt Raise Africa 96

TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2023

The two entrepreneurs — friends since their first day as Wharton undergraduates — for years closely followed the adoption of open banking and bank account-based payments in Europe. Valar led a $20 million Series A funding round in Link while Tiger led a $10 million seed round; to date, Link has raised $30 million.

Raise 100

Raise Help San Francisco Europe 100

TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

It plans to use the money to expand in the Netherlands, and eventually across Europe. Tom Peeters, CEO and co-founder of Crisp, told me via online interview that “the differentiation on our model is that we offer quality and convenience. Czech on-demand grocery delivery startup Rohlik bags $230M to expand across Europe.

Global 100

Global Netherlands Online Raise 100