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a local currency issuer. Then as now, the idea behind BerkShares was to galvanize residents in Pittsfield, Great Barrington, and surrounding areas to purchase more goods and services locally. The local currency could be converted into US dollars but is designed to be spent directly in the area. The experiment proved successful.

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AUGUST 6, 2021

V2Food is one of many new contenders in the alternative protein space, founded in Australia but now setting its sights on Europe, Asia and beyond. It has a few key advantages over the competition, and with €45 million in new funding it may be finding its way to plates in the Eurozone soon.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2020

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. ” Many local providers also offer lower prices and give a large amount of bandwidth for free, attracting SMEs. . It recently closed a $1.4

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JULY 20, 2021

“We are true believers in the fact that the world needs a new Amazon, a better one, a more sustainable one, one that appreciates local areas and products.” Today the fast-growing grocery and retail delivery platform has closed a whopping $170 million Series A funding round. Latin America and Europe. Latin America and Europe.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

But what are the locals excited about on the ground? However, one said: “The ecosystem still lacks local funding for the late Series A and beyond rounds.”. Vilnius is becoming a solid hot spot of fintech companies in Europe having more than 200 fintech companies established here. We surveyed: • Gerda Sakalauskait?

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JULY 14, 2022

and European stocks, is officially extending into Europe from today. 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. launch plans back in 2020.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2022

To do that, it develops programs for its app, available as an employee benefit, with local providers that take into account religion, gender stereotypes, racial representation, communication style and values, co-founder and CEO Bjorn Lee told TechCrunch. MindFi is among a cluster of startups working to change that.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2021

million seed round of funding to fuel planned rapid expansion — both within Germany and across Europe. And there are plenty of other sizeable diasporas living in countries across Western Europe — communities Yababa is gearing up to scale and serve. . “This is how the business model will evolve.”

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67% volunteer locally, 9% volunteer internationally, and 56% attend fundraising events. With more awareness, both #GivingTuesday and Facebook Fundraising Tools could provide significant new funding for charitable organizations in Australia & Oceania. 20) At 39% , Europe has more Gen X donors than any other region.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Property technology startup Nomad Homes is working to change that by creating a personalized real estate buying experience in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, a region that represents $20 trillion in real estate, company CEO Helen Chen told TechCrunch. “We We are like Stitch Fix for real estate,” she added. Nomad Homes mockup.

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OCTOBER 5, 2022

Neeva , an ad-free search engine launched last year by a former engineer and executive best known for spearheading Google’s advertising tech business , is about to land in Europe. It’s no coincidence that Greylock has invested in Neeva across two separate rounds of funding alongside Sequoia Capital among other esteemed investors.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Once it has polished this experience for one-off deals, the company wants to empower super angel investor who wants to become solo general partner with their own small VC fund. Due to the legal hurdles that come with angel investment, it’s clear that there’s an opportunity for a local equivalent of AngelList in Europe.

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JANUARY 25, 2021

Wolt , the Helsinki-based online ordering and delivery company that initially focused on restaurants but has since expanded to other verticals, has raised $530 million in new funding. Previous backers 83North, Highland Europe, Goldman Sachs Growth Equity, EQT Ventures and Vintage Investment Partners also followed on.

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They wind up in local waterways that connect to the ocean. Bosch recently launched a microfiber filter in Europe for washers. Find AP’s standards for working with philanthropies, a list of supporters and funded coverage areas at AP.org. Marine animals eat them, and that can pass plastic to larger animals and humans.

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DECEMBER 15, 2022

Kenya-based MyHealth Africa , an integrated healthcare platform changing how people access medical services, by connecting patients with local and international health specialists and hospitals, is growing its reach in Africa, and plans to further expand in Middle East and South Asia next year.

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JANUARY 26, 2022

And for us, for the high commissioner, this is a confirmation that Spain is becoming one of the best countries in Europe for startups. It happens to be that this new legal framework for startups is going to become one of the most ambitious in Europe. So this generated a lot of uncertainty for investment funds to come to Spain.

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DECEMBER 11, 2020

Gorillas , a grocery delivery startup that operates its own hyper local fulfillment centers and has already been a hit in Berlin, has raised $44 million in Series A funding. Coatue’s Daniel Senft and Bennett Siegel will join Gorillas‘ board. These startups are also often compared to goPuff in the U.S. Gorillas CEO Ka?an

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OCTOBER 24, 2022

And Heura is taking credit for 80% of local plant-based category growth (although it should be noted that Spain remains one of Europe’s biggest consumers of animal-based meat so growth of alt-proteins is starting from a low base). Planted gets $72M to put whole cuts of vegan chicken on Europe’s menu.

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OCTOBER 29, 2021

As startup funding increases around the world, The Exchange has poked its head into markets as far-flung as Southeast Asia , Europe , Africa , Latin America and elsewhere. Wherever we looked, we’ve found venture capital flowing in record quantities.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Marie Ekeland has unveiled her next act — and it’s a new fund called 2050. But it’s not your average French VC fund as it’s going to be an evergreen fund focused on building a better world. While she’s no longer involved with Daphni’s day-to-day activities, she still follows her own investments in Daphni’s first fund.

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JANUARY 7, 2021

Just like in Europe, billions of pounds of food go to waste. As the startup’s operations are extremely local, Too Good To Go is starting with specific metropolitan areas in the U.S. With today’s new funding round, it should definitely boost usage in the U.S. Too Good To Go is already working on its biggest expansion — the U.S.

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DECEMBER 17, 2021

million in seed funding. million in total funding since the company was founded in 2020 by Henrik Lysgaard Jensen and Alex Boyce. There are also larger companies in the space, like Jobber, which announced $60 million in funding at the beginning of the year. It is already operating in select markets in Europe, the U.S.

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JUNE 29, 2021

Accel announced Tuesday the close of three new funds totaling $3.05 fund at $650 million; its seventh early-stage European and Israeli fund also at $650 million and its sixth global growth stage fund at $1.75 The latter fund is in addition, and designed to complement, a previously unannounced $2.3

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JULY 9, 2021

French startup Didomi has raised a $40 million Series B funding round led by Elephant and Breega. Didomi is already doing well in Europe with billions of consent interactions per month — it plans to expand to the U.S. with today’s funding round. You might think about GDPR in Europe for instance.

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JUNE 21, 2021

Ubco, the New Zealand-based electric utility bike startup, has raised $10 million to fund a global expansion focused on the U.S. mu, or Landcorp Farming Limited and other local restaurants and stores. “We Europe and the U.S. market and scale up its commercial subscription service business. . million in 2020 to $8.4

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APRIL 28, 2021

The funding is notable in part because of who is doing the investing. Hedosophia, the somewhat secretive fund that also has been active in SPACs in the U.S., The funding will be used in part to build out its loans program but also to expand areas where Viva Wallet is already strong. is also a backer, we have confirmed.

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MARCH 1, 2022

late last year , Gopuff is officially expanding to Europe starting with France. Gopuff also tries to partner with local brands to customize its offering to local customers. The reason why we’ve expanded to Europe is because the customers have demanded it,” he told me. “We After launching its service in the U.K.

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DECEMBER 21, 2020

Eneba , a marketplace for gamers that sells games and other products, has raised an $8 million round of funding from Practica Capital and InReach Ventures. The funding is described as a “combination” of a seed and Series A round.

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MARCH 16, 2021

million in seed funding as it readies for launch. Backing the upstart, which already faces a plethora of better funded competitors, is venture capital fund LVL1 Group, with participation from AddVenture, TA Ventures, Vladimir Kholiaznikov, and angel investors Oskar Hartmann, Alexander Nevinskiy and Dominique Locher.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2021

“Google Maps is the canvas for local businesses,” he said, and what’s important to both the company and its users is locations, reviews, directions, things like that. ” The $20M round was led by M12 (Microsoft’s venture fund) and Point72 Ventures. Putz noted that although the blackshark.ai

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

While the pace of funding these days is unlike most of us have ever seen before, it’s pretty remarkable that Jeeves essentially signed the term sheet for its Series B just two months after closing on its Series A. The startup’s offering was live in Mexico and Canada and today launched in Colombia, the United Kingdom and Europe as a whole. .

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APRIL 25, 2022

million pre-Series A funding. debt) pre-Series A funding. The equity round was led by Acumen Resilient Agriculture Fund (ARAF) and FMO, the Dutch entrepreneurial development bank, with participation from Greater Impact Foundation. Farmerline was founded in 2013 by Alloysius Attah and Emmanuel Owusu Addai. million ($6.4m

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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. By setting up a local presence and working closely with the local talent, we will be able to really open up this market to our clients.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2023

-based Amadeus Capital Partners and Austria’s Apex Ventures are pooling their collective venture capital (VC) resources for a new fund specifically targeted at early-stage deep tech startups. At the same time, deep tech funding is still low, which presents a huge opportunity for growth.”

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AUGUST 4, 2021

One year after raising $16 million , construction technology company Buildots is back to claim another $30 million, this time in Series B funding. This gives the company $46 million in total funding, Roy Danon, co-founder and CEO of Buildots, told TechCrunch. Germany, Switzerland, Scandinavia and China.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2021

via purchasing a nascent local player rather than starting entirely from scratch. billion in funding to-date (backers include Accel, D1 Capital Partners, Luxor Capital and SoftBank Vision Fund). Meanwhile, Europe is seeing a slew of startups inspired by goPuff’s vertically integrated model sprouting up.

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JANUARY 12, 2021

Just a year later, Checkout.com added $150 million in funding at a $5.5 Checkout.com is now valued at $15 billion based on today’s funding round. With today’s funding round, the company will open two new offices in the U.S. A quiet London-based payments startup just raised among the biggest Series A rounds ever in Europe.

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