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JULY 20, 2022

Two years on from its launch, Charles today announced that it has raised $20 million in a series A round of funding led by Salesforce Ventures, with participation from Accel and HV Capital. million seed round of funding it raised last year. Charles’ platform in action. Conversational commerce comes to Europe.

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MARCH 2, 2021

It plans to use the funding to expand its footprint across metropolitan areas in its existing three markets — the Czech Republic, Hungary and Austria — as well as to break into Germany, Poland, Romania and other countries in the near future. We understand from sources it is around $600 million. For example, Ocado here in the U.K.,

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

Fintech startup and alternative credit asset manager Viola Credit has closed its latest $700 million fund, which provides asset-based lending capital to fintech, proptech and insurtech startups. The fintech sector boomed in 2021, with global fintech funding reaching a record $132 billion. Western Europe, U.K.,

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Fashion items are among the most — if not the most — sought after on many e-commerce platforms. While general e-commerce activities between African shoppers and global brands have occurred informally via long-held relationships, several platforms have used tech to centralize these processes across various shopping brackets.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2021

One such company is BlockFi , which today announced it has closed on a massive $350 million Series D funding that values it at $3 billion. million in a seed round of funding that closed in 2018 and was led by ConsenSys Ventures and included participation from SoFi. . The Jersey City, New Jersey-based startup raised $1.6

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AUGUST 31, 2021

Walnut raised $15 million in Series A funding, led by Eight Roads Ventures, to continue developing its sales experience platform. Vilner intends to use the new funding to grow the team across the U.S, Founders Yoav Vilner and Danni Friedland started the company in July 2020.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The e-commerce boom that started with the Covid-19 pandemic shows little sign of slowing down, and today a company called Shopware , which provides a set of open source tools to power online shopping experiences for some 100,000 mid-sized and larger brands, is announcing $100 million in funding to capture the opportunity.

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MAY 26, 2022

based startup platform Bloom has now secured a £300 million / $377 million financing round led by Credo Capital and Fortress Investment Group LLC (NYSE:FIG), making it one of the better-funded revenue-based lending businesses in Europe. It has now raised a total of £307 million. which has raised $681.5

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Angel investors including e-commerce platform Carousell co-founder and chief executive officer Quek Siu Rui; former Sequoia partner Tim Lee; and startup consultancy xto10x’s Southeast Asia CEO J.J. Chai also participated. Mental health startups are raising spirits and venture capital.

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MARCH 18, 2025

As a teletherapy platform, Parallel Learning enables schools and special education providers to counsel students and track their progress. 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.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2023

million ($5 million) seed round of funding, as the French startup prepares to expand its NFT fantasy sports platform beyond football (“soccer”) and into the basketball realm. Unagi takes a 5% commission from all financial transactions on the platform. Web3 gaming company Unagi today announced a €4.7 Its latest €4.7

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JUNE 23, 2022

Paris-originated VC Breega wasn’t enormously well known in the VC world (it only closed its first fund in 2015) until, perhaps, it started attracting attention with its second €110 million seed fund, just under a year go. Breega’s aim is to finance at least 20 companies in total with the new fund.

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JANUARY 26, 2022

million seed funding co-led by Makers Fund and Andreessen Horowitz. Other investors include Pioneer Fund, Boost VC, muru-D and Thomas Rice. . 1 on the Oculus charts and produced historical engagement metrics for the platform, according to the company. Upon its release, it spent more than seven weeks at No.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2022

Moove , an African mobility fintech that provides vehicle financing to drivers of ride-hailing platforms like Uber and other gig networks, has raised $105 million in new Series A2 financing. Here’s how it works: Drivers sign up on the platform and, once verified, are trained and sign contracts with Moove to access loans to buy or rent cars.

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JANUARY 17, 2022

London-based legaltech startup Juro has grabbed $23 million in Series B funding for its browser-based contract automation platform. ” The latest tranche of funding will go on market expansion in the US and Europe, further investment into the product and for an exec hiring drive to support the planned scaling.

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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. Emblem said today that it has raised nearly $54 million (€50 million) for a new European seed fund. Clustree was a talent management and HR platform that was acquired by Cornerstone OnDemand.

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MAY 17, 2022

Graduates of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), the founders created a platform that leverages AI and hardhat-mounted 360-degree cameras to capture images of ongoing construction projects during site inspections. The new funding will be used to expand our R&D, sales, and marketing [organizations]. trillion in the U.S.

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APRIL 24, 2022

Today a startup that has built a platform to make the business of fishing more efficient — and thus the process overall more traceable and less prone to waste — is announcing a round of funding to ride on that wave. “Now we can easily move into other countries as we spread across Europe.”

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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.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 29, 2020

million in seed funding. Launched in Estonia in March this year and currently expanding to Poland, Rendin operates a long-term rental platform that promises to smooth out the process between landlords and tenants. Tenants in the Rendin platform don’t have to pay the security deposit, but this is just a feature, not the core product.

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JUNE 22, 2022

Strapi , an open source content management system (CMS), today announced that it raised $31 million in Series B funding led by CRV with participation from Flex Capital, Index Ventures, and angel investors including former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman. and Europe. Strapi’s content management dashboard.

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TechCrunch

MAY 29, 2022

based venture capital fund Valar Ventures and will use the funding to expand into more European countries later this year. Philipp Povel, co-founder and co-CEO of Mondu, said there is a “$200 billion opportunity just in Europe and the U.S., Mondu has now raised a $43 million Series A round led by U.S.-based

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JANUARY 17, 2023

The proptech marketing platform is announcing that it has raised $4.5 million in pre-Series A funding. Flow intends to use the funding to include other social media platforms such as TikTok and LinkedIn and other advertising channels like digital out-of-home billboards. Does everyone want to be a landlord, or what?

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JANUARY 7, 2021

Today, one of the big players in providing that tech is announcing a large round of funding to expand its business, underscoring the growth in this market. The funding gives Mambu a post-money valuation of €1.7 Mambu’s platform, according to Danilkis, covers some 7,000 different banking products at the moment.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Ukio , a short-term furnished apartment rental platform aimed at the “flexible workforce,” has raised €27 million ($28 million) in a Series A round of funding. It’s worth noting that guests book initially for a set period of time, but they can extend their stay through Ukio’s online platform.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

Challenger banks have become, collectively, a force to be reckoned with in the world of financial services for consumers, and today one of the big players out of the Nordics — Lunar — is announcing growth funding along with two new services to continue filling out its ambition of providing a one-stop super app for its users.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

It’s about solving very specific pain points, reducing fragmentation, and serving as a single platform for everyone to connect and communicate. “The platform is used by multiple actors, from riders to hub operators, fleet managers and heads of operations.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Now, Autify’s software testing automation addresses the issues of a labor shortage as well as technical difficulty through its no-code platform. The latest funding brings Autify’s total raised to $12.2 Singapore as well as Europe, according to Chikizawa. million, Chikazawa said.

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MAY 25, 2022

million seed round, and while that may be the kind of funding a younger company takes, the livestream shopping platform is actually a “veteran” in this emerging way of shopping. and Europe. Buywith completed a $9.5 Among that list and more, the company touts having 18 female investors involved from Israel, the U.S.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

French startup Doctolib has announced that is has raised a new funding round. In case you’re not familiar with Doctolib, the company’s main product is a software-as-a-service platform for doctors and medical workers. With today’s funding round, the company plans to grow from 2,500 employees to 6,000 employees over the next five years.

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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.

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JANUARY 13, 2022

The Cologne-based cybersecurity awareness and testing platform has now raised a $73 million Series B funding round led by growth-capital fund Highland Europe. SoSafe competes with platforms like Knowbe4 (that went public in 2021) and Cofense, which has raised $58 million to date.

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MARCH 20, 2023

This, the startup claims, allows companies to establish new revenue channels by increasing SaaS pricing bundles and charging processing fees for payments on their platform. The investment follows a $5 million round led by Point72 Ventures in early 2022 and brings Monite’s total funding to $10 million.

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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 20, 2023

However, in Europe the problem has always been particularly acute. The US one of the few markets where you can achieve decent scale, as well has have the potential to exit either trough a sale to one of the global tech platforms, or to the public markets. How many large European industrial or corporate giants acquire or acqu-hire?

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JANUARY 7, 2022

Funds that participated in the latest round included 4Di Capital, Octerra Capital, VestedWorld, Voltron Capital, Logos Ventures and several other angel investors, bringing the total capital raised by the Lagos-based startup to $2.5 or in Europe have the opportunity to sell significant chunks of their debt portfolios to third parties.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2023

million in a Series A round of funding. in 2019, AeroCloud says that it’s already working with Manchester and Eindhoven airports in Europe, while in the U.S. The platform can let all teams know exactly what is taking place and remind them of the protocol automatically. Founded out of Chester, U.K.,

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