TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

It’s a fact that’s long been recognised in the US, and it’s of equal concern in Europe. As has been pointed out many, many times, lack of diversity is an ongoing problem in the tech startup and VC landscape. Zoom in on the Nordics region, and the lack of diversity sadly becomes even more acute. […]

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The issue of women startup founders not receiving equitable venture funding is a shortfall of the West: It’s here, everywhere in the U.S., and over there, all throughout Europe. founding teams raised 1.2% In Europe, the story is quite similar, although 2020 was the standout year that saw women raise 2.4%

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TechCrunch

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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Elevation has been a nonprofit partner since 2007 and currently supports more than 200 different organizations in Europe and the Americas. If you’re a nonprofit, the Google Ad grant offers up to $10,000 of funding every month for Google advertising. Is the Google Ad Grant Right for My Organization?

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TechCrunch

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. . Alta plans to raise another funding as early as this year to increase its headcount across the globe, said Allison Howard, COO of Alta.

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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?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

. — Christine and Haje The TechCrunch Top 3 It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a drone : Dronamics raised $40 million in a pre-Series A round (or really big seed round if you’d rather look at it that way) to start an autonomous cargo drone airline in Europe, Mike writes. cities safer, starting with New York, Haje writes. You can sign up here.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

million in a funding round led by Sequoia India and Southeast Asia’s Surge as it plans to expand the market for its medical imagery annotations solution. In the future, we want to help teams with everything from the data preparation to FDA clearance of the algorithms,” Sharma said in an interview with TechCrunch.

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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. in the second quarter of 2022.

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TechCrunch

JULY 5, 2022

She teamed up with Dr. Ariel Orbach and Eli Lerner in 2018 to form Maolac , an Israeli food tech startup focused on creating a superfood by extracting proteins from bovine colostrum or plant-based analogs. Together, the company’s team put together a library of sorts of over 1,500 known bioactive proteins in human breast milk.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2023

Danish company LMS365 , an online learning management system (LMS) built for use inside Microsoft products, has raised $20 million in its first institutional round of funding. This was arguably more of an issue for a business that has grown organically without institutional funding.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

One of the bigger startups in Europe operating a trading platform for cryptocurrency has closed a big round of funding on the heels of very rapid growth, and plans to open its platform to a wider stream of assets. billion. . “In the EU, we probably have less than 10% of the population owning stocks.

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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.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2023

AMP Robotics , a Denver, Colorado-based startup creating robotic systems that can automatically sort recyclable material, today announced that it extended its Series C round to $99 million, thanks to an investment from Microsoft’s Climate Innovation Fund. That’s up from $91 million when the round closed in November.

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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.”.

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TechCrunch

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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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2023

Sweden-based VC fund Pale Blue Dot bounced onto the scene in 2020 with a €53 million fund to help climate-focused startups. This fund grew again by €34 million in April 2021 , and after deploying investments into 28 climate-forward companies, the investor this week announced it has officially closed its second fund.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Open banking platforms, where services that might not have previously lived next to each other are now joined up by way of APIs, has been one of the emerging trends of the last couple of years, and today one of the leaders in the space out of Europe has closed a round of funding to expand its business. million in funding.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

Fintech startup Yapily has raised a $51 million Series B funding round led by Sapphire Ventures. Due to recent regulatory changes in Europe (PSD2), banks now have to offer official APIs to integrate with third-party services. According to Vaccino, only Tink has a similar level of coverage in Europe. In addition to the U.K.,

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

They are joined by Mercy Corps Ventures, Lateral Capital, LoftyInc Capital and NetX Fund. Two angel investors — Pascal Gauthier of Ledger and Jason Yanowitz of Blockworks — and a syndicate social fund also participated. A ll these were done with zero marketing budget, the CEO said.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2023

However, in Europe the problem has always been particularly acute. Now a new, but slightly different, German Private Equity fund hopes to solve at least part of the problem, and at least in Germany, which will be its main focus. European startups have always suffered from the perennial startup problem: how to exit?

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2022

Deep tech has become a hot topic in Europe, with hopes that the region can have an edge over the rest of the world for innovation rooted in fundamental research. “From startups to universities, we join forces to make Europe a world leader in the new wave of deep tech innovation!” Want it in your inbox every Saturday?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

Those specific investments were from Playfair’s inaugural fund which wasn’t focused on any particular “stage” of company. “I’d say probably half the funding in our portfolio is pre-product, pre-traction,” Playfair managing partner Chris Smith explained to TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2022

Today, an adtech out of Spain that’s doing just this has raised a big round of funding to double down on the opportunity. The money is coming in the form of an equity investment from a single investor, Advent International, and it will be used to help the company expand beyond Europe, specifically deeper into the U.S.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

The company has built a modern tool to design, manage and optimize sales commission plans for your internal team. Earlier this year, the startup raised a $6 million funding round led by Bain Capital Ventures. Once your data is centralized in Palette, the product can act as a single source of truth.

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TechCrunch

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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TechCrunch

JULY 5, 2021

French startup ManoMano has raised a Series F funding round of $355 million led by Dragoneer Investment Group. Following today’s funding round, the company has reached a valuation of $2.6 Following today’s funding round, the company has reached a valuation of $2.6 It is currently available in six European countries.

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TechCrunch

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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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Investors include F2, The Chainsmokers’ venture fund Mantis , New Form Capital, Kenetic Capital, Blockdaemon Ventures and Alchemy. Israel and Europe, its press release stated. to help web3 teams manage their financials and crypto data by Jacquelyn Melinek originally published on TechCrunch. Tres raises $7.6M

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2022

million in seed funding to supercharge its efforts. Ahmad Coucha and Khaled Nassef founded FlapKap in 2022; Sherif Bichara and Adel Hodroj are on the founding team. seed funding by Tage Kene-Okafor originally published on TechCrunch. I’m excited to be building FlapKap along with them,” said Coucha. “I

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Enter Rillavoice , a new startup with a niche focus: building speech analytics software for field sales teams that sell in person as opposed to via Zoom or over the phone. It also was impressed with the level of due diligence that the venture firm’s team conducted. “We Europe and Latin America since it was founded two years ago.

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TechCrunch

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. million pre-seed round of equity funding last April from several VCs and angels, including German international footballer Mario Götze. Its latest €4.7

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

and Europe continue to operate uninterrupted after making sure their teams and data are completely safe abroad or in the west of Ukraine. Having prepared emergency plans in advance, many tech companies quickly relocated their teams to safety during the first days of the war or even before the fighting broke out.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2023

Rhys Spence Contributor Share on Twitter Rhys Spence is head of research at Brighteye Ventures, a European edtech-focused fund. Despite these cuts, which have been always slower to implement than communicate, inflation has been rampant across Europe and beyond, partially due to supply chain issues linked to the situation in Ukraine.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

” The $20M round was led by M12 (Microsoft’s venture fund) and Point72 Ventures. So a sales and support team will be built out, along with “the remaining pieces of a hyperscaling company,” Putz said. This wasn’t just like, ‘hey we want to do this,’ it was needed. Doesn’t that sound nice?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

Walnut raised $15 million in Series A funding, led by Eight Roads Ventures, to continue developing its sales experience platform. We let the sales and marketing teams replicate the SaaS product in our cloud environment, which is disconnected from the back end,” Vilner explained. Walnut engagement example. Image Credits: Walnut. “We

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Now Nord Security , the startup behind one of the bigger paid VPN providers, NordVPN , is announcing significant funding at a “unicorn” valuation to build out both its consumer and enterprise business lines to capitalize on that growth. So why raise now? firm Versprite. Ragnarsson is joining the board with this round.

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