TechCrunch

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 15, 2023

His focus is early-stage technology investments, particularly in HR tech, robotics, and healthcare industries. The United States and China have long been ahead of the pack when it comes to robotics funding. and China between 2021 and 2022, Europe has seen a far more modest decline, only dropping 5% in the same period.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Europe – 6%. 15) 9% donate stock and/or mutual funds to NPOs, NGOs, and charities and 6% donate to Donor Advised Funds (DAFs). From the 2020 Global Trends in Giving Report : 2) 9% of donors worldwide donated to a nonprofit, NGO, or charity on GivingTuesday 2019. By Region: Africa – 12%. Asia – 26%.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 9, 2020

International organizations planning their fundraising strategies for the new decade and looking for new funding sources may be wondering how to maximize their success in attracting U.S. Select one of four legal paths for raising funds in the U.S. According to the 2019 Giving USA Report , American donors gave an estimated $427.71

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TechCrunch

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. The next step is a proper seed fund with more capital. We are going to have an exclusive focus on seed.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

2) Facebook has launched a $50 million annual matching fund for those nonprofits that use their tools. 4) Facebook’s Fundraising Tools are currently available to nonprofits in the United States and numerous countries in Europe. There is no fee to the nonprofit. Of those, 62% say Facebook is the most inspiring.

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TechSpot

JUNE 9, 2023

The European Commission has approved a new round of technology-related public funding, providing €8.1 billion) for microelectronics and communication projects conceived to bring innovation and advanced tech to the European market. billion (roughly $8.7 Read Entire Article

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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

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Baby Boomers are the generation most likely to give as a result of direct mail/post (18%) , but overall, all generations are becoming more homogeneous and tech-based in their giving habits. 20) At 39% , Europe has more Gen X donors than any other region. View: Giving Trends in Europe Data Sheet. Australia & Oceania.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2020

.” Co-founder and chief executive officer Theodoric Chew launched Intellect earlier this year because while there is a growing pool of mental wellness apps in the United States and Europe that have attracted more funding during the COVID-19 pandemic , the space is still very young in Asia.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 30, 2023

Despite continuing talk about a possible recession , slumping tech stocks and a slowdown in the world of startup investing, the business of funding was positively humming last week. Consider the following: NEA revealed that it closed its two newest funds adding up to $6.2 Is venture funding already back? Even non-U.S.

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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. Manara gets $3M to grow tech talent pool in the Middle East and North Africa. Gloat nabs $90M to build AI-powered internal jobs marketplaces.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Amira Learning is helping young students improve their reading literacy with an AI-powered tutor, while CodeSignal has built a platform for tech workers to pick up new technical skills and practice soft skills through AI-powered simulations.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

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

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TechCrunch

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. “All of the personal indexing is tech that we have completely built from scratch,” Ramaswamy said. France and Germany.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Each year Heather Mansfield of Nonprofit Tech for Good presents a free webinar featuring the top ten digital marketing and fundraising trends to prioritize in the following year. Are you raising funds using Facebook & Instagram Fundraising Tools ? 1) Know that the effectiveness of social media is often overrated. MoreWeb.org.

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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. The tech jobs market might not be as shaky as it feels , writes Ron.

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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. Fundings and M&A.

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2021

Rhys Spence is head of research at Brighteye Ventures, a European edtech-focused fund, where he works with portfolio companies to help address priorities, with a focus on internationalization. Last week was a good one for edtech in Europe. We can draw a few conclusions from this.

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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. The investment boosts the company’s total funding to just over $4 million. Helping to accelerate the products is a new $3.2

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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

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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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

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

And its contrarian approach has attracted a new group of investors and $25 million in venture funding. The Series B funding was led by KB Investment, according to Seoul Robotics. Inside Seoul Robotics’s contrarian approach to autonomous vehicle tech by Kate Park originally published on TechCrunch.

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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

APRIL 24, 2023

Adopting Internet of Things (IoT) tech for the office isn’t easy — especially at enterprise scale. 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.

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2022

World Fund, a newcomer in climate-VC land, is taking the lead in a $128 million round for IQM , with hopes the Finnish quantum computing company will one day deliver carbon cuts by the megatonne. ” The idea of applying quantum tech to climate change mitigation apparently isn’t all that far-fetched. .”

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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. How are you finding the funding environment amid the economic downturn? The funding environment has changed, certainly, with the downturn.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Terraa , a Moroccan B2B tech-enabled food distribution platform, has raised $1.5 million pre-seed funding in a round led by FoodLabs, a European early-stage VC investor and venture studio for food, sustainability and health. Benkirane has previously worked with food techs such as Zapp, which he helped scale in both Europe and the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Once upon a time, if you wanted to build a tech startup , you relocated to Silicon Valley. While there’s no disputing SV’s place and continued prominence in the startup world, today’s early-stage founders have more geographic freedom and funding options than ever before. Buy an early-bird founder ticket now and save $200.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

Source: United Nations Population Fund. First-time access the mobile internet is exploding across Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East and in Europe, North America, and Australia, the mobile web has surpassed desktop. Source: Rothschild’s Giraffe Project. Source: Business Insider.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

That might look like a red flag from an investor’s point of view, but everything is not so black and white in the country’s tech sector. Tech companies with Ukrainian roots and core markets in the U.S. Let’s look at six reasons to invest in tech startups that hail from Ukraine.

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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

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The growth plan comes against the backdrop of $1 million seed funding it has raised in round led by GIIG Africa Fund, with participation from Japanese-based Samurai VC, a family office, and existing investors. This brings total amount raised by the startup, which received its pre-seed funding last year, to $1.3

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2023

Venture capital (VC) firm Lifeline Ventures today announced a fresh €150 million ($163 million) fund aimed at early-stage startups across Finland. With its new fund, the company says it will look to make investments ranging from anywhere between €150,000 and €2 million. billion for a majority stake in 2016. . when invited to do so.

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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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