TechCrunch

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. To meet demand, Buildots will use the new funding to continue that expansion; double the size of its global team with a focus on sales, marketing and R&D; and grow on the business side.

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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

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

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

French startup Homa Games has raised a $15 million seed round led by e.ventures and Idinvest Partners. In addition to third-party games, Homa Games has also acquired IRL Team in Toulouse and has in-house game development teams in Skopje, Lisbon and Paris. Both companies agree on a revenue-sharing model.

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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. It has now raised €175 million in total.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Berlin-based micro-mobility startup Tier has raised a significant Series C round of $250 million. SoftBank Vision Fund 2 is leading the round, which proves that the Vision Fund team is still focused on high-risk, high-potential bets. As a reminder, SoftBank has invested in many late-stage funding rounds through its Vision Fund team.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2021

Sports have been among some of the most popular and lucrative media plays in the world, luring broadcasters, advertisers and consumers to fork out huge sums to secure the chance to watch (and sponsor) their favorite teams and athletes. million) in a Series B round of funding.

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TechCrunch

MAY 30, 2022

Ayoken, an NFT marketplace for creatives, has raised $1.4 MARA raises $23M from Coinbase Ventures and FTX to build Africa’s portal to the crypto economy. A majority of the funding will go into buying exclusive licenses and into building our tech team; that is the developers and engineers by fourfold,” he said.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2022

and Europe, today announced that it has raised $65 million, with $50 million of those as a Series B funding round co-led by Albacore Capital Group and $15 million in convertible notes. The company, which previously raised a $20 series A round in 2021, now has a valuation of $300 million.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Bondaval , the London-based B2B insurtech that gives credit teams assurance that customers will fulfill their financial obligations, has raised $15 million in Series A funding led by Talis Capital. Since then, it’s expanded its reach to 31 countries in Europe and North America, and grown its team to 20 people, with plans to hire more.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 8, 2021

a banking-as-a-service (BaaS) platform that aims to build “DeFi for traditional finance,” has raised $16 million in a Series A round of funding led by CM Ventures. Its team is building beyond the API layer to produce more white label user interfaces. Today, they still have to have an engineering team to do that.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

German startup Dance has raised $19.4 But today’s funding round will be helpful as the company plans to double the size of its team with new hires in operations and engineering. Dance will expand to more cities across Europe starting in 2022. million in new funding (€16.5 Eurazeo is leading today’s funding round.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

Europe and Asia, including Michael Novogratz’s, participated in the round. In total, Alerzo has raised more than $20 million since its launch. “Growing up in Ibadan, I watched my mother operate two informal retail stores to raise my three siblings and me. The company is announcing a $10.5

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

In May of last year, Covariant announced that it had raised a $40 million Series B. Today’s news also includes the addition of some high-profile team members, including Raghavendra Prabhu as head of Engineering and Research, Ally Lynch as head of Marketing and Sam Cauthen as head of People. Image Credits: Covariant.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2021

Companies recently capturing investment dollars for similar technology include Sift, which raised $50 million in April for a valuation of over $1 billion, and Socure , which announced $100 million in Series D funding at a $1.3 As such, he intends to use the new funding to hire developers across Europe and in the U.S. billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

Ardoq is based out of Oslo and about 30% of its enterprise client base is in the Nordics; the rest is spread between Europe and the U.S. This is a significant round for Ardoq, which had up to now raised less than $40 million since being founded in 2013. The full list includes the likes of Carlsberg, Condé Nast and the U.S.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2022

The two met through the startup’s investor Cathay Innovation , and the acqui-hire will pave the way for Laiye’s entry into the Europe market, said Wang. In Paris, Laiye is slated to assemble a product and engineering force, building on top of Mindsay’s 30-people team. Laiye CEO Guanchun Wang. Image Credits: Laiye.

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The Verge

MARCH 18, 2021

The growing popularity of electric bikes has raised a lot of exciting possibilities about the future of transportation, but it also presents a number of unique challenges. Rather than send them to a landfill, one major bike manufacturer is teaming up with a co-founder of Tesla to ensure those batteries have a second life.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Clerkenwell Health , a psychedelic-specialist clinical research organisation, has raised £2.1 Investors include Lionheart Ventures, Convergence Partners and Exceptional Ventures, which was co-founded by Paolo Pio (former MD Europe at Joyance Partners) and Matt Cooper (who was part of the founding team at Capital One Bank in the 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. This helps recruiters to build teams in other regions without worrying about the lengthy recruitment process and paperwork.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2022

Bfree , a Nigerian credit management fintech, has embarked on global expansion after raising $1.7 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

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

LatticeFlow , a startup that was spun out of Zurich’s ETH in 2020, helps machine learning teams improve their AI vision models by automatically diagnosing issues and improving both the data and the models themselves. It’s this customer demand that led LatticeFlow to raise at this point. to help build trustworthy AI systems.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

A few years ago, Richard Schrems was working as a human resources consultant in Riyadh, and at one point sought to implement a tech-solution for his clients to help them better their huge teams, but couldn’t find a localized solution. raises $5M, embarks on MENA growth by Annie Njanja originally published on TechCrunch

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

French startup Alma is raising a $59.4 In addition to today’s equity round, Alma is raising a credit line of $25.5 Thanks to the new influx of cash, the startup plans to triple the size of its team and reach €1 billion in annual payment volume within two years. million Series B funding round (€49 million).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

Routefusion just raised another $10.5 million in a “seed prime” round, bringing the company’s total institutional funding raised to date to $14.1 Angel investors Sherwin Gandhi (co-founder of Jeeves) and Aldrin Clement (co-founder of Novel Bank) also backed Routefusion in the “seed prime” raise.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The brilliant team at the museum set out to find a bigger space and ran a successful capital campaign to expand to a much larger location. Here are four different donor motivations and how you can use them in your fundraising to raise more gifts from members for your museum, cultural, or arts organization : 1.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2022

That’s where WATI (WhatsApp Team Inbox) steps in. Today the Hong Kong and Malaysia-headquartered startup announced it has raised $23 million in Series B funding to scale its team and product. million Series A announced 10 months ago, and its new round brings its total raised to more than $35 million since 2020.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

InstaDeep , a Tunis and London-based enterprise AI startup that creates decision-making systems for solving real-world problems, has raised $100 million in Series B financing led by Alpha Intelligence Capital and CDIB. The rail operator is the largest in Europe. . Advancing its computing infrastructure, expanding into the U.S.

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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.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

AeroCloud , a cloud-native airport management software startup used by dozens of airports across the world, has raised $12.6 in 2019, AeroCloud says that it’s already working with Manchester and Eindhoven airports in Europe, while in the U.S. AeroCloud, a cloud-native airport management platform, raises $12.6M

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

Ottonomy.IO , a startup working on solving delivery problems using autonomous robots, has raised $3.3 and Europe to expand its business. Vijay said the startup is also working with a couple of fleet aggregators in Europe for last-mile deliveries. The startup is also looking to expand its team. Ottonomy.IO

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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

JULY 6, 2021

Today, one of such, MAGIC Fund , a global collective of founders, is announcing that it has raised a second fund of $30 million to continue backing early-stage startups across Africa, Europe, Latin America, North America, and Southeast Asia. Your bet is entirely on the founder and the founding team. Here’s a scenario.

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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

OCTOBER 27, 2022

and over there, all throughout Europe. founding teams raised 1.2% In 2012, they raised 1.8%, then 1.7% In Europe, the story is quite similar, although 2020 was the standout year that saw women raise 2.4% In Europe, the story is quite similar, although 2020 was the standout year that saw women raise 2.4%

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

Mambu has been seeing 100% growth year-on-year, but notably, Mambu covered 50 markets when it last raised money, €30 million in 2019 , so you can argue it has some investing and expanding to do on that front. Spryker raises $130M at a $500M+ valuation to provide B2Bs with agile e-commerce tools. offices established in Miami.).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2022

Gamification and social hooks have become cornerstones across every category of consumer apps these days, and today one that’s using these to build out a new e-commerce platform in Europe is announcing a seed round to give its growth a boost. Translating that to today’s internet landscape in regions like Europe and the U.S.

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