TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

Refurbed , a European marketplace for refurbished electronics which raised a $17 million Series A round of funding last year , has now raised a $54 million Series B funding led by Evli Growth Partners and Almaz Capital. Refurbed also competes with Rebuy in Germany and Swapbee in Finland. and Amazon Renew.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

Bob W , the self-described “tech-driven” hospitality provider that offers an alternative to traditional hotels and short-stay rentals, is disclosing €10 million in seed funding. Leading the round, which included a first tranche of €4 million last year, is byFounders VC and private equity firm Finnish Industry Investment (Tesi).

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The newly launched chapters are Zagreb (Croatia), Helsinki (Finland), Istanbul (Turkey), Rome (Italy) and Kyiv (Ukraine). As promised at the end of July , the organization has now announced the launch of five new programs across the continent, doubling its European presence to ten chapters across as many countries.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

Ahead of that, it is disclosing a healthy $50 million in funding. Yahaha Studios , an Espoo, Finland-based startup with R&D based in Shanghai, has yet to launch a commercial product. It is not planning to raise any more funding ahead of that, a spokesperson tells me.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

IPRally , a burgeoning startup out of Finland aiming to solve the patent search problem, has raised €2 million in seed funding. Leading the round is by JOIN Capital, and Spintop Ventures, with participation from existing pre-seed backer Icebreaker VC. It brings the total raised by the 2018-founded company to €2.35

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

million seed round, led by Supernode Global and followed by PROfounders, Brighteye Ventures and Business Finland. With this second round of funding, we will be able to launch a string of exciting initiatives that will enable people to create experiences that have never been possible before, all using our technology.”.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

million) seed funding round led by Nielsen Ventures and Hoxton Ventures. In part that’s because those are systems the company has access to, including through a close partnership with a lab in Finland that the company wasn’t quite ready to disclose yet. million (or about $1.9

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

-based fintech that provides finance for small businesses as an alternative to a traditional bank loan or extended overdraft , has replenished its own coffers with £70 million in funding. It brings the total funding raised by Liberis to £200 million, including more than £50 million in equity funding. and the U.K.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Finland-based Wolt was founded in 2014 by Miki Kuusi, who, upon the deal closing, will run DoorDash International and report to Xu. Its most recent funding round was $530 million in January, led by Iconiq Growth, with participation from Tiger Global, DST, KKR, Prosus, EQT Growth and Coatue.

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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

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Northmill Bank , the Sweden-based challenger that has around 200,000 customers across three European countries, has raised around $30 million in new funding. Leading the round is M2 Asset Management, the Swedish investment company controlled by Rutger Arnhult, and asset management firm Coeli. Next stop, Norway.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Memmo.me , a startup allowing users to pay celebrities for personalized video messages, is announcing that it has raised $10 million in Series A funding. “We want to be the place where you can find everyone from world famous talents like a soccer or basketball star, to the local musician down the road,” he said.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

The company just raised a $12 million Series A funding round (€11 million) led by Index Ventures. Montonio currently supports all major banks in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and a few major banks in Finland. Previous investors Tera Ventures, ffVC and Superangel also participated in today’s funding round.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

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. On top of that, users can invest in what are known as exchange traded funds ( ETF s), which are essentially investment funds.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

We also want to enable European venture capital with European funds, European knowledge and European teams Cédric O. New financial incentive to create 10 to 20 large VC funds. Let’s start with late-stage funding. Our goal is to create 10 to 20 funds with more than €1 billion. More countries should join the list soon.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Lunar , the Nordic challenger bank that started out life as a personal finance manager app (PFM) but acquired a full banking license in 2019, has raised €40 million in Series C funding from existing investors. Klarna is enormous in Sweden, but relatively small in Denmark, Norway and Finland”. Augustinus Fabrikker.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

On the heels of Amazon about to launch a new enterprise service to detect whether a machine is working well or not based on external physical changes in sound, vibration and temperature, a startup that has already built a big business in the space is announcing a big growth round of funding.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

StudentFinance , a European fintech that funds educational programs for individuals through so-called income share agreements , has raised €39 million ($41 million) in a Series A round of funding. “ This is an area we will be increasingly investing in.” “We’re on a mission to plug this gap across Europe.

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DECEMBER 6, 2022

Oda , one of the bigger players in online grocery delivery in Europe with operations in its home market of Norway as well as Finland and Germany, today announced that it had raised 1.5 Oda says that its focus now will be on getting profitable in Germany and Finland for expanding elsewhere. million) in equity through debt conversion.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

Lookout’s long-running transition to becoming an enterprise security company is all but complete, revealing today that it’s selling its consumer mobile security business to Finland’s F-Secure in a deal valued at around $223 million.

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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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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2021

StudentFinance launched in Spain first, followed by Germany and Finland, with the U.K. Fintech startup StudentFinance — which allows educational institutions to offer success-based financing for students — has raised a $5.3 million (€4.5 million) seed round co-led by Giant Ventures and Armilar Venture Partners. It’s now raised $6.6

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 9, 2023

million funding round ($13.3 Société Générale Ventures, ADEME Investissement, Demeter, la Banque des Territoires and Colam Impact are participating in today’s funding round. Qarnot already rolled out a pilot data center in Finland with 100kW of compute. It has raised a €12.5 million at today’s exchange rate).

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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. raised $20 million.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Today, one of the early movers in building solutions for that market is announcing a round of funding to double down on the opportunity. They include EQT Ventures, Atomico, strategic backer Volvo Car Tech Fund, Lifeline Ventures and Tesi, the Finnish government VC and PE fund; with new backers Mirabaud and Foxconn also participating.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Today a startup that has been focusing on one specific aspect of payments — recurring billing — is announcing a round of funding to capitalize on that growth with expansion of its own.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

New funds, partner changes, the funding rounds themselves — the list is long. Lately, we’ve had to touch on rolling funds, solo GPs and a faster-than-ever investing cadence that has rewritten the rules of venture investing. funds with an angle on technology.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 18, 2021

In 1999, the Greenpeace national offices in Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway united to form one regional entity: Greenpeace Nordic. The scale of the organisation’s work means that both funds and people are critical. With strength in numbers, collaboration is key. Greater agility through strong processes.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

million from Finnfund , an impact investor out of Finland. Finnfund’s financing is coming in the form of a convertible note — meaning it could convert into equity in a potential future funding round. When KaiOS announced funding in 2019, it said that some 100 million devices using its OS had been shipped.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

million) in an equity round of funding led by Bosch Ventures (RBVC), with participation from Porsche, the U.K. government’s National Security Strategic Investment Fund (NSSIF), and a host of additional investors. Elsewhere over the past year, Finland’s IQM , France’s Alice&Bob , and U.K.-based

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Scalapay , a buy now, pay later (BNPL) technology provider that has made significant headway with retailers and consumers in Europe and in categories like fashion, has closed a round of funding that it will be using to fuel its expansion ambitions. The startup has raised $155 million at a $700 million valuation.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Sorry, Finland, we love you, honestly. With $20 million in new funding, it helps fintech companies test and deploy those tweaks without a developer, Kyle reports. million in funding to solve this problem with a no-code way to design online storefronts using just one tool, Christine writes. Whoops — we updated the headline.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Finland’s Wolt is also active in the market. ” In the meanwhile, the seed funding will be used to spin up Pop Market’s domestic sprint, with a plan for rapid expansion across Greece — building out its nascent network of dark stores (it has four currently), scaling the supply chain and growing the team.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2022

However, even the most well-funded EV startups have had trouble making it to production recently. Sono switched gears in April and signed a contract with a new partner, Valmet Automotive , which manufactures in Finland. The solar bus kit. Sono’s solar bus kit includes 8 square-meters of solar panels that provide around 1.4

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Our goal at Salesforce.org in delivering our own nonprofit trends report each year is to better understand: the role nonprofits have in serving their communities, what’s shifting within the nonprofit space, mental health and wellbeing, and how technology supports an organization’s ability to fund and run their missions across departments.

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JULY 7, 2022

But Ojansuu says that his view was shaped by his experiences working with customers at Gapps, a Finland-based Google Workspace reseller he helped to co-found in 2010. . Ojansuu recognizes his bias — he co-founded Happeo , a startup developing intranet software to connect employees with company tools.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

.” The Finnish startup was only founded last year — taking in a pre-seed round of funding from Nordic Makers prior to getting backing from YC — where it will be presenting at the accelerator’s demo day next week. But Rauhala won’t comment on any additional fund raising plans at this stage.).

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