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

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 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

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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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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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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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. No cloudy days here : Amazon is pouring more money into India, this time $4.4 Whoops — we updated the headline. That was yesterday. Popup grabbed $3.5 Startups and VC.

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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

DECEMBER 8, 2020

“We didn’t have a lot of money,” he tells me. “My Backed by the likes of Sequoia, Silverlake, and Atomico, a new $650 million funding round in September gave the company a whopping $10.65 If a bank is partly about corralling enough users on to your platform to pay money in and out, Klarna is well on its way.

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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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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

“We didn’t have a lot of money,” he tells me. “My Backed by the likes of Sequoia, Silverlake, and Atomico, a new $650 million funding round in September gave the company a whopping $10.65 If a bank is partly about corralling enough users on to your platform to pay money in and out, Klarna is well on its way.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2023

Even for one of the richest men in the world, $44 billion is a lot of money to cough up to buy a middling social platform. Twitter removes ‘government-funded’ news labels Twitter has removed “government-funded media” labels on all accounts, from NPR to the Chinese state-affiliated Xinhua News.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Now, banking on the idea that both professional developers and more casual enthusiasts are going to want to build even more mobile games in the future, an Israeli startup called Kooply is announcing funding from key investors to build out a mobile games development platform.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

Up until this point, Gale Healthcare Solutions has been entirely self funded. For instance, one study across acute care hospitals in England, Belgium, Ireland, Spain, Finland and Switzerland found that for every 10% reduction in the proportion of professional nurses at a hospital resulted in an 11% in odds of death.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

It’s also in the top 10 in Great Britain, the Netherlands, Australia, Finland, and New Zealand. The company has an undisclosed amount of funding. For the time being, however, Push it is not making money. But Sensor Tower data indicates the app has already gone viral in five countries as of today. It’s No.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

The country makes far too much money from oil, giving it one of the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds and a large system of socialized support. Local investors tend to invest 50% to 90% of their fund into local startups, “but we do look at deal flow in all Nordic countries,” said one. and Nomono. More than 50%?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Flipkart CEO Kalyan Krishnamurthy doesn’t mince words when he warns startups that “a lot of turmoil and volatility” is in the funding forecast over the next 12 to 18 months, Manish reports. The company is turning to crowdfunding to raise money for the vegan alternative. Startups and VC. Det skal ikke skje igjen, folkens! .

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