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

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. ” Cameo raises $50M to deliver personalized messages from celebrities & influencers. . Memmo has now raised a total of $12 million.

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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

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 3, 2022

Synthetic aperture radar imaging startup ICEYE has raised $136 million in a new Series D funding round, bringing its total raised to date to $304 million and making it one of the most well-capitalized space startups outside of SpaceX. subsidiary, which also began operating its own manufacturing facility last year.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2021

Fintech startup StudentFinance — which allows educational institutions to offer success-based financing for students — has raised a $5.3 It’s now raised $6.6 StudentFinance launched in Spain first, followed by Germany and Finland, with the U.K. million (€4.5 million total, to date. planned this year.

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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

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

quantum computing company Quantum Motion has raised £42 million ($50.5 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. John Morton (CTO), and Prof.

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TechCrunch

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. billion, or $353 million.

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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”. Klarna raises $650 million at a $10.6

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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. It brings the total raised by the 2018-founded company to €2.35 Leading the round is by JOIN Capital, and Spintop Ventures, with participation from existing pre-seed backer Icebreaker VC.

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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 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. Wolt has raised over $850 million to date, according to its Crunchbase profile.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The company, which was co-founded by Oxford professor Andrew Briggs , tech entrepreneur Vishal Chatrath , the company’s chief scientist Natalia Ares and head of quantum technologies Dominic Lennon , today announced that it has raised a £1.4 million) seed funding round led by Nielsen Ventures and Hoxton Ventures.

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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

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. which is listed here but is run like a startup) raised more than $1 billion.

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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

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. Up-and-coming enterprise startups in NYC.

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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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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. ” Prior to now, StudentFinance had raised a $5.3 “ This is an area we will be increasingly investing in.”

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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. Launching out of stealth initially in the U.K. launch plans back in 2020.

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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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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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JANUARY 9, 2023

It has raised a €12.5 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. million at today’s exchange rate).

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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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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. Fighting for a greener future. With strength in numbers, collaboration is key.

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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

The seed round, which Pop Market claims is the country’s largest seed raise to date, was led by Global Founders Capital and 468 Capital. TechCrunch can confirm the startup has raised $3.5 Finland’s Wolt is also active in the market. “The biggest players in this market today are efood and Wolt.

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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. . Last July, Simpplr raised $32 million for its tools to build intranet sites. ” Using Happeo’s editing tools to build an intranet portal.

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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

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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FEBRUARY 4, 2013

One of the biggest changes to Bookshare in the last ten years has been in the area of education, through funding from the Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP). We are committed to regularly raising the bar on the level of accessibility we can offer. Thanks again!

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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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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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