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. Refurbished electronics startup Refurbed raises $17M round, led by Evli Growth Partners. and Amazon Renew.

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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

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

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. Notably, this will include plans to launch in 10 new markets as Northmill aims to step on the gas. Next stop, Norway.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

It brings the total funding raised by Liberis to £200 million, including more than £50 million in equity funding. The new funds will be used to fuel company growth, launch new products and markets, and provide additional customer financing solutions,” says the fintech. Finland, Sweden, Czech Republic and Slovakia). and the U.K.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Tink , a startup out of Stockholm, Sweden that aggregates a number of banks and financial services by way of an API so that those can in turn be accessed via new channels, has raised €85 million (or $103 million at current rates), at a post-money valuation of €680 million (or around $825 million). It has now raised €175 million in total.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

The startup has raised €70 million ($77 million at today’s rates), at what I understand from a person close to the company to be a $2 billion post-money valuation. It’s random enough of an endorsement that it becomes humorous in itself, exactly the kind of vehicle you associate with Ferrell in his less marketing-focused pursuits.

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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. 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.

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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

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 This represents a big devaluation for the company, which says it is profitable in some (but not all) of its markets.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The startup has raised $155 million at a $700 million valuation. Scalapay has now raised $203 million in total.). Ramping up in this way underscores just how hot the BNPL market is right now, and also how the startup has been faring within that. Why Square is shelling out $29B to snag BNPL player Afterpay.

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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

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 Arvela cites industry giants like Clarivate and Questel that dominate the market with traditional keyword search engines.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Smartphone shipments have been declining in what has been a rough year for mobile handsets, and that’s meant even more pressure on an already-precarious sliver of the mobile market: feature phones. million from Finnfund , an impact investor out of Finland. But things haven’t played out as expected.

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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. “The early stage is the most recession-proof business, both for founders and investors, as you are likely to always grow faster than markets can go down,” Ahopelto said.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

Launched in a number of Nordics markets, and on the verge of opening properties in London, the startup seems to be weathering the pandemic, reaching occupancy rates as high as 90% at its existing properties in Estonia and Finland. 10 proptech investors see better era for residential and retail after pandemic.

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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

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Talking about the acquisition, Tony Xu, co-founder and CEO of DoorDash said in a statement that the move “will accelerate our product development, bring greater focus to each of our markets and improve the value we provide to consumers, merchants, as well as Dashers and couriers around the world.”.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Researchers estimate that the market size (revenues and services) for subscription and recurring billing will be close to $6 billion this year, with that number ballooning to well over $10 billion by 2025. “We have a very good relationship,” he said.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

The market for space observation is one of the few commercialized segments of the nascent industry and could be worth upwards of $8 billion by the end of the decade, according to some estimates. Between them, these founders have raised roughly $450 million for their respective companies.

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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 is a multi-faceted product that has been specifically designed for its home market and its neighbor countries — but the startup thinks it could work all around Europe. That’s much cheaper than card payments.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Augury , which works with large enterprises like Colgate and Heineken to maintain machines in their production and distribution lines, has raised $55 million in funding. In terms of the wider industrial market, the funding and Augury’s growth are coming at a key moment. Up-and-coming enterprise startups in NYC.

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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. “We also use data from analyzing systemic and market changes such as government incentives for companies to become ‘greener.’

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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. Lightyear , a U.K. fintech startup that promises consumers commission-free trading on U.S.

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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. Susan Mahon is a Senior Product Marketing Manager at Salesforce.org, a social impact centre at Salesforce. Fighting for a greener future. With strength in numbers, collaboration is key.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Applications in the metaverse often feel like more of a marketing gimmick than something that a critical mass of consumers would use, let alone pay for. Today, one of the early movers in building solutions for that market is announcing a round of funding to double down on the opportunity.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

Gone are the days when investors can take weeks, let alone months, to get into a hot deal in today’s turbocharged private markets. This July, for example, London-based Forward Partners went public on the AIM , a sub-market of the well-known London Stock Exchange. It’s a great government initiative.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

With this new mechanism, fund managers should be able to raise a new fund more easily. And he strongly believes that the ability to raise large growth rounds in Europe will lead to large tech companies down the road. We are starting to see companies like Back Market or Ynsect that are better than American ones.

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TechCrunch

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

Although early tests have been limited to its home market for now. as one of the startup’s early target markets — along with the European Union and the U.S., But Rauhala won’t comment on any additional fund raising plans at this stage.). In the U.K., And Rauhala names the U.K. will open up more and quickly.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

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. Adequate nurse staffing is increasingly recognized as a major driver of patient well-being.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

billion) combined according to gaming market research firm Newzoo. That challenge is that while there are a lot of mobile games on the market already, a lot of them are not very good, either in how they are built, or how they meet what consumers want, or in how they are amplified in the world — or a combination of all three.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

How Long Does It Take for 250 Super Connected Gnomedex Geeks to raise $2,500 for Cambodian kids? Sharing Foundation Has Supporters in Finland. How To Think Like A Nonprofit Social Marketing Genius. Scored 10 How Much Time Does It Take To Do Social Media? Twitter As Charitable Gift Spreader. An Internet Lesson in Rural Cambodia.

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Engadget

MARCH 5, 2025

Volvo gave the ES90 a slightly raised ride height and its Thor's Hammer headlight design, along with its new C-shaped LED rear lamps. Volvo will release it in more markets later this year and into 2026. Owners can access the model's infotainment system on its 14.5-inch Volvo This article originally appeared on Engadget at [link]

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 9, 2025

At work, a shockingly mediocre work performance might result in a pay raise or bonus simply because you touted the corporate line. We see this reflected in the cost-cutting efforts of Elon Musks Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE ), or our obsessive monitoring of global stock market indexes. Far from it.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

We invest in strong technical founders solving big problems in markets ripe for change. We usually prefer that the company has a prototype or beta of their solution and some initial market traction. Massive market opportunity, well positioned for SDGs, and driven by megatrends (building with wood, etc.).

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NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The company is turning to crowdfunding to raise money for the vegan alternative. s Competition and Markets Authority is looking into the chip giant’s proposed $61 billion deal to buy virtualization software giant VMware. Slush is an annual tech conference that happens, of course, in Helsinki, Finland. Big Tech Inc.

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