TechSpot

JANUARY 29, 2021

Right now, only Android users in the UK, Brazil, Ireland, and France can access real-money gambling apps on the Play Store. According to 9to5Google, this will change on March 1 when they’ll be permitted in 15 new locations: Australia, Belgium, Canada, Colombia, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway,

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

18 European countries have already signed a non-binding pledge saying that they plan to contribute to this EIF’s fund of funds — Austria, Bulgaria, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden. More countries should join the list soon.

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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. The plan is to double down on more services serving the Nordics, which will include a launch into Finland, before spreading into more markets in Europe and farther afield.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

Lightyear is one of several burgeoning stock trading companies to emerge on the scene, promising an easy inroad for the general public to invest their money in some of the world’s biggest companies, from Apple and Alibaba, to Spotify and Tesla. Trading stocks. And less than a year after first launching to early U.K.

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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

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

It’s particularly appealing during the pandemic, but he predicted that celebrities will still be excited about “making this much money from their living rooms” after the pandemic ends. He added that celebrities are embracing this as a new source of income.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

Last month, Wolt in Finland — which started with restaurants but has since expanded into other areas, including grocery — raised $530 million ; Glovo in Spain picked up $120 million ; and Weezy in the U.K. Perhaps it will be next in line for a big round of money. (I’ll raised $20 million.

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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 The investment gives Oda a post-money valuation of NOK3.5 billion, or $353 million.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Respondents were from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, the Netherlands and Nordic nations (Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland). Unsurprisingly, money issues rose to the top of the discussion almost every time. The continued flow of money into the nonprofit world is welcome news. First up is finances.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The company is headquartered in Helsinki, Finland — founded and run by longtime veterans from Nokia cast asunder when that company, once a leading smartphone and mobile maker, went into a tailspin last decade — and its backers in this round include a number of big investors out of the region.

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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 is live in Sweden, U.K.,

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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. Braswell has been fronting the money to enable this feature (“there’s a lot of float there,” he notes).

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

It now works with 3,000 merchants in Europe — specifically Italy, France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Finland, Belgium, Netherlands and Austria — and it has yet to move into huge markets like the U.S. And that’s before you consider the many smaller BNPL companies that have raised and are raising money.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

“We didn’t have a lot of money,” he tells me. “My 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. And it’s true: You can’t help but be suspicious of something that gives consumers the feeling that they can spend money they might not have.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2017

Note from Beth: This week I’ve been in Finland at the invitation of the US Embassy to do trainings. On August 14th, I’m doing a FREE webinar with Soapbox Engage on how to raise more money and not burnout. Flickr Photo by Sam Livingston. So, to avoid my own burnout, please enjoy this guest post by Julie Fanning.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The company got its start working with SMBs in 2011 but pivoted some years later to working with larger enterprises, which make up the majority of its business today.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Sorry, Finland, we love you, honestly. No cloudy days here : Amazon is pouring more money into India, this time $4.4 The company has raised $26 million in a mix of debt and equity — money that the company is using to boost manufacturing this quarter and to invest in 2023 plans. Whoops — we updated the headline.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

million from Finnfund , an impact investor out of Finland. Finnfund and KaiOS said that today’s money will go towards KaiOS building out its business in sub-Saharan Africa — a major market for lower-end, low-cost devices.

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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. 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. 1 in the U.S., Canada, Bermuda, Ireland, and Norway, the firm says.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

If you’re an international Disney Plus customer who lives in the UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Austria, Switzerland, Portugal, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Australia, New Zealand, or Canada — the regions that will get access to Star starting today — that’s great news.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

“We didn’t have a lot of money,” he tells me. “My 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. And it’s true: You can’t help but be suspicious of something that gives consumers the feeling that they can spend money they might not have.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

He says it’s spun up five pilot projects over the last seven months involving commercial landlords, utilities, real estate developers and engineering companies (all in Finland for now), although — again — full customer details are not yet being disclosed.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

But going into the next generation, Microsoft is making a big bet on people wanting to spend their money on games in monthly installments. All Access will be available in 12 countries this year: Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, South Korea, Sweden, the UK, and the US.

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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. I don’t care about the economics at all.” Despite his fervent declarations about expanding “the scope and scale of consciousness” through public discourse, the billionaire got cold feet.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

The money will be used for hiring, and to continue investing in R&D and building out Kooply’s platform ahead of its launch. ” This will, he said, bring the company both into the realm of tools for experienced developers but also those who are keen to build something but might lack those technical skills.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

The junior market in London was very helpful for that, and we spent five happy years on AIM, raising money annually — until we crossed over the billion [sterling] capitalization mark. Finland, for example, had 80 programs to raise early-stage capital. And, historically, Europe has founded seed funds in a haphazard way.

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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. We expect that about 50% of our investments will be Norwegian, whereas the other 50% will be spread across Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Iceland.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The company is turning to crowdfunding to raise money for the vegan alternative. Slush is an annual tech conference that happens, of course, in Helsinki, Finland. At our TC Sessions: Crypto event last week in Miami, Darrell sat down a veritable who-is-who in crypto to talk about the crypto regulation landscape.

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