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Financing for students startup StudentFinance raises $5.3M seed from Giant and Armilar

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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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Nordic neobank Lunar raises $77M at $2B valuation, launches crypto trading platform and B2B payments

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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. From what I understand, it is already raising its Series E, which is expected to close in May of this year at an even higher valuation. Augustinus Fabrikker.

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France’s strategy for EU startup policies: Talent and money

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With this new mechanism, fund managers should be able to raise a new fund more easily. Some national investment banks have also announced that they’ll invest money directly in large late-stage funds. And he strongly believes that the ability to raise large growth rounds in Europe will lead to large tech companies down the road.

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Sweden’s Tink raises $103M as its open banking platform grows to 3,400 banks and 250M customers

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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). Unit raises $18.6M

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Scalapay raises $155M at a $700M valuation as buy now, pay later services continue to boom

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The startup has raised $155 million at a $700 million valuation. Scalapay has now raised $203 million in total.). 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.

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Oda, the Norwegian grocery delivery startup, raises a fresh $151M, but at a lowered valuation of $353M

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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. ” Updated with comments from Karl Munthe-Kaas.

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Czech on-demand grocery delivery startup Rohlik bags $230M to expand across Europe

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Gorillas, the on-demand grocery delivery startup taking Berlin by storm, has raised $44M Series A. Last year, we reported that Dija — a new startup from former Deliveroo employees in London — was raising a round; Gorillas in Berlin raised $44 million in December; Ocado in the U.K. raised $20 million.

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