TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

Now, a startup founded by veterans from Unity, Microsoft and EA that is building a new platform for creators to build immersive games, and related communities around like-minded people, is gearing up to launch later this year. Ahead of that, it is disclosing a healthy $50 million in funding.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

The concept probably reminds you of Cameo (indeed, Carole Baskin of “Tiger King” fame has a presence on both platforms), but while Cameo is U.S.-based, “We want to be the place where you can find everyone from world famous talents like a soccer or basketball star, to the local musician down the road,” he said.

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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. aggregation platform OpenWrks.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

Along with that news, it’s launching a crypto trading platform and B2B payments for its small and medium business customers. 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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Payments made a huge shift to digital platforms during the COVID-19 pandemic — purchasing moved online for many consumers and businesses, and a large proportion of those continuing to buy and sell in-person went cash-free. Apple lowers commissions on in-app purchases for news publishers who participate in Apple News. “We

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

Lightyear’s expansion includes the following markets: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain. And less than a year after first launching to early U.K.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

million from Finnfund , an impact investor out of Finland. It began life in 2017 as a fork of Firefox OS , which was an ill-fated attempt by Mozilla and partners to build a viable smartphone platform competitor to Google-backed Android and Apple’s iOS. KaiOS, the feature phone platform startup, raises a modest $3.4M

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2021

StudentFinance launched in Spain first, followed by Germany and Finland, with the U.K. It also works with upskilling platforms including Ironhack and Le Wagon. Kostelec and Santo Amaro previously built Uniplaces, which raised $30 million as a student housing platform in Europe. million (€4.5 It’s now raised $6.6

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Of course, Mario Kart is just one of the experiences the platform offers. million seed round, led by Supernode Global and followed by PROfounders, Brighteye Ventures and Business Finland. It’s a pretty broad range, all told, from pinball to battling robots to claw machines. Today the Finnish startup announced that it has closed a $2.5

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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. The company has over 4,000 employees across 23 countries and its technology enables users to easily discover and receive food via its platform by selecting a restaurant, placing the order and hitting send.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The free Stadia Premier Edition offer will run in the US, UK, Ireland, Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Austria, and Switzerland. Google’s free offer will run until 11:59PM PT on October 10th, and codes will be distributed by October 20th.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Finland, Sweden, Czech Republic and Slovakia). Straathof says that by integrating Liberis’ business finance platform into a partner’s existing ecosystem and customer experience, the fintech is able to provide “instant value” for its partners and the SMEs they support. and the U.K. the product is available in five new countries: U.S.,

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Founded in 2015 , Wolt is a Finland-based company that contracts out couriers to deliver takeout, groceries, and other goods to customers in 23 countries mainly throughout Europe. DoorDash has agreed to acquire the food delivery company Wolt for €7 billion (about $8.1 billion) with plans to expand its reach to Europe (via TechCrunch ).

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Tableau

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

These power users of the native analytics and AI solution for Salesforce love to share their expertise on the specialized platform and build bridges between the Salesforce Trailblazer community and the Tableau Community. . moderating content, and providing feedback on the platform. They have wide-ranging backgrounds, too.

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Tableau

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

These power users of the native analytics and AI solution for Salesforce love to share their expertise on the specialized platform and build bridges between the Salesforce Trailblazer community and the Tableau Community. . moderating content, and providing feedback on the platform. They have wide-ranging backgrounds, too.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

As such, the EC said that it has received requests from Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden to look at the deal and determine whether there is a case to answer. is also making initial enquiries.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

As such, a slew of VC-backed student funding platforms have emerged of a similar ilk to StudentFinance, including San Francisco–based YC alum Blair , New York’s Leif , and Arlington’s Vemo Education. The platform and financing is currently available in Spain, Portugal, and the U.K.,

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 9, 2023

It generates more hot water and it increases the total compute power of the Qarnot platform. Qarnot already rolled out a pilot data center in Finland with 100kW of compute. Buildings or neighborhoods are still going to use electricity or natural gas directly for those cold winter nights. Image Credits: Qarnot.

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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 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.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

I got an order in Finland, an order in Ireland. TikTok has been such a successful platform for Danny Wang, the founder of a luxury pool landscaping company in Orange County, California, that it’s become pretty much his entire job. People that I probably will never even meet face to face are seeing my products and what I’m doing.”.

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The Verge

MAY 12, 2021

The WNBA says this “marks the first time Prime Video has exclusive global streaming rights to a women’s professional sports league,” but the rights don’t extend to every country — China, Japan, the UK, Italy, Spain, Finland, and Germany are all left out. Friday, June 4 – Dallas @ Seattle, 10 p.m.

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Tableau

JANUARY 6, 2022

When looking for viz-piration, browsing Tableau Public —a free platform to explore, create, and publicly share data visualizations—is an excellent place to start. Priceless. . Data viz inspiration. Now you know about the challenge, the next thing to consider is what to viz. The fine print. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY.

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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. . The platform brings resources and apps together in a searchable home portal, with a launcher that allows employees to jump into different software. .

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Tableau

JANUARY 6, 2022

When looking for viz-piration, browsing Tableau Public —a free platform to explore, create, and publicly share data visualizations—is an excellent place to start. Data viz inspiration. Now you know about the challenge, the next thing to consider is what to viz. There are millions of vizzes to explore, covering numerous topics and data sets.

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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. Now in its 50 th year, the Greenpeace movement has spread across the globe, becoming the world’s largest independent environmental organisation. . With strength in numbers, collaboration is key.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Sorry, Finland, we love you, honestly. COOOOVID : Visible launches activity-tracking platform to tackle long COVID, Paul reports. Ivan writes that Indian social network Koo is one such platform gaining popularity in Brazil, but that is turning into a number of challenges, including how to manage moderation. That was yesterday.

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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. upr’s previous startups was a restaurant delivery business, acquired by Delivery Hero ) to build its platform.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Finland’s Wolt is also active in the market. Being the only fully-dedicated ‘Quick-Commerce’ platform in the market is the only way to truly offer an unparalleled customer experience and capture consumer mindshare. On-demand delivery app Glovo is spinning up a B2B logistics unit for super speedy urban delivery.

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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. Affirm spinout Resolve raises $60M for its B2B ‘buy now, pay later’ platform.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

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. Combined, Klarna is processing over 1 million transactions per day through its platform. On the back of this, the company hopes to foster a bigger financial relationship with its users as a fully-fledged bank.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

Talking about innovation in venture capital models, what’s the main motivation for your use of retail investment platform PrimaryBid? UK’s PrimaryBid raises $50M as its retail investing platform sees a COVID-19 surge of activity. Finland, for example, had 80 programs to raise early-stage capital.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2023

The Tesla and SpaceX CEO first announced his bid to buy Twitter in April 2022, zealously driven to rid the platform of spam bots and protect free speech. 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. By October, the platform was his.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

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. Combined, Klarna is processing over 1 million transactions per day through its platform. On the back of this, the company hopes to foster a bigger financial relationship with its users as a fully-fledged bank.

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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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Other new international partners in 2012 include the National Library of Korea, Royal New Zealand Institute for the Blind, Studiebogservice (Denmark), South African Library for the Blind, and Celia Library (Finland). Another growing trend is that everyone is a publisher.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

As it turns out, Push It is the latest creation from the makers of the Snapchat platform app, Sendit , which features AR games and anonymous Q&As. It’s also in the top 10 in Great Britain, the Netherlands, Australia, Finland, and New Zealand. And how is this app No. Image Credits: fullsenders. It’s No. 1 in the U.S.,

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