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. It also works with upskilling platforms including Ironhack and Le Wagon.

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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

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

million from Finnfund , an impact investor out of Finland. It’s been a while since KaiOS raised (or more specifically disclosed) outside investment: its last funding was in 2019, when it raised $50 million from investors including Cathay Innovation, Google and TCL.

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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. Finland, Sweden, Czech Republic and Slovakia). Liberis raises £57.5M To date, 2007-founded Liberis has provided over £500 million in financing to 16,000 SMEs across Europe, the U.S. and the U.K.

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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

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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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

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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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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

A hospital or clinic posts available shifts, then nurses can peruse opportunities, claim open spots and be paid the same day through the platform. They have arguably the largest network of nurses in the United States for this type of platform,” Richard Liu, a partner at FTV Capital, tells TechCrunch. Studies from the U.S.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

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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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. The platform and financing is currently available in Spain, Portugal, and the U.K., ” Prior to now, StudentFinance had raised a $5.3

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FEBRUARY 4, 2013

We are committed to regularly raising the bar on the level of accessibility we can offer. 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).

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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

JANUARY 9, 2023

It has raised a €12.5 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. And French startup Qarnot is standardizing its process to reuse fatal heat and turn it into an asset. million funding round ($13.3

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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. . 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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Sorry, Finland, we love you, honestly. 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. COOOOVID : Visible launches activity-tracking platform to tackle long COVID, Paul reports. Whoops — we updated the headline.

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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. . Fighting for a greener future.

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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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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. It is not planning to raise any more funding ahead of that, a spokesperson tells me.

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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

AUGUST 3, 2021

Stuart Chapman: I co-founded Esprit with Simon Cook back in 2006, and after a 10-year journey of raising conventional funds, we were coming to the point of raising our fourth fund. When we started out on the AIM, we raised capital from professional funds’ tech enthusiasts, who were positively biased. It’s the former.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

PortalOne converges gaming, shows and the broader entertainment industry into one platform in a really fun and engaging way. And particularly, how we can recreate the connections that we make in the physical world in the digital version, leveraging the unique accessibility and reach that the digital platform offers.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The company is turning to crowdfunding to raise money for the vegan alternative. We don’t really buy that : India’s regulators are now moving forward with new rules to curb fake reviews on e-commerce platforms , Jagmeet writes. Slush is an annual tech conference that happens, of course, in Helsinki, Finland.

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