TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2022

Mubadala Investment Company is leading the founding round with Abu Dhabi Growth Fund (ADG), Alpha Wave Global, Sequoia Capital and Tiger Global also participating. That’s why these instant delivery startups have been raising mega rounds of funding. Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Portugal and the U.S. “We

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2020

million seed round led by Indico Capital Partners , alongside the Social Innovation Fund in Portugal (SIF) and previous investors. With this investment round, Nutrium plans to double the team size in the next 24 months in order to focus on platform development and expand global sales in markets like Spain, France, Italy, the U.S.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2021

The round is led by sector-focused VC fund Owl Ventures. The new funding will be put toward product development and supporting the platform’s global expansion, per Khudir. The new funding will be put toward product development and supporting the platform’s global expansion, per Khudir.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

Those specific investments were from Playfair’s inaugural fund which wasn’t focused on any particular “stage” of company. “I’d say probably half the funding in our portfolio is pre-product, pre-traction,” Playfair managing partner Chris Smith explained to TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2022

” And despite some debate around France’s exact unicorn tally, the consensus is that Macron’s goal has actually been reached this year. French economic newspaper “La Tribune” did the math : For France to be home to 100 unicorns by 2030, it will need to add nine or 10 unicorns a year. billion in India.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

It’s only been a few months since Lili announced its $10 million seed round , and it’s already raised more funding — namely, a $15 million Series A. Bar David said the startup decided to raise more funding to expand its engineering team and further accelerate its growth. Lili raises $10M for its freelancer banking app.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

raised $696 million) and Ankorstore (France, raised €115 million). France and Netherlands. Its competitors include traditional wholesalers that have supplied independent retailers for decades, and other startups such as Faire (U.S., It says its cataloging software allows retailers to deal with fewer middlemen.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 27, 2022

Global plastic waste has more than doubled , and 40% of that waste comes from packaging. Woola (Estonia), Papkot (France), Biotic (Israel), FunCell (France) and Traceless (Germany). The investment will be used to fund the opening of its first raw material production plant. one • five (Germany), Shellworks (U.K.),

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

French startup Qonto has raised a $552 million Series D funding round (€486 million). It currently operates in France, Germany, Italy and Spain. Tiger Global and TCV are leading today’s funding round. Existing investors Valar, Alven, DST Global and Tencent are putting more money on the table as well.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

The protests come just as the New York Times reports that the Seattle-based company has been on a hiring spree this year, expanding its global workforce. Today there’s a global day of action with strikes, protests, and stunts across five continents,” James Schneider, the communications director for Progressive International, tells The Verge.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

How to win consulting, board and deal roles with PE and VC funds. We propose that governments should systematically support funding for their diaspora founders, not just founders locally. There are three main players in any tech ecosystem: The first are founders who want to build companies and need funding.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

The company, headquartered in France, has developed a SaaS-based visual e-merchandising platform with tools for creating 3D images for e-commerce. And, the company announced $100 million in Series B funding Tuesday, which quickly follows a $15 million Series A round announced in February.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

A startup that has built payroll automation software to make the process less painful, Pento, has raised $35 million in a Series B round of funding co-led by Tiger Global Management and Avid Ventures. The investment marks Tiger Global’s first time investing in London-based Pento.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 6, 2021

million ($6 million) in a seed round of funding led by Octopus Ventures and Connect Ventures. They were joined by investors Village Global, and the founders of Wagestream, Peter Briffett and Portman Wills. Libeo in France is also offering something similar. based open banking bulk payment startup Comma has raised £4.34

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

Globally, $2.6 Berlin-based Choco , which has built ordering software for restaurants and their suppliers, is working to digitize the food supply chain and announced $100 million in Series B funding, led by Left Lane Capital, to give it a $600 million post-market valuation. trillion annually is lost. million round in 2019 and a $30.2

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

The Singapore-based company announced today that it has raised $640 million in Series E funding to expand its products, which combine computer vision and cloud-based software to help brick-and-mortar stores manage their inventory, merchandising and operations. Other participants included new investors OMERS and Sony Innovation Fund by IGV.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2021

The Argentina-based fraud and identity protection company announced $12 million in Series B funding Monday from backers including software developer, Globant, as well as Agrega Partners, NXTP Ventures, Bridge One, the IDB Lab and Telefónica. As such, he intends to use the new funding to hire developers across Europe and in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Cylus , a Tel Aviv-based rail cybersecurity startup, built a cybersecurity solution, CylusOne, to protect the global mainline and urban railway companies from an array of threats and risks. The latest capital brings its total funding to over $57 million. The company did not disclose its post-money valuation. . billion by 2027. .”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2021

New investors include angels like Gokul Rajaram and Emilie Choi, founders and employees from Wealthsimple, Orum, Alloy, Chime, Square and funds/syndicates in addition to Primer Capital, Gaingels and Moving Capital. Why global investors are flocking to back Latin American startups. million since its 2019 inception.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The startups on these lists are supposed to be respectively the top 40 and top 120 top-performing startups based in France. As for the remaining 80 startups in the French Tech 120: 40 of them have raised more than €20 million in a funding round over the past three years. 36 of them are appearing on the list for the first time.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2021

Just over three months after its last funding round, European fintech giant Klarna is announcing today that it has raised another $639 million at a staggering post-money valuation of $45.6 and plans to use its new capital in part to continue to grow there and globally. The new valuation represents a 47.3%

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2021

France and Germany. Woola’s previous investors include the co-founders of Pipedrive, Bolt and the angel fund Lemonade Stand. Woola says this is enough to fulfill 120% of the global bubble wrap demand. Woola opened a production facility in Estonia and launched its first product in December 2020. It’s now expanding to the U.K.,

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

We could therefore use the donated funds to scan a dozen more books, so they can be converted into accessible formats: Inventing Wine: A New History of One of the World’s Most Ancient Pleasures , by Paul Lukacs; The Science of James Bond: From Bullets to Bowler Hats to Boat Jumps, the Real Technology Behind 007’s Fabulous Films , by Lois H.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Sunday , a startup that didn’t exist just a few months ago, has raised a $100 million Series A funding round. Today’s funding round is led by Coatue with participation from partners of DST Global. Christine de Wendel was previously the head of France at Zalando and the COO of ManoMano. Spain, France and Canada.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

In November, the company raised $60 million in equity and debt for its Series B , which it used to fund further software development and more vehicles to expand. The additional funds, which bring Zoomo’s total funding up to $101.5 Our investors will help bring us one step closer to making this a reality.”.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

Fireblocks , an infrastructure provider for digital assets, has raised $310 million in a Series D round of funding that tripled the company’s valuation to $2.2 The latter is the third global bank to invest in Fireblocks in addition to the Bank of New York (BNY) Mellon and SVB Capital. . billion in just over five months.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

When Acorns last raised funding, $300 million in March 2022, it was valued at $2 billion; GoHenry has not disclosed its valuation but was believed to be valued at between $250 million and $500 million in October 2022, when it raised $55 million. France, Italy and Spain. Hill said GoHenry too always had the intention to globalize.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Lugano, Switzerland-based venture capital fund Privilège Ventures just launched its fourth fund. The CHF 20 million (just over $20 million) fund is earmarked for women-led early-stage startups across Europe. “We “The data shows women in the driver’s seat produce better ROI.” “The numbers are staggering. .”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Sencrop from France has raised $12 million, Augmenta (Greece) is a yield boosting platform that has raised $11.2 million and Ekylibre (France) is an open source ERP for farmers which has raised an undisclosed Series A. It has now raised $100 million in funding led by Morningside Group, a Boston-based private equity and impact VC firm.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Our perspective on the matter is hardly unique: Techstars recently announced two new programs on the continent, one in France and one in Sweden, indicating that it too sees lots to like in Europe.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Fruitz was co-founded by Julian Kabab (CEO), Fabrice Bascoulergue (CTO), and Arnaud Ruols (CFO) and initially launched in France on Feb. million times globally across the App Store and Google Play, according to Sensor Tower data. It also prompts users to answer questions that serve ice breakers before messaging their match. As of Feb.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

Tiger Global is investing $114 million (€100 million) in the startup. Following today’s funding round, the company says that is has reached a valuation of more than $1.14 Funding news has been accelerating over the last few months in France. billion (more than €1 billion). In the U.S.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2021

In a similar vein, Shift Technology in France has raised $100 million. It was seed funded buy Amadeus in 2020. Niels Thoné, CEO of Sprout.ai, said in a statement: “Sprout.ai’s mission is to revolutionize customer service within global claims automation. It has now gone on to raise $44.1 raises $2.5M to speed up insurance claims.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

million seed funding round led by Giant Ventures , along with the Danish government’s Danish Green Future Fund. Agriculture has deep roots in Denmark, a historically proud farming nation, which is why the company was born here, but we are scaling across Europe and intend to expand globally.” France-based Soil Capital.

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Candid

JULY 2, 2021

billion, $420 million, and $100 million, respectively, over five years in support of efforts to advance gender equality globally. The Bill & Melinda Gates , Ford , and Open Society foundations have announced commitments of $2.1

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The funding is a $154 million equity round from investors including returning investors Andreessen Horowitz and Premji Invest, and a $150 million structured financing deal from Coatue. TripActions , a corporate travel and expenses company, has raised a combination of equity and debt at a post-money valuation of $9.2

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2022

An ambitious Chinese startup wants a slice of the flourishing global work automation market. Laiye, a Beijing-based company that provides a one-stop platform for automating office tasks of varying degrees of complexity, just picked up $160 million from a Series C funding round to expand globally. Laiye CEO Guanchun Wang.

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