TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

When I started getting involved in clean tech 1.0 To tackle the crisis, capital must flood in and even more so than in the past few encouraging years, during which climate tech VC investment increased 40x between 2013 and 2019. We need the same urgency applied to climate tech. Not investing in climate tech is inexcusable.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

-based Amadeus Capital Partners and Austria’s Apex Ventures are pooling their collective venture capital (VC) resources for a new fund specifically targeted at early-stage deep tech startups. At the same time, deep tech funding is still low, which presents a huge opportunity for growth.”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Tech-talent marketplace MVP Match has raised €5 million ($5 million) seed funding from Stage 2 Capital to double down its strategy for pairing companies with talent from across the globe. Manara gets $3M to grow tech talent pool in the Middle East and North Africa. Gloat nabs $90M to build AI-powered internal jobs marketplaces.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Denis Kalinin works at venture fund Runa Capital as Asia Business development manager, devoted to connecting the Western and Asian VC worlds and bringing long-term value to both. China is becoming a superpower in the tech industry. and 11 years in Germany. and 11 years in Germany. funds, but three times that of U.K.

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The Verge

AUGUST 13, 2020

Tech giants shouted for change, but their donations were a whisper Big Tech responded to George Floyd’s death on May 25th in Minnesota by committing more than a billion dollars toward racial justice within a single month. That’s more than the estimated GDP of Iceland and Yemen combined, according to the International Monetary Fund ).

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

As Italy reinstates many COVID-19 restrictions, the country’s tech ecosystem is watching and waiting to see what the wider effects of the emergency will be. Italy’s ecosystem for tech venture capital and startups has been in development for years and has made decent strides in the last decade.

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TechCrunch

JULY 5, 2021

French startup ManoMano has raised a Series F funding round of $355 million led by Dragoneer Investment Group. Following today’s funding round, the company has reached a valuation of $2.6 Following today’s funding round, the company has reached a valuation of $2.6 It is currently available in six European countries.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 25, 2012

Pinned on Pinterest by the World Wildlife Fund – Germany. Posted on Facebook by the National Committee to Protect. Social Security & Medicare . Photos with Your Nonprofit’s Logo or Avatar. ”Oh, Wow” Photos. Pinned on Pinterest by WildAid. “Ah, Pretty” Photos. “Aw, Cute” Photos.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2023

The US one of the few markets where you can achieve decent scale, as well has have the potential to exit either trough a sale to one of the global tech platforms, or to the public markets. This is an unusual use of PE funds, and puts FLEX into a slightly different category to the average PE outfit. The opportunity appears to be there.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

million (€3 million) funding round from a hundred business angels. Some of the most active angels on the platform include Roxanne Varza who created a community of female business angels, Pieter-Jan Bouten in the Belgian tech ecosystem, Christopher Zemina in the Germany/Austria region, Aircall co-founder Olivier Pailhes in Spain, Paul Lê, etc.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2021

million (€21 million) funding round led by Valar Ventures. Moss provides credit cards and a spending platform to small and medium businesses in Germany. Right now, its clients include startups and tech companies. But Moss expects to expand to other industries soon thanks to today’s funding round.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

Slowly but surely, however, we have a quietly emerging ‘ecosystem’ (as it is often called in tech lingo). So is the Dutch tech startup story sold short? But hedonistic pleasures aside, The Netherlands actually has a great foundation for tech entrepreneurship. Not in my view. A top-notch infrastructure. Serious talent.

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TechCrunch

JULY 11, 2022

European insurance tech startup Wefox has raised $400 million in a series D round of funding, giving the German company a post-money valuation of $4.5 And, it seems, it hasn’t — according to Teicke, it wasn’t desperate to raise again, it’s simply future-proofing itself should it need the funds.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2022

VC funding into Europe (including the U.K.) But Europe isn’t the only place where VC funding didn’t decline. It is also worth noting that Europe accounts for a much larger portion of global funding than Africa. For instance, several “ French Tech ” mega-rounds were announced in the first days of the year.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Sonder is a tech-driven hospitality company. million, and, in the post-pandemic world where the population has become far more movable due to remote working, similar businesses are raising funds to attend to the needs of this global, nomadic workforce. Based out of the U.S., It’s raised $529.6

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Not much happened when it comes to legal cannabis markets in 2023, which won't help cannabis startups that are already facing a challenging funding environment. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2023

Venture capital (VC) firm Lifeline Ventures today announced a fresh €150 million ($163 million) fund aimed at early-stage startups across Finland. With its new fund, the company says it will look to make investments ranging from anywhere between €150,000 and €2 million. billion for a majority stake in 2016. . when invited to do so.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

More funding for European end-to-end encrypted messaging app, Wire : The enterprise-focused messaging platform told TechCrunch it closed a €24 million Series C round of funding led by growth equity firm Cipio Partners and Iconical, the investment vehicle of Skype co-founder Janus Friis.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

To get a clear picture of where construction tech stands today, we spoke with five active investors in the space. For an industry that has historically been averse to tech, feeling this pain point was a real catalyst for adoption. but also in Germany, for example, will play a huge role,” he said.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

On the heels of Amazon about to launch a new enterprise service to detect whether a machine is working well or not based on external physical changes in sound, vibration and temperature, a startup that has already built a big business in the space is announcing a big growth round of funding.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The e-commerce boom that started with the Covid-19 pandemic shows little sign of slowing down, and today a company called Shopware , which provides a set of open source tools to power online shopping experiences for some 100,000 mid-sized and larger brands, is announcing $100 million in funding to capture the opportunity.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

One year after raising $16 million , construction technology company Buildots is back to claim another $30 million, this time in Series B funding. This gives the company $46 million in total funding, Roy Danon, co-founder and CEO of Buildots, told TechCrunch. Germany, Switzerland, Scandinavia and China.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

A lot of funding announcements came out last year, and people were buying at the peak of COVID pricing, but now aggregators are starting to fail, and we are purchasing assets from some of them,” Isakow told TechCrunch. It now gives the company $180 million in total funding, Isakow said. The credit facility is from Victory Park Capital.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Germany-based construction tech startup Cosuno has raised a $30 million Series B led by U.S. It also requires a great deal of collaboration, which makes it an ideal playground for tech startups. Despite the hype, construction tech will be hard to disrupt. growth equity firm Avenir Growth.

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TechCrunch

MAY 29, 2022

But in Germany, B2B Payments company Mondu has emerged as a significant entrant to the market. based venture capital fund Valar Ventures and will use the funding to expand into more European countries later this year. Playter has raised backing to do this, as has Hokodo, Billie and Tranch, to name a few other players.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

If you follow tech press, you’ve probably noticed more outlets covering the blockchain-based, play-to-earn trend, wherein individuals playing crypto-powered games can ostensibly earn a living off their gaming skills if they earn assets within the game or tokens that they can then sell for “real” money.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The Augsburg, Germany-based company has raised $20 million, funding that it plans to use to continue building out its business, as well as its technology, both in terms of the hardware and the cloud-based software platform, German Bionic IO, that works with the exoskeletons to optimize them and help them “learn” to work better. “The

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The Verge

JUNE 8, 2020

And while other eVTOL companies are struggling to stay afloat during the COVID-19 pandemic, Lilium is continuing to raise funds. The March announcement included funding from existing investors, like Atomico, Freigeist Capital, LGT, and Tencent, which led the round. Baillie Gifford is one of the world’s most influential tech investors”.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

ConstellR , a space tech startup with a technology that can monitor land surface temperatures from space, has raised a €1 million pre-seed round led by FTTF, with the participation of strategic investor OHB Venture Capital, Baden-Württemberg’s state bank L-Bank and an undisclosed investor.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Getsafe , the digital-first insurance startup that initially launched with an app for home contents insurance, has closed $30 million in Series B funding. and Germany and delivered via an easy to use app, the idea is that you build and only pay for the exact cover you need. Swiss Re, the reinsurer giant, led the round.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Gorillas , a grocery delivery startup that operates its own hyper local fulfillment centers and has already been a hit in Berlin, has raised $44 million in Series A funding. Probably one of European tech’s worst kept secrets this year, the round is led by hedge fund Coatue, with participation from other unnamed European investors.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

In line with that trend, today a startup out of Denmark called Ageras Group , which has built a dual-purpose platform, providing both accountancy software and a marketplace for small and medium businesses to find accountants, is announcing a round of growth funding to expand its business. Sweden, Norway, Holland and Germany.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Many kids want to study coding, but school curriculums are limited, said Tung Nguyen, the co-founder of MindX , an online/offline education platform that focuses on preparing students for tech careers. MindX also received debt funding from Beacon Fund, an investment firm that focuses on companies founded by women.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2022

” Going forward, it will focus instead on its home market of Germany, as well as France, the Netherlands, the UK and the US, which it says collectively account for 90% of its revenues currently.The announcement came on the heels of a report in the German press last night about the layoffs.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

Nreal , the well-funded Chinese AR headset maker that’s been making aggressive global expansion, said Thursday that it has raised $15 million from Korean sunglasses brand Gentle Monster ’s parent company, IICOMBINED. .” Japan, South Korea, Spain, and Germany. It only debuted in China, where it’s based, in August.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2022

Reading recently about Germany’s € 30 billion plan for its startups, I was intrigued. Did the country start to envy La French Tech? European startups have been weathering the venture capital downturn quite well, and funding declined only slightly in the second quarter compared to the first three months of 2022.

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2023

The Austrian startup revealed that it has raised €18 million ($20 million) in what it’s calling a Series A+ round of funding, following on from its €11 million ($12.3 Prewave pulls in $20M as supply chain tech investments remain on VC radars by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch

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