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MAY 12, 2021

To whit, Impress , a Southern European player in direct-to-consumer orthodontics, has raised a $50 million Series A funding round led by CareCapital (a dental division of Hillhouse Capital in Asia), along with Nickleby Capital, UNIQA Ventures and investors including Michael Linse, Valentin Pitarque, Peter Schiff, Elliot Dornbusch and others.

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JULY 21, 2021

Fintech startup Yapily has raised a $51 million Series B funding round led by Sapphire Ventures. France, Spain, Germany, Ireland, Austria, Italy and the Netherlands,” Vaccino said. With today’s funding round, the company plans to expand its commercial presence across Europe. We have between 90 and 99% coverage in the U.K.,

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MAY 26, 2021

French startup Agicap has raised a new $100 million funding round led by Greenoaks. With today’s funding round, the company has reached a valuation of more than $500 million (€415 million). Agicap is currently live in France, Germany, Spain, Italy and the Netherlands. They pay a monthly subscription fee.

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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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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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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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MARCH 17, 2021

French startup PayFit has raised a $107 million series D funding round (€90 million). Eurazeo Growth and Bpifrance’s Large Venture fund are leading today’s round. The company is currently live in France, Germany, Spain, Italy and the U.K. Existing investors Accel, Frst and Xavier Niel are participating once again.

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JANUARY 27, 2022

Rhys Spence is head of research at Brighteye Ventures, a European edtech-focused fund, where he works with portfolio companies to help address priorities, with a focus on internationalization and HR. Funding and activity were centered in a couple of markets and there were just a few growing companies gaining interest. Rhys Spence.

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JANUARY 13, 2021

French startup Iziwork has raised a $43 million funding round. Cathay Innovation and Bpifrance’s Large Venture fund are participating in this funding round. While it’s a relatively large funding round, the startup is quite young. It was founded in September 2018 and it has raised $68 million overall.

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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. It has now raised €175 million in total.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2022

It’s raised $529.6 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. Germany-based NUMA Group expanded into Spain, Italy, Austria and the Czech Republic in 2021.

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APRIL 27, 2022

Tech is rushing in to fill that gap, and today a Berlin-based startup called Taxfix , which has built a popular mobile assistant to address the former of these, is announcing a big round of funding to fuel its growth. This is a major round for the startup: Taxfix has raised around $330 million since being founded in 2016.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2022

It has also raised $109 million (€95 million) in debt financing. Some of the startup’s existing investors are investing once again, such as Cathay Innovation, Eurazeo, Bpifrance’s Large Venture fund, Seaya Ventures and Picus Capital. Overall, it has raised $211 million (€185 million) in traditional equity funding rounds.

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MARCH 18, 2021

Cubyn , the Paris-based logistics startup that lets e-merchants outsource fulfilment and delivery logistics, has raised another €35 million in funding. Existing backers DN Capital, 360 Capital, Bpifrance Smart Cities fund and BNP Paribas Développement followed on. and Germany.

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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. With today’s funding round, the company plans to grow its team from 500 employees to 2,000 people by 2025.

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JUNE 29, 2022

Kukua , a Nairobi- and London-based educational entertainment company and the creators of “ Super Sema ,” the first African animated superhero franchise, has raised $6 million in its latest round of investment. Though white and raised in Italy, Bisignani travelled widely in Africa when she was young. The company raised $2.5

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JULY 20, 2022

Two years on from its launch, Charles today announced that it has raised $20 million in a series A round of funding led by Salesforce Ventures, with participation from Accel and HV Capital. million seed round of funding it raised last year. This follows a $6.5 How it works. Conversational commerce comes to Europe.

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MAY 26, 2021

Today, one of the companies building headless tools is announcing a round of funding as it continues to expand its business. Chord, a headless commerce startup led by former Glossier execs, raises $18M. Benchmark led Commerce Layer’s Series A about a year ago. That round came at a very key moment for the startup.

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JULY 22, 2021

Gopuff , the “instant” grocery delivery startup that has been on an acquisition and expansion tear in the last several months to scale its business, is also racing to raise money to fuel those efforts. For some funding context, it was only in March that Gopuff raised $1.15 billion at an $8.9 billion valuation.

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MAY 16, 2023

Wefox , the German insurtech startup, has closed a new funding round from existing investors. The funding amount isn’t going to impress anyone as the company managed to secure $55 million. Many startups are struggling to raise funding rounds or have to lower their valuation. Wefox secures new funding at $4.5

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JULY 7, 2021

French startup Younited Credit has raised a $170 million funding round. France is still the company’s leading market as Italy, Spain, Portugal and Germany represent 40% of Younited Credit’s revenue. Goldman Sachs is leading the round with existing investors Eurazeo, Bpifrance and AG2R La Mondiale also participating.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

TrovaTrip , a travel planning and booking platform that lets creators host adventures with their communities, has raised $15 million in Series A funding led by Madrona. Our first trip was to Italy and then the next two were to Portugal.” The company has raised $20 million in funding to date.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

French startup Cajoo is raising some money in order to compete more aggressively in the new and highly competitive category of food delivery companies. Interestingly, the lead investor in today’s funding round is Carrefour, the supermarket giant. There are a lot of players that have raised a lot of money.

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MARCH 15, 2022

French startup Doctolib has announced that is has raised a new funding round. The startup says it has raised $549 million (€500 million) in both equity and debt. In particular, Doctolib acts as a booking platform that connects doctors with patients; 60 million people have used it in France, Germany and Italy.

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MAY 24, 2022

Gorillas, according to a presentation it made to investors in March that a source shared with us, has around 700,000 active customers.The news comes on the heels also of rumors we’d been hearing that the company had been raising more funds. “Now even more people will look at this like it’s just a bubble.”

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JANUARY 25, 2023

Rhys Spence Contributor Share on Twitter Rhys Spence is head of research at Brighteye Ventures, a European edtech-focused fund. For the first time since 2014, venture capital funding to European edtech startups saw a decline year-over-year, with startups raking in $1.8 billion in 2022 compared to $2.5 billion a year earlier.

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MAY 31, 2021

German startup Wefox has raised a $650 million Series C funding round led by Target Global. Following this funding round, the company has reached a post-money valuation of $3 billion. It’s much more than we wanted to raise initially. Wefox, the Berlin-based insurtech, raises $110M Series B extension.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Scalapay , a buy now, pay later (BNPL) technology provider that has made significant headway with retailers and consumers in Europe and in categories like fashion, has closed a round of funding that it will be using to fuel its expansion ambitions. The startup has raised $155 million at a $700 million valuation.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Now, as it gears up to add more services to its platform and expand across all of Europe, the startup has raised €100 million ($114 million), in a round of funding led by Greenoaks Capital, with Ribbit Capital and new backer SoftBank Vision Fund 2 also participating.

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OCTOBER 24, 2022

during the same period last year, after clocking up its most successful first half of the year in its five-year history and bagging a number of major retailers to stock its plant-based foodstuffs (including Ocado in the UK, Migros in Switzerland, Carrefour in Italy, E.Leclerc, Intermarché and Super U in France).

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JANUARY 28, 2021

Today, Scalapay , one of the companies that’s building a platform to enable buy now, pay later (BNPL) and related features, has raised a round to boost its position in the race for customers against competitors like Klarna, Afterpay and Affirm. This is the startup’s first significant funding since launching in 2019.

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DECEMBER 17, 2020

It plans to use the funding to expand its own technology tools, as well as grow internationally. We understand that this latest funding values Berlin -based Spryker at more than $500 million. They include Commerce Layer in Italy; another startup out of Germany called Commercetools ; and Shogun in the U.S.

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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 Rohlik in the Czech Republic, Picnic in the Netherlands and Everli in Italy — says that its Norway operations are profitable. “In

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JANUARY 6, 2021

But today, a startup that’s cracked open that model with an autonomous, AI -based camera that lets any team record, edit and distribute their games, is announcing a round of funding to build out its business targeting the long tail of sporting teams and fixtures. million) in a Series B round of funding.

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APRIL 28, 2021

Barkyn , a European subscription service for pets that combines food with tele-vet services, has raised a further €3 million ($3.6 million) from food tech investor Five Seasons Ventures , extending its previous Series A to €8 million, and total funds raised to date to €10 million. which has raised $28 million.

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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. The acquisition is notable for a couple of reasons.

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JULY 30, 2021

This is the startup’s first institutional round of funding after bootstrapping since 2018. Among others, it competes with ShippyPro , which runs out of Italy and has raised $5 million to date. Also participating were TMT Investments (London), Fresco Capital (San Francisco) and Lemonade Stand (Tallinn).

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