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Visual workspace Whimsical closes first funding as it enters next phase of growth

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Whimsical , a startup creating tools for workplace collaboration, announced Tuesday its first funding round, a $30 million Series A investment led by Accel. I always worked in some form of distributed organization with a larger engineering theme of people everywhere trying to make it work,” he told TechCrunch. “I

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Financial comparison “super app” Jeff raises $1.5M seed extension

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The funding brings Jeff’s total raised to about $2.5 Part of the funding will be used to increase Jeff’s team from about 15 people now to more than 40 employees for its offices in Latvia and Southeast Asia. The startup announced today it has raised a seed extension of $1.5 million, led by J12 Ventures.

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Montonio is building the payment and checkout solution to rule them all

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The company just raised a $12 million Series A funding round (€11 million) led by Index Ventures. Montonio is a multi-faceted product that has been specifically designed for its home market and its neighbor countries — but the startup thinks it could work all around Europe. That’s much cheaper than card payments.

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Richard Branson backs Lightyear as UK stock trading platform launches into Europe

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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. On top of that, users can invest in what are known as exchange traded funds ( ETF s), which are essentially investment funds.

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500 Global spreads its wings across the Caucasus and Eastern Europe, via Tbilisi

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Perhaps an exception to this oft-repeated phrase, in my experience, is Entrepreneur First out of London/Europe (but now also in Asia), and even then that entity is slightly closer to a pre-accelerator in the way it assembles talent before it assembles the startups (although it does also fund its startups). Of course, “your mileage may vary.”

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Jeff raises $1M to build alternative credit scoring and other fintech products for Southeast Asia

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The funding will be used to enter other Southeast Asian markets, including Indonesia and the Philippines, and introduce new products, like free credit score and insurance offers, digital discount coupons and mobile wallet cashbacks. Jeff currently claims more than 300,000 users in Vietnam.

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Freelancing is the new normal: oDesk and the future of the workforce marketplace

The Next Web

million registered freelancers who have worked 35 million hours in total, as well as 900,000 clients who have posted 1.5 While smaller clients are usually looking to hire one or two freelancers, some of enterprise ones work on a really big scale. This jump has contributed to 60 percent of the hour works dedicated to non-technical work.

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