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million in additional funding. Cledara picks up pre-seed funding to help companies manage their SaaS spending. France, Ireland, Germany and Spain. We will be growing the team 4x before mid next year across all parts of the business — support, success, product, engineering, compliance, marketing and sales.
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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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Outvio , an Estonian startup that provides a white-label SaaS fulfillment solution for medium-sized and large online retailers in Spain and Estonia, has closed a $3 million early-stage financing round led by Change Ventures. This is the startup’s first institutional round of funding after bootstrapping since 2018.
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million) Series A round of funding. The Series A funding will be put toward international expansion — including eyeing potential growth opportunities in LatAm. Telemedico’s best markets to date are Poland and Spain, per Sieczkiewicz, who says it’s active in 14 markets in total. million (~$6.6
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