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million Series A funding round (€16 million) led by Accel. The company provides a banking-as-a-service platform for other products and services. Companies that operate in this space provide financial services to other companies. Existing investors Creandum and Bpifrance also participated in today’s funding round.
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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Payhawk wants to replace several services that companies use to simplify their financial stack and make things work better together. They can connect this Payhawk account to their existing bank account to load and withdraw funds. Germany, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. the Netherlands, Australia and Singapore.
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“I think what is interesting here is that Box is going to integrate SignRequest and bundle it as part of the standard service. As for SignRequest, the company was founded in the Netherlands in 2014. Neither Pitchbook nor Crunchbase has a record of it raising funds.
Although they make up a small part of Africans who need Moove’s services, Delano says the market for “mobility entrepreneurs” is enormous. With headquarters in the Netherlands, the company counts Lagos, Accra and Johannesburg as cities where it operates. for car sales and service platform. Moove raised a $5.5
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million in seed funding as it readies for launch. Backing the upstart, which already faces a plethora of better funded competitors, is venture capital fund LVL1 Group, with participation from AddVenture, TA Ventures, Vladimir Kholiaznikov, and angel investors Oskar Hartmann, Alexander Nevinskiy and Dominique Locher. s Fancy. .
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A startup tapping into the concept of the circular economy, where people don’t buy items outright but pay an incremental amount to use them temporarily, has raised some funding to scale its business in Europe and beyond. The funding is coming in the form of €45 million in equity and €15 million in venture debt.
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