The Verge

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

JLR’s transition will be funded by a £2.5 Bans of internal combustion engine vehicles have been announced with a variety of targets around the world, such as in Norway by 2025, France by 2040, and California by 2035. billion (around $3.5 billion) a year investment into electrification and related technologies, Bloomberg reports.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

In the latest example, reMarkable , the Oslo, Norway-based maker of a simple and slick $299 e-paper tablet of the same name, says that it has passed 1 million devices sold since 2017 and recently raised money at a $1 billion valuation after making revenues of $300 million and operating profits of $31 million in 2021. . $42 42 million.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 24, 2009

After a generous grant from the Center For Digital Storytelling , Morgan has already gotten his ticket over and is looking for further funding (in between working on some other, paying web projects) to support the trip. Let Morgan know of any cool places worth checking out in England, Holland or Norway. Want to help Morgan do this?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

publicly listed software and services company that targets engineering and design industries, has acquired Norway’s Spacemaker , a startup that has developed AI-supported software for urban development. real estate technology fund Round Hill Ventures and Norway’s Construct Venture. Autodesk, the U.S.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

Norway’s Pangea Trust, through its equity crowdfunding platform Connect , is unlocking diaspora remittance inflows as funding source for early and growth-stage startups in Africa. Startups in Africa raised nearly $5 billion in funding last year but the amount remains meager when compared to the rest of the world. to $5B in 2021.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Northmill Bank , the Sweden-based challenger that has around 200,000 customers across three European countries, has raised around $30 million in new funding. Next stop, Norway. Leading the round is M2 Asset Management, the Swedish investment company controlled by Rutger Arnhult, and asset management firm Coeli.

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TechCrunch

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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 30, 2010

With a few minutes to spare, I grabbed some lunch while discussing the best way to help one of the YGLs get expansion funding for her cool product that could fight cervical cancer nonsurgically. Prince Haakon of Norway kicked off the session, along with our moderator, Angel Cabrera, the dean of the Thunderbird Business School.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

Yay Images was born in 2008 in Oslo, Norway to create an affordable stock media agency with high-quality content. With a shared vision from the Founders Fund, Yay Images got an investment in 2014 from top Norwegian serial entrepreneurs and StartupLab for the world’s first unlimited download stock media product.

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TechCrunch

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. million in funding.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Memmo.me , a startup allowing users to pay celebrities for personalized video messages, is announcing that it has raised $10 million in Series A funding. “We want to be the place where you can find everyone from world famous talents like a soccer or basketball star, to the local musician down the road,” he said.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Antler joined in its previous funding. . Kistefos has a strong investment portfolio in Norway and Europe, including companies delivering financial services. The company has raised a $1 million seed round to enhance its platform and scale in Asia.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 13, 2011

We just won a $5 million competition that will fund our DIAGRAM R&D center to tackle the problem of image accessibility for people with print disabilities. We’re helping the environmental movement become more effective through using Miradi to manage its conservation projects and to better steward environmental assets.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The cash injection constitutes an equity-based $200 million Series C portion from backers including Northzone, EQT Ventures, Temasek, Swedish pension fund AMF, Polar Structure, and Norrsken VC. pilot, is a hugely capital-intensive endeavor when you factor in the costs associated with developing hundreds of trucks and the associated software.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Lunar , the Nordic challenger bank that started out life as a personal finance manager app (PFM) but acquired a full banking license in 2019, has raised €40 million in Series C funding from existing investors. Overall, the bank has 5,000 business users and 200,000 private users across Denmark, Sweden and Norway. Augustinus Fabrikker.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2021

Corporate training startup Attensi — which originally emerged out of Oslo, Norway — has raised $26 million from New York-based Lugard Road Capital, DX Ventures (a VC fund backed by Delivery Hero) and existing shareholder Viking Venture. The new funding will be used to expand in North America and Europe.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

million round in the Oslo, Norway-based company, alongside seed investors LocalGlobe and Visionaries Club. According to multiple sources, the Silicon Valley VC — which recently expanded to Europe with an office in London — is backing a €2.5 Sequoia and LocalGlobe declined to comment.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

They received funding from Google Black Founders Fund last October before closing this seed round, which welcomed participation from Leonnis Investments. Angel investors like Keisuke Honda of KSK Angels and others from Serbia, Kenya and Norway participated.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

Challenger banks have become, collectively, a force to be reckoned with in the world of financial services for consumers, and today one of the big players out of the Nordics — Lunar — is announcing growth funding along with two new services to continue filling out its ambition of providing a one-stop super app for its users.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

And Lightyear, a six-year-old startup that debuted its prototype back in 2019 , which had previously raised more than $100 million in funding. Driving change. Asia, among other markets. .” “[Lightyear] remains on track to deliver the world’s first solar car and work towards a more sustainable future.” ”

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

For the better part of a decade, VC firms and growth equity funds have plowed nearly $42 billion into battery technology startups across almost 1,700 deals, according to an analysis by PitchBook and TechCrunch. Norway will end sales of fossil fuel cars and light commercial vehicles by 2025. Let’s dig in. The macro changes.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2023

back in 2021 , while in recent months it has rolled in to Germany and the Benelux (Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg) region, with plans in place to target Norway this year too. Image Credits: Einride Einride had already expanded into the U.S. Its latest expansion comes hot on the heels of a major U.K.

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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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The Verge

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Additionally, creators from Poland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland can now choose to fund their projects in their local currency or in euros. Since the pandemic took hold in the US, the Brooklyn, New York-based company laid off 40 percent of its workforce.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Today a startup that has been focusing on one specific aspect of payments — recurring billing — is announcing a round of funding to capitalize on that growth with expansion of its own.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Delegate Connect is the latest virtual/hybrid events platform to land funding. million USD) in seed funding led by AirTree Ventures, which wrote Delegate Connect the biggest seed check in the fund’s history so far. Delegate Connect founders Jordan Walsh and Jacob Thomas. It also plans to open a United States-based office soon.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

Into this space has appeared imove out of Norway, with what appears, at least, to be a new twist on the whole thing: a white-label platform offered to industry to enable it to offer these car subscription services under their own brands. Cazoo (after its acquisition of Drover) and Care by Volvo Hertz, to name just a few.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

German launch startup Isar Aerospace has scored $165 million (€155 million) in new funding as it races toward the inaugural flight of its Spectrum small rocket later this year. Isar’s funding history reflects this increasing overlap between public and private interest. million (€10 million) prize from the European Commission.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2022

As something of a case in point, Vic.ai , which bills itself as an accounting automation platform, today announced that it raised $52 million in a Series C funding round led by GGV Capital and ICONIQ Growth with participation from Cowboy Ventures and Costanoa Ventures. “In this next stage of growth, Vic.ai ” Vic.ai

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TechNode

APRIL 7, 2024

Tsais remarks were made in an interview with Nicolai Tangen, chief executive of Norways Norges Bank Investment Management, at a time when the Chinese tech giant has undergone frequent organizational restructures. The world’s largest sovereign wealth fund also owns shares in Alibaba’s top competitors, PDD and JD.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

.” The overall financial aim was to achieve $20 billion a year in the fund by 2025, and then $30 billion by 2030. So far, only $383 million had been pledged as of November, from 12 nations or subnations: Austria, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Japan, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Norway, Province of Qubec, Spain, and the United Kingdom.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Promus Ventures , a VC firm based in Chicago, closed a €120 million ($139 million) space fund, dubbed Orbital Ventures. The new fund, which will operate out of Luxembourg, will be focused on early-stage space companies. Other news from around the web. Firefly eventually wants to complete annual missions to the moon’s surface.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

” While its technology is mainly used by construction companies in Norway for now, 7Analytics is expanding into new areas such as energy infrastructure, and is currently in talks with a handful of energy companies in the U.S. While this funding will help 7Analytics expand both in Europe and the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Now, after picking up some 25,000 customers, from “traditional” publishers like Conde Nast and National Geographic through to hundreds of others like Sonos, Brex, Figma, Cloudflare, Mux, Remarkable, Kleiner Perkins, Tablet Magazine, MIT, Universal Health Services, Eurostar, and Nike, it is announcing funding of $9.3

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

The funding, which brings Finn’s valuation to “more than $500 million,” comes at a time when consumers are starting to shift away from traditional car ownership models like leasing or financing. Car subscription platform Finn has raised $110 million in equity to expand in the U.S. In the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

real estate technology fund Round Hill Ventures and Norway’s Construct Venture. headquartered Autodesk acquire a startup based in Norway over numerous competitors closer to home? Spacemaker’s VC backers included European firms Atomico and Northzone, which co-led the company’s $25 million Series A round in 2019. And why did U.S.-headquartered

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 18, 2021

In 1999, the Greenpeace national offices in Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway united to form one regional entity: Greenpeace Nordic. The scale of the organisation’s work means that both funds and people are critical. Greater agility through strong processes.

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