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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. million in funding.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

million (€3 million) funding round from a hundred business angels. That’s quite a large group of individual investors — but that’s because Roundtable runs an angel investment platform for European startups. Roundtable isn’t the first investment platform focused on startup investments. French startup Roundtable has raised a $3.2

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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. The concept probably reminds you of Cameo (indeed, Carole Baskin of “Tiger King” fame has a presence on both platforms), but while Cameo is U.S.-based,

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Spain is preparing to push forward with pro-startup legislation, having recently unveiled a big and bold transformation plan with the headline goal, by 2030, of turning the country into ‘Spain Entrepreneurial Nation’, as the slightly clumsy English translation has it. So it will be something of a milestone.

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TechCrunch

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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 8, 2021

Jobandtalent says more than 80,000 workers have used its platform to secure temp gigs in the last year across the seven markets where it operates in Europe and LatAm (namely: Spain, U.K., The beefed up Series C funding will be put toward expanding into more markets and doubling down on growing its existing footprint, it said today.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2022

As regulation, platform dynamics and consumer choice continue to eat into the adtech stalwart known as cookies, it’s leaving a gap in the market for advertising solutions that can work well without relying on cookie functionality. Subsequently, they’re now getting phased out of usage.

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TechCrunch

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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Less than six months after raising a $157 million Series D round, AI-powered transcription and captioning platform Verbit announced today it has closed $250 million in a Series E round that values the company at $2 billion. The latest funding brings its total raised to more than $550 million. .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

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. Based out of the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

SmartRyde , a Japanese online pre-booked airport transfers service platform, is a marketplace that connects travelers to local transportation operators/online travel agencies (OTAs). It will also use the funding for global expansion, Kimura said. SmartRyde announced today it has secured a $1.6

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

A startup out of Belgium called Deliverect , which has built a platform to manage all of that through one seamless app, is today announcing a big round of funding. The funding is being co-led by DST and Redpoint Ventures, with OMERS, Newion, Smartfin and the founders also participating.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2022

And yet, few French startups turn to their community of users to raise some new funding. Thanks to recent regulatory changes, British investment platform Crowdcube plans to shake things up as it is officially launching on the French market. If you live in the U.K. or the U.S., you may already be quite familiar with equity crowdfunding.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Wallapop has confirmed that the funding is coming at a valuation of €690 million ($840 million) — a significant jump on the $570 million valuations sources close to the company gave us in 2016. 4 ranking among Spain’s shopping apps, according to figures from App Annie. “It was a roller coaster for us,” he said.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2022

million (€20 million) to expand its platform beyond its home country of Spain and into Europe, starting with Italy and Holland. The round was led by international investment fund P101, as well as Maniv Mobility and Autotech Ventures. Mundimoto, an online motorcycle buying and selling startup, has raised $22.6

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TechCrunch

JULY 8, 2022

This is why we are seeing so many new climate funds appear, which are concentrating on the built environment. No doubt partly as a result of this, 011h has now raised a significant €25 million in Series A funding. A large part of this problem is that concrete and steel are just not sustainable materials, unlike (say) timber.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

In 2017, three entrepreneurs — Chris Hazard, Mike Resnick and Mike Capps — came together to launch a platform for building AI and machine learning tools geared toward the enterprise. ” Recently, the startup announced deals with Scanbuy and Mutua Madrileña, one of the largest insurers in Spain.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2020

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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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Payments made a huge shift to digital platforms during the COVID-19 pandemic — purchasing moved online for many consumers and businesses, and a large proportion of those continuing to buy and sell in-person went cash-free. Apple lowers commissions on in-app purchases for news publishers who participate in Apple News. “We

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

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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APRIL 6, 2022

In the latest spark from its fast evolving tech ecosystem, Spain’s scale-ups are banding together to lobby lawmakers and press the economic case for their high-tech, high-growth business model more broadly. Adigital expects Spain to have 20 unicorns by the end of the year.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

StudentFinance , a European fintech that funds educational programs for individuals through so-called income share agreements , has raised €39 million ($41 million) in a Series A round of funding. The platform and financing is currently available in Spain, Portugal, and the U.K., where it soft-launched last year.

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JANUARY 26, 2022

So — if all goes to plan — Spain will finally get a startup law before the end of this year. Spain’s ten-year plan to put startups in the economic driving seat. And for us, for the high commissioner, this is a confirmation that Spain is becoming one of the best countries in Europe for startups.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

million) Series A round of funding. One million consultations were carried out via its platform during the 12-month period, it told us. The platform has been used by more than 900,000 patients to date, w hile more than 600 doctors currently provide remote consultations for Telemedico. Poland-based Telemedico has closed a €5.5

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

When we started Fondeadora in 2011 (the first creative crowdfunding platform in Mexico, renamed to Donadora in 2016), processing online payments was very difficult. Our government is discussing providing free wifi throughout in Mexico City which is a very good sign for crowdfunding and even better for NGOs funding.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The company is primarily active in Spain and Mexico, where it currently has a run rate of 2,400 properties acquired. SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and Fifth Wall are co-leading the round with participation from existing investors Luxor Capital and Guillaume Pousaz. Moreno and Fernandez started Clikalia after working for years in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

It plans to use the money to expand its business across Europe on the back of a platform that today is listing close to 4,000 homes in Italy, Spain and Portugal, and has to date (since being founded at the end of 2018) sold some 3,200 properties for an aggregate value of €1 billion, according to CEO and founder Giorgio Tinacci.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Lang.ai, which has developed a no-code platform for businesses, closed on a $2 million seed funding round. The company’s SaaS platform aims to allow business users to structure any free-text data with custom categories built through a drag & drop interface, based on AI-extracted concepts.

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TechCrunch

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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JULY 9, 2021

French startup Didomi has raised a $40 million Series B funding round led by Elephant and Breega. with today’s funding round. Didomi is a developer-focused consent platform that works across many different devices. Didomi plans to open offices in Germany, Spain and the U.S. Who’s funding privacy tech?

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JANUARY 6, 2022

The company has been building a payroll and HR software-as-a-service platform for small and medium companies. General Atlantic is leading the round, while some of PayFit’s existing investors are participating once again, such as Eurazeo, Bpifrance’s Large Venture fund and Accel. Spain and Germany. Germany and Spain.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Ride Vision , an Israeli startup that is building an AI-driven safety system to prevent motorcycle collisions, today announced that it has raised a $7 million Series A round led by crowdsourcing platform OurCrowd. Ride Vision says its products will be available in Italy, Germany, Austria, Spain, France, Greece, Israel and the U.K.

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MARCH 15, 2021

Sherpa , a startup from Bilbao, Spain that was an early mover in building a voice-based digital assistant and predictive search for Spanish-speaking audiences, has raised some more funding to double down on a newer focus for the startup: building out privacy-first AI services for enterprise customers. The company has closed $8.5

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JULY 30, 2021

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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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

Berlin-based Choco , which has built ordering software for restaurants and their suppliers, is working to digitize the food supply chain and announced $100 million in Series B funding, led by Left Lane Capital, to give it a $600 million post-market valuation. The new round comes just over a year after Choco’s $63.7

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JANUARY 13, 2022

UBITS, a B2B online learning platform for upskilling employees in Latin America, has raised $25 million in funding led by Riverwood Capital. At the end of 2021, almost 100,000 students had used its platform, up from 28,000 the year prior. To date, students have completed over 600,000 courses on its platform.

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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. Index led its Series C in 2020 ; Valar led a round in 2018 ). Turbotax, Intuit’s big product in the U.S.

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