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FEBRUARY 18, 2019

And the country isn’t just dominating in terms of quantity, in 2017 it also brought in more venture capital funding per capita than major tech hubs like Germany, France and Spain. I bet you didn’t know that Estonia has the third highest amount of startups per capita than any other country in the world.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2021

French startup Leocare has raised a big Series B funding round led by Eight Roads. With this funding round, we’ll still follow the same model but we’ll also add the ability to use our own risk carrier,” Dandois said. Overall, the company has raised $116 million. It sells its insurance products under its own brand.

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MARCH 20, 2023

million (€3 million) funding round from a hundred business angels. Some of the most active angels on the platform include Roxanne Varza who created a community of female business angels, Pieter-Jan Bouten in the Belgian tech ecosystem, Christopher Zemina in the Germany/Austria region, Aircall co-founder Olivier Pailhes in Spain, Paul Lê, etc.

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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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JULY 5, 2021

French startup ManoMano has raised a Series F funding round of $355 million led by Dragoneer Investment Group. Following today’s funding round, the company has reached a valuation of $2.6 Following today’s funding round, the company has reached a valuation of $2.6 It is currently available in six European countries.

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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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JULY 27, 2022

Today, an adtech out of Spain that’s doing just this has raised a big round of funding to double down on the opportunity. We are delighted to partner with Jorge and Albert as they continue to build on this momentum,” said Gonzalo Santos, MD at Advent International and Head of Spain, in a statement.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

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. with seven, Norway with five, and Spain, Finland, and Switzerland with four each. Rhys Spence. Contributor. Share on Twitter. and three in Asia.

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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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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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MAY 12, 2021

To whit, Impress , a Southern European player in direct-to-consumer orthodontics, has raised a $50 million Series A funding round led by CareCapital (a dental division of Hillhouse Capital in Asia), along with Nickleby Capital, UNIQA Ventures and investors including Michael Linse, Valentin Pitarque, Peter Schiff, Elliot Dornbusch and others.

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JUNE 14, 2021

After experimenting with the app with a sample of 700 people, Campos was even more encouraged and raised an angel round of funding for Yana , the startup behind her app. million in funding led by Mexico’s ALLVP, which has also invested in the likes of Cornershop, Flink and Nuvocargo. Yana is an acronym for “You Are Not Alone.”)

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JULY 21, 2021

Fintech startup Yapily has raised a $51 million Series B funding round led by Sapphire Ventures. France, Spain, Germany, Ireland, Austria, Italy and the Netherlands,” Vaccino said. With today’s funding round, the company plans to expand its commercial presence across Europe. We have between 90 and 99% coverage in the U.K.,

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FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Shenzhen-listed battery giant CATL has applied to list in Hong Kong and plans to use the proceeds to fund the construction of a new 100 gigawatt-hours (GWh) battery pack factory in Hungary, in what could be the largest fundraising exercise in the city since early 2021. The company could raise more than $5 billion, Bloomberg had reported.

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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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AUGUST 25, 2022

Nreal , the well-funded Chinese AR headset maker that’s been making aggressive global expansion, said Thursday that it has raised $15 million from Korean sunglasses brand Gentle Monster ’s parent company, IICOMBINED. .” Japan, South Korea, Spain, and Germany. It only debuted in China, where it’s based, in August.

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AUGUST 10, 2021

This is perhaps why Product School says it has secured $25 million in growth equity investment from growth fund Leeds Illuminate (subject to regulatory approval) to accelerate its product and partnerships with client companies.

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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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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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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.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

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. The other 7% comes predominately from the US (where most Mexicans have relatives and connections), then from Spain, and the rest from throughout Latin america.

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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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JULY 20, 2021

This fever is now reaching Europe, where today Capchase raised an additional $280 million in new debt and equity funding, led by i80 Group, following a $125 million round in June. and Spain but expects to expand across Europe this year. More funding flows into Pipe, as buzzy fintech raises $250M at a $2B valuation.

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JANUARY 6, 2022

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. We only shared the size of our funding rounds,” co-founder and CEO Firmin Zocchetto told me. Other customers are located in Spain, Germany or the U.K.

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MAY 29, 2021

I was inspired to write this column after Returnly, a fintech founded by a fellow immigrant from Spain based in San Francisco — which, for full transparency, I invested in as an angel investor, and then for Series B and C via my fund — was acquired for $300 million by Affirm. Wealth effect.

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MARCH 17, 2022

Mubadala Investment Company is leading the founding round with Abu Dhabi Growth Fund (ADG), Alpha Wave Global, Sequoia Capital and Tiger Global also participating. That’s why these instant delivery startups have been raising mega rounds of funding. Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Portugal and the U.S. “We

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MAY 26, 2021

French startup Agicap has raised a new $100 million funding round led by Greenoaks. With today’s funding round, the company has reached a valuation of more than $500 million (€415 million). Agicap is currently live in France, Germany, Spain, Italy and the Netherlands. They pay a monthly subscription fee.

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APRIL 19, 2021

Dott has raised a new $85 million Series B funding round — this round is a mix of equity and asset-backed debt financing. With today’s funding round, the company plans to expand beyond e-scooters with a new bike-sharing service. Dott also plans to expand to other cities and countries, starting with Spain and the U.K.

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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. With today’s funding round, the company wants to make its product even more developer friendly with open APIs and open-source SDKs. Didomi plans to open offices in Germany, Spain and the U.S.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Lang.ai, which has developed a no-code platform for businesses, closed on a $2 million seed funding round. Spain-born Jorge Penalva founded Lang.ai saw its revenue double from the last quarter of 2020 to the first quarter of 2021 and the seed funding was motivated mainly to continue that momentum.

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DECEMBER 4, 2020

It lets you send and receive international payments, and exchange funds in multiple currencies. Revolut extends Series D round to $580 million with $80 million in new funding. Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain and Sweden.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2020

In addition to this new funding round, Ride Vision also today announced a new partnership with automotive parts manufacturer Continental. Ride Vision says its products will be available in Italy, Germany, Austria, Spain, France, Greece, Israel and the U.K. The company has now raised a total of $10 million. in early 2021, with the U.S.,

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OCTOBER 24, 2022

And Heura is taking credit for 80% of local plant-based category growth (although it should be noted that Spain remains one of Europe’s biggest consumers of animal-based meat so growth of alt-proteins is starting from a low base). And today it’s announcing a new €20M bridging funding round, ahead of the expected (beefier) B.

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APRIL 19, 2021

French startup Alan has raised a $220 million funding round at a $1.67 With today’s funding round, the company can iterate on its core product — health insurance — and everything that makes Alan a super app — a single app that lets you access several services. In Spain, Alan can already book appointments for you.

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JANUARY 17, 2022

million Series A funding round — bringing its total raised since January 2020, when the business was founded, to $13.6M. Investors in the round include a mix of national and international funds, including Spain’s Seaya Ventures, a new backer of Payflow and Cathay Innovation via its C.

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MARCH 17, 2021

French startup PayFit has raised a $107 million series D funding round (€90 million). Eurazeo Growth and Bpifrance’s Large Venture fund are leading today’s round. The company is currently live in France, Germany, Spain, Italy and the U.K. Existing investors Accel, Frst and Xavier Niel are participating once again.

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JANUARY 10, 2022

French startup Qonto has raised a $552 million Series D funding round (€486 million). It currently operates in France, Germany, Italy and Spain. Tiger Global and TCV are leading today’s funding round. With today’s funding round, the company plans to grow its team from 500 employees to 2,000 people by 2025.

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