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MAY 12, 2023

Sweden-based VC fund Pale Blue Dot bounced onto the scene in 2020 with a €53 million fund to help climate-focused startups. This fund grew again by €34 million in April 2021 , and after deploying investments into 28 climate-forward companies, the investor this week announced it has officially closed its second fund.

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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

OCTOBER 26, 2021

This round comes after a previously unannounced $5 million seed round which closed earlier this year, bringing the company’s total funding up to $17 million. Anomaly will use the funds to grow the team (the company currently has 12 employees), and scale up their business by partnering with more insurance companies and healthcare systems. .

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Core CMP members include the African Wildlife Foundation, The Nature Conservancy, Wildlife Conservation Society, and World Wide Fund for Nature/World Wildlife Fund.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

million in seed funding, capital it will use to further develop its technology and expand its operations in Europe and in the U.S. That proposition appears to already be resonating with customers, which include the three largest utility companies in Sweden jointly representing 85% of the Swedish market. Image Credits: Skyqraft.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Over in the EU you’ll find Dalma (France), Lassie (Sweden) and ManyPets (Sweden). It’s now raised a £15m Series A funding round, led by DN Capital, and with the participation of the petcare-focussed Companion Fund as well as Helvetia Venture Fund, M Tech Capital, Picus Capital, dmg ventures, Sarona Partners, T0 Ventures and FJ Labs.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2021

Klarna , the Swedish buy now, pay later behemoth and upstart bank, has raised $1 billion in new funding at a post-money valuation of $31 billion. It has a range of licensed banking services, such as savings and current accounts, in Sweden and Germany , with more countries to follow.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2021

The funding round — Northvolt’s largest thus far — was co-led by existing investors Goldman Sachs and Volkswagen, and new investors including the Swedish pension funds AP1-4 and OMERS, one of Canada’s largest pension plans. Swedish battery developer and manufacturer Northvolt AB has raised $2.75

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TechCrunch

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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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Autonomous and electric truck maker Einride is rolling into Germany, representing its first new market in Europe outside its native Sweden. Founded out of Stockholm in 2016, Einride has raised some $150 million in funding to commercialize a cab-less autonomous cargo truck, one that can be controlled remotely, if required, by human operators.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

-based fintech that provides finance for small businesses as an alternative to a traditional bank loan or extended overdraft , has replenished its own coffers with £70 million in funding. It brings the total funding raised by Liberis to £200 million, including more than £50 million in equity funding. and the U.K.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff that tracks the latest private market news, talks about the coming week, digs into some recent funding rounds and mulls over a larger theme or narrative from the private markets. And from Sweden, EV company Polestar may go public via a SPAC , as EV company Cake raises $60 million.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Chunk was initially launched with restaurants and chefs in Sweden. The new funding will enable the company to focus on R&D, to build out a pilot plant and to move into a new headquarters building next year in Stockholm. The company also looks to expand out of Sweden and into the U.S. “We

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The app and the company behind it have been helping people enjoy better wine since 2010, and now the startup has raised $155 million with its Series D round – a sum over twice as large as all of its previous funding to date. This brings the company’s total funding to $221 million to date. Vivino wine app in San Francisco.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

million in seed funding. Leading the round is Berlin-based Cherry Ventures — the first deal, I believe, from newly recruited partner Sophia Bendz, who herself is based in Sweden.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The startup has signed contracts with governments of Sweden, Argentina and Basque, TechCrunch reported earlier. The startup will deploy the funds to “expand its global footprint of Solid deployments in both the government sector and the commercial sector,” said Hartwell. Inrupt’s customers include governments and enterprises.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2023

Open source password management platform Bitwarden has made its first known acquisition, snapping up a fledgling Sweden-based startup called Passwordless.dev , which specializes in helping developers integrate passwordless authentication technology into their software.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Our perspective on the matter is hardly unique: Techstars recently announced two new programs on the continent, one in France and one in Sweden, indicating that it too sees lots to like in Europe. Throw in notable IPOs, including Truecaller this morning , and you have to keep at least one eye on Europe.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2023

Image Credits : Einride Pods Founded out of Sweden in 2016, Einride garnered attention in the European mobility space for its cabless self-driving cargo truck that can be controlled remotely by human operators when needed. Image Credits: Einride Although these “ pods ” are being piloted commercially in Sweden and the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Numan , the European subscription service covering erectile dysfunction (ED) and men’s wellness/health needs more generally, has raised $40 million in a Series B funding round led by White Star Capital , with participation from existing investors Novator, Vostok New Global, Anthemis Exponential, Colle Capital and new investor Hanwha Group.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2023

The Sweden-based company’s product combines visual canvases with documentation to help professionals and teams go from idea to presentable work on the same screen — think Miro meets Notion meets a slew of other tools companies use to keep their knowledge in one place and their projects pointed more or less in the right direction.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The funding from Tencent and other undisclosed investors amounted to “hundreds of millions of yuan” ($1= 6.55 ” Registered in China, FJ Dynamics claims to have R&D centers in China, Sweden and the Netherlands. yuan), Tencent said in an announcement on Tuesday. . “In the U.S.,

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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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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

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Sweden-based fintech Tink has also been dominant across Europe, while Truelayer and Belvo are holding the fort in the UK and Latin America. With wide and deep investor backing, Stitch will use the funding to consolidate growth in South Africa. Other investors who took part include both funds and angels.

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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. These vehicles are already available to shipping companies and carriers in Sweden and in the U.S. Expansion drive.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Fawzi, Samir and Nacoud knew each other from Iraq and studied together in college in Sweden, which is where they met Steiner. PideDirecto is making it simple and cost effective for brands to build a scalable direct to consumer sales channel within minutes,” Justin Mateen, founder of JAM FUND, said via email. “I

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

Zaver , a Swedish fintech that enable merchants to accept cardless payments and offer buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) as an option, has raised $5 million in new funding. Its target market is “durables,” starting in Sweden. for both online and offline commerce, after claiming to have found product-market-fit.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

In contrast to America, he points out how Sweden is among the most successful societies in the world from a social mobility perspective — referencing its free education and free health care, which sets up as many people as possible for success. “We didn’t have a lot of money,” he tells me.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

French startup Ankorstore has raised a $283 million Series C funding round (€250 million). This leads us to today’s funding round. Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden. Founded in November 2019, it took Ankorstore around two years to reach a post-money valuation of $2 billion (€1.75 Bond and Tiger Global led the Series C.

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TechCrunch

JULY 11, 2022

Rumors have been circulating for at least the past month that Sweden-based Klarna, best known as a “ buy now, pay later ” service provider, was seeking to raise new funds. European fintech Klarna has confirmed that it has raised $800 million at a pretty hefty valuation drop. billion valuation exactly a year ago.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

From startup-land: Ola is cutting jobs , two delivery logistics startups are merging in Sweden , and Byld Ventures is putting together a venture capital fund to watch. It tells us that the company is not burning that much cash — a useful thing to know ahead of an anticipated IPO filing coming this year.

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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.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

Addressing this, Cerve , a Sweden-based food tech startup, has raised a $2 million seed round for its infrastructure platform that claims to automate wholesalers’ sales operations. As we found during the pandemic, food and beverage distribution is critical, but most food wholesalers’ sales remain manually operated.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2023

The aggressive push into new markets is fueled by the $750 million Series A funding round Zeekr raised in February, which shot the automaker’s post-money valuation up to $13 billion. The funds from Zeekr’s Series A were dedicated to technology research and market expansion.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

The idea is to maximize learning, fast, and investors liked it enough to provide Speach with $14 million in funding. What that six-year-old outfit, Speach , sells is essentially knowledge-sharing between colleagues via videos produced by the employees themselves, often to augment written instructions.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2022

The proceeds will be used to scale the business beyond its home base of Sweden. We are now looking to bring more products to market and take our preventive pet insurance beyond Sweden.”.

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