TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

In the latest development, TechCrunch has learned and confirmed that Getir — the $12 billion quick commerce upstart that provides grocery essentials and sundries and promises delivery of them in minutes — is cutting 14% of its staff globally. Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Portugal and the U.S.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

It plans to use the funding to expand its footprint across metropolitan areas in its existing three markets — the Czech Republic, Hungary and Austria — as well as to break into Germany, Poland, Romania and other countries in the near future. Perhaps it will be next in line for a big round of money. (I’ll

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

An annual United Nations conference on biodiversity that ran out of time last year will resume its work Tuesday in Rome with money at the top of the agenda. Those included putting 30% of the planet and 30% of degraded ecosystems under protection by 2030, known as the Global Biodiversity Framework.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

It currently operates in France, Germany, Italy and Spain. Tiger Global and TCV are leading today’s funding round. Existing investors Valar, Alven, DST Global and Tencent are putting more money on the table as well. Many companies use their bank accounts directly to move money around. Image Credits: Qonto.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2021

South African tech talent marketplace OfferZen is one of the beneficiaries of the growing global demand for tech workers: It confirmed to TechCrunch that it has raised €4.5 and Germany, which are prominent hubs for global talent. Instead, the South African tech talent company makes money only off companies via two models.

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2022

“In this round, it was important for us to bring in strategic money — money is important, funding is important and this is our way to scale — but also, in this market, strategic partners are important. If I had to name two, it would be Japan and Germany. Image Credits: Classiq.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 6, 2021

Nwobi says Decagon aims to address the underrepresentation of black people in tech globally, starting with Nigeria. The West African country is the most populous on the continent and the most populous black nation globally. and Germany. For its equity financing, Decagon raised money from Kepple Africa and Timon Capital.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Those services raised a ton of money and grew at a rapid pace during the COVID-19 pandemic. In May, Getir announced that it would cut 14% of its global staff — more than 4,000 were impacted by the downsizing. Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and Portugal. It operates in the U.S. and the U.S.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

The Germany-based startup plans to use the funding to build new hubs in Africa and Europe, grow its team, and re-launch its proprietary platform to make “finding and working with tech talent easier than ever before.”. We see entering Egypt as the first step in our exciting journey to bring the entire continent into the global talent pool.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

It’s particularly appealing during the pandemic, but he predicted that celebrities will still be excited about “making this much money from their living rooms” after the pandemic ends. “It’s all about using localization to help you find who’s most relevant for you, wherever you are.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

Volocopter , the startup out of southern Germany (Bruchsal) that has been developing electric VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) aircraft and a business model for operating them in taxi-style fleets in urban areas, has picked up another big round of funding as it inches closer to its first commercial launches.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

Dresden, Germany-based Wandelbots has raised a healthy sum in the years since it appeared on our Disrupt Berlin stage, way back in 2017. Specifically, how can a firm deploy a robotic army without the need for a lot of outside help, significant sums of money and/or robotic coding know-how?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2022

TripActions , a corporate travel and expenses company, has raised a combination of equity and debt at a post-money valuation of $9.2 billion, up from its prior valuation of $7.5 Coatue Ventures’ Dan Rose will join as a board observer.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

These solutions may save the TB Alliance and end-users a substantial amount of money, thus allowing more patients to be treated for less. The two winning proposals were identified as coming from a scientist in China, and a research fellow in Germany. "These "It was certainly worth going through the exercise."

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

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. Some existing investors put more money on the table, such as Index Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, GFC, Alven and Aglae Ventures. Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden.

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The Next Web

JULY 29, 2013

Then if you’re successful in finding them, you will spend more money for recruiting talented people than in any other city in the world. When we started our business, only a few global tech businesses were also located in Berlin – most famously SoundCloud. It’s now a global product, in US, Asia, Europe and Africa.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2021

A wave of organizations — propelled by global COVID-19 pandemic circumstances — are moving their commercial and financial interactions online, and today one of the big players helping to enable that shift is announcing a significant round of growth funding to expand the tools and services that it provides to them.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Wave, an African fintech that offers mobile money services in Senegal and Ivory Coast, laid off about 15% of its workforce last month. Wave’s platform is akin to PayPal (with mobile money accounts, not bank accounts). Germany, Nigeria and the U.K. As the global venture capital market slows, Africa charts its own course.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

The startup has raised €70 million ($77 million at today’s rates), at what I understand from a person close to the company to be a $2 billion post-money valuation. “We don’t know why no one else entered the Nordics before, either,” he said, but TAM of 27 million is “not much compared to, say, Germany.”

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

While Tricount’s app is available globally, the company focuses specifically on users living in France, Spain, Germany, Belgium and Italy. With Jackpot, users can participate in a lottery by paying with their Bunq card, adding money to their account and inviting friends. Bunq also operates in these markets. “We

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The Verge

DECEMBER 23, 2020

The rush of money into EVs could help some finally prove their worth. Not all recipients of that money will survive. Selling vehicles in Europe was an explicit goal of Byton, which was also founded in China but fancied itself as a “global automaker,” with offices in Germany and the US. and Nikola in the US.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

The process used by millions of agents and thousands of property portals globally to reach buyers and sellers on digital channels is highly fragmented. On the other hand, Levy points out that the startup makes money when these agents use its SaaS platform and via a percentage cut from their marketing spend.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Tiger Global is leading this round, with new backers Baleen Capital and Woodson Capital also participating, alongside Fasanara Capital and Ithaca Investments, which had backed Scalapay in its previous $48 million round earlier this year. The startup has raised $155 million at a $700 million valuation.

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The Verge

APRIL 26, 2021

Tesla has drawn a lot of scrutiny lately, has run into delays with the refreshed Model S and Model X, and the auto industry is struggling through a global shortage of semiconductors. The global chip shortage, meanwhile, has not hit Tesla as hard as it has some other automakers. Image: Tesla.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 13, 2012

Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery — but it’s also an incredible way to make money off the successes of others. Around the web in today’s day and age, clones of popular global sites and businesses are everywhere, and the trend doesn’t seem to show any signs of fading away.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

It will be using the funds to expand to more markets — both to grow its business in Germany, Austria and the Netherlands (where it’s already operating) and to launch in Spain and the U.S. We’re still just scratching the surface of a €1 trillion global market.”.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

As reported by Jagmeet on November 2, “Chargebee, backed by marquee investors including Tiger Global and Sequoia Capital India, has laid off about 10% of its staff in a ‘reorganization’ effort due to ongoing global macroeconomic challenges and growing operational debt. Chargebee has laid off about 10% of its staff.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

With the global insurtech market worth over $5 trillion, there are different opportunities to be tapped despite the presence of large incumbents. Some of these clients include Mr Price Money, FinChoice, Telkom, Metropolitan, Sanlam and Guardrisk. Germany and France might be at the top of the list.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Greece is one of the global superpowers in shipping, so when I was working in consulting, I became close to the industry and really fell in love with it.”. Since agencies rely on hiring commissions to make money, however, they might not always provide the best fits for openings, Diakogiannis said.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2017

Six key lessons surfaced from our interviews with more than 35 global nonprofits. Dr. Dietmar Kress puts his PhD in Sociology to work as Director of Actions and Volunteering at Greenpeace Germany. It’s the most important volunteer role one can have at Greenpeace Germany,” says Dr. Kress.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

When Masaya Aso worked on autonomous driving technology at Bosch in Japan and Germany, he realized that “many tasks were still manual as over 85% of warehouses have almost no automation at all.” billion by 2028 , accounting for about 40% of the global market size. In addition to the U.S.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2021

Tiger Global and Bain Capital Ventures are leading today’s funding round with existing investors Index Ventures, GFC, Alven and Aglaé also participating. In addition to buying from several brands at once, Ankorstore withdraws the money from your bank account 60 days after placing an order.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The European Union has outlined an ambitious new industrial policy that aims to make the bloc a significant player in the global semiconductor industry. the global shortage of chips has really slowed down our recovery”. Currently, Taiwanese firm TSMC dominates the semiconductor industry, generating more than half of global revenue.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2020

On the heels of Germany announcing another lockdown to try to contain the rapid rise in COVID-19 cases in the country, one of the hottest startups in its capital city is announcing the closing of a large convertible note to help it keep moving forward.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

As he explains it, ClearBank has built everything into one stack, which not only means that money moving is going through a single system rather than through several different channels, but also lets those plugging into its system “better visibility” into how funds are moving. “Europe and and the U.S.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2021

They shouldn’t have to worry about their safety when they run out of bread or milk, nor should they have to wait several hours or days for their order to arrive” Jiffy joins a host of European startups that have raised money on the promise of delivering grocery and other convenience store items within 10-20 minutes of ordering.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

We are live in the UK and USA and have big global plans to solve this problem for others.” and is planning to move into Brazil, India, the Philippines and Germany. Over a call, Lewis told me: “We spent a lot of time and money developing an internal system that checks whether the customer is verified.

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