TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Gorillas , a grocery delivery startup that operates its own hyper local fulfillment centers and has already been a hit in Berlin, has raised $44 million in Series A funding. Probably one of European tech’s worst kept secrets this year, the round is led by hedge fund Coatue, with participation from other unnamed European investors.

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TechCrunch

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.

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2023

The combination of all of these data points ensures a broad coverage of both local and global supply chain risk events.” Prewave pulls in $20M as supply chain tech investments remain on VC radars by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2021

A typical VC thesis: “We invest in tech startups in Europe at an early stage.” and Germany; and “tech” means B2B SaaS/fintech or consumer apps. any mention of a focus on tech companies). Local affinity or bias. Public theses are often inconsistent with how firms actually deploy capital. Occurrences.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

The initial focus for investment is on Germany which is particularly reliant on buying gas from Russia — meaning its economy is heavily exposed to the crisis in Ukraine. “At the moment, we’re supporting renewable energy projects across Germany. “At the moment, we’re supporting renewable energy projects across Germany.

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The Verge

APRIL 21, 2021

Gogoro is branching out of home country Taiwan in the biggest way yet, as it just announced a partnership with major two-wheeler manufacturer Hero MotorCorp to bring its swappable battery and scooter tech to India. Gogoro also pitches its battery stations as a way to aid the local energy grid during times of peak demand.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

Germany, Switzerland, Scandinavia and China. In addition, other solutions in construction tech were still relying on lasers or people to manually input or tap photos. We did a good job selling remotely, but now we need local offices,” Danon added. “We Despite the hype, construction tech will be hard to disrupt.

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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. . raised $20 million. And this is not a comprehensive list.).

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Denmark, Germany and Switzerland, Rogers said the company can have an outsized impact to improve the amount of money going into a farmer’s pocket. The fruition of Rogers’ plans will be as the company brings demand from international markets to these local growers through regional exporters.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 6, 2021

This past decade, Nigeria has seen several companies cater to the development and growth of software engineers and tech talent in general. So when Chika Nwobi started Decagon in 2018, the perception was generally “here comes another tech talent accelerator.” and Germany. Canada, the U.K.,

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

in Ehningen, Germany. Designed for customers in government, financial services, and e-commerce who want high-performance computing capabilities along with the security of local control, Oxides systems make the transition to the private cloud as easy as possible. The edge AI hardware market is projected to grow from $24.2

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TechNode

OCTOBER 16, 2023

She is also on the Board of Directors for tech startups such as Averatek, Cambridge Touch Tech, Econic, Thingple, Global Power Tech and more. TechNode Insider is an open platform for subject experts to discuss China tech with TechNodes audience. and building an ecosystem of partners. trillion.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 6, 2025

Many of them consistently draw larger audiences on Audiomack than on Spotify or Apple Music , largely due to the platforms strong presence in local markets. Audiomack responded to this by striking bundling deals with local cellphone carriers. Germany, and France is diasporic, Zisook says. We’re No.

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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 According to OfferZen CEO Philip Joubert, over 1,000 companies and 100,000 software developers use the tech talent marketplace. million ($5.07

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

So to find out what the startup scene in Wroclaw looks like, we spoke with local six investors, executives and founders. The country’s capital Warsaw has an angel investment scene, but founders instead often look to Germany for smaller investments because “the distance from Wroc? What are the tech investors like in Wroclaw?

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TechCrunch

JULY 9, 2021

The company will also hire more people with local marketing and sales teams for different markets. Didomi plans to open offices in Germany, Spain and the U.S. Who’s funding privacy tech? It doesn’t mean that Didomi is for everyone as the company focuses on premium clients in particular.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

With today’s funding round, the company plans to expand to Germany with a new office in early 2022. As you may have noticed, fintech has become a busy vertical for tech startups. Solarisbank raises $224M at a $1.65B valuation to acquire Contis, expand API-based embedded banking tech in Europe.

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The Verge

MAY 21, 2020

These things are just inherently pricey, which comes from the weatherproofing and other tech upgrades that go into them. The Terrace is launching today in the US and Canada and will come to Germany, Australia, New Zealand, and other regions later this year. Image: Samsung. Image: Samsung.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The social media giant says it’s already partnered with over a dozen publishers for the service including Guardian Media Group, Reach (who’s titles include the Daily Mirror , Daily Express , and local publications like the Manchester Evening News and the Liverpool Echo ), The Economist , and Wired and GQ publisher Conde Nast.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

This is one of the largest rounds in the French tech ecosystem. It currently operates in France, Germany, Italy and Spain. You can sign up from a computer and get a local IBAN a few minutes later. Following this investment, the startup has reached a valuation of $5 billion (€4.4 And Qonto does that really well.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

And Wire’s adoption by Germany federal authorities has garnered it some local press attention related to usage by politicians after the app was recommended by the federal office for digital security. ” Europe says yes to messaging interoperability as it agrees on major new regime for Big Tech. .

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TechNode

JANUARY 30, 2024

Volkswagen has appointed Thomas Ulbrich, a veteran of more than 30 years at Germanys biggest automaker, as the new chief technology officer in China, hoping to foster the local development of new models to meet the growing demand for intelligent, connected electric vehicles. Volkswagen release ]

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TechCrunch

MAY 30, 2022

Tech companies, private and public, have faced a reckoning in the past few months with their valuations taking a beating. This downsizing from the Dubai-based startup adds to the long list of global cross-stage layoffs in what has been a rough month for tech employees. Over 15,000 tech workers have lost their jobs in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

And if that’s not convincing enough, I’m going to share a few more reasons why the prospects of the Ukrainian tech sector aren’t as bleak as they may seem from the outside. The Ukrainian tech sector is adaptable and export oriented The Ukrainian IT sector gets most of its business from Europe and the United States.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Neeva , an ad-free search engine launched last year by a former engineer and executive best known for spearheading Google’s advertising tech business , is about to land in Europe. France and Germany. “All of the personal indexing is tech that we have completely built from scratch,” Ramaswamy said.

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The Verge

AUGUST 25, 2020

Facebook is planning to expand its dedicated news section and says it is “considering” the UK, Germany, France, India, and Brazil as possible recipients, it announced Tuesday. Its News Feed algorithm and ad business have proven devastating for the industry, particularly for local news publishers.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Belgium, France and Germany makes Amsterdam a natural gateway to those markets. based tech founders are welcomed with open arms. and StartupAmsterdam, there are 1,661 tech companies in Amsterdam, while the city ranked fifteenth in Startup Genome’s 2019 report “Global Startup Ecosystem Report,” moving up four places since 2017.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2022

based tech entrepreneur Irra Ariella Khi , co-founder of Zamna , set up a fundraising page to directly support people inside Ukraine. She jumped in and got her “hands dirty”, doing dozens of video calls with groups of local drivers inside Ukraine in order to get supplies in. Some even re-routed planes after a call from Khi.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

As for where, Volocopter has conducted flight tests in Singapore, Helsinki, Dubai, and its headquarters in Bruchsal, Germany — so most likely in one of those cities. But instead of facilitating high-volume air travel between cities like an airport, Volocopter wants to focus on local point-to-point travel.

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TechNode

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Chinese electric vehicle battery maker Gotion High-Tech announced on Sept. 16 that it has begun production at its first European plant in Gottingen, Germany, and expects to begin supplying local markets next month. The Chinese enterprise took over the plant from German auto supplier Bosch in 2021.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

Tech crackdown on Russia continues : The technology world is tightening the screws on Russia in the wake of the country’s invasion of Ukraine. The company from southern Germany just raised $170 million at a valuation of $1.87 Big Tech Inc. The TechCrunch Top 3. Are flying taxis finally coming ? million for its efforts.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Chat to local founders and there’s a litany of administrative, tax-based and fundraising pain-points they’ll quickly point to as frustrations. France and Germany. The idea of opening up sandboxing is popular with local gig platform Glovo. So it will be something of a milestone.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

The coming winter looks very grim, with Russia recently electing to entirely shutter gas exports via its Nord Stream pipeline to Germany in what looks like an attempt to weaken Western support for the pro-Ukraine sanctions. So energy supply in Europe has become a weapon of economic war.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

Because Berlin is so close to the Polish border, many in Berlin’s startup scene and beyond have began a grassroots effort, backed by tech, to provide supplies, ferry passengers across the border and find jobs and homes for refugees. Duscha started with a post on LinkedIn that put out a call to action among the tech community in Berlin.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

But ironically, the world of employment has had another focus — as a problem for tech startups to tackle. ” (There are exceptions to this, Romero noted, due to localized needs: Payroll, for example, is available in nine markets and in each of those Factorial integrates with local companies that actually run the process.).

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TechNode

AUGUST 8, 2023

Cross-border logistics company iMile Delivery has recently entered the Italian market and established its European headquarters in Germany, becoming the first Chinese express delivery startup to enter Europe, according to an August 7 report by Chinese media outlet LatePost. The company targets the Middle East delivery market.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

CEO Michael Shangkuan said the funding will be used both to continue enhancing its tech platform — with more tools for teachers and asynchronous supplementary material — and to widen its footprint in markets further afield such as the U.S. The tech-powered wave of smart, not slow, tutoring sessions.

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