The Next Web

JULY 15, 2013

Starting a fast-growing tech business is incredibly challenging, and requires a variety of skills. Some of the best universities for entrepreneurs in Europe are in Germany – here are my personal favorites with regard to the tech industry: Hasso Plattner Institut. If you are about to start your own company, be aware of this.

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The Next Web

JULY 29, 2013

The main hub for starting a tech business is currently San Francisco. It’s an amazing city, full of people working at tech businesses, and ready to start the next big thing. The costs of living are incredibly high and you will compete with the world’s most successful tech businesses for talent.

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Futurism

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Back in 2021, the tech industry was booming. Fueled by generous government subsidies and the pandemic economy , tech companies went on a hiring spree, promising unlimited time off and upward growth opportunities at open offices where kombucha and cold brew flowed from taps. Flash forward to now, and those taps have run dry.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Tech-talent marketplace MVP Match has raised €5 million ($5 million) seed funding from Stage 2 Capital to double down its strategy for pairing companies with talent from across the globe. Manara gets $3M to grow tech talent pool in the Middle East and North Africa.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

And the French government is taking advantage of this opportunity to make some progress on the tech startup policy front. In an interview with TechCrunch, France’s digital minister Cédric O shared some news for the European tech ecosystem. Leveling up tech visas. But first, let me rewind just a little bit.

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2021

Gopuff , the “instant” grocery delivery startup that has been on an acquisition and expansion tear in the last several months to scale its business, is also racing to raise money to fuel those efforts. So for Gopuff, some of the money it’s raised so far has been used to expand organically.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

Slowly but surely, however, we have a quietly emerging ‘ecosystem’ (as it is often called in tech lingo). So is the Dutch tech startup story sold short? But hedonistic pleasures aside, The Netherlands actually has a great foundation for tech entrepreneurship. Not in my view. A top-notch infrastructure. Serious talent.

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TechCrunch

JULY 5, 2021

With a high valuation, ManoMano could raise quite a bit of money without having to sell a significant chunk of its equity. In addition to France, the startup operates in Spain, Italy, Belgium, Germany and the U.K. and Germany in particular — they are Europe’s two biggest markets for home improvement and gardening. “For

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

China is becoming a superpower in the tech industry. and 11 years in Germany. Denis Kalinin works at venture fund Runa Capital as Asia Business development manager, devoted to connecting the Western and Asian VC worlds and bringing long-term value to both. eight years in the U.K.

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The Verge

JUNE 8, 2020

“Baillie Gifford is one of the world’s most influential tech investors and their commitment to Lilium represents a significant vote of confidence in both our physical product and our business case,” Christopher Delbrück, Lilium’s chief financial officer, said in a statement.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2020

and Germany and delivered via an easy to use app, the idea is that you build and only pay for the exact cover you need. “We sell more policies to first-time insurance buyers in Germany than incumbents like Allianz, Axa, Zurich, etc,” he says. Available in the U.K.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

That includes Germany, where Turo took over Daimler AG’s car-sharing subsidiary Croove alongside an investment deal. Extra Crunch members save money with Partner Perks and event discounts. Data shows which tech roles might be most vulnerable amid layoffs.

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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

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Many kids want to study coding, but school curriculums are limited, said Tung Nguyen, the co-founder of MindX , an online/offline education platform that focuses on preparing students for tech careers. MindX plans to build its network of tech companies that offer jobs to students who complete its courses.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

More money for casual job-matching in Europe: Zenjob , a marketplace platform that targets students looking for side jobs in sectors like retail, logistics and hospitality and promises to connect them with employers in need of temporary labor, has closed a $50 million Series D round of funding.

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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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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., also took part.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

Following this round, the startup has reached a post-money valuation of $2.1 Second, there’s a lot of money floating around for the best performing tech companies. Other customers are located in Spain, Germany or the U.K. Spain and Germany. Germany and Spain. billion (€1.82 The market opportunity.

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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.

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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. However, its staff cuts across its five markets, Tunisia, Kenya, the U.S.,

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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. By introducing its preservative technologies that deter spoilage and providing willing buyers among existing Apeel customers in markets like the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2021

StudentFinance launched in Spain first, followed by Germany and Finland, with the U.K. The startup, which launched at the beginning of 2020, provides the tech back end for institutions to offer flexible payment plans in the form of ISAs (income-share agreements). It’s now raised $6.6 million total, to date. planned this year.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

GoTo Global, an Israeli mobility company that offers shared micromobility and car sharing services in Spain, Israel, Malta and Germany, is going public on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange through a merger with shell company Nera Tech Media. Adam Neumann is back in the shared economy business with an investment in GoTo Global.

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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. 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

MARCH 8, 2021

Now the company has a presence in more than 3,000 retail locations across Switzerland, Germany, and Austria, and works with restaurant and food service partners as well. No doubt this strong organic (so to speak) growth, and the growth of the meat alternative market in general, made raising money less of a chore.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

At first, Effy wasn’t a tech-enabled startup. In 2015, Effy acquired Quelle énergie , a VC-backed startup that could calculate how much money you would save by isolating your roof, changing your windows and more. Some people just want to use Effy’s tools to see how much money they could save with energy renovation projects.

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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. That’s likely prompted by reports the company is eyeing up a direct public listing and the current appetite for public tech stocks in general.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Although Facebook is declining to say how much money it’s expecting to pay as part of the scheme, The Guardian reports that some publishers are expecting to make millions of pounds a year from the service, at a cost to tens of millions of pounds to Facebook overall.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2022

And you may have noticed a recent crowdfunding campaign in the French tech ecosystem already. As there might be a lot of interest for such a well-known company, Qonto is focusing on its user base in France, Italy, Spain and Germany. We are not just thinking about tech companies but all sorts of unlisted companies,” Pham said.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The startup has an e-money license and can offer services across the European Economic Area. 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. They work with Apple Pay and Google Pay.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

Some companies like Stripe have built tech to get around some of the hurdles that arise as a result of this: for example, it can take typically days to reconcile and settle a transaction on traditional payment rails. Those customers cover some 13 million bank accounts and £3 billion (nearly $4 billion) in assets.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Lilium denies it was seeking to raise that much money, citing lower labor costs in Germany. It also built a pop-up vertiport in Singapore for a tech conference late last year. But the funding round fell short of the $400–500 million that TechCrunch reported the company was pursuing last October.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2022

The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. For instance, several “ French Tech ” mega-rounds were announced in the first days of the year. Germany: $2.9 As we noted earlier this week, this was also the case in Africa – unlike the U.S., Asia, and Latin America. It is certainly a possibility. France: $4.8

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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. — and to add more product categories into the mix, including health and fitness devices, consumer robots and smart appliances.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2022

” Going forward, it will focus instead on its home market of Germany, as well as France, the Netherlands, the UK and the US, which it says collectively account for 90% of its revenues currently.The announcement came on the heels of a report in the German press last night about the layoffs.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Portugal and the U.S. But it’s not a surprise in the wider market context we are in at the moment, with tech companies big and small all seeing a downturn in their finances and valuations in the face of a wider cooling of the market. billion valuation just two months ago.

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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. Participants will discuss establishing a “global financing instrument for biodiversity” intended to effectively distribute the money raised.

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