TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

As Italy reinstates many COVID-19 restrictions, the country’s tech ecosystem is watching and waiting to see what the wider effects of the emergency will be. Italy’s ecosystem for tech venture capital and startups has been in development for years and has made decent strides in the last decade.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2022

Two years on from its launch, Charles today announced that it has raised $20 million in a series A round of funding led by Salesforce Ventures, with participation from Accel and HV Capital. million seed round of funding it raised last year. This follows a $6.5 How it works. Conversational commerce comes to Europe.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The startup has raised $155 million at a $700 million valuation. 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.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Tink , a startup out of Stockholm, Sweden that aggregates a number of banks and financial services by way of an API so that those can in turn be accessed via new channels, has raised €85 million (or $103 million at current rates), at a post-money valuation of €680 million (or around $825 million). It has now raised €175 million in total.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

When Acorns last raised funding, $300 million in March 2022, it was valued at $2 billion; GoHenry has not disclosed its valuation but was believed to be valued at between $250 million and $500 million in October 2022, when it raised $55 million. France, Italy and Spain. The acquisition is notable for a couple of reasons.

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2021

German startup Wefox has raised a $650 million Series C funding round led by Target Global. It’s much more than we wanted to raise initially. Wefox, the Berlin-based insurtech, raises $110M Series B extension. Not only have we raised a super large amount but also in a very fast time.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2023

The global ecosystem has been on an upward trajectory, albeit less consistently, but the declines in new investment in 2022 were steep: globally funding declined to $9.1 Italy was the only European market to see a hike in both funding and the number of deals. billion in 2022 compared to $2.5 billion a year earlier.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2020

It turns out that business-facing businesses are no less immune to their own set of customer distractions and challenges — particularly in the current market, buffeted as it is by the global health pandemic and its economic reverberations. Italy’s Commerce Layer raises $6M led by Benchmark for its headless e-commerce platform.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

Indeed, edtech investment in 2020 and 2021 equaled the amount raised during the entire 2014-2019 period. Our 2021 funding report , released today, highlights key global growth and activity metrics in edtech with a focus on Europe. billion in 2021 from $790 million in 2020, compared to global funding growth of 34% to $20.1

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

Retail Rocket , a retention management platform for brands, today announced that it raised $24 million in a Series A round led by Cyprus-based private equity fund Flintera. New York-based SailPlay had raised $3.3 “We were impressed with the company’s results given the limited amount of investment they raised. ”

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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

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Augury , which works with large enterprises like Colgate and Heineken to maintain machines in their production and distribution lines, has raised $55 million in funding. Augury’s partners include ProPac in Germany, Caverion in Finland, Pluriservice in Italy, Fuse IoT in Latin and South America, and 42 North in North America.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2021

The startup currently works with some 5,000 clubs globally ranging from professional sports teams through to amateur clubs for children, and it has recorded and tracked 200,000 games since opening for business in 2018, with a large proportion of that volume in the last year and in the US.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

For Gigs, that means powering embeddable phone and data plans by abstracting away all the complexity that’s usually involved in becoming a global network operator, reducing it so just five API calls, according to Frank. ” This is further complicated when a company wishes to launch its MVNO in multiple markets globally.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Today, they’re on track to surpass half a billion rides globally by 2021, far outpacing early growth in the carbon-heavy ride-hailing industry founded by Uber in 2009. Adaptable, environmentally friendly solutions to car congestion and urban pollution were in high demand even before the global spread of the coronavirus in 2020.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

It’s been really tough concentrating during the latter part of this week due to global events so forgive me if my tone is less upbeat than normal. million in funding — $15 million of which was raised in a Series A led by Menlo Ventures and $3.4 And if you want to have this hit your inbox directly once it turns into a newsletter (soon!),

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Last month, Numeral announced that it raised a $14.8 That could be particularly useful for global customers with accounts in multiple countries. Spain and Italy. By abstracting that layer of complexity, you can treat your bank accounts like another microservice in your architecture.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

Dija , the London-based grocery delivery startup, is officially launching today and confirming that it raised £20 million in seed funding in December — a round that we first reported was partially closed the previous month. Backing the company is Blossom Capital, Creandum and Index Ventures, with Dija seemingly able to raise pre-launch.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

And because we have a veritable wall of coverage on AI today: A path to un-banning in Italy : Natasha L covers how Italy gives OpenAI an initial to-do list for lifting the ChatGPT suspension order. And we have five more for you: &integrate : Ampersand helps SaaS companies build their customer-facing integrations , and raises $4.7

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TechCrunch

JULY 24, 2022

In May, I wrote about Jay-Z-backed Altro, which raised $18 million to help people build credit through recurring payment forms such as digital subscriptions to Netflix, Spotify and Hulu. First up, Anita Ramaswamy wrote about X1, which just raised $25 million in funding. Like, X1, TomoCredit doesn’t rely on FICO scores to underwrite.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 18, 2014

And, one that should be required reading for any leader doing business globally or leading a culturally diverse workforce. It''s based on years of extensive research by Meyer, who is a professor at INSEAD and the program director for INSEAD''s Managing Global Virtual Teams program. It''s a fascinating read.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 3, 2020

Physical events with a large number of people are raising red flags all over the world. For example, the UEFA Championship League match that occurred between Atalanta-Valencia in Milan has widely been seen as a “ biological bomb ” that set off the overwhelming coronavirus case numbers and death toll in Italy. Connecting Local Events.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Such per country regulations likely (partly) explains the meaty size of Mayd’s seed raise, along with the usual tech and recruitment challenges of scaling an urban logistics app business. “In Germany there is a different situation who can deliver medicine.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 2, 2015

And, one that should be required reading for any leader doing business globally or leading a culturally diverse workforce. It's based on years of extensive research by Meyer, who is a professor at INSEAD and the program director for INSEAD's Managing Global Virtual Teams program. And, that's why Meyer wrote her book, The Culture Map.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

The 2020 global freeze on leisure travel put a temporary pause on demand for short term luggage storage. The new funding will go on fast scaling in Europe — where key markets it’s targeting include Italy, France, and the UK. ” Bounce raises $1.2M Travel is also exploding right now.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2022

A new company from the creators of the Godot game engine is setting out to grab a piece of the $200 billion global video game market — and to do so, it’s taking a cue from commercial open source software giant Red Hat. On top of that, the company told TechCrunch that it has raised $8.5

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

It recently raised £750,000 (about $1 million) from investors ahead of the Aventa launch. Last year Furosystems did 60 percent of its sales in the UK, according to Wertheimer, with the remaining 40 percent split across France and Italy. Furosystems appears to be a company with staying power. It took all of two minutes.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

90% of those orders come from Germany or “German-speaking countries” and the remaining 10% comes from countries like the Netherlands, Spain, France, Italy and Sweden, where the vehicles will be manufactured. Most of the preorders for the vehicle have come from Europe, where the market launch will take place.

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The Verge

JUNE 3, 2020

Since the UK entered lockdown in March, engineers like Qureshi had unwillingly found themselves on the front line of a strange global crusade. Any point he brought up would be shot down by the woman’s self-fulfilling rationalization that Qureshi was part of a global conspiracy. His job felt undeniably essential.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 3, 2020

Physical events with a large number of people are raising red flags all over the world. For example, the UEFA Championship League match that occurred between Atalanta-Valencia in Milan has widely been seen as a “ biological bomb ” that set off the overwhelming coronavirus case numbers and the death toll in Italy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Presented by: Elizabeth Ngonzi , Adjunct Faculty at New York University Center for Global Affairs and Former CEO of Afrika Tikkun USA. Selecting one of four legal paths to raise funds from them. Date: Tuesday, March 24, 2020. Time: 1pm EST / 10am PST. Understanding their needs, interests and why they give.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2020

PrimaryBid , which allows retail investors (that is, ordinary and not professional investors ) the ability to invest in new shares issued by public companies, has raised $50 million in new funding of its own. and globally.”. and globally.”. s public companies by providing additional capital and liquidity. .

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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. ” Cameo raises $50M to deliver personalized messages from celebrities & influencers. . Memmo has now raised a total of $12 million.

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Candid

APRIL 14, 2022

Since March 11, when Candid last looked at the global philanthropic response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, human suffering and economic devastation has only increased. Candid continues to track the global philanthropic response to the crisis. Even as diplomatic negotiations continue, the future is uncertain at best. 6,780,000.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

The Series A is pegged for launching in the US (slated for Q1 this year) and the EU (Q2; where it’s eyeing Italy, France and Germany for starters), as well as expanding the product’s capabilities and feature-set with a focus on the buzz around Web3 and digital collectables. For now, Twig accounts are only available in the UK.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 8, 2021

The 2009-founded startup has raised more than $290 million to date over its decade+ run but describes itself as just at the beginning of a journey to make a dent in the massive and growing market for temporary work, expecting demand to keep stepping up as more sectors and processes go digital in the coming years.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

According to Bird, this growth plan is already underway, with the shared micromobility company recently bringing its scooters to Bergen, Norway; Tarragona, Spain; and Palermo, Italy. ” I might have raised an eyebrow or two when I first read this announcement. That round was later extended to $350 million.

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