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Sennder , a large digital road freight forwarder based out of Germany, has raised $160 million in Series D financing. To date, Sennder has raised more than $260 million, allowing it to lay claim to a potential $1 billion valuation. Digital freight forwarder Forto raises another $50M in round led by Inven Capital.
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Stranieri, who has worked in the cybersecurity industry for the past 20 years, got the idea for VU in 2007 after spending hours helping his grandmother verify her identity with the Argentinian government in what turned out to be a two-minute process. billion valuation. Globant’s investment into VU also serves as a partnership.
Cubyn , the Paris-based logistics startup that lets e-merchants outsource fulfilment and delivery logistics, has raised another €35 million in funding. First up is Spain and Portugal (launching next month), followed by Italy, the U.K. Cubyn raises €12M Series B to let e-merchants outsource fulfilment. and Germany.
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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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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. We’re tackling that $5.2
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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Everli , the European marketplace for online grocery shopping that started in Italy but now also operates in Poland, Czech Republic and France, has raised a $100 million in Series C funding. That growth is happening more and more outside Italy, with its international expansion now responsible for over 20% of orders.
The super fast grocery delivery industry will steadily grow for many years to come and Getir will lead this category it created 7 years ago,” Getir founder Nazim Salur said in a statement. Those services raised a ton of money and grew at a rapid pace during the COVID-19 pandemic. TechCrunch has confirmed the news with Getir.
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during the same period last year, after clocking up its most successful first half of the year in its five-year history and bagging a number of major retailers to stock its plant-based foodstuffs (including Ocado in the UK, Migros in Switzerland, Carrefour in Italy, E.Leclerc, Intermarché and Super U in France).
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The company recently raised a €5 million funding round ($5.4 Still, agriculture is one of the industries that hasn’t been digitized with too many intermediates,” he added. On the marketplace side of things, the company focuses on Mediterranean countries first, starting with Greece, Italy, Spain and France. “We
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With this new mechanism, fund managers should be able to raise a new fund more easily. And he strongly believes that the ability to raise large growth rounds in Europe will lead to large tech companies down the road. These funds are Eurazeo and EQT — a French fund and a Swedish fund.”. More countries should join the list soon.
million Series A funding round — bringing its total raised since January 2020, when the business was founded, to $13.6M. it says customers span all industries but — as you might expect — it says take-up it’s highest among blue collar workers. Currently, it has pilots running in Italy and Portugal.
Construction is the one of the least digitized industries out there. million in funding — $15 million of which was raised in a Series A led by Menlo Ventures and $3.4 million that was raised in a seed round led by Brick & Mortar Ventures and First Round Capital – to advance on its effort to “reimagine construction finance.”
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In a move that surprised many industry professionals, the preliminary duties set to hit Chinese EV imports will rise from the general 10% basis on all of them to between 27% and 48%, with SAIC and those deemed incompliant with EU standards facing the hardest hit.
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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 Bounce also established a European HQ in Lisbon, Portugal, last year to prep for its regional growth push.). Travel is also exploding right now.”
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We could’ve taken money from crypto funds, but it’s stronger to take it from the game industry and believers,” Raz Friedman, co-founder of UnCaged, told Jacquelyn in an interview regarding the company’s $24 million fundraise. “We Robin raised $30 million for its office reservation software to help figure that out, Kyle reports.
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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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