TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

The company is live in 23 European markets and plans soon to expand to Croatia, Hungary and Sweden. UK challenger bank Starling raises $376M, now valued at $1.9B. The funding is notable in part because of who is doing the investing.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Autonomous and electric truck maker Einride is rolling into Germany, representing its first new market in Europe outside its native Sweden. Founded out of Stockholm in 2016, Einride has raised some $150 million in funding to commercialize a cab-less autonomous cargo truck, one that can be controlled remotely, if required, by human operators.

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Engadget

MARCH 3, 2025

Sweden often hosts a big part of that journey, its cold northern expanses offering the perfect mix of frigid temperatures and frozen surfaces. That's the question that brought me to Sweden. Before a new car comes to market, it's subjected to many months, sometimes years, of rigorous testing around the world.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2022

Mavenoid , a Swedish company that provides both human- and AI-enabled support and troubleshooting tools for hardware companies, has raised $30 million in a series B round of funding.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

French startup Ankorstore has raised a $283 million Series C funding round (€250 million). In May 2021, when Ankorstore raised its Series B , the company told me it was working with 50,000 shops and 5,000 brands. based company that has raised over $1 billion — it has recently started its European expansion.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

If you plan to launch a new startup in France, Denmark or Sweden, there is a new seed fund looking for your pitch. Emblem said today that it has raised nearly $54 million (€50 million) for a new European seed fund. And this is only its first close: the firm expects to raise as much as $80 million (€75 million) by the end of the year.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Spectralics is an alum of MobilityXlab, an accelerator in Götenborg, Sweden, and is also part of Drive-TLV, a mobility hub in Tel Aviv that connects startups with automotive industry investors. The new funding now brings the Israel-based startup’s total raised to $5 million.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Alongside the equity raise, the 2009-founded startup has secured another chunk of debt financing ($75M) from Blackrock. The startup touts an average NPS score for workers on its platform of 56 vs an industry average that it says stands at just 18. “ Jobandtalent is by far the largest job platform in Europe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

Video games are big — bigger than Hollywood in terms of revenue, as a $66 billion global industry. This nonprofit social arm of the juggernaut game developer has helped to raise more than $7 million for charities through FarmVille 24 million users alone. Players, who collectively average about 30 years old in the U.S., In Philanthropy.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

Minut just raised $14 million to further expand its privacy-forward “shhhh, it’s time to take it down a few notches” solutions for the hospitality sector. Sweden, France and Spain. “I was talking with one of the first employees at Airbnb, when they were at Y Combinator. .” It has offices in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

This month last year, we reported that the company had just raised a $2.5 The firm is known for its investment in the video gaming industry’s infrastructure, technology, tools and platforms. . With this investment, Carry1st has raised a total of $9.5 Africa’s gaming industry has lacked innovation in times past.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2022

Founded in 2013 (or 2014 depending on the source), the Chicago-based company has raised over $82 million in funding over its lifetime from investors such as FinTech Collective and Oak HC/FT , according to Crunchbase. Its biggest competitor, Bolt, raised “roughly 50 times that figure,” according to The Information. .

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

No, this isn’t a game of two truths and a lie — indeed, these are snippets from the life of a serial entrepreneur who harbors a vendetta against the carbon emissions produced by the world’s trucking industry. In May, the company raised $110 million to help fund its U.S. Einride launched its U.S. ” Robert Falck.

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The Next Web

JULY 29, 2013

The cloud itself is a huge topic in the tech industry, and it helped us tremendously to gain attention and to grow into the business we are today. But when we initially started raising money – for building a new project management tool – investors fell asleep. He started Skype in Sweden.

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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. Sono has partnered with National Electric Vehicle Sweden (NEVS) to produce the vehicles in its former Saab factory.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The likes of Sweden , Denmark , and the U.K. ” And to help take things to the next level, the London-based company today announced that it has raised $3.5 million from a slew of institutional and angel investors.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

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.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

The first electric bus by Swedish-Kenyan EV startup, Opibus , has hit Kenya’s roads marking the beginning of the company’s venture into the mass transit industry. Opibus first announced plans to roll out electric public transport buses last year when it raised $7.5 million in a pre-Series A round.

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TechNode

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The global EV battery market is currently led by CATL, with the Chinese giant accounting for more than a third of the market from January to October, according to figures compiled by industry tracker SNE Research. It has also made a foray into the European market, currently selling EVs in the Netherlands and Sweden.

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The Verge

JUNE 3, 2020

According to figures shared with The Verge by industry body Mobile UK, there were more than 200 incidents of abuse against telecoms engineers since March 30th and more than 90 arson attacks against mobile infrastructure. She raised her voice almost immediately: “‘You’re killing people. You know what you’re doing.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2022

More funding for sustainability reporting: Sweden’s Worldfavor , an early mover platform focused on building digital infrastructure to support supply chain transparency and cater to organizations’ ESG (environmental, social, governance) reporting needs, has bagged €10.2 million in Series A funding to step on the growth gas.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

News of the delay, which Microsoft attributed in part to the pandemic, came after the game’s visuals were met with criticism after their initial unveiling, prompting developer 343 Industries to admit , “We do have work to do to address some of these areas and raise the level of fidelity and overall presentation for the final game.”.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

Russia invaded Ukraine last week, which, in addition to being a human rights tragedy, is going to affect industries far and wide as supply chains become even further disrupted than they were before war broke out. Fetch , a self-service truck rental marketplace, has raised $3.5 Let’s get to it. First thing’s first.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 5, 2020

A Ugandan environmental activist was suspended from Twitter in the midst of a high-profile campaign — a suspension he believes is connected to his opponents in the country’s government and industries linked to deforestation. The suspension has drawn concern from around the world. This is unacceptable.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

His work as a partner at and Kleiner Perkins was dedicated to leading the sustainable transformation of industries. Apex.ai , mobility software startup founded by Bosch veterans and automated systems engineers Jan Becker and Dejan Pangercic, raised a Series B $56.5 Gopuff is in the process of raising $1.5

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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

APRIL 27, 2021

Swedish digital health startup Kry , which offers a telehealth service (and software tools) to connect clinicians with patients for remote consultations, last raised just before the pandemic hit in Western Europe, netting a €140M Series C in January 2020. “Obviously we have been on the right side of a global pandemic.

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Engadget

MARCH 5, 2025

Volvo gave the ES90 a slightly raised ride height and its Thor's Hammer headlight design, along with its new C-shaped LED rear lamps. Volvo will release it in more markets later this year and into 2026. Volvo This article originally appeared on Engadget at [link]

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Singularity Hub

MARCH 13, 2025

Steelmaking is one of the hardest industries to decarbonize due to its reliance on high temperatures and coal-based fuels to drive crucial reactions. This week, the company completed the first run of its largest reactor yet, which validates key technologies required to start producing steel at industrial scales.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

Tesla sales also fell in France, Sweden, and Norway last month. The Cybertruck, Teslas first all-new vehicle since 2017, is the biggest flop in the auto industry , Niedermeyer says. But in addition to impacts on Tesla, the protests can help raise awareness of whats happening now in D.C.

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The Verge

MARCH 16, 2021

What struck me about this is that we’d heard a lot from Google, from Facebook, and from Australian government officials, but we hadn’t really heard from anyone from the Australian tech industry. I have a number of questions about Atlassian, how you are running the company and I want to talk about the Australian tech industry.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 8, 2025

For comparison's sake, industry giants ExpressVPN and NordVPN were founded in 2009 and 2012, respectively.) It's raised money for privacy activists in Hong Kong. In a crowded industry with a lot of loud voices, this makes it a decisively worthy pick. Subscribers are covered by a 30-day money-back guarantee.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Are there startups that you wish you would see in the industry but don’t? Which industries in your city and region seem well positioned to thrive, or not, long term? Which industry segments that you invest in look weaker or more exposed to potential shifts in consumer and business behavior because of COVID-19? E-commerce.

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