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Klarna confirms new $31B valuation

TechCrunch

It does this both by offering online retailer integrations where Klarna appears as an option at check out, and through its own “shopping mall” app, where users can browse all the stores that let you pay with Klarna. The fintech has been backed by Sequoia Capital since 2010.

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New South African partnership gets $3M, launches telehealth product

TechCrunch

Webrock Ventures is a Sweden-based investment company that employs a venture-building model. So essentially, the firm partners with tech companies in Sweden and combines its cash with the company’s business models to create portfolio businesses. As a Sweden-based telehealth company, Doktor.se has no intention of expanding.

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Sono Motors has gone public, aims to get Sion solar electric vehicle to market by 2023

TechCrunch

“We came up with a vision to integrate solar on every vehicle and thought, Okay, what do we need for that?” Sono is also working with companies to integrate its solar technologies into other vehicles. Sono has partnered with National Electric Vehicle Sweden (NEVS) to produce the vehicles in its former Saab factory.

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Making sense of Klarna

TechCrunch

In contrast to America, he points out how Sweden is among the most successful societies in the world from a social mobility perspective — referencing its free education and free health care, which sets up as many people as possible for success. “We didn’t have a lot of money,” he tells me. Image Credits: Klarna.

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Nordic neobank Lunar raises $77M at $2B valuation, launches crypto trading platform and B2B payments

TechCrunch

Lunar has a full banking license (setting it apart from a number of other neobanks, which operate on other banks’ rails), and it offers checking and deposit accounts; loans and other credit services like buy now, pay later; stock, fund and ETF investing for consumers; plus business accounts, loans and financial management for SMBs.

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Lynk & Co will make you rethink outdated ideas of car ownership

The Verge

Lynk & Co first announced its ambitious approach to car sharing five years ago in its home city of Gothenburg, Sweden, emboldened by studies that say cars sit unused 96 percent of the time. Hell, there’s even an integrated dashcam with 64GB of storage and a second in-car selfie camera for god knows what reason.

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Case Study: Moving to Google Apps

NTEN

At this point, the servers were aging and needed to be replaced, and we needed new software and user licenses (MS Exchange Server), as well. We have integrated Google Apps with our Salesforce instance, so we are definitely on the right path according to our long term technology visions and plans.