The Verge

DECEMBER 9, 2021

billion) by antitrust regulators in Italy. Italy says Amazon pushed sellers into using its logistics services. platform that are crucial for the success of sellers and for increasing their sales,” said the ACGM in a statement (translated via Google). “In Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Amazon has been fined $1.3

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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. “The digital marketing world is growing very fast and the demand for highly-skilled professionals is constantly increasing,” CEO Khlebinsky said.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

Ski and Snowboard association to create a lifestyle collection that will land in the lead-up to the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy. Wadle says the brand doesn’t expect these niche collabs to be a cash grab; instead, they’re more of a marketing play, to get in front of fans of The Bear , or The New Yorker , or the FDNY.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

The concept probably reminds you of Cameo (indeed, Carole Baskin of “Tiger King” fame has a presence on both platforms), but while Cameo is U.S.-based, “We want to be the place where you can find everyone from world famous talents like a soccer or basketball star, to the local musician down the road,” he said.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Open banking platforms, where services that might not have previously lived next to each other are now joined up by way of APIs, has been one of the emerging trends of the last couple of years, and today one of the leaders in the space out of Europe has closed a round of funding to expand its business. billion acquisition of Plaid.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2021

The company has been building a platform focused on improving temporary employment. 2,000 companies are using the platform in France and Italy. There are still some growth opportunities in its existing markets as well. But, let’s be honest, the temporary work market is huge.

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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

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The platform is designed to increase profits for hotel operators through automated business processes, intelligent pricing and higher occupancy rates. Germany-based NUMA Group expanded into Spain, Italy, Austria and the Czech Republic in 2021. ”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2020

With this investment round, Nutrium plans to double the team size in the next 24 months in order to focus on platform development and expand global sales in markets like Spain, France, Italy, the U.S. Today, Nutrium operates in more than 40 markets, having increased its turnover exponentially.”. and the U.K., million.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2022

Thanks to recent regulatory changes, British investment platform Crowdcube plans to shake things up as it is officially launching on the French market. It makes sense as Finary is a wealth management platform and crowdfunding rounds also represent alternative investment opportunities. I recently covered Finary ’s Series A round.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

TrovaTrip , a travel planning and booking platform that lets creators host adventures with their communities, has raised $15 million in Series A funding led by Madrona. The platform includes bookable experiences like hiking in Patagonia, sourcing textiles in Morocco, practicing yoga in Bali and more. Image Credits: TrovaTrip.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2020

One of the biggest trends in the world of fintech in the last several years has been the emergence (and surging popularity) of startups building platforms that help more people take a more proactive role in the world of financial services. s public companies by providing additional capital and liquidity. and globally.”. and globally.”.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

It’s been a year since I covered ManoMano , the French e-commerce platform focused on DIY, home improvement and gardening products. There are 7 million active clients on the platform — that’s a 100% increase. In addition to France, ManoMano is operating in Spain, Italy, Germany, the U.K. billion ($1.45 billion at today’s rate).

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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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Payments made a huge shift to digital platforms during the COVID-19 pandemic — purchasing moved online for many consumers and businesses, and a large proportion of those continuing to buy and sell in-person went cash-free. Apple lowers commissions on in-app purchases for news publishers who participate in Apple News. .

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Bitpanda says it is the first European retail investment platform that meets these requirements. This is a first step as the German mobile bank wants to expand crypto trading to other markets. Bitpanda obtains German crypto license as crypto platforms want to prove they are legit by Romain Dillet originally published on TechCrunch.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2009

Adding PayPal, the most popular online payment service, has been a frequent request from our users for some time, so we’re really pleased to have integrated it into our donation process and become the only online fundraising platform in the UK to do so." Could This Be Your All-in-One Social Network? "What do you think?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

Another important data point that connects both regions: the black market is a competitive factor. However, things are moving on the legal side of the market — it appears medical cannabis still carries most of the momentum, and it is only accelerating. Europe is largely a medical-only market right now. billion by 2026.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

million (€20 million) to expand its platform beyond its home country of Spain and into Europe, starting with Italy and Holland. That might be because car ownership is still far more popular than motorcycle ownership, but there’s clearly a market for used motorcycles and mopeds.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

To power the expansion, which will see Lightyear land in 19 new markets, including the Baltics and much of Western Europe, London-based Lightyear has also raised $25 million in a Seres A round of funding led by U.S. Lightyear , a U.K. fintech startup that promises consumers commission-free trading on U.S.

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TechCrunch

JULY 30, 2021

Among others, it competes with ShippyPro , which runs out of Italy and has raised $5 million to date. The Outvio team has understood exactly what the gap in the market is and has done a tremendous job of finding product-market fit with their modern fulfillment SaaS platform.”.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Startups in this class come from far and away, including Argentina, Austria, Australia, Brazil, Croatia, Denmark, India, Japan, Italy, Latvia & Estonia, Spain, and Taiwan. Kickfolio: service to help brands market their iPhone apps. Pick1: retargeting service through automated market research.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Ride Vision , an Israeli startup that is building an AI-driven safety system to prevent motorcycle collisions, today announced that it has raised a $7 million Series A round led by crowdsourcing platform OurCrowd. Ride Vision says its products will be available in Italy, Germany, Austria, Spain, France, Greece, Israel and the U.K.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2022

The conversational commerce market is fairly substantial too, with China’s WeChat reportedly facilitating $250 billion in transactions in 2020 alone. Charles’ platform in action. On top of that, retailers can use the Charles platform to create automated opt-in flows (e.g. GDPR) firmly in mind.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 9, 2013

Digitization and globalization are giving rise to growing publishing markets that promise new business opportunities. The investments that Amazon, Apple and Google, among others, are making in aggregating Spanish-language digital content signal their priority on developing the Spanish-language markets in Latin America.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

Into this area has come European startup Poke House , which is effectively industrializing the production of “poke bowls” for food delivery platforms. It uses tech and data to optimize the production and delivery of its product via all the major food delivery platforms such as Uber Eats, etc.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

It has closed a Series D of $220 million at a valuation of over $1 billion, money that the startup will be using both to build in more products to extend its touch points with customers beyond annual use around tax time; and to expand to new markets beyond its current footprint of Germany, Spain and Italy.

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The Verge

JANUARY 15, 2021

Amazon is giving car companies the unprecedented privilege of accessing the core artificial intelligence underpinning its Alexa digital assistant, a first for the company’s AI platform. The screens and software experiences inside car have proven to be a ripe market for companies like Amazon, Apple, and Google.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The plan is to integrate more Kahoot features into Drops’ apps, and to bring some of Drops’ content into the main Kahoot platform. Kahoot picks up $215M from SoftBank for its user-generated, gamified e-learning platform. Spain, Italy, France, Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands, Hungary, Ukraine and Russia. million (€6.3

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

France, Italy and Spain. But with the SPAC market facing a lot of troubles, and the tech IPO market drying up at the end of 2021, Acorns scrapped its SPAC IPO plans in January of 2022. GoHenry will help it extend in that market segment. Prior to GoHenry, Acorns had also acquired Vault, Harvest Platform and Pillar.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

is co-founder and CEO at Taxdoo, an automated platform for financial compliance in e-commerce. Electronic interfaces, platforms and marketplaces form a key layer in the digital infrastructure behind e-commerce, serving as gatekeepers between consumers and producers of digital content or digitally sold products. Roger Gothmann , Ph.D.,

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2021

New investors include FinTLV, Ace & Co, LGT and its affiliated impact investing platform Lightrock, Partners Group, EDBI, Jupiter and Decisive. We nailed how to disrupt it in our core market,” Teicke said. The company is currently live in five markets right now and is working on expanding to Italy soon.

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2023

If you look at the total volume of the insurance premiums on the platform, it’s around €2 billion. Wefox currently operates in six European markets (Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Poland and Netherlands). Wefox currently operates in six European markets (Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Poland and Netherlands).

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

before the market closed. The company’s path to market is twofold. Most of the preorders for the vehicle have come from Europe, where the market launch will take place. “One base” vehicle platform. On Wednesday, Sono Group, the parent company to Sono Motors, went public.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

One million consultations were carried out via its platform during the 12-month period, it told us. The platform has been used by more than 900,000 patients to date, w hile more than 600 doctors currently provide remote consultations for Telemedico. FCC enacts $200M telehealth initiative to ease COVID-19 burden on hospitals.

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TechNode

AUGUST 8, 2023

Cross-border logistics company iMile Delivery has recently entered the Italian market and established its European headquarters in Germany, becoming the first Chinese express delivery startup to enter Europe, according to an August 7 report by Chinese media outlet LatePost. The company targets the Middle East delivery market.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

It’s been estimated that the Turkish company employs some 32,000 people in the nine markets where it operates, which would work out to 4,480 people impacted by the downsizing. Getir currently operates in its home market of Turkey, as well as the U.K., Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Portugal and the U.S.

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