TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

Kukua , a Nairobi- and London-based educational entertainment company and the creators of “ Super Sema ,” the first African animated superhero franchise, has raised $6 million in its latest round of investment. Though white and raised in Italy, Bisignani travelled widely in Africa when she was young. The company raised $2.5

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

French startup Younited Credit has raised a $170 million funding round. As the startup has facilitated a huge volume of credit offering, it can also leverage past data for machine learning risk models. France is still the company’s leading market as Italy, Spain, Portugal and Germany represent 40% of Younited Credit’s revenue.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

Today, Scalapay , one of the companies that’s building a platform to enable buy now, pay later (BNPL) and related features, has raised a round to boost its position in the race for customers against competitors like Klarna, Afterpay and Affirm. It claims to be the biggest provider of BNPL services in its home country.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2020

“We’ve discovered that the model for success for B2B businesses online is not about different people, and not about money. They include Commerce Layer in Italy; another startup out of Germany called Commercetools ; and Shogun in the U.S. They just don’t have the tooling,” said Graf.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

Barkyn , a European subscription service for pets that combines food with tele-vet services, has raised a further €3 million ($3.6 million) from food tech investor Five Seasons Ventures , extending its previous Series A to €8 million, and total funds raised to date to €10 million. which has raised $28 million.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Oda , one of the bigger players in online grocery delivery in Europe with operations in its home market of Norway as well as Finland and Germany, today announced that it had raised 1.5 Rohlik in the Czech Republic, Picnic in the Netherlands and Everli in Italy — says that its Norway operations are profitable. “In

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2021

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.

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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 work with ecommerce on a performance-based pricing model,” Khlebinsky explained. ”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

It’s raised $478.6 The company has now raised €20 million ($24 million) in a Series B funding round led by Eulero Capital, with the backing of FG2 Capital and reinvestment from Milan Investment Partners SGR. The Italy-born food tech startup claims to have built a “€100M+ company” inside two years.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2021

But today, a startup that’s cracked open that model with an autonomous, AI -based camera that lets any team record, edit and distribute their games, is announcing a round of funding to build out its business targeting the long tail of sporting teams and fixtures. .

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Getir, Gorillas, Flink and a cohort of startups tried to popularize a new model for grocery deliveries. Those services raised a ton of money and grew at a rapid pace during the COVID-19 pandemic. Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and Portugal. It operates in the U.S. and the U.S.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

He also co-founded Everli (formerly Supermercato24), the Instacart-styled grocery delivery company in Italy, and also worked at Just Eat. That said, the model is yet to be proven everywhere it’s been tried and will likely be a capital intensive race in which Dija is off to a good start. Delivery startup goPuff raises $380M at a $3.9B

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2022

Fleet is a bootstrapped startup and hasn’t raised any VC funding. The company is looking at Portugal, Italy, Germany and Belgium for its next markets. And this is key to understanding Fleet’s business model. But it’s been growing nicely as the company is expected to generate an annual turnover of $13.1

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

Of course, Amazon has to be different, so instead of building AI models by itself, it has tapped third parties to host models on AWS. 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.

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2021

and Italy after that. Critics will say companies lean on the freelancer model in order to skirt around having to provide extensive benefits to those doing the jobs. In Europe, the company was founded in Paris, and it currently has operations in France (Paris, Lyon), Germany (Munich) and Spain (Madrid).

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

French startup Sencrop just raised an $18 million Series B funding round led by JVP. Weather forecasting is a complicated industry as it requires a ton of data to create an accurate forecasting model. Weather forecasting is a complicated industry as it requires a ton of data to create an accurate forecasting model.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

After raising $215 million from SoftBank to double down on the surge of interest in online learning, Kahoot has made an acquisition to expand the scope of subjects that it covers. Spain, Italy, France, Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands, Hungary, Ukraine and Russia. million (€6.3 million), with cash conversion of 40%.

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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

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. launch plans back in 2020.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2023

If you hear about a venture firm or startup winning, raising, flailing or, oh I don’t know, booting an executive because of internal happenings, tell me. Unlike Microsoft and Apple, which both have sought to build AI models in-house, Amazon is recruiting third parties to host models on AWS. It is currently in limited preview.

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TechCrunch

JULY 24, 2022

But there’s a problem with this model. In recent years, a number of fintechs have emerged to try to challenge the current model. 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.

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2023

Many startups are struggling to raise funding rounds or have to lower their valuation. This model has scaled extremely well as Wefox now has 4,000 distribution partners. Wefox currently operates in six European markets (Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Poland and Netherlands). The fact that Wefox is still valued at $4.5

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2022

Gorillas, according to a presentation it made to investors in March that a source shared with us, has around 700,000 active customers.The news comes on the heels also of rumors we’d been hearing that the company had been raising more funds. “Now even more people will look at this like it’s just a bubble.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

We’re calling it ‘federated learning,’ where it’s sort of siloed in and language models are operating on a use case basis,” Pativada said. “We raised our entire round through cold emails and Zoom,” Pativada told TechCrunch. “This is good because it avoids malicious use.”

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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

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. The European welfare model and the European quality of life have become extremely important assets Cédric O.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

The company seems confident that its model can apply to many verticals beyond SaaS, which is where it started. million in funding — $15 million of which was raised in a Series A led by Menlo Ventures and $3.4 Construction is the one of the least digitized industries out there. ” Funding across the globe.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

million Series A funding round — bringing its total raised since January 2020, when the business was founded, to $13.6M. Payflow says the model has won it friends in works councils and labor unions. It operates a SaaS business model, charging employers a tiered fee depending on the number of employees using the product.

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TechNode

JUNE 14, 2024

BYD Chinas top EV maker is widely considered the least affected by the newly announced tariffs, with the strength to still break even on an import model thanks to its significant cost advantage versus peers. BYDs EVs would still be priced lower than the similar models launched by European rivals, even if the company raises prices by 17.4%

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

High profile examples of such systems, such as OpenAI’s large language model ChatGPT, have relied (at least in part) upon data posted online for training their systems — and a class action lawsuit filed against the U.S. And be used to pump out unwanted direct marketing or spam.

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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. At the end the pharmacist needs control of the delivery process which is slightly different from the typical delivery model,” notes Pieczonka.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 1, 2021

On the heels of Deliveroo raising more than $2 billion ahead of its debut on the London Stock Exchange this week, another hopeful in the food delivery sector has closed a super-sized round. This is a milestone funding round not just for the company, but its home country: it marks the largest-ever round raised by a Spanish startup.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

A more powerful US model is planned for later this year, or early in 2022 if the double whammy of Covid and Brexit creates undue complications. Each model is priced to include all the accessories needed for typical urban commuting: mudguards, bell, luggage rack, kickstand, and front and rear lights.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

They started on the construction of a solar electric vehicle pre-prototype to prove that renewable energies can help solve the transportation emissions problem, and by 2015, they had a working model. On Wednesday, Sono Group, the parent company to Sono Motors, went public. ” Solar technology integration and licensing.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Search for experiences in countries known for their cuisine, like Italy, France, China, and Mexico. Cars A car can be an exciting big-ticket auction item, especially if you can get your hands on a vintage model. Want to explore fundraising tools that can help you plan excellent events and raise more?

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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

MARCH 9, 2022

They raised huge sums of capital and put forth a number of high-profile, richly valued IPOs. Strong Compute wants faster ML model training : Hailing from the current batch of Y Combinator startups – Winter 2022, to be precise – Strong Compute is tackling a pretty big market. a digital bank for Nigeria, just raised a $1.5

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