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MARCH 15, 2022

French startup Doctolib has announced that is has raised a new funding round. The startup says it has raised $549 million (€500 million) in both equity and debt. In case you’re not familiar with Doctolib, the company’s main product is a software-as-a-service platform for doctors and medical workers. billion, or $6.4

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OCTOBER 29, 2020

Nutrium , a digital health startup which links dietitians and their patients via an app, has raised a €4.25 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. and the U.K.,

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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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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. “We

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APRIL 4, 2022

And yet, few French startups turn to their community of users to raise some new funding. Thanks to recent regulatory changes, British investment platform Crowdcube plans to shake things up as it is officially launching on the French market. Finary also planned to raise part of its Series A from its community via Crowdcube.

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JULY 20, 2022

Two years on from its launch, Charles today announced that it has raised $20 million in a series A round of funding led by Salesforce Ventures, with participation from Accel and HV Capital. million seed round of funding it raised last year. Charles’ platform in action. This follows a $6.5 How it works.

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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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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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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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FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Now, as it gears up to add more services to its platform and expand across all of Europe, the startup has raised €100 million ($114 million), in a round of funding led by Greenoaks Capital, with Ribbit Capital and new backer SoftBank Vision Fund 2 also participating. Maybe neobanks will break even after all.

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OCTOBER 6, 2022

German electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) startup Volocopter conducted its first crewed public test flight in Italy Thursday morning. Italy’s aim for its first vertiport is to set an example for designing and building international vertiports. Earlier this year, the startup raised $170 million at a $1.87

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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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SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The startup has raised $155 million at a $700 million valuation. Scalapay has now raised $203 million in total.). It now works with 3,000 merchants in Europe — specifically Italy, France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Finland, Belgium, Netherlands and Austria — and it has yet to move into huge markets like the U.S.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2023

It says its platform then allows companies to reduce costs costs with tax-efficient benefits while giving employees more value and improving their financial literacy on compensation and benefits. The company plans to target that country aggressively in the future.

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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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APRIL 20, 2021

It’s raised $478.6 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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DECEMBER 17, 2020

Spryker is part of that category of e-commerce businesses known as “headless” providers — by which they mean those using the tools do so by way of API-based architecture and other easy-to-integrate modules delivered through a “PaaS” (clould-based Platform as a Service) model.

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MAY 31, 2021

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. New investors include FinTLV, Ace & Co, LGT and its affiliated impact investing platform Lightrock, Partners Group, EDBI, Jupiter and Decisive.

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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 were impressed with the company’s results given the limited amount of investment they raised.

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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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APRIL 3, 2023

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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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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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. The plan is to integrate more Kahoot features into Drops’ apps, and to bring some of Drops’ content into the main Kahoot platform. million (€6.3

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JUNE 6, 2022

Led by CEO and co-founder Kahlil Lalji , the startup is launching with a split account product that just raised $3.5 He said that peer-to-peer platforms still split payments “in a very rudimentary” way, while Ivella wanted to intercept transaction authorizations so that people are only charged what they set their ratio to be.

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JANUARY 6, 2021

Veo Technologies, a Copenhagen startup that has designed a video camera and cloud-based subscription service to record and then automatically pick out highlights of games, which it then hosts on a platform for its customers to access and share that video content, has picked up €20 million (around $24.5 million) in a Series B round of funding.

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JANUARY 27, 2022

Indeed, edtech investment in 2020 and 2021 equaled the amount raised during the entire 2014-2019 period. We used data primarily from Dealroom, with which we’ve developed an edtech-focused data platform. Not surprisingly, 2021 saw a boom in edtech investment across a spectra of investors. A year of records.

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MAY 16, 2023

Many startups are struggling to raise funding rounds or have to lower their valuation. 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). It was not the plan at all.

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MAY 25, 2022

Promotions in this context are not HR promotions, but the many discounts and free vouchers that quick commerce startups have been using to lure users to their platforms, at huge cost to the startups themselves.). Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Portugal and the U.S. billion valuation just two months ago.

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APRIL 13, 2023

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. Before the platform came along, Brian knew very few people who had ever read a comic on a phone or tablet. Get the revenue.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Last month, Numeral announced that it raised a $14.8 We are a payment automation platform for tech companies,” co-founder and CEO Édouard Mandon told me. “We While retail banks are just starting to offer APIs, corporate banks opened their banking platform many years ago. Spain and Italy.

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MAY 12, 2022

More consolidation is apace in the world of payments: Nexi , the Italian fintech that scooped up rivals Danish-based Nets and then Italy’s SIA to create a $12.5 In addition to payments company Nets/Concardis, Orderbird’s other investors had included Digital+ Partners and Metro Group, and it had raised around $55 million in all.

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OCTOBER 20, 2022

Automata is also creating a robot to handle basic lab tasks, and it recently raised $50 million to do so. There’s Kebotix, a startup developing AI and robotics tools to expedite the discovery of chemicals, and Artificial , which sells a lab automation platform aimed at life sciences R&D. million ($1.27

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FEBRUARY 27, 2022

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.” Construction is the one of the least digitized industries out there.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The company recently raised a €5 million funding round ($5.4 On the marketplace side of things, the company focuses on Mediterranean countries first, starting with Greece, Italy, Spain and France. “We As agriculture is one of the least digitized sectors, there’s room for a B2B trading platform without intermediaries.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Separately, Gigs also offers a phone plan and device subscription management platform for SMBs called Gigs Teams, and a dashboard that gives customers a full view of all subscriptions, payments and analytics in a single interface. Gigs: Plan illustrated on phone and smartwatch Image Credits: Gigs. Gigs Dashboard Image Credits: Gigs.

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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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OCTOBER 18, 2022

Before founding DigestAI, Pativada built a COVID-19 contact tracing platform. “We raised our entire round through cold emails and Zoom,” Pativada told TechCrunch. based universities, Bocconi University in Italy, a European law firm and other clients. Naturally, his technological ambitions matured a bit over time.

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