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Diginex launches ESG reporting platform aimed at small businesses

TechCrunch

Luxembourg, Hong Kong, Singapore and Chile. The DiginexESG platform quite simply takes away those challenges and does all the heavy lifting for them. The blockchain-enabled reporting tool also generates reports, giving companies the ability to demonstrate their ESG creds.

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Revenue-based financing platform Bloom secures $377M Series A led by Credo and Fortress

TechCrunch

based startup platform Bloom has now secured a £300 million / $377 million financing round led by Credo Capital and Fortress Investment Group LLC (NYSE:FIG), making it one of the better-funded revenue-based lending businesses in Europe. We saw an opportunity to innovate rather than simply join the herd.”.

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Amazon’s Prime Day kicks off on October 13th 

The Verge

Amazon is aiming to support small businesses on its platform by incentivizing customers to buy from them in the run-up to Prime Day. Starting today until October 12th, Prime members will receive a $10 credit usable on Prime Day by spending $10 at certain small businesses on Amazon.

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Roundtable raises funding round on Roundtable

TechCrunch

That’s quite a large group of individual investors — but that’s because Roundtable runs an angel investment platform for European startups. Roundtable isn’t the first investment platform focused on startup investments. In particular, AngelList popularized the concept of group investments with AngelList Syndicates.

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Why you should pay attention to these 8 emerging tech hubs

The Next Web

It’s home to hot startups like leading 3D printing marketplace Shapeways , interactive education service Gynzy and real-time advertising platform Flxone. Perhaps we’ll be looking to Bangkok, Rio de Janeiro, Luxembourg, Toronto, Auckland, Beirut or Lagos? Pune, India?. Tel Aviv, Israel?.

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Richard Branson backs Lightyear as UK stock trading platform launches into Europe

TechCrunch

Lightyear’s expansion includes the following markets: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain. And less than a year after first launching to early U.K.

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Which open source startups rocketed in 2022?

TechCrunch

The report emanates from Runa Capital , a formerly Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm that recently moved its HQ to Luxembourg. Runa previously backed a number of companies with open source foundations such as Nginx , MariaDB and N8n.