TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Jobandtalent says the latest funds will be used to accelerate its expansion in key markets, including the US — its most recent focus. Jobandtalent takes $120M from Softbank to enter the US market. Jobandtalent tops up with $108M for its ‘workforce as a service’ platform.

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The Verge

JANUARY 7, 2022

Spin, the e-scooter company owned by Ford, announced a major restructuring Friday where it will pull out of “nearly all open permit markets.” More specifically, Spin is beginning to exit “a few” US markets, Germany, and Portugal, and it is “projecting” to close down in Spain as soon as February.

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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

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Markets go up and down, but consumers love our service and convenience is here to stay. Getir originally launched its service in Turkey in 2015. The user experience works more like food delivery services, such as Uber Eats, Deliveroo and Just Eat Takeaway. Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and Portugal.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

At a time when many of the startups out of the African continent have focused their attention primarily on identifying and fixing challenges at home, Aerobotics has found a lot of traction for its services abroad, too. and other markets. . It has offices in the U.S., Image Credits: Aerobotics. Within that, the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2022

Today, a company focused specifically on developing AI for drones for maritime deployments is announcing a round of funding after seeing strong demand for its devices and services. Ventura Capital led the round, with participation from Iberis Capital and a number of unnamed strategic investors from the maritime industry.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

Cubyn says it will use the new funding to double its team of 85 to more than 170 employees by the end of 2021, and deploy its service more internationally. First up is Spain and Portugal (launching next month), followed by Italy, the U.K. For example, marketplaces Back Market, Rakuten, Mirakl and Fnac are currently using Cubyn.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

The company is launching its product in five new European countries — Italy, Portugal, the Netherlands, Greece and Cyprus. If you want to go one step further and let Plum think about savings for you, the service can also automatically decide how much it should set aside based on your income and expenses. Originally from the U.K.,

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2022

French startup Fleet wants to become your IT department’s best friend by managing hardware as a service. And today, the company is launching its device-as-a-service offering in Spain. The company is looking at Portugal, Italy, Germany and Belgium for its next markets.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

A relative newcomer vying for a slice of the market is Amplemarket , based in San Francisco and Portugal, which today announced that it raised $12 million in back-to-back seed and series A funding rounds. ” Amplemarket’s series A was co-led by Comcast Ventures and Portugal-based Armilar Venture Partners.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Telehealth services specifically, and digital health more broadly , have racked up plenty of growth during the pandemic as demand for remote consultations (and other types of support) has accelerated sectoral uplift. It also offers consultations via a fee-for-service model. Poland-based Telemedico has closed a €5.5 million (~$6.6

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 8, 2021

Plus, don’t miss our first investor surveys of 2021: one by Lucas Matney on social gaming , and another by Mike Butcher that gathered responses from Portugal-based investors on a wide variety of topics. Lisbon’s startup scene rises as Portugal gears up to be a European tech tiger. Alexandre Barbosa, partner, Faber.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

The startup sells a salary-advance service to employers to offer their staff — charging companies a commission for the tech rather than levying a fee on users to withdraw a portion of their salary early (as some other salary startups do). Currently, it has pilots running in Italy and Portugal.

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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. And let’s not forget about New York-based Lightyear , a telecom service procurement service.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Now Clikalia , another player in the so-called iBuyer space, has raised €75 million ($86 million) to take that model to markets in Europe and Latin America. It’s already doing some work in Portugal, and we understand France is next on the list. “Every step of the process could be an independent company,” he added. .

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Wertheimer added that part of the bike manufacturing is likely to be brought to Portugal in order to fulfill demand. TSP Ventures CEO Chris Smith, commented: “The e-bike market has exploded in recent years with sales set to reach €10 billion by 2025 and FuroSystems is at the intersection of this burgeoning industry.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

During the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the EU, Portugal announced that it would go one step further and create the European Startup Nations Alliance (ESNA). France wants to go one step further and create a European Tech Talent service desk with a dedicated team. More countries should join the list soon.

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The Next Web

JUNE 7, 2013

The eight teams hail from all over the world – including entrants from Montreal, Toronto, Portugal and Bulgaria – and have spent the last three months tirelessly working away on their hardware-based startup ideas for the Internet of Things in preparation for today.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Remote , which provides tools to manage onboarding, payroll, benefits and other services for tech and other knowledge workers located in remote countries — be they contractors or full-time employees — has raised $150 million. First and foremost, it will go toward expanding its business to more markets.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

“We also use data from analyzing systemic and market changes such as government incentives for companies to become ‘greener.’ “We are developing machine learning models that use this data to forecast future job-market demand for specific skills, and predict income levels in the future,” Kostelec continued.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Star is effectively Disney’s solution to the fact that Hulu doesn’t exist in international markets. It marks a way for the company to expand on the value proposition of Disney Plus to international customers with the most crucial currency any streaming service has to offer: a bigger library of content. Photo: Twentieth Century Fox.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

More people working from home because of COVID-19 likely also temporarily reduced demand for third party package acceptance services — since more people were in to receive deliveries themselves. It’s now anticipating a demand boom for its services as travellers jet off again and offices reopen to regular staff.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

Feedzai , which provides banks, others in the financial sector, and any company managing payments online with AI tools to spot and fight fraud — its cornerstone service involves super-quick (3 millisecond) checks happening in the background while transactions are being made — has announced a Series D of $200 million.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

The startup says it’s been seeing growth rates hitting, on average, more than 30% month-on-month, as employer demand for its services accelerates. “With the funding, we want to accelerate our expansion in the UK, Ireland, Netherlands, Portugal & Spain, besides our core market Germany.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

It plans to use the money to expand its business across Europe on the back of a platform that today is listing close to 4,000 homes in Italy, Spain and Portugal, and has to date (since being founded at the end of 2018) sold some 3,200 properties for an aggregate value of €1 billion, according to CEO and founder Giorgio Tinacci.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

The London-based company provides identity, data and payments products that it says gives developers a way to capture consent permissions and “securely” connect payment cards to a service or application. . It is currently powering services for “tens of millions” of cardholders and “hundreds of thousands” of merchants globally.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Hosts can also set up an email marketing campaign, in addition to promoting their bookable experience across their social media channels. The company charges a 10% service fee and a $2.9% Our first trip was to Italy and then the next two were to Portugal.” transaction fee.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

With the remote work revolution continuing apace, Ukio wants to give professionals the comforts of home with the added perks and flexibilities of a hotel, with each apartment including a concierge and reception area, while some properties also include a weekly cleaning service and linen/towel replacement. Target market.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Fresh off the launch of a new product designed to measure engineering performance metrics, Lisbon-based Codacy has closed a $15 million Series B funding round led by Bright Pixel Capital, the corporate VC of one of Portugal’s biggest employers, the Sonae Group. To date, Codacy has raised $28 million. Image Credits: Codacy.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

It’s also at a time when the view that ride-sharing services are more environmentally friendly than other modes of transportation has been contradicted by a growing body of evidence. In Norway, Europe’s leading electric market ahead of Germany, one out of every three cars purchased is an electric vehicle.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

TikTok in cars: TikTok is making its way into vehicles, starting with the new Mercedes-Benz E-Class that’s coming to market in fall 2023. Price drop: Netflix decreased its subscription costs in more than 100 territories over the past week as customers continue to contemplate which streaming services to keep amid price hikes.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

London-based Furosystems just launched the Aventa series of pedal-assist e-bikes into the European market. Aventa e-bikes are being assembled in Portugal with components sourced from around the world. The 25 km/h speed limit can be overridden for markets that allow it. But they need to be from reputable companies.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Formally announced at Web Summit in Portugal today, Mozilla Ventures builds on other recent investments the company has made as part of its Mozilla Builders startup incubator program, though in truth Mozilla has sporadically invested in nearly 20 companies over the past decade.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

We have already a big number of international of world-class companies that are in different markets so what is better than being able to scale up with a company that is already there, that has the knowledge and that can help you mature as a scale-up in a shorter period of time.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

Clearbanc wants to replace friends and family money, a concept that D’Souza says is “quite elitist,” with its own version of an angel check, while also offering founder services such as supply chain analysis, introductions to networks and competitive landscape analysis. Mobility-as-a-service. Coinbase files to go public.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

This morning OutSystems , a low-code app development service, announced that it has closed $150 million in new capital. Notably this is not the largest funding event that the Portugal and U.S.-based The new funds put OutSystems on an IPO path, we reckon; the company declined to discuss public market plans with TechCrunch.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

HBO Max will launch in Europe next month on October 26th, the streaming service announced today. The list of territories corresponds to the regions currently covered by HBO Europe , which operates a handful of different streaming services on the continent including HBO España, HBO Nordic, and HBO Go.

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