TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

Today, Salsify , one of the startups building e-commerce solutions to that end, is announcing a big round of $200 million, a sum that speaks both to the demand in the market, and its success to date. It also has operations in Portugal and the U.K. Some of the funding will be used, Purcell said, to continue breaking into more markets.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

Australia and Portugal — like Africa, home to other major, global agricultural economies — and operates in 18 countries across Africa, the Americas, Europe and Australia. . and other markets. . billion rand (~$100 million) fund for tech startups in South Africa. . It has offices in the U.S., Within that, the U.S.

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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

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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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

The food tech industry is effectively now going into fast food. Both employ a lot of tech in their back-end to improve efficiencies. 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. Sweetgreen in the U.S. It’s raised $478.6

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

Funding and activity were centered in a couple of markets and there were just a few growing companies gaining interest. Gone are the days when pitches to VCs would have to overcome skepticism on market size, and consumer readiness to adopt tech-enabled learning solutions. But that’s no longer the case.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2020

This latest tranche of funding is being co-led by new investor Eurazeo Growth and Dawn Capital, with PayPal Ventures, HMI Capital, Heartcore, ABN AMRO Ventures, Poste Italiane and BNP Paribas’ venture arm, Opera Tech Ventures, also participating. n, co-founder and CEO of Tink, in a statement. Rapyd remains VC-backed and was last valued at $1.3

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

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. With the funding, the ratio is predicted to change to 50-50” Mind the gap: E-commerce marketers should revise their TAM and SAM estimates.

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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. This is SoftBank’s first property tech investment in Europe, although it’s no stranger to the iBuyer model.

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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. that’s not the case in other markets. That strategy could turn Plum into a mainstream product with less tech-savvy people. Fintech startup Plum is doubling the number of countries where it operates.

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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

OCTOBER 11, 2022

While developed markets like the U.S., While developed markets like the U.S., Pooling those Latino markets, “We can together potentially sell to 10 million customers,” Romero said. Our market share is ridiculously small and it’s mostly greenfield.” “But but we only have 7,000 customers.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

And while its share price is being hammered at the moment in a wider downturn for tech stocks overall, it’s a strong enough concept that it’s inspired a number of others to follow in its footsteps. The state of the market in particular lent itself to this. Shaw & Co provided the debt. As with the pandemic in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Interestingly, Fifth Wall is also an investor in Opendoor as well as Loft, a Latin American real estate tech unicorn. In about 70% of the cases, Clikalia then renovates a property and puts it back on the market. Today, it operates in Spain and Mexico, with plans to open in Portugal in January 2022 and expand across Europe over time. .

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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 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

DECEMBER 1, 2022

“There is an immediate market need for more advanced surveillance solutions to allow financial institutions to meet new regulations and fight financial crime,” Weitzman said. ” Shield leans on AI techniques to help companies counter market abuse, bad internal actors and regulatory risk.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Give yourself a pat on the back — and then go read the rest of this issue of Week in Review, TechCrunch’s newsletter summing up the past seven days in tech ( sign up here to get it directly in your inbox every Saturday). You’ve made it. Goodness knows I lack his wit, but I’ll try to make up for it in pith.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

The Series A funding will be used to capitalize on growing demand by expanding into new regions — with Localyze saying it will start by focusing on “major hubs” for international talent, in Ireland, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands and the UK, so it can target more high-growth companies with offices across Europe.

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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 is by far the largest job platform in Europe. .

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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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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

APRIL 26, 2022

Currently, it’s serving “tens of thousands” of customers per month — with its largest markets being London, New York, and Paris — but by late summer it expects to have grown monthly users to “hundreds of thousands” That’s quite the change from two years ago.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Virtual Reality (VR) has struggled to transition too far beyond gaming circles and specific industry use-cases such as medical training , but with the burgeoning metaverse movement championed by tech heavyweights such as Meta , there has been a renewed hope (and hype) around the promise that virtual worlds bring. ” Training day.

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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

JANUARY 26, 2022

The package of support looks substantial — covering key areas like tax breaks for investors, talent incentives like stock options and a new digital nomad visa to attract international tech workers, among other measures aimed at cutting red tape and shrinking the time and cost of starting up in Spain. So this is also going to be a revolution.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

After being valued at $100 billion in the secondary markets, Coinbase has finally filed to go public. As the SPAC frenzy continues, questions arise about how much the market can absorb. The Startup Act is the first piece of dedicated legislation meant to help create tech innovation within Spain. Coinbase files to go public.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

Lisbon’s startup scene rises as Portugal gears up to be a European tech tiger. The letter welcomes the EU’s Startup Nations Standard, in particular its specific recommendations to Member States on “changes to stock options rules designed to help startups attract talent, speed up tech visas targeting and procurement.”.

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The Verge

MARCH 5, 2021

In early December, as media attention mounted and tech workers across the country came to her defense, Gebru waited to see how Google would respond. Some claimed to work in tech, using phrases like “pro-DEI minority,” “She/them,” and “LBGTQ Latinx” in their bios. What is this company capable of? she asked herself. When Emily M.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

The tech support nonprofit, TechBridge in Georgia, has launched the first crowdfunding platform for nonprofit technology projects. Tech For Good Winners of the 12th Annual Microsoft Imagine Cup. The Microsoft Imagine Cup is a student competition to create innovative IT projects and ultimately bring those ideas to market.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

market as well as across Europe. ” The company put safety measures in place, and even expanded some routes in select countries like Portugal and the U.K., EU and on the whole, European markets are picking up now following with a delay of one to two months. “The U.S. More to come.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 17, 2020

Is it fair to say it’s a shortcut to a hot public market, in a time when no one quite knows when the markets could shift? He goes on to explain why public markets are likely to stay hot for the right SPACs far into the future. And what about that IPO market, which was a bit quieter this week? Around TechCrunch.

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Ars Technica

MARCH 28, 2025

The date varies by market, but the wait is almost over. On April 14, the Pixel 9a will arrive in Europe, launching in Germany, Spain, Italy, Ireland, France, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Portugal, Switzerland, Poland, Czechia, Romania, Hungary, Slovenia, Slovakia, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, and Finland.

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Engadget

MARCH 18, 2025

Apple just brought its Tap to Pay technology for iPhones to a host of new European countries , including Poland, Switzerland, Finland, Hungary, Portugal and several others. Thanks to the EUs stiff regulations and the regions Digital Markets Act (DMA), America has also gotten in on the act. This allows for contactless payments.

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Engadget

MARCH 5, 2025

The ES90 was built on top of the Volvo Cars Superset tech stack, just like the EX90 SUV. Interested buyers can now order the ES90 in Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 17, 2025

Photo: BSE Global] An untapped market Historically, watching sports has been a visual affair. It is an untapped market, says Jorge Hernandez, senior technology manager at the Miami Lighthousefor the Blind and Visually Impaired, who went blind at age 20. You follow athletes around a racetrack. The company is eyeing FIFA 2026 next.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 2, 2025

Portugal and India are leading fabric-producing countries, he tells me.) For instance, it has worked closely with its factory in Portugal to update its linen sheets to a weave that is exclusively available at Brooklinen; it’s softer and stronger than before, and made from traceable European flax.

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