TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Memmo.me , a startup allowing users to pay celebrities for personalized video messages, is announcing that it has raised $10 million in Series A funding. ” Cameo raises $50M to deliver personalized messages from celebrities & influencers. . Memmo has now raised a total of $12 million.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

The startup has raised €70 million ($77 million at today’s rates), at what I understand from a person close to the company to be a $2 billion post-money valuation. From what I understand, it is already raising its Series E, which is expected to close in May of this year at an even higher valuation. Augustinus Fabrikker.

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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 The investment gives Oda a post-money valuation of NOK3.5 billion, or $353 million. ” Updated with comments from Karl Munthe-Kaas.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Tink , a startup out of Stockholm, Sweden that aggregates a number of banks and financial services by way of an API so that those can in turn be accessed via new channels, has raised €85 million (or $103 million at current rates), at a post-money valuation of €680 million (or around $825 million). Unit raises $18.6M

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

In the latest example, reMarkable , the Oslo, Norway-based maker of a simple and slick $299 e-paper tablet of the same name, says that it has passed 1 million devices sold since 2017 and recently raised money at a $1 billion valuation after making revenues of $300 million and operating profits of $31 million in 2021. 42 million.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

Car subscription platform Finn has raised $110 million in equity to expand in the U.S. Car subscription platforms, especially ones that offer electric vehicles like Onto in the UK and imove in Norway, are taking off as trends like usership over ownership, online shopping and EV usage rise.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 23, 2020

The rush of money into EVs could help some finally prove their worth. Not all recipients of that money will survive. And when XPeng rolled its first exported electric vehicles off a boat in Norway last week , it accomplished something many of its peers have sought: expansion into new markets. and Nikola in the US.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The company got its start working with SMBs in 2011 but pivoted some years later to working with larger enterprises, which make up the majority of its business today.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

The startup, based out of Oslo, Norway, initially made its name with an app called Timely , a tool for people to track time spent doing different tasks. Aimed not just at people who are quantified self geeks, but those who need to track time for practical reasons, such as consultants or others who work on the concept of billable hours.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

An annual United Nations conference on biodiversity that ran out of time last year will resume its work Tuesday in Rome with money at the top of the agenda. That is, how to spend what’s been pledged so farand how to raise a lot more to help preserve plant and animal life on Earth.

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AFP Blog

MARCH 1, 2010

Norwegian Olympic Curlers' Pants Raising Money for Charity: "The Norway men's curling team made a huge splash at the Olympics with their audacious and colourful pants, sporting blue, white and red diamonds. You either love or you hate em. One MSN site calls them distracting, ugly and unflattering.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2015

When Gissur Simonarson , an activist from Oslo, Norway, shared a photo on Twitter last week of a father selling pens on the streets of Beirut as he cradled his sleeping daughter, the tugged at the heart strings of the 6,000 followers on Twitter. He launched a Twitter account called @BuyPens and set up a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

Twig , a London-based fintech targeting Gen Z and younger Millennial consumers with an e-money account that gives them instant cash-outs on fashion and electronics they want to sell, has closed a $35 million Series A round of funding. Vinted raises $303M for its 2nd-hand clothes marketplace, used by 45M and now valued at $4.5B.

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The Verge

JUNE 18, 2020

And esports competitions are offering ever-increasing amounts of prize money — in the thousands or even millions of dollars. It’s not easy to get to the level of earning that kind of money. Many of these rising players are only teenagers; the average age of a Fortnite World Cup competitor was 16, with some as young as 13.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

News of the delay, which Microsoft attributed in part to the pandemic, came after the game’s visuals were met with criticism after their initial unveiling, prompting developer 343 Industries to admit , “We do have work to do to address some of these areas and raise the level of fidelity and overall presentation for the final game.”.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2023

It’d only raised about $15 million ahead of its latest cash infusion. The startup said other investors, including SOSV and Equinor Ventures (the VC arm of the Norway-owned fossil fuel giant), also chipped in. This week, Green Li-ion announced a $20.5 million “ pre-Series B ” round led by climate-tech investor TRIREC.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

According to Bird, this growth plan is already underway, with the shared micromobility company recently bringing its scooters to Bergen, Norway; Tarragona, Spain; and Palermo, Italy. ” I might have raised an eyebrow or two when I first read this announcement. That round was later extended to $350 million.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

Tesla sales also fell in France, Sweden, and Norway last month. At this tipping point, the core business that generates 90% of revenue could turn into a negative-margin business, which means that no matter how many sales they do, they lose money on every car. Some Tesla owners, both in Europe and the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

That said, Norway’s VC community has been somewhat dormant for a while. The country makes far too much money from oil, giving it one of the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds and a large system of socialized support. In Norway, sustainability-focused companies. 50% Norway, 50% Nordic/Baltic. More than 50%?

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The Verge

JUNE 16, 2020

Norway abandoned its contact-tracing app on Monday after it reached just 10 percent adoption.) That’s real money. Employees of Apple , Google , and Microsoft raised millions of dollars for the Black Lives Matter Foundation thinking it’s the international racial justice movement seeking to end police brutality.

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