TechCrunch

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. Our first trip was to Italy and then the next two were to Portugal.” We’re very excited to open up the platform a bit more on the host side.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

To meet this rising demand for “more advanced” cross-channel surveillance, Shield announced Thursday it has raised $20 million in a Series B round of funding. In addition, Shield opened an R&D facility in Lisbon this year, Weitzman said, adding that the company chose Portugal because it is becoming a major European tech hub.

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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. Remote raises $35M to help orgs with global workforce payroll, benefits and more.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

and Portugal, onboarding new properties and hiring a team, which already includes hires drawn from hotel group Mr & Mrs Smith , Ometria, Quill, McKinsey’s Generation and Resi. She may well be pushing at an open door. Flown has now closed a $1.5 Alicia Navarro, founder, Flown. Work From Home is dead, long live Work From Anywhere.

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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. Image Credits: Nigel Sussman (opens in a new window). Image Credits: Erik Von Weber (opens in a new window) / Getty Images.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

I of course believe that some people will choose not to relocate but at the same time, the increased flexibility [of remote working] opens many more doors for other people to relocate — and also for different time frames.” Firstbase raises $13M to make remote work suck less.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

Opendoor opened the door, so to speak, to the idea of applying technology to the concept of house flipping to both scale the opportunity and make it considerably more efficient. In the latest development, an Opendoor-style startup called Casavo , out of Italy, is announcing that it has raised €400 million (about $410 million currently).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 17, 2008

I gave the opening keynote, on my main new theme, Raising the Floor. I met a professor from Portugal who had a student who developed EasyVoice , software that makes it possible for someone who cannot speak to use Voice over IP via Skype to talk to people using a voice synthesizer. It was fun to hear students and fresh Ph.Ds

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2022

You open an app, pick a few items, hit the order button and track your order from your phone. Those services raised a ton of money and grew at a rapid pace during the COVID-19 pandemic. Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and Portugal. It operates in the U.S. and the U.S.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

It’s raised $478.6 The company has now raised €20 million ($24 million) in a Series B funding round led by Eulero Capital, with the backing of FG2 Capital and reinvestment from Milan Investment Partners SGR. The food tech industry is effectively now going into fast food. Sweetgreen in the U.S. A similar firm is Sweetfin.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Now, a startup called Rows that’s built on that ubiquity, with a low-code platform that lets people populate and analyze web apps using just spreadsheet interfaces, is announcing funding and launching a freemium open beta of its expanded service. The growing appeal of low-code. “But I’d say we are friends.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2022

Fleet is a bootstrapped startup and hasn’t raised any VC funding. The company is going to open an office in Barcelona as well. The company is looking at Portugal, Italy, Germany and Belgium for its next markets. But it’s been growing nicely as the company is expected to generate an annual turnover of $13.1

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Portugal and the U.S. This is a stark swing of the pendulum for a company that raised $768 million at an $11.8 The company has confirmed that it will not be pulling out of any specific country as part of this. Getir currently operates in its home market of Turkey, as well as the U.K.,

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Companies like Opendoor opened the door to a new way of buying and selling properties by inserting a strong middle player who could buy in houses or apartments and redevelop them at scale, and then sell them to new homeowners at a profit. It’s already doing some work in Portugal, and we understand France is next on the list.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

Lisbon’s startup scene rises as Portugal gears up to be a European tech tiger. You’ll hear firsthand how some of the most successful founders and VCs build their businesses, raise money and manage their portfolios. Member States which become signatories of the Standard will be expected to deliver on a number of policy areas.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

A similar trajectory is being seen across the Atlantic, as nations such as Italy , England and the Ukraine join a rapidly expanding list of countries including Germany, France, Israel, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Denmark, Poland and others who have chosen to supplement their urban transportation networks with modern micromobility alternatives.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2022

I get a lot of pitch deck submissions for this TechCrunch Pitch Deck Teardown series from people who are raising friend and family rounds, and I mostly pass on them. As per slide #20, the founders were trying to raise $500,000, and they closed on about $125,000. Equity for “thrifthers” [sic] closing slide. More inquiries?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Spanish proptech Clikalia has secured $518 million in debt and equity in what is among the largest venture capital rounds raised in Spain to date. In November of 2020, the company raised about $14 million in equity. And you have to get a consumer loan to finance the renovation.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

And it’s against that backdrop that six-year-old Irish startup VRAI is setting out to capitalize on the surge in VR interest, raising a fresh tranche of funding to extend its flagship “hazardous environment awareness training” (HEAT) product into more environments — starting with the offshore wind industry. .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

The company has been under fire lately after rolling out password-sharing rules to Canada, New Zealand, Portugal and Spain, but another potential reason for the price decrease is to fare better against competition such as Paramount+ , Apple TV+ , Disney+ and Hulu. military emails to the open internet for the past two weeks.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

million Series A funding round — bringing its total raised since January 2020, when the business was founded, to $13.6M. Currently, it has pilots running in Italy and Portugal. Barcelona-based Payflow , a YC-backed salary-advance fintech with ambitions to evolve into a neobank, has banked a $9.1

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 18, 2014

It is only when you start to identify what is typical in your culture, but different from others, that you can begin to open a dialogue of sharing, learning, and ultimately understanding." And, that''s why Meyer wrote her new book, The Culture Map. It''s a fascinating read.

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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. The other two include Block Party , which raised a $4.8

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 2, 2015

It is only when you start to identify what is typical in your culture, but different from others, that you can begin to open a dialogue of sharing, learning, and ultimately understanding." And, that's why Meyer wrote her book, The Culture Map. It's a fascinating read.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

The Team For a Better World from Portugal developed a prototype low-cost portable device that determines blood types in about 5 minutes. The FCC ruling opened a four-month public comment period, after which it will take a final vote on net neutrality. an hour, would raise $20,000 dollars in one year. An App To End World Hunger?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

“A lot of founders mix up raising money with making money.” In fact, raising money can cost you money, in the form of that sweet, sweet ownership and equity. So, the startup told me this week that they have raised $10 million to create a new product: ClearAngel. Image Credits: MHJ (opens in a new window) / Getty Images.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 17, 2020

“Compensating talent and raising capital are the (only) two things you can use your startup’s equity for, and you need to do both in order for your company to grow large. Databricks, meanwhile, has evolved from an open-source data analytics platform that struggled to make revenues to a run rate of $350 million. Around TechCrunch.

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