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I spent the past few days in the beautiful city of Lisbon, Portugal, to attend the annual Switch Conference and gain some insights into the Portuguese startup ecosystem (and to enjoy several local seafood dishes and pastries). There’s Talkdesk , a voice platform for businesses that is backed by Dave McClure’s 500 Startups.
QuintoAndar is taking its first steps out of Brazil to open a technology hub in Lisbon, Portugal aimed at attracting technology talent across the pond. The company touts itself as “the largest housing platform in Latin America,” providing selling and rental assistance, and also takes on the risk associated with monthly rental payments.
Chinese tech giant Huawei has filed a lawsuit in a Lisbon court against a resolution by Portugals cybersecurity council CSSC which prevents operators from the use of its equipment in 5G mobile networks, according to a September 5 report by Reuters. Reuters ]
Cathay AfricInvest Innovation, FMO: Entrepreneurial Development Bank and Platform Investment Partners also participated. Australia and Portugal — like Africa, home to other major, global agricultural economies — and operates in 18 countries across Africa, the Americas, Europe and Australia. . It has offices in the U.S.,
million seed round led by Indico Capital Partners , alongside the Social Innovation Fund in Portugal (SIF) and previous investors. With this investment round, Nutrium plans to double the team size in the next 24 months in order to focus on platform development and expand global sales in markets like Spain, France, Italy, the U.S.
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. aggregation platform OpenWrks.
operations for Brazil-based Movile , a mobile platform for content and commerce. An example of a great startup incentive took place in Portugal, where tax reductions were offered to companies that hired unemployed workers or students. Eduardo Henrique is the head of U.S. Enact more tax breaks and funds for startups.
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. The platform includes bookable experiences like hiking in Patagonia, sourcing textiles in Morocco, practicing yoga in Bali and more. Image Credits: TrovaTrip.
Ukio , a short-term furnished apartment rental platform aimed at the “flexible workforce,” has raised €27 million ($28 million) in a Series A round of funding. It’s worth noting that guests book initially for a set period of time, but they can extend their stay through Ukio’s online platform. The Ukio platform.
companies, as well as others based in the France, Israel, Kenya, Portugal and the United Kingdom. Detach.ai (Lisbon, Portugal) — An AI operations platform focused on resolving issues proactively. Paerpay (Boston) — A contactless payment platform that doesn’t require additional hardware or app downloads.
And it’s against that backdrop that Tel Aviv– and New York–based communication compliance platform Shield wants to address the issues that most banks and investment firms face, including record management, electronic discovery, supervision and surveillance. Keeping up.
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.
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.
Coverflex , a startup out of Portugal, thinks it has at least part of the answers. It says its platform then allows companies to reduce costs costs with tax-efficient benefits while giving employees more value and improving their financial literacy on compensation and benefits.
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. The Roblox Gambit. Alice Lloyd George, Rogue.
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. “So we decided to build our own platform.” That’s really the core challenge we are tackling,” João Batalha said.
In a release announcing the deal , TripActions noted that the funding will be used for global expansion, building off of its expense management launch in Europe and new offices in Portugal, Germany, France and the UK. The company also acquired a number of travel management businesses, adding to its now more than 2,500 employees.
The Germany-based startup plans to use the funding to build new hubs in Africa and Europe, grow its team, and re-launch its proprietary platform to make “finding and working with tech talent easier than ever before.”.
” Salsify’s platform is aimed at retailers, brands, and the various partners they work with to tap into centralised inventory and product information, data that can in turn be used to power more unified experiences wherever those products are sold. It also has operations in Portugal and the U.K. We have doubled in size.”
Into this area has come European startup Poke House , which is effectively industrializing the production of “poke bowls” for food delivery platforms. 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.
Our platform will be a key facilitator for businesses to recover at a faster pace. Portugal’s Faber reaches $24.3M Bizay’s Chief of Growth Officer José Salgado, said: “The current health crisis accelerated the shift to online ordering of customizable products at reduced prices.
Paddy Cosgrave, co-founder and CEO of Web Summit said: “We’ve agreed to run an event in March for the UNDP on our platform. Speaking to TechCrunch, he denied the platform was to be spun-out. Speaking to TechCrunch, he denied the platform was to be spun-out. A spokesperson denied the claim.
This means that you can produce cannabis, for example, in Portugal, and sell to any EU country as long as you have export/import licenses. This means that you can produce cannabis, for example, in Portugal and sell to any EU country as long as you have export/import licenses. We also like ancillary businesses.
It will hire for its engineering and product development centers in the United States, Eastern Europe and India, and add new centers in Ukraine, Portugal, Greece, Mexico and Argentina. Cloudflare launches Workers Unbound, the next evolution of its serverless platform. Macrometa co-founder and CEO Chetan Venkatesh.
One million consultations were carried out via its platform during the 12-month period, it told us. The platform has been used by more than 900,000 patients to date, w hile more than 600 doctors currently provide remote consultations for Telemedico. FCC enacts $200M telehealth initiative to ease COVID-19 burden on hospitals.
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.
We used data primarily from Dealroom, with which we’ve developed an edtech-focused data platform. Most of these markets are in Northern Europe, so we hope, and expect, to see some major players breaking out in Southern Europe in 2022 (particularly in Spain, Portugal and Italy). A year of records.
It’s already doing some work in Portugal, and we understand France is next on the list. “Clikalia’s plans to expand their activities across several European markets shows their commitment to become the dominant residential real estate platform in Europe.”.
As such, a slew of VC-backed student funding platforms have emerged of a similar ilk to StudentFinance, including San Francisco–based YC alum Blair , New York’s Leif , and Arlington’s Vemo Education. The platform and financing is currently available in Spain, Portugal, and the U.K.,
On the heels of Jumio announcing a $150 million injection this week to continue building out its AI-based ID verification and anti-money laundering platform, another startup in the space is levelling up. Jumio raises $150M as its all-in-one ID authentication platform crosses 300M verified identities. Zeotap raises $18.5M
Fidel API has offices in its home base of London as well as in Lisbon, Portugal, and New York. “In fact, Fidel API can augment the business models of expense management platforms by allowing them to track spend on any third-party card, not just branded cards issued by the expense management company,” she told TechCrunch.
Promotions in this context are not HR promotions, but the many discounts and free vouchers that quick commerce startups have been using to lure users to their platforms, at huge cost to the startups themselves.). Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Portugal and the U.S. billion valuation just two months ago.
For many of us, going to work these days no longer means going into a specific office like it used to; and today one of the startups that’s built a platform to help cater to that new, bigger world of employment — wherever talent might be — is announcing a major round of funding on the back of strong demand for its tools.
The first two plants will be in Salzgitter, Germany, and Skelleftea, Sweden; a third plant will be established either in Spain, Portugal, or France; and the fourth factory will be based in Eastern Europe. Starting in 2022, vehicles built on VW’s modular MEB electric vehicle platform will support bidirectional, or two-way, charging.
The social network says it will reform its system to focus less on penalizing users by restricting their ability to post and more on explaining the reasoning behind its content removals, which it believes will be a fairer and more effective means of moderating content on its platform. Military secrets: On Monday, the U.S.
Uber says it intends to partner with a variety of stakeholders — including automakers, car rental operators, electric vehicle charging companies, and others — in what is likely to be a massive effort to achieve its ambitious goal of a “fully zero-emissions platform by 2040.”.
Currently it offers a temporary labor service in nine markets globally: Spain, the UK, Germany, France, Sweden, Portugal, Mexico, Colombia and the US — matching workers looking for temp roles with employers in need of casual labor in (with a focus on sectors like manufacturing and logistics).
” Asmussen says the core of the platform is the automation of the paperwork with the startup supplementing that by providing a level of (human) support — in the form of case workers, who can field users’ questions and/or troubleshoot issues.
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.
.” Among users it notes a high uptake — with a 40% download rate on average, and rates as high as 90% for some of its clients — which it claims is 5-10x higher than other on-demand salary platforms and other social benefits. Currently, it has pilots running in Italy and Portugal.
Just yesterday, Los Angeles-based AmazeVR announced a $17 million tranche of funding to scale its virtual concert and “music metaverse” platform. And last week we saw the mighty Epic Games invest in U.K. metaverse infrastructure company Hadean, as part of the Fortnite-creator’s broader metaverse expansion plans.
It now works with 3,000 merchants in Europe — specifically Italy, France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Finland, Belgium, Netherlands and Austria — and it has yet to move into huge markets like the U.S. Affirm spinout Resolve raises $60M for its B2B ‘buy now, pay later’ platform.
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.
Taige Zhang, a remote worker himself and the founder of Fairytrail, says he initially launched the app as a travel-matching platform, to find people to travel with or share an Airbnb. Ramasami says he recently matched with someone in Portugal. Plus, Ramasami says most women on Fairytrail are in their 20s.
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