TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

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.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Notably this is not the largest funding event that the Portugal and U.S.-based based software company has raised. TechCrunch covered a $360 million round that OutSystems raised in 2018. Regardless, the OutSystem’s method approach to the market appears to be working, if its recent capital raise is any indication.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Tech-talent marketplace MVP Match has raised €5 million ($5 million) seed funding from Stage 2 Capital to double down its strategy for pairing companies with talent from across the globe. MVP Match, a tech-talent marketplace, raises $5M from Stage 2 Capital by Annie Njanja originally published on TechCrunch.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2013

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.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

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). Platforms like Casavo’s found a lot of traction for making it easier both to buy and sell in the pandemic climate, he added. As with the pandemic in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

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.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Bizay , a marketplace for small-to-medium-sized businesses allowing them to create highly customized products (such as merchandise), has raised a $38.6 This means Bizay has now raised a total of more than €54 million. This means Bizay has now raised a total of more than €54 million. Portugal’s Faber reaches $24.3M

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

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. It has now raised some $182 million to date. Zeotap raises $18.5M Sapphire also participated in that round.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

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.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Into this scenario arrives Flown , an online platform that will match knowledge workers with inspiring properties already set up for productive and ergonomic remote work, as well as providing an array of online tools and resources to help them. A 12-year journey ends as Skimlinks is acquired by retail marketing platform Connexity.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The startup has raised $155 million at a $700 million valuation. Scalapay has now raised $203 million in total.). 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.

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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. Lightyear , a U.K. fintech startup that promises consumers commission-free trading on U.S.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Sales enablement company Highspot raised $248 million at a $3.5 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.”

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

” 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. Firstbase raises $13M to make remote work suck less.

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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. Thanks very much for reading Extra Crunch this week. Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

” 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 has now raised more than $450 million. We have doubled in size.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

It’s raised $478.6 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.

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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. ” Rows is precisely the kind of platform that plays into the low-code trend.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

Macrometa , the edge computing cloud and global data network for app developers, announced today it has raised a $20 million Series A. 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.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Alongside the equity raise, the 2009-founded startup has secured another chunk of debt financing ($75M) from Blackrock. “ Jobandtalent is by far the largest job platform in Europe. The startup touts an average NPS score for workers on its platform of 56 vs an industry average that it says stands at just 18.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

Indeed, edtech investment in 2020 and 2021 equaled the amount raised during the entire 2014-2019 period. We used data primarily from Dealroom, with which we’ve developed an edtech-focused data platform. Not surprisingly, 2021 saw a boom in edtech investment across a spectra of investors. A year of records.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

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.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

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.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Financial infrastructure startup Fidel API has raised $65 million in a Series B funding round led by Bain Capital Ventures. Existing backers NYCA Partners, QED Investors and other unnamed investors also participated in the Series B financing, which brings the company’s total raised to $88 million since inception.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

StudentFinance , a European fintech that funds educational programs for individuals through so-called income share agreements , has raised €39 million ($41 million) in a Series A round of funding. The platform and financing is currently available in Spain, Portugal, and the U.K.,

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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.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Just yesterday, Los Angeles-based AmazeVR announced a $17 million tranche of funding to scale its virtual concert and “music metaverse” platform. ” To help extend its reach into the offshore wind industry, VRAI today revealed that it has raised £3 million ($3.2 And last week we saw the mighty Epic Games invest in U.K.

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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.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

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.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The Barcelona startup has raised $120 million, a Series C that is not only one of the biggest for Spain, but one of the biggest currently coming out of Europe. ” The company’s product, meanwhile, has been slowly expanding into an all-in-one productivity platform for all things employee-related.

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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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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

APRIL 26, 2022

Bounce also established a European HQ in Lisbon, Portugal, last year to prep for its regional growth push.). ” The platform itself launched on Product Hunt in February 2019, ahead of the pandemic. ” Bounce raises $1.2M The Series A money will also be put towards expanding the number of services it offers.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

So in order to sum up when it comes to stock options, we really believe that we have put Spain ahead of countries like the UK, France, Germany, Italy or Portugal. So we get on par with countries like France, Portugal, Estonia, Croatia, and the Netherlands. Spain’s ten-year plan to put startups in the economic driving seat.

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MAY 23, 2014

The First Crowdfunding Platform for Nonprofit Technology Projects. The tech support nonprofit, TechBridge in Georgia, has launched the first crowdfunding platform for nonprofit technology projects. The Team For a Better World from Portugal developed a prototype low-cost portable device that determines blood types in about 5 minutes.

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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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