TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

French startup PayFit has raised a $107 million series D funding round (€90 million). PayFit has been building a payroll and HR software-as-a-service platform. Given that it’s a software-as-a-service platform, everything remains up to date. The company is currently live in France, Germany, Spain, Italy and the U.K.

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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. The concept probably reminds you of Cameo (indeed, Carole Baskin of “Tiger King” fame has a presence on both platforms), but while Cameo is U.S.-based,

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2020

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. It has now raised €175 million in total.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

It’s raised $529.6 million, and, in the post-pandemic world where the population has become far more movable due to remote working, similar businesses are raising funds to attend to the needs of this global, nomadic workforce. Germany-based NUMA Group expanded into Spain, Italy, Austria and the Czech Republic in 2021.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia, CEO and founder of Product School, who started the company after moving from Spain, said: “There has never been a better time in history to build digital products and Product School is excited to unlock value for product teams across the globe to help define the future.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2023

French startup Welcome to the Jungle has raised a new $54 million (€50 million) Series C round. Essentially, a profile on the platform should look like a feature article in a fancy magazine. The startup has also developed its own applicant tracking system and some companies use the platform directly for their hiring processes.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Nutrium , a digital health startup which links dietitians and their patients via an app, has raised a €4.25 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. and the U.K.,

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2022

The q-commerce belt tightening continues: US category veteran GoPuff, the Softbank-backed delivery platform juggernaut — which was being valued at $15BN as recently as 2020, and had been rumored to be prepping for an IPO at the start of this year (er, nope that didn’t happen!) — is dialling back its ambitions in Europe.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The company currently has 15 million users — about half of Spain’s internet population, CEO Rob Cassedy pointed out to us in an interview earlier today, and has maintained a decent No. 4 ranking among Spain’s shopping apps, according to figures from App Annie. market (with more capital in tow).

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Mundimoto, an online motorcycle buying and selling startup, has raised $22.6 million (€20 million) to expand its platform beyond its home country of Spain and into Europe, starting with Italy and Holland. The round was led by international investment fund P101, as well as Maniv Mobility and Autotech Ventures.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

AllRight is a platform for English language learning, aimed at children four years or older, which combines lessons with real teachers and homework with “AI-powered” tutors. The Ukraine-based startup will now enter new markets and strengthen its positions in Poland, Russia, Spain and Latin America.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 14, 2025

This is the vision behind a new language learning platform that recently launched. By next yearif the team can raise the $1.2 According to a recent survey performed by the research platform AtomRadar for Fast Company , 43% of participants have tried to learn a foreign language by watching TV shows or movies. Not on your desk.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2021

Fintech startup StudentFinance — which allows educational institutions to offer success-based financing for students — has raised a $5.3 It’s now raised $6.6 StudentFinance launched in Spain first, followed by Germany and Finland, with the U.K. It also works with upskilling platforms including Ironhack and Le Wagon.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Ride Vision , an Israeli startup that is building an AI-driven safety system to prevent motorcycle collisions, today announced that it has raised a $7 million Series A round led by crowdsourcing platform OurCrowd. The company has now raised a total of $10 million. Honda also has patents on similar technologies.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

French startup Roundtable has raised a $3.2 That’s quite a large group of individual investors — but that’s because Roundtable runs an angel investment platform for European startups. Roundtable isn’t the first investment platform focused on startup investments. million (€3 million) funding round from a hundred business angels.

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TechSpot

JULY 8, 2023

Yolanda Díaz is currently Spain's labor minister. She was raised in a communist household, and her vision for the future of the country reflects her strong left-wing ideals. As the leader of a new progressive platform named Sumar, she is preparing for the upcoming general elections and believes every young. Read Entire Article

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Payments made a huge shift to digital platforms during the COVID-19 pandemic — purchasing moved online for many consumers and businesses, and a large proportion of those continuing to buy and sell in-person went cash-free. Apple lowers commissions on in-app purchases for news publishers who participate in Apple News. “We

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

The company has been building a payroll and HR software-as-a-service platform for small and medium companies. The startup has been on a roll as it raised a Series D round in March 2021. He listed two reasons why PayFit has had little issues raising at a higher valuation. Other customers are located in Spain, Germany or the U.K.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Less than six months after raising a $157 million Series D round, AI-powered transcription and captioning platform Verbit announced today it has closed $250 million in a Series E round that values the company at $2 billion. The latest funding brings its total raised to more than $550 million. .

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2022

And yet, few French startups turn to their community of users to raise some new funding. Thanks to recent regulatory changes, British investment platform Crowdcube plans to shake things up as it is officially launching on the French market. Finary also planned to raise part of its Series A from its community via Crowdcube.

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TechCrunch

JULY 9, 2021

French startup Didomi has raised a $40 million Series B funding round led by Elephant and Breega. Didomi is a developer-focused consent platform that works across many different devices. Didomi plans to open offices in Germany, Spain and the U.S. The company manages consent flows for web publishers and app developers.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 8, 2021

The 2009-founded startup has raised more than $290 million to date over its decade+ run but describes itself as just at the beginning of a journey to make a dent in the massive and growing market for temporary work, expecting demand to keep stepping up as more sectors and processes go digital in the coming years.

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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

MARCH 15, 2021

Sherpa , a startup from Bilbao, Spain that was an early mover in building a voice-based digital assistant and predictive search for Spanish-speaking audiences, has raised some more funding to double down on a newer focus for the startup: building out privacy-first AI services for enterprise customers. The company has closed $8.5

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

A startup tapping into the concept of the circular economy, where people don’t buy items outright but pay an incremental amount to use them temporarily, has raised some funding to scale its business in Europe and beyond. Vestiaire Collective raises $216 million for its second-hand fashion platform. Lumoid out of the U.S.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

It’s been a year since I covered ManoMano , the French e-commerce platform focused on DIY, home improvement and gardening products. There are 7 million active clients on the platform — that’s a 100% increase. In addition to France, ManoMano is operating in Spain, Italy, Germany, the U.K. billion ($1.45 billion at today’s rate).

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

A startup out of Belgium called Deliverect , which has built a platform to manage all of that through one seamless app, is today announcing a big round of funding. Underscoring the demand for its technology and the bumper year it’s just had, the company has raised $65 million — funding that it will be using to expand its business.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2022

Two years on from its launch, Charles today announced that it has raised $20 million in a series A round of funding led by Salesforce Ventures, with participation from Accel and HV Capital. million seed round of funding it raised last year. Charles’ platform in action. This follows a $6.5 How it works.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

Effy handled €800 million in transactions on its platform. The company could expand to other European countries in the future, starting with Germany and Spain. After bootstrapping for 15 years, energy renovation company Effy raises $22 million by Romain Dillet originally published on TechCrunch

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2022

French startup Bigblue has raised a $15 million Series A funding round. The company operates an order fulfillment platform for direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands. The startup currently operates in three countries — France, Spain and the U.K. Runa Capital is leading the round with LPV acting as the ‘secondary lead investor’.

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TechCrunch

MAY 27, 2021

Wayflyer , a revenue-based financing platform for e-commerce merchants, has raised $76 million in a Series A funding round led by Left Lane Capital. We just had our heads down and started repurposing the platform for it to be an underwriting platform,” Corbett said. the Netherlands and Spain. And so he did. “We

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

Chainguard , a startup that focuses on securing software supply chains, announced today that it has raised a $50 million Series A funding round led by Sequoia Capital. I met with Aikas, who was part of the early Kubernetes team at Google and the tech lead for Knative Eventing , at the KubeCon/CloudNativeCon event in Spain last month.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

In 2017, three entrepreneurs — Chris Hazard, Mike Resnick and Mike Capps — came together to launch a platform for building AI and machine learning tools geared toward the enterprise. ” Recently, the startup announced deals with Scanbuy and Mutua Madrileña, one of the largest insurers in Spain.

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TechCrunch

JULY 8, 2022

No doubt partly as a result of this, 011h has now raised a significant €25 million in Series A funding. The funding will be used to further develop 011h’s platform, building system and team, initially focusing on Spain, then internationally. This has led to three more major projects being commissioned.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Now, as it gears up to add more services to its platform and expand across all of Europe, the startup has raised €100 million ($114 million), in a round of funding led by Greenoaks Capital, with Ribbit Capital and new backer SoftBank Vision Fund 2 also participating. Maybe neobanks will break even after all.

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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

MARCH 23, 2021

Jeff ’s loan brokerage platform was created to make it easier for financial service providers to integrate alternative data scoring, allowing them reach more potential borrowers. The startup, which launched its app in Vietnam last year, announced today it has raised $1 million, led by the Estonian Business Angels Network (EstBAN).

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