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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).
Dott is better known for its electric scooter service that is available in a few cities across Europe. But the company is working on electric bikes and wants to launch a bike-sharing service in London and Paris in March 2021. As for the bike, it has been designed by Dott and it is going to be assembled in Portugal.
Barkyn , a European subscription service for pets that combines food with tele-vet services, has raised a further €3 million ($3.6 Five Seasons Ventures joins previous investors Indico Capital Partners, All Iron Ventures, Portugal Ventures and Shilling Capital. which has raised $28 million. Barkyn is pushing at an open door.
With immediate access to homegrown apps on their new smartphones, people can find services that are directly relevant to their needs (like local food delivery and Wi-Fi access finders). An example of a great startup incentive took place in Portugal, where tax reductions were offered to companies that hired unemployed workers or students.
The service is currently live in 10 French cities — Paris, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Levallois-Perret, Boulogne-Billancourt, Lille, Lyon, Toulouse, Bordeaux and Montpellier. But the company is already looking at other markets as well — Belgium, Italy, Spain, maybe Portugal or Eastern Europe countries.
HBO Max will finally make its international debut in June, with the streaming service set to launch in Latin America and the Caribbean. The company promises it will also transition HBO-branded services in Europe (specifically, “the Nordics, Spain, Central Europe, and Portugal”) to HBO Max later this year.
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. Phood (Boulder) — A startup digitizing university student cards so they can be used payments in various online services.
The company’s service is based around being tightly integrated with online retailers’ check-out process and offering users an interest-free, three-installment way to pay for anything they purchase. The growth of buy now, pay later services has been one of big hallmarks of the pandemic-era e-commerce market.
The new markets include Austria, Czechia, Hungary, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, and Switzerland, bringing the total number of countries the cloud gaming service supports from 14 to 22. Google Stadia is expanding internationally, adding eight more countries in Europe today.
Coverflex , a startup out of Portugal, thinks it has at least part of the answers. In a statement, Miguel Amaro, Coverflex CEO said: “In the current macro environment, this Series A round validates our ambitious vision, product-market fit in Portugal, and a market opportunity in Europe, especially in Italy.”
Originally from Turkey, Getir has quickly expanded its service across Europe and the U.S. Unlike traditional grocery delivery services, Getir lets your order groceries without having to pick a delivery slot. Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Portugal and the U.S. “We
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).
The dating service offers the same features in Europe as it does in the US , using the existing profile you’ve created on Facebook to find potential matches. Facebook originally planned to launch its dating service in Europe back in February. Facebook originally planned to launch its dating service in Europe back in February.
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. Alexandre Barbosa, partner, Faber.
“Markets go up and down, but consumers love our service and convenience is here to stay. Getir originally launched its service in Turkey in 2015. The user experience works more like food delivery services, such as Uber Eats, Deliveroo and Just Eat Takeaway. Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and Portugal.
More specifically, Spin is beginning to exit “a few” US markets, Germany, and Portugal, and it is “projecting” to close down in Spain as soon as February. Bear said Spin will offer severance packages to “affected employees,” along with “an additional stipend that may be allocated for outplacement services.”
At a time when many of the startups out of the African continent have focused their attention primarily on identifying and fixing challenges at home, Aerobotics has found a lot of traction for its services abroad, too. It has offices in 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.
The company is launching its product in five new European countries — Italy, Portugal, the Netherlands, Greece and Cyprus. If you want to go one step further and let Plum think about savings for you, the service can also automatically decide how much it should set aside based on your income and expenses. Originally from the U.K.,
French startup Fleet wants to become your IT department’s best friend by managing hardware as a service. And today, the company is launching its device-as-a-service offering in Spain. The company is looking at Portugal, Italy, Germany and Belgium for its next markets. The company is going to open an office in Barcelona as well.
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. ” Amplemarket’s series A was co-led by Comcast Ventures and Portugal-based Armilar Venture Partners.
Cubyn says it will use the new funding to double its team of 85 to more than 170 employees by the end of 2021, and deploy its service more internationally. First up is Spain and Portugal (launching next month), followed by Italy, the U.K. and Germany. Huboo, the ‘full stack’ fulfilment provider, picks up £14M Series A.
During the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the EU, Portugal announced that it would go one step further and create the European Startup Nations Alliance (ESNA). France wants to go one step further and create a European Tech Talent service desk with a dedicated team. More countries should join the list soon.
Telehealth services specifically, and digital health more broadly , have racked up plenty of growth during the pandemic as demand for remote consultations (and other types of support) has accelerated sectoral uplift. It also offers consultations via a fee-for-service model. Poland-based Telemedico has closed a €5.5 million (~$6.6
Today, a company focused specifically on developing AI for drones for maritime deployments is announcing a round of funding after seeing strong demand for its devices and services. It will be using the funding to hire more people, and to continue building out its technology. But that was intentional, it turns out.
The company has just released a complete redesign to better position the app as a super app for financial services. Lydia is starting with Portugal. This will bring demand for incremental consumer financial products and high merchant interest to accept the payment,” Jhawar told me in an email. And 2020 has been a busy year for Lydia.
And let’s not forget about New York-based Lightyear , a telecom service procurement service. 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.
Wertheimer added that part of the bike manufacturing is likely to be brought to Portugal in order to fulfill demand. Former SoundCloud founders launch e-bike subscription service, backed by BlueYard. Electric bikes and electric scooters are crucial to solving the mobility issues we see today, of congestion and pollution.”.
The startup sells a salary-advance service to employers to offer their staff — charging companies a commission for the tech rather than levying a fee on users to withdraw a portion of their salary early (as some other salary startups do). Currently, it has pilots running in Italy and Portugal.
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. Macrometa, an edge computing service for app developers, lands $7 million seed round led by DNX.
Feedzai , which provides banks, others in the financial sector, and any company managing payments online with AI tools to spot and fight fraud — its cornerstone service involves super-quick (3 millisecond) checks happening in the background while transactions are being made — has announced a Series D of $200 million.
It’s already doing some work in Portugal, and we understand France is next on the list. The stages include marketing and listing of the property, the data tracking the pricing based on location and how much to invest in renovating a home in a particular area, and a number of other services before, during and after a home purchase.
The startup says it’s been seeing growth rates hitting, on average, more than 30% month-on-month, as employer demand for its services accelerates. “With the funding, we want to accelerate our expansion in the UK, Ireland, Netherlands, Portugal & Spain, besides our core market Germany.
The London-based company provides identity, data and payments products that it says gives developers a way to capture consent permissions and “securely” connect payment cards to a service or application. . It is currently powering services for “tens of millions” of cardholders and “hundreds of thousands” of merchants globally.
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. “We are doubling down on our approach,” van der Voort said.
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.
It marks a way for the company to expand on the value proposition of Disney Plus to international customers with the most crucial currency any streaming service has to offer: a bigger library of content. Those shows and movies will instead continue to live on Hulu as part of the separate service instead. Photo: Twentieth Century Fox.
The platform and financing is currently available in Spain, Portugal, and the U.K., Later this year, StudentFinance plans to expand its full service into Germany, having already received regulatory clearance from the German financial regulator (BaFin). “We’re on a mission to plug this gap across Europe.
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.
The company charges a 10% service fee and a $2.9% Our first trip was to Italy and then the next two were to Portugal.” Hosts can also set up an email marketing campaign, in addition to promoting their bookable experience across their social media channels. transaction fee.
More people working from home because of COVID-19 likely also temporarily reduced demand for third party package acceptance services — since more people were in to receive deliveries themselves. It’s now anticipating a demand boom for its services as travellers jet off again and offices reopen to regular staff.
It’s also at a time when the view that ride-sharing services are more environmentally friendly than other modes of transportation has been contradicted by a growing body of evidence. The news comes as talk of requiring ride-hailing companies to use more electric vehicles is gaining traction among many big US cities.
The Instagram post has since disappeared, but SlashGear saved a copy of its text first: Mellow was launched in 2014 by 2 founders out of Lisbon, Portugal. Unfortunately these founders did not think of the future when they built Mellow V1. Mellow was built with WiFi only and uses outside servers to run its systems and software.
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