TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2021

Swedish battery developer and manufacturer Northvolt AB has raised $2.75 This brings Northvolt’s total raised to more than $6.5 The manufacturer’s first gigafactory in Skellefteå, Sweden, will be expanded from 40 GWh to 60 GWh, in part due to increased demand from the Volkswagen order, the company said in a statement.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2023

The Sweden-based company’s product combines visual canvases with documentation to help professionals and teams go from idea to presentable work on the same screen — think Miro meets Notion meets a slew of other tools companies use to keep their knowledge in one place and their projects pointed more or less in the right direction.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Juni , a Swedish pre-launch startup that’s building a banking app and platform for e-commerce and online marketing entrepreneurs, has raised just over €2.1 Leading the round is Berlin-based Cherry Ventures — the first deal, I believe, from newly recruited partner Sophia Bendz, who herself is based in Sweden.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

Addressing this, Cerve , a Sweden-based food tech startup, has raised a $2 million seed round for its infrastructure platform that claims to automate wholesalers’ sales operations. As we found during the pandemic, food and beverage distribution is critical, but most food wholesalers’ sales remain manually operated.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The app and the company behind it have been helping people enjoy better wine since 2010, and now the startup has raised $155 million with its Series D round – a sum over twice as large as all of its previous funding to date. This brings the company’s total funding to $221 million to date.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Chunk was initially launched with restaurants and chefs in Sweden. Including the latest round, Stockeld has raised just over $24 million to date. The company also looks to expand out of Sweden and into the U.S. “We We have ambitious investors who understand what we are trying to do,” Tavakoli said. “We

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

Zaver , a Swedish fintech that enable merchants to accept cardless payments and offer buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) as an option, has raised $5 million in new funding. Its target market is “durables,” starting in Sweden. Swedish fintech Zaver has raised $1.2M seed for its P2P payments platform.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

It brings the total funding raised by Liberis to £200 million, including more than £50 million in equity funding. Finland, Sweden, Czech Republic and Slovakia). Liberis raises £57.5M To date, 2007-founded Liberis has provided over £500 million in financing to 16,000 SMEs across Europe, the U.S. and the U.K.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2022

These vehicles are already available to shipping companies and carriers in Sweden and in the U.S. And that is basically why Einride is having to raise such a large pot of financing now, having already raised around $150 million since its inception including its $110 million Series B last year. Expansion drive.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

Cloud-based human resource (HR) platform HiBob today announced that it has raised $150 million in a Series D round of funding at a $2.45 This represents a nearly 50% increase compared to its Series C valuation round just 10 months ago , when it also raised $150 million. billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

His new venture, called Inrupt, wants to fix some of the mess many of those companies have made — and it’s in the market to raise money. The startup has signed contracts with governments of Sweden, Argentina and Basque. These partnerships have not been previously reported.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2022

The Wall Street Journal reports : The Sweden-based payments company is aiming to raise up to $1 billion from new and existing investors in a deal that could value it in the low $30-billion-range after the money is injected, the people said. No one likes a down round. They are dilutive, messy and demoralizing.

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2023

Royal went on to raised a total of $71 million , including from the likes of a16z Crypto. That’s good news for web3 music company AnotherBlock , based out of Sweden. Traore, Sebastian Ljungberg, and Filip Strömsten in 2022, the blockchain-based marketplace for music has now raised a €4 million funding round led by UK-based Stride.VC.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Numan , the European subscription service covering erectile dysfunction (ED) and men’s wellness/health needs more generally, has raised $40 million in a Series B funding round led by White Star Capital , with participation from existing investors Novator, Vostok New Global, Anthemis Exponential, Colle Capital and new investor Hanwha Group.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 8, 2021

New data indicates that France’s startup market is posting record totals in terms of dollars raised. For comparison, that two-quarter figure is billions more than French startups raised in all of 2020. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

San Francisco-based Bolt is fresh off of raising $393 million in Series D funding in October, bringing total capital raised to date to $600 million. Tipser’s presence in Sweden will now also serve as Bolt’s European headquarters to go with the company’s recent announcement of expanding into Europe.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

The startup has raised €70 million ($77 million at today’s rates), at what I understand from a person close to the company to be a $2 billion post-money valuation. From what I understand, it is already raising its Series E, which is expected to close in May of this year at an even higher valuation. Augustinus Fabrikker.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

In the latest development, Annotell , a startup out of Sweden that makes software to assess the performance of autonomous systems’ perception capabilities, and how to improve that, is today announcing that it has raised $24 million to expand its business. We guide our customers on how to improve it.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Also this year, we’ve seen France’s Alma raise a $59.4 Klarna, based in Sweden, is said to be considering a direct listing. Terms vary, but the space is very active. TechCrunch covered Scalapay’s January $48 million round , what the Italian BNPL described as a seed round. million Series B for its BNPL efforts.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2021

French startup Ankorstore has raised a $102 million Series B funding round (€84 million). This is a significant funding round as it comes just a few months after the company raised €25 million. Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden as growth markets. The company’s co-founder Nicolas Cohen mentions the U.K.,

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

It has now raised $18.8 Founded in Gothenburg, Sweden in 2016, Minna enables customers to manage subscription services via their existing bank’s app. Step in Minna Technologies , which sells in its subscription management services into banking apps. million (€15.5

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

The company is live in 23 European markets and plans soon to expand to Croatia, Hungary and Sweden. UK challenger bank Starling raises $376M, now valued at $1.9B. The funding is notable in part because of who is doing the investing.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2021

It has raised a total of $22.85 At the time, Swedish startup Lendo – a precursor to FinanZero – was making waves in Sweden, and the team felt that a similar model would succeed in Brazil, a country known for its bureaucracy and red tape, and thus primed for a streamlined and hassle-free approach to loans. million to date.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

MAJORITY , a mobile banking service for migrants to the United States, said on Tuesday it had raised $27 million in its Series A funding round led by Valar Ventures. Other existing investors, including Avid Ventures , Heartcore Capital and a group of Nordic fintech founders, also participated in the raise. Larsson said.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Swiss startup Frontify raises $50 million , more than double its previous round’s size. And from Sweden, EV company Polestar may go public via a SPAC , as EV company Cake raises $60 million. Nice to see Sweden do so well in a key business category. Tesla is doing FSD stuff , which confuses us.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Autonomous and electric truck maker Einride is rolling into Germany, representing its first new market in Europe outside its native Sweden. Founded out of Stockholm in 2016, Einride has raised some $150 million in funding to commercialize a cab-less autonomous cargo truck, one that can be controlled remotely, if required, by human operators.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2021

Klarna , the Swedish buy now, pay later behemoth and upstart bank, has raised $1 billion in new funding at a post-money valuation of $31 billion. As BNPL startups raise, a look at Klarna, Affirm and Afterpay earnings. That sees the company retain the crown as the highest valued private fintech in Europe.

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2022

The Wall Street Journal reported today, citing anonymous sources, that Klarna was “negotiating to raise about $650 million mostly from existing investors led by Sequoia Capital.” As Klarna looks to raise more capital, is it cutting its valuation enough? Sequoia chairman Michael Moritz is also chairman of the embattled payments giant.

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Engadget

MARCH 3, 2025

Sweden often hosts a big part of that journey, its cold northern expanses offering the perfect mix of frigid temperatures and frozen surfaces. That's the question that brought me to Sweden. Before a new car comes to market, it's subjected to many months, sometimes years, of rigorous testing around the world.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

and Velove in Sweden are also trying to address the last-mile delivery space, but they’re more focused on container deliveries that can even accommodate middle-mile than food deliveries, which is where Zoomo specializes for now. ” Companies like URB-E in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2023

Open source password management platform Bitwarden has made its first known acquisition, snapping up a fledgling Sweden-based startup called Passwordless.dev , which specializes in helping developers integrate passwordless authentication technology into their software. The password problem.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Billogram , which has built a platform for third parties to build and handle any kind of recurring payments (not one-off purchases), has closed a round of $45 million.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 21, 2020

But the close connection Facebook Dating has to the rest of the company’s products has raised concerns in the past. Facebook touts the service’s privacy features, with many of its more personal matching tactics entirely optional.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2022

Mavenoid , a Swedish company that provides both human- and AI-enabled support and troubleshooting tools for hardware companies, has raised $30 million in a series B round of funding.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 24, 2021

Based in Stockholm, Sweden, Tink operations should continue as usual after the acquisition. According to Crunchbase data , Tink has raised over $300 million from Dawn Capital, Eurazeo, HMI Capital, Insight Partners, PayPal Ventures, Creades, Heartcore Capital and others. Overall, Tink covers 250 million bank customers across Europe.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

If you plan to launch a new startup in France, Denmark or Sweden, there is a new seed fund looking for your pitch. Emblem said today that it has raised nearly $54 million (€50 million) for a new European seed fund. And this is only its first close: the firm expects to raise as much as $80 million (€75 million) by the end of the year.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

French startup Ankorstore has raised a $283 million Series C funding round (€250 million). In May 2021, when Ankorstore raised its Series B , the company told me it was working with 50,000 shops and 5,000 brands. based company that has raised over $1 billion — it has recently started its European expansion.

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