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| 12.08.2026 | European Tech Market Surges: Unicorns Emerge, AI Drives Investment, Strategic Acquisitions Reshape Landscape
Text: Europe's tech scene buzzes with activity. FinTech Moss achieved unicorn status, raisi... | The European startup landscape demonstrates strong vitality. Significant capital rounds fuel innovative companies. Acquisitions reshape key industries. The DACH region, encompassing Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, remains a hotbed for ve... |
| 10.08.2026 | NavVis erhält 85 Millionen – Moss bekommt 35 Millionen – Fortino übernimmt Operations1 | Im #DealMonitor für den 10. August werfen wir einen Blick auf die wichtigsten, spannendsten und interessantesten Investments und Exits des Tages in der DACH-Region. Alle Deals der Vortage gibt es im großen und übersichtlichen #DealMonitor-A... |
| 10.08.2026 | +++ VinciFi +++ Moss +++ FinTech +++ Unicorn +++ SonoSolar +++ KI +++ | Was gibt’s Neues? In unserem #StartupTicker liefern wir eine kompakte Übersicht über die wichtigsten Startup-Nachrichten des Tages (Montag, 10. August). #STARTUPLAND: NUR DER FRÜHE VOGEL SPART!
STARTUPLAND is where the future begings
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| 22.07.2026 | +++ Augustus +++ Camunda +++ Unicorn +++ egora +++ Project Q +++ GLE360 +++ Christian Dürr +++ | Was gibt’s Neues? In unserem #StartupTicker liefern wir eine kompakte Übersicht über die wichtigsten Startup-Nachrichten des Tages (Mittwoch, 22. Juli). #STARTUPLAND: NUR DER FRÜHE VOGEL SPART!
STARTUPLAND – one day, unlimited opportunities... |
| 21.05.2026 | Gaia raises $100 million credit facility | Fertility startup Gaia Gaia
Founded: 2019
Headquarters: London, England, United Kingdom
Total Funding: $137M
See full company profile "> secured a $100 million debt facility from Viola Credit to expand its operations in the US.
Foun... |
| 05.09.2025 | Non-drinking water filtration brand WaterScience secures Rs 1.4 Cr funding from Velocity | Velocity, a growth capital platform supported by Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures, has invested Rs 1.4 crore in the non-drinking water filtration company WaterScience.
According to a press release from WaterScience, the new funding will be util... |
| 26.08.2025 | Bitpanda becomes the latest tech company to snub London listing | Bitpanda, the crypto exchange backed by Peter Thiel, is snubbing London as a potential IPO destination, preferring New York or Frankfurt instead. Bitpanda co-founder and CEO Eric Demuth cited the lack of liquidity in share trading as the re... |
| 23.07.2025 | Valar Ventures-backed Simpl faces probe for FDI rule violations | Premium
Nitya Sharma, founder and CEO, Simpl
Buy-now-pay-later platform Simpl, which counts venture capital firm Valar Ventures as an investor, is facing a probe by the Enforcement Directorate for violation of the Foreign Exchange Managemen... |
| 15.07.2025 | Panacea Financial Extends Series B to $62M | Panacea Financial, a Little Rock, AR-based financial technology company dedicated to providing financial services to doctors and doctors’ practices, announced the extension of its Series B round to $62M.
Backers were not disclosed.
The comp... |
| 06.06.2024 | Simpl sees another round of layoffs, rejigs senior leadership | Buy now pay later (BNPL) start-up Simpl has let go of 30 more employees a month after it laid off 160 people.
Recently, the firm has also seen the departure of senior executives, including Vatsal Jain, Vice-President - Enterprise Business; ... |
| 20.05.2024 | Ember Digital Revolutionizes Financial Management with £5m Funding and HSBC Partnership | Ember, a London-based financial technology company, has recently made waves in the industry by securing a significant £5m in funding and striking a groundbreaking deal with HSBC to provide digital tax services to SME customers. Founded in 2... |
| 17.05.2024 | Embedded accounting startup Ember raises £5m and lands HSBC deal | An embedded accounting startup has raised £5m and struck a deal with HSBC to provide digital tax services to hundreds of thousands of its SME customers amid the UK’s shift to a fully digital tax system.
Ember, founded in 2018 by ex-Deloitte... |
| 08.01.2024 | AbbeyCross raises US$6.5M in seed funding round | Mike Robertson, CEO at AbbeyCross and Adrian Brown, COO at AbbeyCross
AbbeyCross raises US$6.5M in seed funding round led by Valar Ventures to further support Wholesale Emerging Market FX and Payment platform launch. NEW YORK , UNITED STATE... |
| 29.06.2023 | Austrian Bitpanda Pro spins out into One Trading and secures €30M. Pieter Thiel among the investors | Austrian Bitpanda Pro spins out into One Trading and secures €30M. Pieter Thiel among the investors
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| 23.06.2023 | Neobank For Immigrants Expands To The U.S.-Mexico Border | When Magnus Larsson came to the U.S. around 20 years ago, he learned just how hard it was for immigrants to open a bank account, much less navigate the U.S. financial system. Eventually, in 2019, he co-founded MAJORITY, a neobank aimed at m... |
| 18.03.2023 | Who is Peter Thiel, the billionaire investor and PayPal cofounder who says he had $50 million in Silicon Valley Bank when it collapsed? | Peter Thiel is worth about $8 billion, per Bloomberg's Billionaire Index. John Lamparski/Getty Images
Billionaire Peter Thiel said he had $50 million in Silicon Valley Bank when it collapsed.
With a net worth of $8 billion, he's among Silic... |
| 30.11.2022 | Aiming to plant trees with card payments, London's TreeCard raises $23 million | TreeCard, a UK fintech promising to plant trees when customers make payments with its wooden debit card, has just taken in $23 million of series A funding.
The round is being led by the US VC Valar Ventures, climate tech VC World Fund and E... |
| 16.11.2022 | Valar Ventures led $20 M Series A funding raised by Baraka | Investing platform Baraka has secured $20 million in a series A round headed by Valar Ventures, with participation from Knollwood. Baraka has already raised a total of $25 million in US dollars.
The Dubai-based firm, founded in 2021 by Fera... |
| 16.11.2022 | Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures anchors $20m Series A funding in UAE fintech baraka | Valar Ventures, a venture capital fund backed by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, has led the $20-million Series A funding round of Middle East-based commission-free investing platform baraka, according to an announcement.
The funding round, ... |
| 13.10.2022 | Mondu sets its sights on the Netherlands, marches on with €20 million in VVRB-backed debt financing round | Just five months post a $43 million Series A round, Berlin-based B2B buy now pay later payments startup Mondu has brought in an additional €20 million in a debt financing round provided by German bank Vereinigte Volksbank Raiffeisenbank (VV... |
| 28.09.2022 | Regate scores €20 million to simplify financial management in France and beyond | From 2024, all companies in France will be obliged to receive their invoices electronically through a specialised public or private portal certified by the tax authorities. Only certified platforms will be able to send invoices directly to ... |
| 19.09.2022 | Swiss crypto high-frequency trading firm raises $50 million | |
| 16.09.2022 | Former Citadel Securities leaders launch Portofino Technologies to build financial infrastructure tech in web3; raises €50M | Former Citadel Securities leaders, Leonard Lancia and Alex Casimo, announced on Thursday, September 15, that they have launched a new tech company, Portofino Technologies, and have raised over $50M (approximately €50M) in equity funding fro... |
| 15.09.2022 | Swiss crypto platform Portofino unlocks $50 million to support high-frequency traders | Swiss high-frequency trading (HFT) platform for digital assets, Portofino Technologies has raised over $50 million in funding to power digital asset adoption for institutional investors and Web3 companies. The round was backed by Valar Vent... |
| 14.09.2022 | This fintech that provides financial services to immigrants just raised $37.5 million from Peter Thiel's Valar Ventures. Check out Majority's 15-slide pitch deck. | Magnus Larsson, Majority CEO and founder. Majority This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
US fintech Majority has raised $37.5 million in fresh funding in a new internal round.
T... |
| 14.09.2022 | Majority, a mobile bank for migrants, closes third venture round in just over a year | Nine months after raising a Series A round, Majority has raised tens of millions in both equity and debt financing for its mobile bank for migrants. The fintech announced today that it has raised a $37.5 million Series B, $30 million of whi... |
| 12.07.2022 | Peter Thiel-backed Valar Ventures raises $665m for latest VC fund | Valar Ventures, a venture capital fund backed by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, has reached the final close for its latest venture und at $665 million, according to a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission showed.
The New Yor... |
| 30.05.2022 | Mondu raises €39.9M to tap the €186B market opportunity for B2B BNPL in Europe and the US | Berlin-based Mondu, a payment fintech company that provides a “Buy Now, Pay Later” (BNPL) solution for B2B merchants and marketplaces, announced on Monday that it has raised $43M (approximately €39.98M) in a Series A round of funding.
The r... |
| 30.05.2022 | Mondu's makin' moves with $43 million in Series A round | Seven months post a $14 million seed round, Berlin-based B2B BNPL player Mondu has announced a $43 million Series A round raise led by Valar Ventures. The capital will be used to further scale Mondu’s product offer and hone in on customer a... |
| 28.04.2022 | Meet Taxfix: Berlin’s digital tax accountant joining the unicorn club with $220 million funding | Berlin-based mobile tax app Taxfix has raised $220 million in Series D funding to join the unicorn club with a total valuation of over $1 billion. The round was led by Teachers’ Venture Growth (TVG), with participation from existing investo... |
| 03.03.2022 | London-based startup brings in $40 million to allow friends and family to invest together | The use of social networks has fundamentally changed how we interact with friends and family, what we talk about and how we make decisions. People are already using solutions like Whatsapp, Telegram and joining communities to talk about tra... |
| 11.01.2022 | KKR : Record-breaking fundraising of 486 million for Qonto, to further accelerate European growth and become the finance solution for 1 million SMEs and freelancers by 2025read more | Paris, January 11 2022 - Qonto, the leading European business finance solution, announced today it has raised €486 million in Series D funding, bringing Qonto's valuation to €4.4 billion. With this fundraising - one of the largest ever in F... |
| 07.12.2021 | MAJORITY raises $27M Series A six months after its seed round to expand mobile banking for migrants | 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 ... |
| 07.09.2021 | Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures leads $75 Mn Series B round in Bangladesh-based ShopUp | Bangladesh-based B2B commerce platform ShopUp, which merged with Bengaluru-based fashion retailer Voonik last February, said on Tuesday it has raised $75 million in a Series B round of funding led by Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures. With this ... |
| 17.08.2021 | Austria’s Bitpanda raises $263 million at $4.1 billion valuation | Digital investment platform Bitpanda has raised $263 million in a Series C round, now giving the company a valuation of $4.1 billion. If you’re keeping track, Bitpanda reached unicorn status just the past March, thereby tripling its valuati... |
| 17.08.2021 | Austrian fintech unicorn Bitpanda now valued at $4.1 billion after $263 million round led by Valar Ventures | Digital investment platform Bitpanda raises $263 million in funding at a $4.1 billion valuation. The company will use the proceeds to strengthen its team and design the organisation for scale, while doubling down on state-of-the-art technol... |
| 17.08.2021 | Austria’s first unicorn Bitpanda grew its valuation over 3 times to €3.48B in just 5 months; raises €223.35M | Austria’s first unicorn, Bitpanda, a fintech company that provides an exchange platform for digital assets such as cryptocurrency, announced that it has secured $263M (approx €223.35M) in its Series C round of funding.
The company had raise... |
| 14.07.2021 | Syfe closes US$30 million Series B funding round | SINGAPORE, July 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Syfe, a high-growth digital wealth management company, announced today that it has closed a US$30 million Series B funding round.
The Syfe team - July 2021
The fundraise was led by US-based Valar Ven... |
| 11.04.2021 | Crypto Long & Short: Peter Thiel Defines Bitcoin’s Accidental Role in Global Politics | The battle over bitcoin’s evolving role just became a piece in a complex game of political strategy.
Peter Thiel’s talk earlier this week at a Richard Nixon Foundation event thrust the cryptocurrency even further out onto the geopolitical s... |
| 24.03.2021 | Valar leads Velocity's $10.3 million seed round | ETtechIllustration: Rahul Awasthi
Fintech startup Velocity has raised $10.3 million in seed funding led by Peter Thiel-backed Valar Ventures, a US-based VC firm that specialises in funding early stage fintechs.
The Bengaluru-based revenue f... |
| 19.03.2021 | Nigerian tech startup Kuda secures $25-million | Kuda, a digital bank that operates in Nigeria has secured $25-million in a Series A funding round led by Valar Ventures, a New York-based venture capital firm.
Kuda has secured $25-million in funding
This Series A round of funding included ... |
| 19.03.2021 | Nigerian tech startup Kuda secures $25-million | Kuda, a digital bank that operates in Nigeria has secured $25-million in a Series A funding round led by Valar Ventures, a New York-based venture capital firm.
Kuda has secured $25-million in funding
This Series A round of funding include... |
| 19.03.2021 | Nigerian no-fee digital bank Kuda secures US $ 25 million in Series A | Kuda, a Yaba (Nigeria) based digital bank announced on 18th March 2021 that it has raised US $ 25 million in its Series A funding round. The round was led by Valar Ventures along with participation from existing investor Target Global. |
| 18.03.2021 | Kuda raises $25M more led by Valar to become the neobank for ‘every African on the planet’ | Challenger banks continue to make significant advances in attracting customers away from the big incumbents by providing more modern, user-friendly tools to manage their money. Today, one of the trailblazers in this area, Kuda Technologies,... |
| 17.03.2021 | Austria based digital assets platform Bitpanda secures US $ 170 million in Series B | Bitpanda, a Vienna based digital assets platform that facilitates cryptocurrency transactions, announced that it has raised US $ 170 million in its Series B round. The round was led by Valar Ventures along with participation from DST Global... |
| 22.02.2021 | Ageras Group raises €60M to fuel international growth | Ageras Group (“Ageras”), in which Rabo Frontier Ventures (“RFV”) in 2020 acquired a minority stake, raises €60M from New York-based technology fund Lugard Road Capital. The capital injection will accelerate the international growth and enab... |
| 24.09.2020 | Valar triples down on Petal, leading $55M Series C round into the credit card disruptor | Sometimes raising venture capital can be as simple as talking to your existing investor and having them wire over another check.
When we last caught up with Petal in January 2019, the startup was hot off its $30 million Series B round and w... |
| 23.09.2020 | Syfe bags US$ 18.6M in Series A funding | Singapore-based FinTech startup, Syfe has raised US$ 18.6M in a Series A funding round held in September 2020, led by US-based venture capital firm Valar Ventures along with participation from Presight Capital and previous investor Unbound. |
| 01.07.2020 | Point to launch new challenger bank with rewards on debit card purchases | Meet Point, a new challenger bank in the U.S. that has been available as a private beta for the past year. Today, the company is announcing new fundraising — later this month, the company is launching a major new version of its service and ... |
| 12.08.2019 | Valar Ventures Raises $150M For Fund V | Valar Ventures, a New York-based venture capital firm, raised $150m for its Fund V.
Valar Fund V – the firm’s largest flagship venture capital fund raised to date by the firm – was backed by 57 investors.
Have a look at the SEC filing here... |
| 07.08.2019 | Thiel-Backed Valar Ventures Closes $150M For Fund V | 12 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
On Wednesday, NYC-based Valar Ventures filed paperwork with the SEC indicating it’s fully raised $150 million for a new venture capital fund. Valar Fund V is the firm’s largest flagship venture capi... |
| 07.08.2019 | Thiel-Backed Valar Ventures Closes $150M For Fund V | 13 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
On Wednesday, NYC-based Valar Ventures filed paperwork with the SEC indicating it’s fully raised $150 million for a new venture capital fund. Valar Fund V is the firm’s largest flagship venture capi... |
| 29.01.2019 | Petal Secures $300M Debt Financing | Petal, a new kind of credit card company built to help people financially succeed, today announced that it has raised $30 million in Series B funding.
This investment was led by Valar Ventures, a New York-based venture capital fund known fo... |
| 29.01.2019 | Petal Secures $300M Debt Financing | Petal, a new kind of credit card company built to help people financially succeed, today announced that it has raised $30 million in Series B funding.
This investment was led by Valar Ventures, a New York-based venture capital fund known fo... |
| 14.01.2019 | Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures targets $350M for new funds | Valar Ventures, one of the three venture funds co-founded by Peter Thiel, has filed paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to raise $350 million across two new funds. The PayPal co-founder and billionaire investor in Fac... |
| 16.12.2018 | Valar Ventures Raises $11.6M for Sixth Co-investment Fund | Valar Ventures has raised $11.6 million for its sixth co-investment fund, according to an SEC filing. The target is $20 million. The New York-based venture firm is backed by Peter Thiel. |
| 26.09.2018 | Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures raises $133m for Fund IV | Valar Ventures has raised more than $133m for its Valar Global Fund IV, reaching what appears to be its final close. The |
| 21.05.2018 | Valar Ventures Leads $15M Series A for Bestow | Bestow Inc., the company expanding insurability and democratizing access to consumer life insurance, today announced it closed $15 million in Series A funding, led by Valar Ventures, with participation from existing investors New Enterprise... |
| 21.05.2018 | NEA Joins $15M Series A for Bestow | Bestow Inc., the company expanding insurability and democratizing access to consumer life insurance, today announced it closed $15 million in Series A funding, led by Valar Ventures, with participation from existing investors New Enterprise... |
| 21.05.2018 | Bestow Raises $15 Million in Series A Financing | Bestow Inc., the company expanding insurability and democratizing access to consumer life insurance, today announced it closed $15 million in Series A funding, led by Valar Ventures, with participation from existing investors New Enterprise... |
| 10.01.2018 | Petal Raises $13M Series A | Petal, a credit card startup pioneering “Cashflow Underwriting” as an alternative to traditional credit scoring, announced today that it has raised a $13 million round of Series A financing, led by Valar Ventures, a New York-based venture c... |
| 03.07.2017 | French fintech firm Qonto receives €10 million from Valar Ventures and Alven Capital | Qonto, a French company that provides online banking services for startups, has raised €10 million from its two main investors, Valar Ventures and Alven Capital.
Qonto had previously raised €1.6 million in seed funding from Valar Ventures, ... |
| 14.12.2016 | Stash Raises $25 Million Series B | Stash makes investing easier and more accessible for the 100M American consumers with limited access to financial opportunity. It is now the fastest growing mobile investing platform in the United States. Today, Stash announced it has raise... |
| 07.12.2016 | Breather raises $40 million for stylish workspaces on-demand | A mobile app that lets users find and book stylish workspaces on-demand, Breather, raised a Series C round of $40 million.
The funding brings Breather’s total capital raised to $73 million. Menlo Ventures led the round joined by Valar Ventu... |
| 17.08.2016 | Stash Raises $9.25 Million Series A | Stash, one of the fastest-growing new financial services for Millennials, announced today that it has secured $9.25 million in Series A funding to further accelerate user growth and to build out its technology platform. The round was led by... |
| 22.06.2016 | Valar Ventures Joins $40M Series B for Number26 | NUMBER26, Europe’s most modern bank account, has raised US $40 million in a Series B financing round led by Horizons Ventures. Battery Ventures as well as Robert Gentz, David Schneider, and Rubin Ritteralso joined the round. Existing invest... |
| 09.02.2016 | Stash Raises $3m in Seed Funding | Stash, a NYC-based investment app for millennials, raised $3m in seed funding.
The round was led by Goodwater Capital, with participation from New York-based Valar Ventures, and London-based Entrée Capital as well as previous investors.
The... |
| 09.02.2016 | Daily funding roundup - February 9, 2016 | Fuze raised $112M; Trifacta received $35M funding; Digital Shadows snagged $14M funding
Stash, an investment app for millennials, raised $3 million in seed funding to continue the company’s growth. The round was led by Silicon Valley-based ... |
| 20.01.2016 | Daily funding roundup - January 20, 2016 | Khazanah Nasional invested $160M in WeLab; LendUp raised $150M; Maluuba secured $6.2M funding
Maluuba, a machine learning company that offers a Siri-like experience for Android devices, today announced that it has secured $9 million CAD (ab... |
| 02.12.2015 | Number26, the Peter Thiel-backed mobile banking startup, expands across E.U. into 6 new markets | Number26, a Peter Thiel-backed German startup that’s setting out to create the bank account of the future, has announced a major European expansion today, as it launches in six new markets.
Founded out of Berlin in early 2013, Number26 offe... |
| 02.12.2015 | Number26, the Peter Thiel-backed mobile banking startup, expands across E.U. into 6 new markets | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Number26, a Peter Thiel-backed German startup that’s setting out to create the bank account of the future, has announced a major Europe... |
| 17.09.2015 | Daily funding roundup - September 17, 2015 | HelloFresh raised $85M; Kyruus landed $25M; Typeform secured $15M
Advizr, a highly intuitive and automated financial planning application for advisors serving Gen X and Y clients, announces the close of another financing round and adds indu... |
| 08.09.2015 | Daily funding roundup - September 8, 2015 | Smile Telecoms Holdings bagged $365M; BlaBlaCar secured $160M; SetPoint Medical raised $43M
YouthKiAwaaz, an online news and views platform, has raised angel funding of Rs 4 crore ($600,000) from Quintillion Media, the cross-platform digita... |
| 08.07.2015 | Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, up... |
| 08.07.2015 | Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place | Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, updated as the day unfolds. Tip us here if you have a deal to share. Didi-Kuaidi confirms $2B round
China’s car-hailing service Didi Kuaidi raised a total of $2 billion in its latest round. The... |
| 26.05.2015 | Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, up... |
| 26.05.2015 | Granify announces $7M round led by Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Valar Ventures, backed by Peter Thiel, led a $7 m... |
| 26.05.2015 | Granify announces $7M round led by Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures | Valar Ventures, backed by Peter Thiel, led a $7 million funding round for e-commerce startup Granify.
The Canada-based platform analyzes customers’ activity to identify if they are potential buyers or if they are just window shopping. Then,... |
| 26.05.2015 | Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place | Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, updated as the day unfolds. Tip us here if you have a deal to share. Backup startup Rubrik raises $41M more, introduces hybrid-cloud box
Silicon Valley startup Rubrik has designed hardware that... |
| 16.04.2015 | EyeEm Raises $18M To Expand Its Photo Marketplace | Photo-sharing startup EyeEm has raised $18 million to accelerate the expansion of its recently launched photo marketplace, CEO Flo Meissner announced on Medium this afternoon.
EyeEm’s marketplace leverages the app’s social aspect to generat... |
| 16.04.2015 | Peter Thiel makes second European investment, leading $10.6M round for Berlin’s Number26 | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| 16.04.2015 | Peter Thiel makes second European investment, leading $10.6M round for Berlin’s Number26 | While no one is ready to call Peter Thiel the new sugar daddy of European startups, it seems the famed entrepreneur and investor is at least giving the continent another look.
Thiel’s Valar Ventures announced today it has led a $10.6 millio... |
| 08.10.2014 | Billionaire Peter Thiel embarks on anti-aging crusade | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Does Peter Thiel want to live forever?
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| 07.10.2014 | Peter Thiel: Mobile computing, big data, and edu software nothing but buzzwords | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| 18.08.2014 | Australia’s ScriptRock raises $8.7m and aims to focus on growth | Australian IT DevOps company ScriptRock, a graduate of Sydney’s Startmate 2012 program, has successfully raised a $US8.7 million ($9.8 million AUD) series A round led by August Capital, which also led investment in Splunk. Also participatin... |
| 15.08.2014 | Australia’s ScriptRock raises $8.7m and aims to focus on growth | Australian IT DevOps company ScriptRock, a graduate of Sydney’s Startmate 2012 program, has successfully raised a $US8.7 million ($9.8 million AUD) series A round led by August Capital, which also led investment in Splunk. Also participatin... |
| - | Mondu's makin' moves with $43 million in Series A round | Seven months post a $14 million seed round, Berlin-based B2B BNPL player Mondu has announced a $43 million Series A round raise led by Valar Ventures. The capital will be used to further scale Mondu’s product offer and hone in on customer a... |
| - | Austria’s Bitpanda raises $263 million at $4.1 billion valuation | Digital investment platform Bitpanda has raised $263 million in a Series C round, now giving the company a valuation of $4.1 billion. If you’re keeping track, Bitpanda reached unicorn status just the past March, thereby tripling its valuati... |
| - | Meet Taxfix: Berlin’s digital tax accountant joining the unicorn club with $220 million funding | Berlin-based mobile tax app Taxfix has raised $220 million in Series D funding to join the unicorn club with a total valuation of over $1 billion. The round was led by Teachers’ Venture Growth (TVG), with participation from existing investo... |
| - | London-based startup brings in $40 million to allow friends and family to invest together | The use of social networks has fundamentally changed how we interact with friends and family, what we talk about and how we make decisions. People are already using solutions like Whatsapp, Telegram and joining communities to talk about tra... |
| - | Berlin's Moss raises $29 million from Peter Thiel’s Valar and others | Berlin-based Moss (formerly known as Vanta) has raised $29 million in a Series A extension funding round. The fintech offers high-limit physical and virtual credit cards and an expense and invoice tracking software solution. The newest roun... |
| - | Peter Thiel-backed social and investing app Shares scores $10 million in seed round | Looking to deliver on its credo, “investing made social”, Shares has revealed its $10 million seed round raise and opened the waitlist for a UK launch slated for this autumn. With no minimum buy-in and a community-first approach, Shares is ... |
| - | Where’s Tiger Global investing this year? Berlin fintech inches closer to unicorn status with $86 million | Berlin-based fintech startup Moss is on a roll this year. After the last financing round with Peter Thiel's VC Valar Ventures just six months back, the startup has now raised Series B funding round of €75 million ($86 million) from Tiger Gl... |
| - | Despite market worries, Peter Thiel-backed Shares nabs $40 million for social investing app | London-based investment app Shares has closed $40 million in funding to tap into a boom in retail trading brought on by the pandemic. With the fresh round, the fintech has now raised $90 million to date. The new cash will drive its expansio... |
| - | This Week in European Tech: More French unicorns, an adopted yet amended Digital Services Act, and Serena Williams on (Sorare's) board | Happy Friday!
This week, the Tech.eu research team tracked more than 115 tech funding deals worth over €2.4 billion, and over 30 exits, M&A transactions, and rumours, and related news stories across Europe, including Russia and Turkey.
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| - | This NYC Startup Just Raised $3M to Help Millennials Invest | 360SHARES
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For millennials, investing is scary. All they hear about is the economic recession of 2008 and how fragile the market is. What they need is a little bit of confidence before confronting this monster. Stash... |
| - | France’s Qonto raises €486 million at record-breaking valuation of €4.4 billion | Paris-based Qonto has raised €486 million in a Series D funding round, now providing the company with a €4.4 billion valuation, a new record in the French scale-up space. Qonto is an all-in-one finance solution for SMEs and freelancers, han... |
| - | [Funding alert] Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures leads $75M Series B round in B2B commerce platform ShopUp | ShopUp, Bangladesh’s full-stack B2B commerce platform, which merged with India's fashion-focused etailer Voonik in 2020, Tuesday said it raised $75 million in a Series B round led by Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures.
The round also included inv... |
