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| Apr 20, 2021 | Exclusive: Lunar Bank set to acquire veteran fintech, Lendify | Lendify, a veteran Swedish digital lender, is being bought by Lunar, a Danish digital bank, Sifted has learned.
The acquisition comes after a difficult 2020 for alternative lenders like Lendify. In particular, the startup saw its applicatio... |
| Apr 6, 2021 | Today in European Tech: SoftBank invests in Norway’s AutoStore at $7.7 billion valuation, AXA VP’s new growth fund, and more | Hello!
Here's what happened today in European Tech. Deals
- Japan’s SoftBank has acquired a 40% minority stake in Norwegian robotics and software firm AutoStore for $2.8 billion. With the purchase, AutoStore now has a $7.7 billion market va... |
| Feb 19, 2021 | Tommy Jacobson comments on the Truecaller success story | Di Digital inverviews our Founding Partner Tommy Jacobson about his thoughts about the successful journey of Truecaller and comments on the news that Zenith increases their ownership in the company (article in Swedish): |
| Jan 14, 2021 | Swedish tech scale-up Truecaller gears up for an IPO (by hiring an experienced CFO) | It ain’t exactly a secret that Swedish mobile phone directory and caller ID service Truecaller is keen to become a publicly-listed company at some point in the near future, but here’s some news that confirms its plans.
The Stockholm-based c... |
| Jan 14, 2021 | Last-mile-delivery startup Budbee raises €52m as ecommerce booms | Swedish last-mile delivery startup Budbee has raised €52m in a new funding round led by one of the leading pension plan companies in Sweden, AMF.
The raise comes as last-mile delivery services have seen a surge in demand during the pandemic... |
| Nov 25, 2020 | Zound’s revenues grew by 31% in third quarter | ”Zound’s revenues grew by 31% in Q3 2020 to 557 million SEK, compared to same period last year and the products are sold out quicker than the refill rate.” |
| Nov 19, 2020 |
Volumental is expanding! | Volumental is growing fast and has now helped 7.5 million people find perfect fitting footwear! In our home market Sweden, we've just launched with RUNNER'S STORE I SVERIGE AB (in Malmö and Stockholm) and XXL Sport & Villmark throughout... |
| Nov 17, 2020 | Tibber raises $65m to take on the European energy dinosaurs | The Swedish-Norwegian smart energy startup Tibber has raised $65m, equivalent to €55m, to expand its novel approach to household energy to new European markets.
The selling point of Tibber is that it has a bot that looks for the lowest elec... |
| Nov 2, 2020 |
Caroline among top 40 under 40 entrepreneurs in DI Digital |
https://digital.di.se/artikel/fem-tech-miljardarer-pa-arets-40-under-40-lista
Website by Caroline Walerud. Photo credits: Mikael Andersson, Olle Svensson, Andreas von Gegerfelt, Caroline Walerud, Bengt Walerud. Logo by Cecilia Wale... |
| Oct 28, 2020 | Hej! Amazon opens Amazon.se in Sweden to expand in Europe | Amazon is the biggest online retailer in Europe, and today it took the next step in making that effort more localized. The company has launched a dedicated portal for Sweden at Amazon.se — giving Swedish shoppers, third-party merchants and ... |
| Oct 20, 2020 | Natural Cycles adds wearables to its app | Every morning, thousands of women wake up, stick a thermometer in their mouth and enter their temperature into the digital contraception app Natural Cycles.
With all the wearables and technical solutions available, many users have asked the... |
| Oct 13, 2020 | Swedish startup Hedvig to become a regulated insurance company in Europe | Stockholm-based home insurance broker Hedvig Hedvig
Founded: 2016
Headquarters: Stockholm, Sweden
Total Funding: $22.99M
See full company profile "> announced a $9 million Series A extension bringing its total amount raised to over ... |
| Oct 9, 2020 | Billions flood the Nordics but female founders just receive 1.3% of VC funding | Most people think of the Nordics as a region where men and women are treated pretty equally.
Well, that view is not reflected in a new report put together by Unconventional Ventures based on Dealroom data. It shows that all-female startup f... |
| Sep 24, 2020 | Daniel Ek commits to investing €1bn in European ”moonshots” | Daniel Ek, the founder of Spotify, has committed to investing €1bn of his fortune in European deeptech ”moonshot projects”.
“We all know that one of the greatest challenges is access to capital. And that is why I’m sharing today that I will... |
| Sep 8, 2020 | Klarna raising fresh funds at $10bn valuation — reports | Swedish fintech unicorn Klarna is in talks with investors on raising money at $10bn valuation, according to reports by Reuters.
The deal would see the buy-now-pay-later lender nearly double its existing valuation of $5.5bn, which it secured... |
| Apr 22, 2020 | Industrifonden and Fairpoint Capital invest €5.3 million in DbVis Software | We’re happy to announce that Industrifonden and Fairpoint Capital have co-led a €5.3 million growth investment in DbVis Software, a Stockholm-based database management and analysis tool for all major databases.
The new capital will be used... |
| Dec 1, 2019 |
Volumental's strong growth - interview in DI Digital | Read the full article on DI Digital
Read the whole article here (in Swedish)
Website by Caroline Walerud. Photo credits: Mikael Andersson, Olle Svensson, Andreas von Gegerfelt, Caroline Walerud, Bengt Walerud. Logo by Cecilia Walerud.
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| Oct 16, 2019 | The week in mobility: electric cars & Uber’s grocery play | This roundup first appeared in our weekly Wednesday newsletter. If you’d like to get this straight to your inbox each week, sign up here!
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David might have triumphed over Goliath: in the week that the UK’s king of innovative design,... |
| Sep 18, 2019 | Scania Growth Capital invests in Business Process Automation SaaS provider and consultancy firm | Scania’s venture capital fund announces an investment in AKOA, a fast-growing company in business process automation. The investment will enable AKOA to further accelerate its growth in new markets, as well as to strengthen its organisation... |
| Sep 18, 2019 | Vegetarian meal delivery startup Simple Feast raises €30m to take on the US | Danish plant-based meal delivery service Simple Feast has raised another €30m to launch its business in the US, hoping to find new customers among health-conscious Californians.
Backed by investors such as American venture capital firm W14,... |
| Sep 11, 2019 | Tech.eu Podcast #134: Maria 01’s big ambitions, mobility industry update, Fairphone 3, interview with Ditte Rude Moncur of the Danish Growth Fund, and more | Tech.eu Podcast hosted by Natalie Novick and Andrii Degeler is a show in which we discuss some of the most interesting stories from the European technology scene and interview leading entrepreneurs and investors from across the region.
Toda... |
| Sep 10, 2019 | Anna Ljungdahl joins Industrifonden | We’re pleased to welcome Anna Ljungdahl as Investment Manager. Anna will focus to drive Industrifonden’s deepening knowledge,- and potential investments in fintech, and evaluate and participate in investment opportunities created by technol... |
| Jul 2, 2019 | Industrifonden welcomes Adaptive Simulations to the portfolio | Adaptive Simulations secures €2.4 million in funding round led by Industrifonden and Fairpoint Capital
Adaptive Simulations has developed Ingrid Cloud, a SaaS solution within flow simulations (Computational Fluid Dynamics, CFD) and design ... |
| Apr 4, 2019 | Mårten Skogö, Co-Founder Tobii, joins Industrifonden | We are glad to welcome Mårten Skogö to the investment team as Chief Technologist. Mårten is co-founder of Tobii, the world-leading eye-tracking technology company, and was most recently also Chief Science Officer at the company.
“We’re ver... |
| Feb 19, 2019 | Industrifonden leads 30 MSEK round in Detail Online | We are delighted to welcome the e-commerce company Detail Online to the family. The company raises SEK 30 million led by Industrifonden and Acacia, and the round enables the company to continue to grow and expand.
> More about Detail On... |
| Oct 12, 2018 | Stockholm is looking to ban electric scooters ahead of Lime launch | The city authorities of Stockholm are working on a way to deal with shared electric push scooters, Di Digital reports. Hundreds of vehicles have been deployed on the city’s streets over the past couple of months by the local startup Voi Tec... |
| Sep 11, 2018 |
New investment: Walerud Ventures invest in Graphmatech AB together with ABB Technology Ventures | We are happy to announce a new investment!
Walerud Ventures has together with ABB Technology Ventures led a seed round from five investors in Graphmatech AB, a Swedish materials technology startup.
Graphmatech has invented a technology to... |
| Dec 13, 2017 | Commerce platform iZettle raises $47M at a $950M valuation | iZettle — the commerce platform based out of Stockholm that competes against companies like Square, Paypal and SumUp to provide card transactions using smartphones and tablets as well as related accounting services — has raised another €40 ... |
| Nov 17, 2017 | Spotify acquires online music studio Soundtrap as it goes after creators | Spotify has made another acquisition as it continues to build out the services it offers to artists beyond basic streaming. It has acquired online music studio startup Soundtrap, the company announced via a blog post this morning.
The three... |
| Oct 13, 2017 |
New investment in Ekkono |
The news is out! We´re investing in Ekkono togheter with Almi Invest!
Ekkono sells tools to make IoT products learn from and adapt to their own circumstances. The result is IoT products that are more intuitive to use and more effective.
... |
| Oct 6, 2017 | Spotify Threatened Researchers Who Revealed ‘Pirate’ History | As one of the members of Sweden’s infamous Piratbyrån (Piracy Bureau), Rasmus Fleischer was also one of early key figures at The Pirate Bay. Over the years he’s been a writer, researcher, debater, and musician, and in 2012 he finished his P... |
| Aug 24, 2017 | Swedish product marketing startup inRiver raises €10.5 million | Malmö-based inRiver, which specialises in product information management, has raised €10.5 million. The funding comes from existing investors Verdane Capital, Industrifonden, and Zobito, and partially through a loan from the EIB fund the Eu... |
| Aug 23, 2017 | Swedish Anima raises €1 million for its connected watch, Kronaby | Malmö-based startup Anima raised €1 million for its connected watch, Kronaby, which is now launching in the US. The funding came from the Chinese component manufacturer Goertek.
Kronaby watches are available in four analog models and can, a... |
| Aug 23, 2017 | Swedish Red Flag, an accounting app for SMEs, raises €1.6 million | Swedish Red Flag, an app for managing small businesses, has raised €1.6 million.
The startup offers digital accounting services that can be managed through a mobile app, including invoicing and the tracking of receipts, bills, taxes, and fe... |
| Jul 13, 2017 | Scania Growth Capital invests in digital freight forwarder | With sennder’s digital solution, the currently manual and paper-dependent road freight business gets a new level of automation, transparency and efficiency. The solution is based on a proprietary software platform that provides immediate vi... |
| Jul 6, 2017 | Swedish DJ app Pacemaker raises $1 million | Pacemaker, a Swedish company that has developed an app for DJs, raised $1 million from investors such as Spintop Ventures, Solang Invest, and Victor & Victor in a recent financing round.
Pacemaker, who had previously developed a portabl... |
| Jul 3, 2017 | Swedish food waste saving startup Karma raises at least €3 million | Karma, a social enterprise dedicated to reducing food waste in the cafe and restaurant industry, has reportedly raised between €3-4 million in a new investment round. The investment from e.ventures and eEquity will allow the company to expa... |
| Jun 29, 2017 | Swedish app TipTapp raises €2 million to pick up your trash | The Swedish app Tiptapp allows you to quickly contact someone to pick up all the garbage you have at home and can't get rid of. Now the Stockholm-based company has taken in another €2 million in financing, after raising €1 million last year... |
| Jun 20, 2017 | Ikea Teams Up With Apple To Bring Virtual Furniture To Your Home Through Augmented Reality Tech | Aaron Mamiit, Tech Times 20 June 2017, 09:06 am
Apple CEO Tim Cook views augmented reality as revolutionary technology, and popular furniture company Ikea has stepped up to share that vision.
The two companies have teamed up to create a new... |
| Jun 19, 2017 | Ikea’s using the iPhone’s AR kit to sell you even more furniture | One of the bigger announcements to come out of WWDC was Apple’s unveiling of ARKit. In one fell swoop, Apple dove head first into the world of augmented reality and gave developers the requisite frameworks to build incredibly engaging and r... |
| Jun 19, 2017 | Klarna gets a full banking license, gears up to go beyond financing payments | After Anders Holch Povlsen and his firm Brightfolk bought up a stake of at least $225 million in Klarna earlier this month, today the profitable Swedish payments startup, now valued at over $2.25 billion, is stepping up its game. Klarna has... |
| Jun 19, 2017 | IKEA is excited about their new Augmented Reality App coming to iOS 11 with its Stunning Furniture Placement Accuracy
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Search | Last Thursday Apple's CEO Tim Cook said in an interview with Businessweek that he's so excited about AR that he could scream. He thinks AR will be profound. The very first Augmented Reality demo at this year's WWDC event from Senior VP of S... |
| Jun 9, 2017 | Swedish headphone company Happy Plugs raises €6 million | Swedish fashionable headphone company Happy Plugs has raised €6 million from Scope. The company will use the capital to grow and strengthen its position in its existing markets.
The company now sells their headphones in over 10,000 stores i... |
| Jun 7, 2017 | Fashion magnate takes $225M+ stake in Swedish payment unicorn Klarna | Payments startup Klarna is ramping up its valuation again as it picks up a new, strategic investor. Last valued at $2.25 billion in 2015, the company today announced that Brightfolk, controlled by fashion tycoon Anders Holch Povlsen, is bec... |
| May 10, 2017 | Finnish sleep monitor Beddit acquired by Apple | Apple has acquired the Finnish sleep sensor Beddit, dubbed the "Fitbit for sleep", which helps users control snoring and sleep quality. The amount of the deal was not disclosed.
Beddit helps users control their sleep using a band ... |
| May 9, 2017 | Spotify’s Beta Used ‘Pirate’ MP3 Files, Some From Pirate Bay | While some pirates will probably never be tempted away from the digital high seas, over the past decade millions have ditched or tapered down their habit with the help of Spotify.
It’s no coincidence that from the very beginning more than a... |
| May 3, 2017 | Swedish Pagero raises €10 million for digitizing business processes | Swedish company Pagero has raised €10 million from the Norwegian private equity company Total.
Pagero digitizes orders and billing for companies with cloud-based software. The company had sales of €15 million last year, according to CEO Ben... |
| Apr 12, 2017 | Swedish Trade Extensions acquired by US-based Coupa Software for $45 million | Swedish software company Trade Extensions has been purchased by the US company Coupa Software for $45 million.
Trade Extensions was founded by a Swedish mathematician, and specializes in strategic sourcing and optimization of algorithms. Th... |
| Mar 30, 2017 | Swedish startup Optolexia raises $5.6M to take eye-tracking software for dyslexia screening to US | Swedish startup Optolexia, which makes a digital test to screen for dyslexia in children, has raised $5.6 million (5.2 million euros) in a round led by Gabriel Urwitz, CEO of private equity group Segulah. The Pomona Group also contributed t... |
| Mar 29, 2017 | Swedish startup Optolexia identifies dyslexia with AI and raises €5.2 million | The Swedish edtech startup Optolexia uses artificial intelligence to detect dyslexia in school children. The company has now raised €5.2 million to launch its service in the US market. The investment was led by Gabriel Urwitz, CEO of the Sw... |
| Mar 28, 2017 | Swedish developer of tiny heat sensors, Jondetech, raises €5.2 million | Swedish company Jondetech has raised €5.2 million for their heat sensors developed using nanotechnology. The investment comes from Pareto Securities.
Jondetech's new infrared sensor detects thermal radiation, and is said to be the world's t... |
| Feb 24, 2017 | Swedish storage rental platform 24 Storage raised €25 million to further digitize their service | Sweden's 24 Storage, a platform for finding storage units, just took in €25 million. Just over €5 million of the venture capital came from existing investors, while the rest is a loan from Collector Bank.
The money will be used to expand op... |
| Feb 20, 2017 | British ARM buys Swedish IoT company Mistbase | The British hardware giant ARM has acquired the Swedish company Mistbase, which develops digital wireless communications solutions for IoT. The purchase price of the deal was not disclosed.
Mistbase was founded in 2015. Its technology enabl... |
| Feb 15, 2017 | Swedish music startup Auddly takes in €2 million | Swedish music producing and sharing service Auddly has now raised €2 million. Among the investors are music producer Max Martin and Aviciis manager Ash Pour Nouri.
Auddly is a song project management hub. It’s aim is that there should be no... |
| Feb 14, 2017 | Pirate Bay Blockade Signals Copyright Industry’s Death Throes, ISP Boss Says | While in practical terms the impact may not be as pronounced as it would’ve been half a decade ago, yesterday a Court of Appeal in Sweden made a landmark decision.
After years of litigation by Universal Music, Sony Music, Warner Music, Nord... |
| Feb 1, 2017 | Swedish Telia buys public transit startup FältCom | Swedish company Telia has purchased FältCom, a Umeå-based startup. FältCom has been active in the Nordic market for online public transport. It is the market leader in Scandinavia for mobile platforms on buses, and all speed cameras in Swed... |
| Feb 1, 2017 | Swedish Storytel acquires audiobook publisher Kontentan | Swedish audiobook and e-book publisher Storytel has acquired Kontentan, a Swedish publisher of management audiobooks. The acquisition has been made through Storytel’s subsidiary Storyside.
The deal is reported to be part of Storytel’s focus... |
| Jan 30, 2017 | Swedish delivery startup Budbee raises €3 million | Swedish home delivery startup Budbee has raised €3 million in funding from investors, including H&M CEO Karl-Johan Persson, Sebastian Siemiatkowski and Paul Fischbein. Fischbein will join Budbee’s board.
“I myself am an entrepreneur and... |
| Jan 10, 2017 | iZettle raises $63M more at a $500M valuation to expand from mobile payments | The world of mobile payments continues to consolidate and mature, and today one of the leading players among European mobile payments startups has raised a significant round of money to help keep itself on top. iZettle, the Swedish company ... |
| Jan 2, 2017 | Scania launches venture capital fund | Henrik Henriksson, Scania’s President and CEO, says: “Through Scania Growth Capital, Scania is looking to invest in promising, innovative and entrepreneurial companies. Gaining insight and early access to business models, technology and ide... |
| Dec 28, 2016 | Oculus acquires eye-tracking startup The Eye Tribe | The direction you look could one day control your VR or mobile experience thanks to Facebook and Oculus’ latest buy, The Eye Tribe. Oculus confirms to me that this is an official acquisition.
The startup has developed a $99 eye tracking dev... |
| Dec 20, 2016 | Swedish app builder AppSpotr raises €1.1 million in IPO | Gothenburg-based app development platform AppSpotr has seen a 30 percent increase in valuation after its debut on the stock market on Monday.
Appspotr offers a cloud-based platform that allows companies, organizations or individuals to more... |
| Dec 19, 2016 | Swedish multi-touch systems provider FlatFrog secures €6.1 million | Swedish multi-touch systems provider FlatFrog has raised €6.1 million in a round led by investors Finvus Invest (Luxembourg) and Sunstone Capital (Denmark).
Launched in 2006, FlatFrog is a Lund-based provider of in-glass multi-touch perform... |
| Dec 5, 2016 |
Jane one of Sweden's biggest startup investors (in Swedish) | Photo by DI Digital
Jane on the list of Sweden's 52 most powerful tech investors
Interview with Jane in DI Digital
Website by Caroline Walerud. Photo credits: Mikael Andersson, Olle Svensson, Andreas von Gegerfelt, Caroline Walerud, Be... |
| Nov 24, 2016 | Swedish video conference firm ComPodium raises €1.5 million | Swedish firm ComPodium has raised €1.5 million from the Norrland Fund, the Centrecourt angel investor network and Bengt Lundgren, the former CEO of Cygate. The company will use the funds to expand its digital meeting service in the healthca... |
| Nov 22, 2016 | Pensionera raises €1.2 million for its robot retirement advisor | Swedish Pensionera launched its robot advisory service to provide personalized retirement planning advice in July 2016. Now the company has won the Optimizer Invest startup competition, and as a result, Pensionera founder Alexander Pärleros... |
| Nov 17, 2016 | Swedish fishing app Fishbrain enters partnership with Under Armour | Sweden’s Fishbrain has announced a new integration with Under Armour, enabling millions of anglers to now track and share their catches through Under Armour’s UA Record network.has announced a new integration with Under Armour, enabling mil... |
| Aug 23, 2016 |
STING, Swedbank and Jane Walerud find FinTech stars in STING Test Drive | Swedbank kastar sig in i jakten på nästa generations fintech-stjärnor. Tillsammans med affärsängeln Jane Walerud och acceleratorn Sting ska storbanken nu vaska fram guldkornen bland företagsidéerna.
Article in DI Digital
Website by Caro... |
| Jul 8, 2016 |
"With money comes responsibility" | “Med möjligheterna som pengar ger kommer det ett ansvar. Det är väldigt viktigt att man som entreprenör visar andra hur man gör”, säger hon.
Article in Swedish in Dagens Industri
Website by Caroline Walerud. Photo credits: Mikael Anders... |
| Jul 7, 2016 | Swedish wearable camera maker Narrative runs into financial trouble, forcing it to restructure | Narrative, a Sweden-based hardware startup that manufactures and sells clippable cameras, this morning announced that it has commenced a process to 'reorganise' the company as it ran into financial problems due mostly to poor planning.
The ... |
| Jun 3, 2016 | These were the 10 biggest European tech stories this week | Happy Friday! This week, Tech.eu tracked 7 technology M&A transactions and 65 funding deals (totalling €254 million) in Europe, Turkey and Israel.
Like every week, we listed every single one of them in our free weekly newsletter, along ... |
| Jun 3, 2016 | The 10 biggest European tech stories this week | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Here’s an overview of the 10 biggest European tech news items for this week:
1) The European Union came out in support of Airbnb, Uber ... |
| Jun 3, 2016 | The 10 biggest European tech stories this week | Here’s an overview of the 10 biggest European tech news items for this week:
1) The European Union came out in support of Airbnb, Uber and other sharing economy companies, encouraging member states not to ban their services except as a last... |
| May 27, 2016 | TrustBuddy Platform is Purchased by Northmill | The Trustbuddy bankruptcy saga has been a challenging affair for the entire peer to peer lending industry – not to mention the beleaguered investors who lost money in the process. Today it appears that Trustbuddy is closing the door on anot... |
| May 2, 2016 | Rocket Internet and Kinnevik drift further apart, as the German investor shuffles supervisory board | Following an extremely bad week for Rocket Internet (and consequently for Kinnevik, a major investor in the company and several of the e-commerce companies spawned by the Berlin-based incubator), the former is removing two representatives o... |
| Mar 11, 2016 | These were the 10 biggest European tech stories this week | 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!
This week, Tech.eu tracked 18 technology M&A ... |
| Mar 11, 2016 | These were the 10 biggest European tech stories this week | Happy Friday! This week, Tech.eu tracked 18 technology M&A transactions and 60 funding deals (totalling €263 million) in Europe and Israel.
Like every week, we listed every single one of them in our free weekly newsletter, along with in... |
| Mar 8, 2016 | Truecaller is phasing out Truedialer, will merge features into its flagship app | Last year we reported that Truecaller — the popular, smart phonebook app and startup — was looking to raise $100 million at a $1 billion valuation. But while there has been no development on that front, the startup has been on a consolidati... |
| Mar 7, 2016 | Paradox Interactive plans to parlay successful strategy-games biz into an IPO | One of gaming’s most beloved niche publishers wants to sell itself … to its fans and employees.
Paradox Interactive, the publisher responsible for critically acclaimed grand-strategy game releases like Crusader Kings II and Europa Universal... |
| Mar 7, 2016 | Paradox Interactive plans to parlay successful strategy-games biz into an IPO | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
One of gaming’s most beloved niche publishers wants to sell itself … to its fans and employees.
Paradox Interactive, the publisher resp... |
| Jan 13, 2016 | SoundCloud ties in Universal Music ahead of planned paid subscription service | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Just three days after reportedly raising $35 million (article in Swedish) in debt financing, audio-streaming service SoundCloud has ann... |
| Jan 11, 2016 | SoundCloud raises €32 million in debt funding with an option for additional loans | According to Swedish technology news site DiGITAL, Berlin-based SoundCloud has raised 300 million Swedish krona (a little more than €32 million, or about $35 million) in debt funding.
DiGITAL claims it has seen company filings from the Swed... |
| Jan 11, 2016 | Michelin acquires London-based online restaurant reservation firm Bookatable (Livebookings) | French tire company Michelin, also known for its leading travel, hotel and restaurant guides, has acquired London-based company Bookatable, which enables people to book restaurants online in the UK and other parts of Europe. The purchase pr... |
| Jan 11, 2016 | Report: SoundCloud Secures $35M In Debt Funding | SoundCloud has raised 300 million Swedish krona (the equivalent of around $35 million USD) in debt funding with Tennenbaum Capital Partners, according to Swedish news site Digital.
The report also indicates that SoundCloud has an option to ... |
| Jan 5, 2016 | Nordic VCs get creative: Creandum hires a data scientist as EQT brings a ‘Design Partner’ on board | Two noteworthy appointments at two of the Nordics’ most interesting investment firms today, as Sweden-based Creandum and the relatively new EQT Ventures (the venture arm of the leading private equity group in the Nordics) have both hired fo... |
| Jan 5, 2016 | Finnish cloud services company Fluido raises €3.3 million from Salesforce Ventures, Norvestia | Fluido, the Finnish cloud services consulting company, has raised €3.3 million in a financing round led by Norvestia Growth Equity with participation from Salesforce Ventures.
Salesforce Ventures, the American cloud behemoth’s corporate inv... |
| Dec 9, 2015 | Scope sells Skruvat to Mobivia – Dec 9, 2015 | Scope Growth III L.P (“Scope”), together with the founders of Skruvat Reservdelar AB (“Skruvat”), has sold Skruvat to French Mobivia Groupe S.A. (“Mobivia”), the European leader in multi-brand vehicle servicing and spare parts, with brands ... |
| Nov 23, 2015 | ‘Northern delivery robot Starship can take over the mail business’ | Starship, the startup company that got lots of press coverage when it revealed it wants to deliver packages with little robot buggies, is ready to challenge today’s distribution giants. It has been running experiments for over six months in... |
| Oct 28, 2015 | Klarna integrates popular payments app Swish | Swish will become an integral part of Klarna’s Checkout solution. As a result it will be possible to pay for ecommerce purchases with Swish. The app, which is owned by six Swedish banks, gets an update next month so it can be used for ecomm... |
| Sep 15, 2015 | Apple is quietly expanding its stealthy R&D center in Lund (Sweden) to work on ‘advanced mapping technology’: report | Approximately four years ago, Apple acquired a Swedish outfit called C3 Technologies, a highly regarded company that specialised in three-dimensional mapping technology, about a year before the American technology giant announced that it wa... |
| Aug 28, 2015 | The plot thickens: Toca Boca’s primary objective is an external investment – not a sale | Earlier this week came reports that Toca Boca, the Stockholm-based gaming studio, were set to be sold after hiring a US investment bank to find a buyer to acquire the company from current owners Bonnier.
We've since discovered that the US i... |
| Aug 26, 2015 | Swedish gaming studio Toca Boca is up for sale for up to $100 million by owner Bonnier: reports | Di Digital, the Swedish technology blog owned by Bonnier Media Group, are reporting that their parent company are set to sell Toca Boca, a Stockholm-based gaming studio that makes 'non-competitive' games aimed at children, following the rep... |
| Aug 26, 2015 | Google Ventures leads $6 million round in Stockholm-based VR gaming studio Resolution Games | Google Ventures has made their first European investment outside of the UK since they set up a European arm in July 2014, leading a $6 million round in Stockholm, Sweden-based VR gaming studio Resolution Games. Interestingly though, the inv... |
| Today in European Tech: Acast en route to a Stockholm IPO, big funding rounds for Bux, Ornikar, MatHem, and GO Sharing, and more | Hello!
Here's what happened today in European Tech. Deals
- Swedish-founded podcasting company Acast is reportedly closing in on a Stockholm IPO that would value it at around €500 million.
- An international investment fund based in East As... |
| Ikea’s using the iPhone’s AR kit to sell you even more furniture | One of the bigger announcements to come out of WWDC was Apple’s unveiling of ARKit. In one fell swoop, Apple dove head first into the world of augmented reality and gave developers the requisite frameworks to build incredibly engaging and r... |
| Today in European Tech: SoftBank invests in Norway's AutoStore at $7.7 billion valuation, AXA VP's new growth fund, and more | Hello!
Here's what happened today in European Tech. Deals
- Japan’s SoftBank has acquired a 40% minority stake in Norwegian robotics and software firm AutoStore for $2.8 billion. With the purchase, AutoStore now has a $7.7 billion market va... |