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| 13.05.2024 | Новый проект Даниэля Эка: полное сканирование тела | Глава Spotify стал одним из основателей нового стартапа Neko Health, цель которого — сделать сканирование всего тела с головы до ног частью ежегодного медицинского осмотра
В разговорах с коллегами, предпринимателями и даже музыкантами за по... |
| 30.04.2024 | Asian markets attract Swiss startups | Loriot, a Swiss IoT company providing software for scalable, distributed, resilient operation of LoRaWAN networks and end-to-end applications, has initiated a partnership with Jordan IoT, the licensed operator and provider of LPWAN IoT solu... |
| 17.04.2024 | Lakestar's $600M Investment in Europe's Tech Future | Lakestar, the investment firm, recently closed two funds totaling $600 million to fuel the growth of European startups in key sectors like AI, digitalization, healthcare, and fintech. These funds aim to strengthen Europe's innovation ecosys... |
| 15.04.2024 | Lakestar beats target for early-stage fund, falls short on growth vehicle | - |
| 12.04.2024 | +++ Lakestar +++ Autodoc +++ Verivox +++ Flaconi +++ Project A Studio +++ Greenfield +++ Investorensuche +++ | Was gibt’s Neues? In unserem #StartupTicker liefern wir eine kompakte Übersicht über die wichtigsten Startup-Nachrichten des Tages (Freitag, 12. April) #STARTUPTICKER
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| 12.04.2024 | Lakestar closes $600M Funds, aims to strengthen Europe's innovation ecosystem | This week, investment firm Lakestar closed its latest funds, Lakestar Early IV and Lakestar Growth II, for around $600 million to inject new capital into the next generation of European startups, bringing Lakestar's assets under management ... |
| 11.04.2024 | Lakestar raises $600 million |
Both new funds will focus their investments across geographies, with a focus on Europe in sectors such as AI, digitalisation, deep tech, healthcare, and fintech. The funds are aligned with Lakestar’s commitment to invest in technology adva... |
| 20.03.2024 | graswald.ai raises $3.3M for its 3D content creation platform | Today German 3D brand creation tool graswald.ai has raised $3.3 million with funding co-led by Lakestar and Supernode Global. graswald.ai transforms enterprise 3D content with a Figma or Canva for 3D platform that drastically enhances custo... |
| 05.03.2024 | +++ Christian Reber +++ Burnout +++ Tomorrow +++ Givve +++ Ananda Impact +++ Armedangels +++ | Was gibt’s Neues? In unserem #StartupTicker liefern wir eine kompakte Übersicht über die wichtigsten Startup-Nachrichten des Tages (Dienstag, 5. März) #STARTUPTICKER
Christian Reber – Burnout
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| 06.02.2024 | Hungarian-founded Colossyan raises＄22M in Series A round | Hungarian-founded Colossyan raises＄22M in Series A round
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Colossyan, a Hungarian-founded text-to-video star... |
| 30.01.2024 | Investment in quantum startups down by 50 percent but interest remains strong | A new report shows a 50 percent global drop in venture capital invested into quantum startups from $2.2 billion in 2022 to around $1.2 billion in 2023. The US saw an even bigger decline at 80 percent, while Europe, the Middle East and Afric... |
| 16.01.2024 | 5 Must-Attend Deep Tech Events in 2024 | Europe ~
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2023 was a pivotal year for deep tech. Currently, it stands out as one of the most resilient categories in venture capital with approximately $15 billion raised year-to-date in 2023 (nearly on the same level as a year befo... |
| 19.10.2023 | UK fintech startup Uncapped raises £200M in debt financing from Fortress Investment Group | Despite the ongoing dominance of artificial intelligence startups in the tech funding arena, investors are showing no signs of slowing down when it comes to backing promising and innovative fintech startups. In fact, just earlier this month... |
| 13.09.2023 | Swan secures $40 million to bring embedded banking to Europe | For the past few years, everybody working in fintech has been talking about embedded finance. It’s supposed to be the next revolution in financial services — bringing financial services to other products and services so that these services ... |
| 05.09.2023 | UK-based Mindgard tackles security for the AI space with £3M | UK-based deeptech AI security startup, Mindgard has raised £3 million in a seed funding round to accelerate growth as it launches its platform and expands operations in the UK. Investing in the round were IQ Capital and Lakestar.
A spin-out... |
| 18.07.2023 | Il mercato del Venture Capital a giugno 2023 | Nel secondo trimestre del 2023, sono stati investiti 81 miliardi di dollari di venture capital a livello globale, in calo dell’11% rispetto al primo trimestre.
Delle tre regioni, l’EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa) ha mostrato la magg... |
| 06.07.2023 | Daniel Ek’s Neko Health raises $65M for AI-driven preventative healthcare solutions | Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12 and learn how business leaders are getting ahead of the generative AI revolution. Learn More
Neko Health, a healthcare technology company co-founded by Hjalmar Nilsonne and Spotify founder ... |
| 05.07.2023 | Daniel Ek’s Neko Health bags €60M from Lakestar, Atomico, others | Translate this article into:
Stockholm-based Neko Health, a healthtech company that helps people stay healthy through preventive measures and early detection, announced on Wednesday that it has secured €60M in a Series A round of funding.
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| 05.07.2023 | Daniel Ek's Neko Health raises €60 million to expand its preventive health care solution across Europe | Swedish start-up Neko Health provides solutions for preventative health care using early detection methods. Its non-invasive medical scanning technology concept is designed to be a quick, convenient and affordable solution. It claims its of... |
| 15.06.2023 | Berlin's Nelly raises €15 million to fully digitise medical admin and payments | German start-up Nelly, the fintech for the patient facing medical sector, has raised a €15 million Series A funding round to 'accelerate its growth in Germany, develop additional products, deepen its fintech capabilities, as well as to expa... |
| 19.01.2023 | ClearSpace raises €26 million to cleanup space | |
| 17.11.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Muncher grabs $27m for ghost kitchens, Freight Farms lands $17.5m | Besides a major milestone for cultivated meat, this week’s news also includes new fundraising for Colombian ghost kitchen startup Muncher and a Series B round for vertical farming startup Freight Farms. Meanwhile, it’s more bad news for foo... |
| 08.11.2022 | Offering crème de la crème, fully digitised, design apartments, limehome plans expansion with €45 million raise | If you’ve ever splurged on a top-of-the-line airbnb stay, you’ll have a pretty good idea of what Munich-based limehome has on tap. But instead of just one or two in the listings, limehome’s entire catalogue is chock full of premium stays.
A... |
| 03.11.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Bayer backs high-protein chickpeas, Qwick lands $40m, vertical farms shut down | Bayer’s investment arm, Leaps by Bayer, invested in high-protein chickpeas startup NuCicer and hospitality staffing platform Qwick picked up $40 million. In agtech, Ostara closed a $70 million round for fertilizer from water treatment plant... |
| 03.11.2022 | Monitoring water stress levels from space, constellr raises $10 million | Freiburg-based Fraunhofer Institute spin-off constellr has raised $10 million in one of the largest Seed funding rounds in the space sector seen to date. The startup offers precise and plot-level water stress monitoring for the agricultural... |
| 12.10.2022 | PFR Ventures invests €50M in two international VC funds | PFR Ventures invests €50M in two international VC funds
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| 07.09.2022 | Can climate tech startups fix UK’s broken energy sector? Tesseract brings in $78 million to show how with ‘virtual’ solar panel | The energy industry is at breaking point. While prices in the U.K. are continuing to rise with the new Ofgem price cap set at £3,549, an 80% increase since April, customer ratings for energy companies are the lowest on record. At the same t... |
| 16.08.2022 | Modulate Secures $30 Million in Series A Funding to Reduce Online Toxicity | Modulate raises $30 Million Series A funding round “ToxMod is changing the way game developers attack toxic behavior in their communities and this funding is a real validation of our mission to make online communities safer."
CAMBRIDGE... |
| 23.06.2022 | Lakestar backs BotsAndUs with $13 million for its warehouse robots | In May of 2021, Fortune Business Insights published its 'Logistics Robots Market Size, Share & COVID-19 Impact Analysis' report that confirmed, much to no one's surprise that e-commerce was the main beneficiary of automation. In 2020, t... |
| 10.06.2022 | Graswald closes €1.25 million seed round led by Lakestar and HTGF to develop highly realistic and scalable 3D worlds for the metaverse | June 9, 2022 |
| 15.04.2022 | Wonder if VCs are reading your decks? Pitch is pitching in to analyse who's reading what and where | Startups sending pitch decks off to potential investors, or salespeople shooting their presentations over to customers hope these things are being opened and read, but often have no indication of whether this is in fact done or not.
Berlin-... |
| 13.04.2022 | EU-Startups Summit 2022: Europe’s Hottest Startup Event | Everyone startup-related is welcome at the EU-Startup Summit 2022 in Barcelona The date is May 12-13 2022, and the place is Palau de Congressos Catalunya in Barcelona Panel discussions, keynote speeches, and fireside chats from selected fou... |
| 11.04.2022 | Meet the 15 finalists of our big Pitch Competition at this year’s EU-Startups Summit! | On May 12-13 we’re going to host this year’s edition of the EU-Startups Summit in beautiful Barcelona! Alongside inspiring talks, unbeatable networking opportunities and insightful discussions, we also have the very exciting in-person retur... |
| 04.04.2022 | Spicing up the world of embedded finance, lemon.markets rakes in €15 million in Lakestar-led round | The increased demand for financial freedom, low interest rates and shifts in equity culture, are encouraging companies to incorporate brokerage services into their offering. Eventually, brokerage services will be inescapable, with every maj... |
| 14.03.2022 | Apply now for our big Pitch Competition at this year’s EU-Startups Summit – Application Deadline: March 16! | On May 12-13, we’re going to host this year’s edition of the EU-Startups Summit in beautiful Barcelona. Alongside inspiring talks, unbeatable networking opportunities and insightful discussions, we also have the very exciting in-person retu... |
| 18.02.2022 | Apply now to join the finals of our big Pitch Competition at the EU-Startups Summit on May 12-13 in Barcelona | On May 12-13, we’re going to host this year’s edition of the EU-Startups Summit in sunny Barcelona. We’ll have inspiring speakers like founders & CEOs of TravelPerk, ManoMano, CoachHub, Omio, Tiendeo, Criteo, Railsbank, Electronic Arts ... |
| 08.02.2022 | Venture capital firms are shoveling cash at companies building Web3. Here’s what comes next | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
If traditional private market investors needed a vote of confidence in Web3—the shorthand for a d... |
| 21.01.2022 | Deeptech startup banks $60m to deploy Quantum-as-a-Service technology | |
| 20.01.2022 | Terra Quantum raises $60M for its Quantum-as-a-Service platform | Terra Quantum, a Zurich, Switzerland-based startup that aims to build a Quantum-as-a-Service platform (including, eventually, its own proprietary quantum hardware), today announced that it has raised a $60 million Series A round led by Lake... |
| 02.12.2021 | Blue Horizon Appoints “Well-Renowned Venture Capitalist” Manu Gupta | Blue Horizon announced yesterday the onboarding of Manu Gupta, a leader in US and European venture capital, to its Board of Directors, as part of the company’s mission to accelerate the global transition to a new sustainable food system.
“M... |
| 02.11.2021 | EUROPEAN VENTURE CAPITAL FIRM NAUTA SAYS IT CLOSES OVERSUBSCRIBED FIFTH FUND AT 190 MLN EUROS | EUROPEAN VENTURE CAPITAL FIRM NAUTA SAYS IT CLOSES OVERSUBSCRIBED FIFTH FUND AT 190 MLN EUROS |
| 17.09.2021 | CIIG Capital Partners II : Announces Closing of Upsized $287,500,000 Initial Public Offering | September 17, 2021 | Source: CIIG Capital Partners II, Inc.
New York, NY, Sept. 17, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- CIIG Capital Partners II, Inc. (“CIIG II”), a blank check company formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, capital stock excha... |
| 15.09.2021 | CIIG Capital Partners II, Inc. Announces Pricing of Upsized $250,000,000 Initial Public Offering | New York, NY, Sept. 14, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- CIIG Capital Partners II, Inc. (“CIIG II”), a blank check company formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization or si... |
| 27.07.2021 | Aleph Alpha aims to ensure European AI digital sovereignty, raises €23 million | AI R&D and deployment firm Aleph Alpha has raised €23 million in a new funding round. The Heidelberg-based company produces large-scale, multilingual, AI models that are designed to serve any number of applications. The funding is expec... |
| 21.07.2021 | Open banking infrastructure provider Yapily raises $51 million | In a market that’s seemingly hotter than pan-fried catfish, London-based open banking infrastructure startup Yapily, has reeled in $51 million in a first close of a Series B funding round. The funding is slated to be put towards further dev... |
| 29.06.2021 | Global payments aggregator raises $12M to expand across Europe and beyond | In addition to DST Global, Imburse attracted its existing investors Addition capital, Lakestar, Guidewire Software, Post Finance, SixThirty Ventures and Backbone Ventures. Additionally, Accenture Ventures, Gramercy Ventures, and individual ... |
| 29.06.2021 | Global payments aggregator raises $12M to expand across Europe and beyond | |
| 17.06.2021 | Holded, participada por Nauta, Seedrocket4F, Lakestar, Elaia y BA, cierra su venta a la cotizada noruega Visma por más de €120 millones | 17/06/2021
HOLDED, PARTICIPADA POR NAUTA, SEEDROCKET 4FOUNDERS, LAKESTAR, ELAIA Y BUSINESS ANGELS, CIERRA SU VENTA A LA COTIZADA NORUEGA VISMA POR MÁS DE €120 MILLONES.
Holded ha cerrado su venta a la cotizada noruega especializada en sof... |
| 24.05.2021 | 1047 Games raises $6.5M to develop free-to-play shooter Splitgate | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
1047 Games has raised $6.5 million to for further development of its free-to-play, Portal-like shooter game Splitgate.
Based remotely a... |
| 24.05.2021 | 1047 Games raises $6.5M to develop free-to-play shooter Splitgate | Join gaming leaders, alongside GamesBeat and Facebook Gaming, for their 2nd Annual GamesBeat & Facebook Gaming Summit | GamesBeat: Into the Metaverse 2 this upcoming January 25-27, 2022. Learn more about the event.
1047 Games has raised... |
| 20.05.2021 | Berlin’s collaborative presentation platform Pitch raises $85 million in Series B funding | Berlin-based collaborative presentation platform Pitch has raised $85 million in a Series B round led by Lakestar and, yep you guessed it, Tiger Global. The round also saw participation from existing investors Index Ventures and Thrive Capi... |
| 12.04.2021 | Movia Robotics, Inc. Announces $5 Million Venture Capital Closing With ZFC Capital Partners II, L.P. | BRISTOL, Conn., April 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- MOVIA Robotics, Inc—a collaborative robotics company building systems and software to help children with autism and robots to work together—is pleased to announce its first closing in the $5 mi... |
| 11.03.2021 | BLACKROCK, INC.
CIIG Capital Partners II Files for $300 Million IPO Focusing on TMTS Industries | By Maria Armental
Peter Cuneo, who helped steer Marvel Entertainment from bankruptcy to a roughly $4 billion acquisition by Walt Disney Co., is back with another so-called blank-check company looking to invest in technology, media, telecomm... |
| 04.03.2021 | Fintech startup ClearGlass Analytics closes $3.6M for pension funds transparency platform | Fintech startup ClearGlass Analytics has closed a £2.6 million ($3.6 million) funding round for its platform, which aims to create greater transparency on fees in the long-term savings market, such as pensions and the wider asset management... |
| 23.02.2021 | Lakestar, Accel, Cherry Ventures back the €13.1M funding round of this Google Sheets, Microsoft Excel rival | Berlin-based Rows.com (previously Dashdash), a platform that provides spreadsheets for developing business tools without needing to code, has raised $16M (approx €13.1M) in its Series B round of funding.
With this development, Rows.com is a... |
| 19.02.2021 | Crypto wallet, exchange company Blockchain.com raises €98.8M; valuation reportedly surges to €2.37B | London-based Blockchain.com, a crypto wallet and exchange operator, has secured $120M (approx €98.8M) from various “macro investors”. These investors include Moore Strategic Ventures (Louis Bacon), Kyle Bass, Access Industries, Rovida Advis... |
| 02.02.2021 | Holded cierra una ronda de €15M liderada por Elaia. Acuden también los anteriores accionistas Lakestar, Nauta y Seedrocket 4Founders | 02/02/2021
HOLDED CIERRA UNA RONDA DE €15 MILLONES LIDERADA POR ELAIA. ACUDEN TAMBIÉN LOS ANTERIORES ACCIONISTAS LAKESTAR, NAUTA Y SEEDROCKET4FOUNDERS.
Holded ha cerrado una ronda de €15 millones liderada por la entidad de capital riesgo ... |
| 21.10.2020 | 10 Zurich-area investors on Switzerland’s 2020 startup outlook | European entrepreneurs who want to launch startups could do worse than Switzerland.
In a report analyzing Europe’s general economic health, cost of doing business, business environment and labor force quality, analysts looked for highly edu... |
| 27.04.2020 | Lakestar invests in Swiss quantum technology startup | While companies like IBM, Microsoft and Google are racing to build reliable quantum computers, the European quantum ecosystem is still at the beginning. To contribute to the European build-out, Terra Quantum is developing a hybrid quantum a... |
| 27.04.2020 | Lakestar invests in Swiss quantum technology startup | |
| 24.03.2020 | How to Build an App As Easy As To Order Pizza – Builder.ai | Builder.ai is a software building tool for those who have great ideas to fulfill but no programming skills.
The platform is an assembly line that uses human skills to create certain parts of the software and machine learning for everything ... |
| 26.02.2020 | Lakestar raises $735 million for investments in European start-ups | |
| 26.02.2020 | Lakestar raises $735 million for investments in European start-ups | Lakestar founded in 2012 by Klaus Hommels is one of the top players in the Venture Capital industry worldwide. The company has an impressive track record with investments in AirBnB, Spotify, Skype and GetYourGuide. Lakestar has alos investe... |
| 20.12.2019 | Glovo grabs €150M series E led by Mubadala for its ‘deliver everything’ app | 20/12/2019
Press Release
GLOVO GRABS €150M SERIES E LED BY MUBADALA FOR ITS ‘DELIVER EVERYTHING’ APP.
The Spanish on-demand delivery start-up reaches unicorn status after securing €150M in Series E funding, led by Mubadala.
The latest ro... |
| 19.12.2019 | Glovo cierra su 5ª ronda de €150M liderada por el fondo soberano Mubadala. Acuden inversores anteriores como Drake, Idinvest y Lakestar | 19/12/2019
GLOVO CIERRA SU QUINTA RONDA DE €150 MILLONES LIDERADA POR EL FONDO SOBERANO MUBADALA. ACUDEN INVERSORES ANTERIORES COMO DRAKE, IDINVEST Y LAKESTAR.
Glovo ha cerrado su quinta ronda de €150 millones liderada por Mubadala, el fo... |
| 19.12.2019 | Barcelona-based ‘deliver anything’ startup Glovo is now a unicorn, raises €150M Series E funding | Glovo, one of the world’s fastest-growing on-demand delivery players, today announced €150million ($167 million) in Series E funding. The latest round of investment is being led by Mubadala, with further support from previous investors Drak... |
| 12.11.2019 | SK Capital Partners Closes SKCP Catalyst Fund I, at $400M | SK Capital Partners, LP, a New York-based investment firm focused on the specialty materials, chemicals and pharmaceuticals sectors, closed the SKCP Catalyst Fund I, with limited partner capital commitments of $400m.
Fundraising for the fun... |
| 10.10.2019 | Series-B-Runde über 14 Millionen Franken für Avrios | |
| 11.09.2019 | Casafari cierra una ronda de €5 millones liderada por Lakestar y Round Hill Capital | 11/09/2019
Nota de prensa
CASAFARI CIERRA UNA RONDA DE €5 MILLONES LIDERADA POR LAKESTAR Y ROUND HILL CAPITAL.
La startup CASAFARI creada hace dos años en Palma de Mallorca y que utiliza inteligencia artificial para clasificar el mercado... |
| 06.08.2019 | Robert Bosch Venture Capital leads USD 17.5 million investment in Teralytics | |
| 01.05.2019 | Glovo cierra una ronda Serie D de €150M ($169M) liderada por Lakestar, acuden también Drake, Korelya Capital e Idinvest Partners | 01/05/2019
Nota de prensa
GLOVO CIERRA UNA RONDA SERIE D DE €150 MILLONES ($169 MILLONES) LIDERADA POR LAKESTAR, ACUDEN TAMBIÉN DRAKE, KORELYA CAPITAL E IDINVEST PARTNERS.
Glovo, una de las empresas más relevantes y con más crecimiento e... |
| 25.04.2019 | Holded secures a €6M Series A led by Lakestar to grow its Business Operating System | Holded, the Business Operating System for SMEs, has closed a €6M Series A round. The round was led by Lakestar, with existing early investors Nauta Capital and Seedrocket 4Founders Capital also contributing.
The fresh capital will accelerat... |
| 24.04.2019 | Holded cierra una ronda de €6 millones liderada por Lakestar, acuden también Nauta Capital y Seedrocket 4Founders | 24/04/2019
HOLDED CIERRA UNA RONDA DE €6 MILLONES LIDERADA POR LAKESTAR, ACUDEN TAMBIÉN NAUTA CAPITAL Y SEEDROCKET 4FOUNDERS.
Holded ha cerrado una ronda Serie A de €6 millones liderada por la entidad de capital riesgo (venture capital) L... |
| 15.04.2019 | 10 European VCs with a focus on B2C startups | Securing funding from a venture capital fund can be the boost many startups on the edge of success need. On the other hand, finding the right VC to go into business with is more tricky than many founders may think – because it’s crucial to ... |
| 08.11.2018 | Software-building Engineer.ai scores $29.5M as it expands to Europe, Japan, Southeast Asia | "Making software," the AI-powered, developer-assisted platform says is "as easy as ordering a pizza"
One of Europe’s largest Series A fundraisings, totaling $29.5 million, was announced this week by Engineer.ai, which bu... |
| 07.11.2018 | Jungle Ventures, Lakestar co-led $29.5m Series A in Engineer.ai | Premium
Singapore-based Jungle Ventures and European venture capital firm Lakestar have co-led a $29.5-million Series A round in human-assisted artificial intelligence platform Engineer.ai, said the startup in a statement on November 6.
Con... |
| 29.03.2017 | Bitcoin exchange ShapeShift Raises $10.4 Million in Series A | |
| 20.03.2017 | Flare Capital Leads $11.2M Series A for Aetion | Aetion, a leading healthcare technology company that provides real-world evidence (RWE) analytics solutions for payer/provider, biopharma and medical device customers, today announced that it has secured $11.2 million in Series A funding in... |
| 20.03.2017 | Aetion Raises $11.2 Million Series A | Aetion, a leading healthcare technology company that provides real-world evidence (RWE) analytics solutions for payer/provider, biopharma and medical device customers, today announced that it has secured $11.2 million in Series A funding in... |
| 24.01.2017 | SaaS analytics platform Seerene raises $14 million from Lakestar and Earlybird | Potsdam-based Seerene has raised $14 million in a Series A round led by Lakestar Capital Partners with participation from Earlybird Venture Capital.
Seerene, a SaaS analytics platform, plans to invest the new funds into the product and push... |
| 18.01.2017 | Nine Swiss change makers among the Forbes “30under30” Europe | |
| 13.12.2016 | Swedish-founded Lookback raises $6 million for its UX research platform | Lookback, a UX research platform, has raised $6 million in a round led by Spectrum 28 with participation from Index Ventures and Lakestar.
The company’s customers include Facebook, Netflix, and Dropbox. Its UX research platform allows compa... |
| 30.11.2016 | Online real estate service OpenDoor raises $210M Series D despite risky financing model | This afternoon, Norwest Venture Partners announced that it led a massive $210 million Series D investment round in OpenDoor. With the new capital, the startup is looking to expand the usage of its marketplace platform for buying and selling... |
| 12.01.2016 | Information Venture Partners II raises initial $72.5 mln as investors warm to fintech | - |
| 09.12.2015 | Daily funding roundup - December 9, 2015 | GoEuro raised $45M; Dose Media secured $25M; Rubius Therapeutics received $25M funding
eCurrency Mint (eCM), a Dublin, Ireland-based provider of technology that enables central banks to issue digital fiat currency, called eCurrency, raised ... |
| 24.11.2015 | Daily funding roundup - November 24, 2015 | Placester secured $27M; Shiftgig raised $22M; Fortscale announced $16M funding
Lenda, a first platform that allows homeowners to refinance their mortgage completely online, today announced the close of $2 million in seed funding led by Lake... |
| 13.10.2015 | Daily funding roundup - October 13, 2015 | EverString raised $65M; Audentes Therapeutics bagged $65M; SteelBrick received $48M
Predictive marketing company EverString has raised $65 million, in what is the largest round ever for an AI company. Lightspeed Venture Partners led the Com... |
| 12.10.2015 | Daily funding roundup - October 12, 2015 | Symphony raised $100M; Xpenditure closed $5.7M round; EverSport Media secured $4.2M
Gridle, a productivity platform for work, has raised a seed round of $100,000 led by Jyotsna Bapat from IIITBangalore through deal making platform LetsVentu... |
| 31.08.2015 | Axel Springer and ProSiebenSat.1 outed as anchor investors in Lakestar’s new €350 million fund | Lakestar, the VC firm started by super investor Klaus Hommels, recently announced its new €350 million fund, Lakestar II. Today, two German media giants, Axel Springer and ProSiebenSat.1 Media, revealed themselves to be ‘anchor investors’ i... |
| 31.08.2015 | Mit Springer und ProSieben zu 350 Millionen für Startups | |
| 25.08.2015 | Lakestar closes its second VC fund on €350m | European venture capital firm Lakestar has closed its oversubscribed second fund on €350m, making it the firm’s larg |
| 24.08.2015 | Lakestar announce Lakestar II, a new €350 million fund focused on early-stage investments in Europe | Today, Lakestar will announce their new fund, Lakestar II. Coming in at €350 million, the fund is one of the largest fund-raises from a European venture capital firm this year. To put its size into perspective, it comes in just behind Index... |
| 24.08.2015 | European VC firm Lakestar launches new $400M fund for local and U.S. startups | 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!
Europe’s Lakestar has announced a fresh €350 mill... |
| 24.08.2015 | Lakestar Closes Second Venture Capital Fund at €350M | European venture capital firm Lakestar closed its second fund at €350m (approx. $398m).
Lakestar II will focus on early stage investments, and on growth stage investments when startups are looking for the resources to grow and scale.
Led by... |
| 24.08.2015 | Daily funding roundup - August 24, 2015 | Mirantis announced $100M; PlanSource received $70M; CB Insights raised $1.15M
As anyone who writes about tech can tell you, getting information on private companies is not easy to get. Unlike with public companies, where the information is ... |
| 24.08.2015 | 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. European VC firm Lakestar launches new $400M fund for local and U.S. startups
Europe’s Lakestar has announced a fresh €350 m... |
| 24.08.2015 | Lakestar II: New €350m fund focusing on European and US-based startups | European venture capital firm Lakestar has announced it has closed on a new €350m ($398m) fund Lakestar II. Lakestar II is the largest fund to be raised by Lakestar, and one of the largest VC funds in Europe. It is early investor in Spotify... |
| 24.08.2015 | European VC firm Lakestar launches new $400M fund for local and U.S. startups | Europe’s Lakestar has announced a fresh €350 million ($400 million) fund, as the Guernsey-based venture capital (VC) firm looks to plow more cash into European and U.S. startups.
Founded and chaired by European VC Klaus Hommels, who was an ... |
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| 23.08.2015 | Lakestar Joins Europe’s Heavy-Hitter VCs With New $385M Fund | As the European startup scene has matured over the last few years, so too has the VC scene. But a handicap has always been the issue of follow-on funding. Gradually, however, the most successful firms have managed to raise new funds based o... |
