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| Jan 28, 2016 | London-based Tapdaq raises $6.5 million to ‘solve app discovery’ | London startup Tapdaq, which helps mobile application developers and publishers increase reach and revenue with a proprietary cross-promotion platform for apps, has raised $6.5 million in funding.
The company's CEO, Ted Nash, shared the new... |
| 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 5, 2016 | Here’s a great map/list of 300+ tech startup investors in Europe | The team over at TechStars Berlin (full disclosure: one of our co-founders used to be managing director of TechStars London) has one hell of a late Christmas gift for anyone who’s keeping track of the European technology investment scene.
T... |
| Dec 23, 2015 | A milestone for British peer-to-peer lending platform Funding Circle: £1 billion in business loans | Funding Circle co-founder and CEO Samir Desai was tweeting about this yesterday evening:
And now it's happened. Today, the London-based fintech startup effectively crossed the milestone, having lent more than £1 billion to British businesse... |
| Dec 15, 2015 | Cisco bets big on the French startup scene, invests $51 million in local VC firms Idinvest and Partech | John Chambers, the CEO executive chairman and former CEO of American multinational Cisco, was so impressed with the French startup scene that he committed first $100 million, later $200 million to making investments on the ground.
Cisco is ... |
| Nov 19, 2015 | Russian travel site OneTwoTrip raises $4 million in funding from Vostok New Ventures | OneTwoTrip, the Russian travel booking website operating in Russia, Europe and CIS, has secured $4 million in fresh funding from Vostok New Ventures. The deal was disclosed in the nine-months report of the Swedish fund.
Launched in 2011, th... |
| Nov 19, 2015 | That was quick: Velocity buys London-based restaurant booking app maker Uncover | Digital hospitality company Velocity has acquired Uncover, the UK-based startup behind an eponymous restaurant discovery and reservation app. Both companies are headquartered in London; terms of the acquisitions were not disclosed.
Velocity... |
| Nov 18, 2015 | Berlin’s Jobspotting uses big data to help employers find and hire the most relevant people | Berlin-based Jobspotting is today adding several nifty new features to its platform, which helps job seekers to discover relevant positions in 9 countries and counting.
Founded by a couple of ex-Googlers and backed by the Axel Springer Plug... |
| Nov 10, 2015 | Language learning platform Lingvist secures $8 million from Rakuten, Jaan Tallinn and others | Estonian-British startup Lingvist, which offers an online platform for speedy language learning, has raised $8 million in Series A funding, according to a report from Geenius (in Estonian).
The round was led by Japanese e-commerce and onlin... |
| Nov 5, 2015 | Wunderbar: Berlin startup relayr raises $11 million from Kleiner Perkins and others | Berlin IoT technology startup relayr, the company behind the nifty product prototyping and development tool Wunderbar, has raised $11 million in funding in a round led by renowned Silicon Valley investor Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, Germ... |
| Nov 3, 2015 | Pepper.com is quietly building a hot – and global – social commerce empire out of Berlin | Now very much on our radar: a Berlin outfit Pepper.com, which is billed as the largest deal community in the world.
Actually a growing collection of localised deal sites and communities supported by advertising, including HotUKDeals (UK), M... |
| Oct 27, 2015 | Pusher, a hidden London tech champion, is now sending 110 billion real-time messages a month | And now for some additional proof that you can build an impactful technology company out of Europe even when your target audience is basically ‘other developers’, and without raising tons of funding: Pusher, a small but growing London tech ... |
| Oct 25, 2015 | Israeli startup Everything.me shuts down, despite $35 million in funding and 15 million app installs | Surprising news out of the Startup Nation this morning: Everything.me, a promising Israeli startup, has abruptly shut down (sources: Geektime and The Marker, in Hebrew).
Everything.me built a nifty launcher for Android devices that adds con... |
| Oct 20, 2015 | Payleven strikes deal with American Express for exclusive ‘business bundle’ distribution partnership | Germany-based mobile point-of-sales (mPOS) startup payleven this morning announced that it has entered into a distribution partnership with card issuer American Express, the first of its kind in Europe.
American Express, which is notable an... |
| Oct 1, 2015 | Rocket Internet-backed Helpling lays off 20% of staff just three months after acquiring Hassle | Helpling, the on-demand cleaner marketplace backed by Rocket Internet and more than 60 million euros in venture capital, has laid off 20% of its workforce just three months after acquiring UK-based Hassle for €32 million, reports Gründersze... |
| Sep 16, 2015 | Swiss-German VC firm b-to-v Partners joins the fundraising craze with a €100 million+ third fund | And the cash keeps finding its way to Europe’s premier tech startup financiers. B-to-v Partners, the relatively unknown venture capital firm with feet on the ground in St. Gallen (Switzerland) and Berlin (Germany), has successfully closed a... |
| Sep 15, 2015 | Spanish startup Packlink nabs $12.6 million to bolster its online parcel-shipping platform | Spanish startup Packlink, which operates an online parcel-shipping platform, has closed a financing round totalling $12.6 million, with London-based investment firm Eight Roads Ventures (formerly known as Fidelity Growth Partners Europe) ta... |
| Sep 2, 2015 | Swedish WiFi sharing community Instabridge raises a $3 million round led by Balderton and MOOR | With over one million users connecting to 500,000 hotspots, Instabridge, the Stockholm-based WiFi sharing community has grown considerably over the last twelve months.
After raising a $1 million seed round from Creandum in October of last y... |
| Aug 18, 2015 | Klarna ‘insiders’ sell shares in secondary deal that values the Swedish payments firm at $2.25B | As it gears up to make a big push into the United States, Stockholm-based payments firm Klarna has been valued at $2.25 billion in a secondary transaction that has ‘company insiders’ selling $80 million worth of stock to VC firm Northzone, ... |
| Aug 14, 2015 | Rocket Internet is reportedly raising a €1 billion growth fund for late-stage investments | The word on the street is that Rocket Internet, the publicly-listed ‘Internet company builder’ out of Germany, is raising money for a growth fund with a target size of up to €1 billion.
German business publication WirtschaftsWoche (WiWo) re... |
| Aug 13, 2015 | Angry Birds 2 hits 30 million downloads in two weeks – and one third of those came from China | Finnish mobile gaming company Rovio may have another Angry Birds hit on its hands.
The 'sequel' to the popular game has been downloaded 30 million times since its release on 30 July, the company announced this morning on Twitter, with self-... |
| Aug 4, 2015 | Zeotap scores $6.4 million from heavy hitters to bolster its data monetisation platform for telcos | Zeotap, a Berlin startup that came out of 'company builder' HitFox Group, has secured $6.4 million in funding after raising an initial $1.3 million in November 2014.
The fresh cash comes from Cologne-based Capnamic Ventures and its French i... |
| Aug 4, 2015 | Mobile game studio Seriously raises $18 million in Series A funding | Finnish mobile games maker Seriously is today announcing that it has closed $18 million in Series A funding, bringing its total capital raised to a healthy $28 million.
The round was led by early Spotify investor Northzone, with Korea Inves... |
| Jul 29, 2015 | Tictail, Europe’s answer to Etsy and Shopify, secures $22 million in Series B funding | Tictail started three years ago in Stockholm, with the ambition to become the world’s most used and loved e-commerce platform, making it easy for small businesses to create an online store in mere minutes.
They now have 85,000 brands using ... |
| Jul 2, 2015 | A clean exit: Helpling acquires Hassle.com for €32 million to dominate on-demand cleaner space | Rocket Internet-backed Helpling has dropped 32 million euros on the acquisition of its fiercest competitor in the on-demand marketplace for local cleaners space, buying UK-based Hassle.com in a deal that involves only stock changing hands, ... |
| Jul 2, 2015 | Banking on Germany: After EyeEm and Number26, PayPal founder Peter Thiel heavily backs Kreditech | Peter Thiel, the co-founder of well-known companies such as PayPal and Palantir, and Facebook’s first ever outside investor, has backed yet another German tech company.
The iconic investor has put up ‘double-digit millions’ for a stake in f... |
| Jul 1, 2015 | Goodbye DFJ Esprit, hello Draper Esprit and Tim Draper’s increasing interest in European startups | DFJ Esprit, the London-based early-stage investment firm that was founded nearly a decade ago, has announced that it will henceforth go by the name Draper Esprit.
The firm also announced that iconic Silicon Valley investor Tim Draper will w... |
| Jun 3, 2015 | Are we having fund yet? New London VC Felix Capital gets $120m to back ‘digital lifestyle’ startups | There's no shortage of activity in the European VC landscape so close to summer break. In the space of a week, German entrepreneur Felix Petersen joined Faber Ventures as a partner, Berlin-based Point Nine Capital announced its new €55 mill... |
| Jun 3, 2015 | Point Nine Capital debuts its third, €55 million fund to back early-stage SaaS and marketplace startups | Berlin-based Point Nine Capital has firmly established itself as one of the go-to VC firms in Europe, particularly for SaaS business-driven startups, even though it was only established four years ago.
Today, the investment firm is announci... |
| Jun 2, 2015 | After successful crowdfunding campaign, AIRTAME introduces its wireless HDMI stick to the masses | After raising about $1.3 million in a successful Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign (and later raising roughly the same amount from investors directly), Copenhagen-based AIRTAME is today publicly launching its wireless HDMI stick (for enterpri... |
| Jun 1, 2015 | SoftBank increases its stake in Finnish mobile game maker Supercell to 73.2% | It was one of the largest European tech acquisitions of the year, and its repercussions are still being felt in Helsinki (and London, where it had a lot of investors): SoftBank's November 2013 acquisition of a 51% stake in mobile game studi... |
| Regional development, climate change and women in tech on radar as Ireland launches €90M fund for early-stage startups | The Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Leo Varadkar, and the Minister for Finance, Paschal Donohoe, have unveiled a new €90-million fund for Irish startups at Trinity College Dublin’s Tangent Ideas Workspace for stu... |