| Date | Title | Description |
| 28.01.2025 | New Online Bookmakers UK – Top New Betting Sites for January | - |
| 11.06.2021 | Smarkets Raises in Series B Funding | Smarkets, a London UK-based provider of a betting exchange and prediction market platform, raised in Series B funding.
The round was led by Susquehanna Growth Equity (SGE), , which joined existing investors Passion Capital and Deutsche Tele... |
| 10.06.2021 | Smarkets : raises Series B funding round to supercharge international and domestic growth | LONDON, June 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Smarkets, one of the world's largest betting exchange and prediction market platforms, has announced the closing of a significant minority investment from Susquehanna Growth Equity (SGE).
Having raised ... |
| 28.10.2020 | Four Ways To Help Improve Your Employees’ Mental Health | CEO & Founder of Smarkets, the company fusing sports betting, prediction markets and financial technology into a sleek exchange. |
| 19.11.2018 | Deliveroo rides to victory, winning Deloitte’s UK Fast 50 for the second year in a row | Deliveroo rides to victory, winning Deloitte’s UK Fast 50 for the second year in a row
19-11-2018
Deloitte has announced the winners of the 2018 UK Technology Fast 50 awards. The awards recognise and rank the 50 fastest-growing technology c... |
| 21.09.2016 | From virtual reality to socks to the “Netflix of sports” — these nine companies are changing football through technology and innovation | |
| 24.02.2013 | Startup Jobs of the Day – 24/02/2013 | – TVU Networks (read here)
– SimScale (read here)
– Living Social (read here)
– Cmune (read here)
– SocioCast (read here)
– Smarkets (read here)
– Pinterest (read here)
– Fortumo (read here)
– Drawbridge (read here)
– Mindflash (read here)
... |
| 22.02.2013 | Funding roundup - week ending 02/22/13 | Pinterest, Taboola, Euclid, Nexmo were among those that raised funds
Seed-stage
PayrollHero, a software company focused on time, attendance, scheduling and payroll, closed a $1 million seed round of funding from 500Startups, Benjamin Joffe,... |
| 21.02.2013 | Smarkets Raises $2.3M in Funding | Smarkets, a London, UK-based social provider of a platform to bet on sport, TV shows and politics, raised $2.3m in funding.
Backers included T-Venture, and existing investor Passion Capital.
The company intends to use the funding to expandi... |
| 21.02.2013 | Deutsche Telekom’s T-Venture Takes A Punt On P2P Betting Exchange Smarkets, Leads $2.3M Funding Round | Smarkets, the UK-based peer-to-peer betting exchange, has raised a fresh $2.3 million round of funding led by Deutsche Telekom’s T-Venture, along with existing backer Passion Capital. This brings the London startup’s total funding to $3.3m.... |
| 13.05.2011 | Smarkets raises a $1 million funding round led by Passion Capital | Smarkets, the London-based social gambling startup, is on something of a roll. Today it has closed a $1 million funding round led by Passion Capital, Stefan Glaenzer, Alex Zubillaga, Tom Hulme and others. The aim now is to build out the pla... |
| 05.04.2011 | TechCrunch Europe and The Telegraph release the Startup100 | TechCrunch Europe occasionally partners with other media outlets in Europe in order to support the European ecosystem. Last December we agreed to link up with the London Telegraph newspaper, which planned to put some time and resources into... |
| 28.03.2011 | Passion Capital emerges from White Bear Yard with $60 million fund to seed startups | A new early stage investment firm is de-cloaking in London today. Three prominent Angel investors on the tech scene in London – Stefan Glaenzer, Eileen Burbidge and Robert Dighero – have been operating out of their White Bear Yard base in C... |
| 25.10.2010 | With Betfair's pending IPO, Smarkets sees £1m traded on its social 'betting exchange' | Smarkets, the London-based social gambling startup, has announced that it’s seen over £1 million traded on its ‘betting exchange’ since it publicly launched in February. The site, which competes with the likes of Betfair and to some degree ... |
| 22.07.2010 | Betable secures $3 million to become the Twitter for betting | Betable, where users can literally place a bet on anything and have their friends bet with them, has secured a $3 million first time funding led by Atomico, the venture fund set up by former Skype founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis. ... |
| 11.06.2010 | 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa: The Ultimate Guide To Digital Delight | Today’s the big day. TechCrunch turns five years old. And oh, there’s a huge football – no, not ‘soccer’ – event kicking off in South Africa too.
Many of you will be missing the opening match(es) while you’re out celebrating our birthday an... |
| 20.04.2010 | @GeeknRolla: Advice for budding start-ups: funding, staffing and getting noticed | You’ve got your idea, you’ve assembled a team and set your goals. All you need now is some funding. Easy, right? Not quite. Running a start-up is hard and attracting the right sort of funding is even harder.
One man who could help you is Ja... |
| 11.03.2010 | Fits.me wins startup prize at Plugg | Fits.me, a virtual fitting room for internet clothing retailers based on robots (yes really) has won the European startup competition in Brussels, Plugg.
It’s actually even cooler than it sounds. By creating robotic shape-shifting mannequin... |
| 01.03.2010 | The 20 European startups that will need to woo us at Plugg 2010 | Plugg, the annual conference organised by my TechCrunch colleague Robin Wauters, is due for next week on Thursday (11 March) in Brussels, Belgium. I’ll be there along with other European tech industry pundits, bloggers, venture capitalists ... |
| 24.02.2010 | Smarkets launches its social assault on the betting world | Smarkets, a startup which launched into private beta soon after presenting at our annual GeeknRolla event last year, has today launched publically.
Smarkets is a ‘social betting exchange’ which is launching initially with football/soccer be... |
| 18.12.2009 | Running a startup in London? Check out White Bear Yard | 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!
At the Le Web conference in Paris last week, ther... |
| 18.12.2009 | Running a startup in London? Check out White Bear Yard | At the Le Web conference in Paris last week, there was a debate about whether a bright moment for tech startups in London had passed. The Bebo and Last.fm acquisitions happened almost two years ago, and several of the startups from the “Sil... |
| 27.04.2009 | Smarkets raises second round for launch of social betting service | Fresh from their pitch at the TechCrunch Europe Geek ‘n Rolla event last week, UK social gambling startup Smarkets has completed a second round fund raising of £145k ($210k), exceeding the first round fund raising total of £100k in May 2008... |
| 20.04.2009 | GeeknRolla – The Agenda for the day | Agenda: Geek’nRolla – Tech Startups Rock!
London – April 21, 2009
Geek’nRolla is sponsored by Viadeo one of the largest professional social networks in the world, and supported by UK Trade and Investment, as well as NESTA, the National Endo... |
| 23.09.2008 | 21 UK digital firms hit NYC last week – no wonder there was trouble | Earlier this year 20 UK startups went to Silicon Valley to network with the tech scene. The government-backed trip was called Webmission. Last week 21 UK companies were over in New York on the UK Trade & Investment’s “Digital Mission“, ... |
| 19.06.2008 | Smarkets raises £100k seed round for 'simple' gambling startup | Smarkets, a London-based pre-launch betting exchange focusing on making betting simpler, has raised $200k with a convertible note from five private investors. This will be used for product development, buying a gambling license from Malta (... |
