UK-based Playter closes $55M round for its BNPL platform aimed at SMEs
Europe has no shortage of ‘buy now, pay later’ startups and a quick search is revealing. Berlin-based fintech startup Mondu has taken in €39.9...
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Samara is building tech to switch Spain’s households onto solar energy
Despite being one of the countries in Europe with the most hours of sunshine, Spain has extremely low levels of household solar installations....
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Rohlik bags $231M despite the market cooling on food delivery startups
The salad days are over for many startups in the online food delivery sector. Following a long period of cash injections, splashy and high profile...
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Spanish scale-ups club together to shift the tech policy agenda
Spain's scale-ups are banding together (as EsTech) to lobby lawmakers and press the economic case for their high-tech, high-growth business...
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Circular.io is putting a referral spin on tech recruitment
Demand for talent continues to make tech recruitment a hotbed of startup activity. To wit: Madrid-based startup Circular.io which is now expanding...
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Boutique hotel tech platform NUMA raises $45M growth financing round led by DN Capital
Based out of the U.S., Sonder is a tech-driven hospitality company. It’s raised $529.6 million, and, in the post-pandemic world where the...
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Domestika raises $110M on a $1.3B valuation to expand its learning community for creative types
The creative community has been a ripe target for startups building tools and services to serve their interests and needs as they transition from...
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Austria’s PlanRadar, which digitizes construction and real estate docs, raises $70M Series B
Back in March Vienna-based PlanRadar snapped up a €30 million Series A to digitize construction and real estate. The Austrian startup – a...
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Student media giant Chegg acquires language learning startup Busuu for $436M
Chegg, the NYSE listed student media learning platform is acquiring Busuu, the online language learning startup established in Europe in 2008, for...
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Cabify bolts on grocery deliveries in Spain with Lola Market tie-up
Spanish ride-hailing unicorn Cabify is getting into grocery deliveries as it looks to add another string to its multimodal mobility and urban utility...
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Glovo bags two grocery picking and delivery startups
More startup swapping in the food delivery space: Spain’s Glovo, an on-demand delivery platform which operates a network of dark stores focused...
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8 investors and founders highlight Valencia’s potential as a fintech and cybersecurity hub
While Madrid and Barcelona tend to attract the buzz when it comes to tech startups in Spain, Valencia is slowly and surely making a name for itself...
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ifeel, another well-being platform that blends self-care tools with 1-2-1 therapy, scores $6.6M
If the pandemic has been good for anything it’s been good for the therapy business and for startups targeting mental health, with VCs kept very...
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TaxDown banks ~$3M for tech that helps people get their taxes done
Madrid-based TaxDown, which automates income tax filing by calculating regional deductions due to users so they don’t have to navigate complex...
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Micromobility startup Helbiz to go public via a SPAC, and will expand into ghost kitchens
Micromobility startup Helbiz, which now operates across Europe and the USA, is merging with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) to become a...
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White label fintech platform Toqio secures $9.4M Seed led by Seaya and Speedinvest
The upside of the Open Banking regulations which have swept jurisdictions like the UK and the EU is that many more challenger banks have appeared....
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Fintech giant Klarna raises $639M at a $45.6B valuation amid ‘massive momentum’ in the US
Just over three months after its last funding round, European fintech giant Klarna is announcing today that it has raised another $639 million at a...
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