The Entrepreneurial Way with A.I.: Steve O'Hear
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Friday, April 9, 2021

TrueLayer raises $70M for its open banking platform

8:47 PM

#Tech TrueLayer, the London startup that offers a developer-friendly platform for companies, including other fintechs, to utilise open banking, is disclosing $70 million in new funding. The Series D round is led by new investor Addition. Existing i...

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Thursday, April 8, 2021

Butter is building an ‘all-in-one’ platform to run virtual workshops

8:47 PM

#Tech Butter, a startup registered in Denmark but operating fully remote, is building an “all-in-one” platform for planning and running virtual workshops. Offering video software and other features dedicated to workshopping, the idea is to pull peo...

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Tuesday, April 6, 2021

Bob W, the ‘tech-driven’ hospitality provider, raises €10M in seed funding

5:48 AM

#Tech Bob W, the self-described “tech-driven” hospitality provider that offers an alternative to traditional hotels and short-stay rentals, is disclosing €10 million in seed funding. Leading the round, which included a first tranche of €4 million l...

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Charles raises €6.4M seed to bring ‘conversational commerce’ to WhatsApp

3:47 AM

#Tech Charles, a Berlin-based startup that offers a “conversational-commerce” SaaS for businesses that want to sell on WhatsApp and other chat apps, has raised €6.4 million in funding. Led by Accel and HV Capital, the seed funding will be used by t...

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Tuesday, March 30, 2021

MessageBird acquires 24sessions to bring video to its ‘omnichannel’ platform

7:47 AM

#Tech MessageBird, the omnichannel cloud communications platform recently valued at $3 billion, is continuing to ramp up its M&A activity. Following last year’s acquisition of Pusher, a company that provides real-time web technologies, it is announ...

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Finch Capital acquires Wirecard Turkey

4:47 AM

#Tech Finch Capital, the early-stage fintech VC with a presence in London and Amsterdam, is acquiring Wirecard Turkey, a subsidiary of Wirecard, the disgraced fintech out of Germany. The acquisition, for which terms remain undisclosed and is still ...

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Everli, the European marketplace for online grocery shopping, bags $100M Series C

1:47 AM

#Tech Everli, the European marketplace for online grocery shopping that started in Italy but now also operates in Poland, Czech Republic and France, has raised a $100 million in Series C funding. The round is led by Verlinvest, with participation f...

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Thursday, March 25, 2021

Gorillas, the on-demand grocery delivery startup, raises $290M and ‘surpasses’ $1B valuation

8:47 PM

#Tech Gorillas, the Berlin-HQ’d startup that promises to let you order groceries and other “every day” items for delivery in as little as 10 minutes, has raised $290 million in Series B funding, at a valuation that surpasses $1 billion. The round —...

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Digital banking solutions provider Meniga closes additional €10M investment

4:47 AM

#Tech Meniga, the London fintech that provides digital banking technology to leading banks, has closed €10 million in additional funding. The round is led by Velocity Capital and Frumtak Ventures. Also participating are Industrifonden, the U.K. Gov...

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Monday, March 22, 2021

Swedish fintech Zaver raises $5M to bring cardless payments and BNPL to ‘durables’ sector

5:48 AM

#Tech Zaver, a Swedish fintech that enable merchants to accept cardless payments and offer buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) as an option, has raised $5 million in new funding. The company, which began life focused on P2P payments for marketplace transactio...

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Wednesday, March 17, 2021

Dija acquires Cambridge-based Genie to expand its 10 minute grocery service across UK

5:47 AM

#Tech Dija, the London-based grocery delivery startup backed by Blossom Capital, Creandum and Index Ventures, has acquired Cambridge, U.K.-based Genie, in what looks in part like an acqui-hire. The deal, for which terms remain undisclosed, will see...

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Saturday, March 6, 2021

Backed by Blossom, Creandum and Index, grocery delivery and dark store startup Dija launches in London

7:04 PM

#Tech Dija, the London-based grocery delivery startup, is officially launching today and confirming that it raised £20 million in seed funding in December — a round that we first reported was partially closed the previous month. Backing the company...

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Thursday, March 4, 2021

Countingup closes £9.1M for its business current account with built-in accounting features

3:24 AM

#Tech Countingup, the U.K. fintech offering a business current account with built-in accounting features, has closed £9.1 million in Series A investment. Leading the round is Framework Venture Partners, with participation from Gresham House Venture...

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Tuesday, February 23, 2021

Katana raises $11M Series A to be the SaaS powering ‘manufacturing entrepreneurs’

1:44 AM

#Tech Katana, an Estonian startup that has built manufacturing-specific enterprise resource planning (ERP) software for SMBs, has raised $11 million in Series A funding. Leading the round is European venture capital firm Atomico, with participation...

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Saturday, February 20, 2021

AccountsIQ scores €5.8M for its financial management software for multi-entity SMEs

7:04 PM

#Tech AccountsIQ, a financial management software (FMS) startup founded by a team of chartered accountants (when accountants want to be entrepreneurs, you know startups are a thing), has raised €5.8 million in funding. Backing the Dublin-based comp...

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Tuesday, February 16, 2021

After pausing the business, Fronted finally launches to offer loans to cover rent deposits

5:24 AM

#Tech Fronted, the London-based fintech aiming to make life easier for renters, including lending the cash needed for a deposit, has finally launched. In March, its founders took the decision to “hibernate” the nascent business after the first lock...

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Friday, February 5, 2021

Twinco Capital scores €3M for its supply chain finance solution

4:24 AM

#Tech Twinco Capital, a Madrid and Amsterdam-based startup making it easier to access supply chain finance, has raised €3 million in funding. Leading the round is Spanish VC fund Mundi Ventures, with participation from previous backer Finch Capital...

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Wednesday, February 3, 2021

Embedded finance startup Banxware raises €4M seed

5:39 AM

#Tech Embedded finance — the idea of offering financial products where customers are already congregating via white label solutions and APIs – isn’t an entirely new concept. In fact, in one form or another, such as point of sale credit, the concept...

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Monday, February 1, 2021

Ben raises $2.5M seed to fix employee benefits for SMEs

1:12 AM

#Tech Ben, a London-based employee benefits and rewards platform, has raised $2.5 million in funding. The seed round is led by Cherry Ventures, and Seedcamp. A number of angel investors with backgrounds in fintech and HR tech also participated. The...

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Thursday, January 28, 2021

Levity is a ‘no-code’ AI tool to let anyone create workflow automations

3:39 AM

#Tech Levity, which has been operating in stealth (until now), is the latest no-code company to throw its wares into the ring, having picked up $1.7M in pre-seed funding led by Gil Dibner’s Angular Ventures. The Berlin-based startup wants to bring ...

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