#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...
Friday, April 9, 2021
Thursday, April 8, 2021
Butter is building an ‘all-in-one’ platform to run virtual workshops
#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...
Tuesday, April 6, 2021
Bob W, the ‘tech-driven’ hospitality provider, raises €10M in seed funding
#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...
Charles raises €6.4M seed to bring ‘conversational commerce’ to WhatsApp
#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...
Tuesday, March 30, 2021
MessageBird acquires 24sessions to bring video to its ‘omnichannel’ platform
#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...
Finch Capital acquires Wirecard Turkey
#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 ...
Everli, the European marketplace for online grocery shopping, bags $100M Series C
#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...
Thursday, March 25, 2021
Gorillas, the on-demand grocery delivery startup, raises $290M and ‘surpasses’ $1B valuation
#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 —...
Digital banking solutions provider Meniga closes additional €10M investment
#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...
Monday, March 22, 2021
Swedish fintech Zaver raises $5M to bring cardless payments and BNPL to ‘durables’ sector
#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...
Wednesday, March 17, 2021
Dija acquires Cambridge-based Genie to expand its 10 minute grocery service across UK
#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...
Saturday, March 6, 2021
Backed by Blossom, Creandum and Index, grocery delivery and dark store startup Dija launches in London
#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...
Thursday, March 4, 2021
Countingup closes £9.1M for its business current account with built-in accounting features
#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...
Tuesday, February 23, 2021
Katana raises $11M Series A to be the SaaS powering ‘manufacturing entrepreneurs’
#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...
Saturday, February 20, 2021
AccountsIQ scores €5.8M for its financial management software for multi-entity SMEs
#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...
Tuesday, February 16, 2021
After pausing the business, Fronted finally launches to offer loans to cover rent deposits
#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...
Friday, February 5, 2021
Twinco Capital scores €3M for its supply chain finance solution
#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...
Wednesday, February 3, 2021
Embedded finance startup Banxware raises €4M seed
#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...
Monday, February 1, 2021
Ben raises $2.5M seed to fix employee benefits for SMEs
#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...
Thursday, January 28, 2021
Levity is a ‘no-code’ AI tool to let anyone create workflow automations
#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 ...