SearchSmartly, the smart match-making property search platform that provides hyper-personalised property searches in minutes, has just raised €1.46 million seed investment to fuel its mission to redefine the relocation experience. The seed funding round included proptech investors like Matt Cooper, founder of Carwow James Hind, serial proptech investor Antony Senny, Founders Factory and IFG.VC. Founded…
Delft-based Kitepower secures €3 million for its innovative airborne wind energy system
Delft-based Kitepower has secured €3 million for the further development of its innovative airborne wind energy systems. The investment comes from the energy innovation fund ENERGIIQ, Stichting ifund, and Windhandel Beheer, each investing €1 million. The Dutch startup will use the fresh capital to further develop and commercialise its innovative airborne wind energy system (AWES),…
€120 million deal: Barcelona-based ERP & accounting platform Holded just got acquired by Oslo-based Visma Group
The Scandinavian Visma Group has acquired Holded, the Barcelona-based startup behind the fastest-growing cloud ERP & accounting software in Spain. By joining the Visma family, as part of an impressive €120 million acquisition deal, Holded will benefit from Visma’s international experience to boost product development and consolidate its position as the leading cloud ERP provider…
“Micromobility gives more personal choice to people in the way that they move”: Interview with investor Per Brilioth, CEO at VNV Global
Transport-related issues are of utmost importance to cities around the world as they look for ways to get to carbon neutrality while improving their efficiency for their citizens. More than half of the world’s population now lives in cities, and projections indicate that urban areas will account for 60% of global population by 2030. Cities…
Fortino Capital closes €105 million fund for promising early-stage B2B software & tech companies across Europe
Fortino Capital Partners, a Benelux based venture capital and private equity investor in software and technology companies, announces the final closing of its third fund. Fortino Capital Venture II is a €105 million fund dedicated to promising early stage B2B software and technology companies across Europe with a focus on The Benelux, France and Germany….
Wellbeing startup onHand secures €1.6 million to make employees feel-good with volunteering app
onHand is one of world’s first on-demand volunteering apps, making employee volunteering as easy as ordering a takeaway. Called the ‘Uber for Volunteering’, the company is on a mission to make it simple for businesses to engage employees whilst also giving back to communities. Today the British startup announces a €1.6 million pre-A investment round…
Hybrid Work Series, Part 3: How can companies adjust to the new trend? (Interviews with CEOs)
The post-pandemic workplace is here. And it is increasingly becoming clear that hybrid working will take up a sizeable share of the work mode. A study done by McKinsey & Company to determine how remote working will persist after the pandemic revealed that about 20-25% of the workforces in advanced economies could work from home…
Berlin-based proptech startup Habyt acquires homefully and raises €20 million Series B
Berlin-based proptech startup Habyt has today announced closing both its third acquisition of 2021, and a Series B round of €20 million. Founded in 2017, Habyt is one of the leading European co-living providers, operating in 6 countries (Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Italy and Portugal), with 5000 units across 15 cities. Habyt’s mission is to…
Finland-based Contract Mill raises over €1 million to disrupt document automation business
Finnish startup Contract Mill has announced the successful closure of a funding round of over €1 million. The round was co-led by Swiss investment company Actium AG and Veenay Shah, founder of HighQ, together with multiple distinguished international investors from the UK and Sweden. The funding will be used to further expand its operations in…
Who controls your startup’s community? (Sponsored)
Jeff Bezos once famously said: “Your brand is what other people say about you when you’re not in the room.” Everybody has an intuitive understanding that the “brand” he’s talking about is fairly synonymous with “reputation,” but almost nobody talks about the room mentioned in this quote. If you’re following the analogy, the “room” is where…
Hybrid Work Series, Part 2: How will we organise work spaces? An interview with Max Verteletskyi, CEO of Spaceti
How should we view hybrid working from the perspective of space? Is it merely workers dividing their time between their homes and the offices that they used to occupy before the pandemic? Or does hybrid working also mean being able to work from an ecosystem of places (home, co-working space, cafés, company offices, etc.)? How…
UK femtech startup Hertility Health lands €4.8 million to revolutionise the world of hormone and reproductive health
Hertility Health, the new women’s health startup revolutionising the world of hormone and reproductive health, today announces the closing of a €4.8 million seed funding round led by LocalGlobe, Venrex, and some key angel investors including former CEO of Bupa, Evelyn Bourke, CEO of Nested and the unicorn company GoCardless, Matt Robinson. The funds will…
What does the future hold for business travel?
I could start this article off by telling you about how the coronavirus pandemic changed our world. But I’m not going to dwell on that. We all remember how difficult 2020 was. It’s not something we’re likely to forget soon. What I do want to focus on is the future—and it’s one that I see…
Berlin-based Remi raises €1.2 million to become the leading culture building platform for remote teams
Remi, the culture building platform for remote teams, announces a €1.2 million pre-seed financing round. The investment is led by European early-stage investor btov Partners, with several well-known European angel investors such as Eyeo-Founder Tim Schumacher, Honeypot Co-Founder Emma Tracey and Georgie Smallwood, as part of the Accel Starter programme. With this investment, the team…
15 Marketing Tools to Boost Your Startup’s Growth in 2021
No matter the industry, size, product, or service, all startups have one thing in common: They all want to grow! To make a business grow and scale takes a lot of hard work, dedication, and strategy. It’s no secret that marketing plays a key role when aiming for strong growth and success. Most startups already…
Oslo-based SNÖ Ventures launches €82 million fund for visionary Nordic entrepreneurs
SNÖ Ventures, an Oslo-based venture capital firm, has announced today the launch of a new fund targeting $100 million (around €82 million) to invest in early stage, high-growth Nordic tech companies with the potential to disrupt, create or capture large markets through transformative technology or solutions. SNÖ Ventures is led by Magne Uppman, Teodor Bjerrang,…
Pitch online at Oslo Innovation Week 2021 to win up to €20K for your startup (Sponsored)
Oslo Innovation Week (OIW) is an annual conference concentrating on connecting pioneering entrepreneurs, founders, investors, and business leaders. The event puts actions and inspiring ideas for bold and new innovation under a Nordic spotlight. This year’s edition will take place 27-30 September 2021 and will be a hybrid conference. Join the OIW 100 Pitches The…
Tallinn-based Change, a cryptocurrency investing platform for retail investors, closes €3.7 million crowdfund
Today Change, a cryptocurrency investing platform for retail investors, has closed a €3.7 million crowdfund from 50 private investors at a €175 million valuation. Change will use the funding to grow the team, further develop its platform and expand in European and Asian markets. The round closed as Change hit twin milestones of 85,000 verified…