Future Hamburg Award winners are going to present their business ideas at the World Congress for Intelligent Transport System (ITS) in Hamburg. The startups Breeze Technologies and Infinite Mobility were honoured this summer with Hamburg’s international startup award. The impact startups from Norway and Germany impressed the Future Hamburg Award jury of experts with their…
Stockholm-based TrusTrace closes €5.17 million to create more sustainable, transparent supply chains for global brands
TrusTrace, a Stockholm-based startup which created a market-leading platform for supply chain transparency and product traceability within the fashion, food and retail industries, today announces a €5.17 million Series A funding round led by Industrifonden and Fairpoint Capital, together with previous investors BackingMinds, and with support from Fashion for Good. The growth capital will be…
Sisters launch financial education app, fueled by a €295k pre-seed round, to close gender money gap
Your Juno, a financial education platform for women and non-binary people, today launches its app on the App Store. The financial education startup, which was built during the pandemic by two sisters Alexia and Margot de Broglie alongside a team of Millenial and Gen-Z women, aims to close the gender gap in financial literacy. Founded…
London-based Hibob raises about €130 million additional funding to help midsize businesses modernize HR
Hibob, the company behind ‘bob’, the HR platform that is changing the work experience for fast-growing, mid-sized businesses and their employees, just raised about €130 million in Series C funding. The round was spearheaded by General Atlantic, with participation from existing investors including Bessemer Venture Partners, Battery Ventures, Eight Roads, Entrée Capital, and others. This…
Paris-based Stage11 raised €5 million to reimagine music for the metaverse
Immersive music experience startup Stage11 just closed a €5 million seed round led by Otium Capital, a European venture capital fund, backed up by the Stage11 founder and CEO, Jonathan Belolo. Founded in 2020, Stage11 has begun its journey to reimagine music for the metaverse and will use the fresh capital to onboard strategic hires,…
RatedPower scores €5.2 million to boost the digitalization of the solar industry and become the SaaS suite of renewables
RatedPower, a SaaS startup developing cloud-based solutions to help companies discover smarter ways to maximize the potential of solar photovoltaic, announced today that it has raised €5.2 million in Series A funding. The financing round was led by Seaya Ventures, the European VC firm behind success stories like Glovo, Wallbox and Cabify, with additional participation…
London-based insurtech startup Humn secures €11.9 million to expand with its data-driven fleet insurance across Europe
London-based insurtech startup Humn has just raised €11.9 million in Series A funding led by BXR Group and Shell Ventures as well as Hambro Perks Leaders Fund and Woodside Holdings. With the fresh capital, Humn aims to further develop its unique insurance data capabilities and expand the commercial functions of the business, as well as…
Berlin-based mental health startup ahead raises €1.12 million to help you master your emotions
The Berlin-based startup ahead, which set out to help you master your emotions, has today emerged from stealth mode and announced a €1.12 million pre-seed funding round for its emotional intelligence training app. The launch of ahead is backed by lead investor Speedinvest, with participation from prominent US and European business angels – including TinyVC’s Philipp Moehring;…
Swedish SaaS scale-up Funnel raises €57.1 million additional funding – ahead of IPO on Nasdaq Stockholm
SaaS scale-up Funnel, a leading European Data Platform for Marketing, has closed a Pre-IPO investment of €57.1 million of primary capital to fund the continued rapid expansion of the business. The funding round has been led by The Fourth Swedish National Pension Fund (AP4) and Stena Sessan, with participation from existing investors, including Balderton Capital,…
London-based Vegan food delivery startup Planty secures €770k to fuel its growth
The London-based Vegan food delivery startup Planty has recently raised €770,000 from existing investor Veg Capital as well as Kale United, prominent angel investors and through crowdfunding. We already reported about their first €180K in seed funding in September of 2020. Founded in 2019, Planty is a social venture – launched by Alexander Sheehan-Dare, Joseph…
Dublin-based carbon footprint tracking startup CarbonSpace raises €900k seed funding to expand across the EU and the US
The Dublin-based startup CarbonSpace just closed a €900k seed round which has been led by The Yield Lab Europe with Rockstart, the global accelerator-VC, as co-investor. CarbonSpace was founded in 2020 and plans to use the funding to scale its business in the EU and the US with focus on food and forestry supply chains….
Urban sustainability technology fund 2150 aims to invest €268 million to reshape the urban environment
2150, the Urban Sustainability Technology Fund, today announced the final close of its oversubscribed flagship fund at €268 million. The fresh capital comes from new investors including Credit Suisse, the Norwegian sovereign climate investment company Nysnø, as well as the BMW Foundation and Woven Capital, the investment arm of Toyota’s Woven Planet Group. This final…
Munich-based HR startup Personio raises €233.4 million additional funding at €5.45 billion valuation
Personio, Europe’s leading HR software company for small and mid-sized businesses, today announced People Workflow Automation, a new category of software. SMEs will now be able to transform manual and fragmented people processes into automated workflows that span across the entire organization and all its applications, removing painful delays and helping to realize opportunities. Tied…
Earlybird UNI-X Fund of €75 million to help more European pre-seed and very early-seed innovations succeed
Earlybird’s new UNI-X Fund of €75 million aims to support promising, cutting-edge ideas in Europe succeed commercially. The new fund targets attractive pre-seed and early-seed investments and especially spin-offs from tech academia. The Earlybird UNI-X Fund will financially support and accompany super early startups to enable the build-up of entrepreneurial teams, development of their business…
Lisbon-based AI startup YData secures €2.33 million to fast-track expansion across Europe and the US
YData, the Lisbon-based startup that created the first data preparation platform to accelerate the development of AI solutions, has successfully closed a Seed funding round worth €2.33 million to fast-track its expansion across Europe and North America. The funding round was led by Flying Fish Partners, a US fund that specializes in AI and whose…
Berlin-based Green Fusion secures €225K pre-seed funding for its cloud-based energy management solution
The Berlin-based energy management startup Green Fusion just secured €225K in pre-seed funding and is now expanding its team to focus on the further development of its existing product. The fresh capital is coming from High Rise Ventures, a Berlin-based investor with a focus on proptechech. In addition, Vireo Ventures, an investor network of industry…
The 5 invisible lies that are holding you back in life and business (Sponsored)
As I coach leaders and changemakers from different industries, I have found certain lies (or beliefs & ideas) that hold people back. I call them invisible as they are often held as “truth” or “the way things are” by people. In my own life, I can see all five of these lies playing a part and…
Weekly VC Overview: All European startup funding rounds we tracked this week (October 4-8)
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