French travel tech startup Koala has closed a €1.6 million seed round led by London-based Insurtech Gateway, with participation from Playfair Capital, Techstars Ventures and private investors, including former CEOs of Air Malta and Brussels Airlines. The service proactively alerts travelers to any disruption (bad weather, strikes, etc.) and pays out instantly, “no questions asked”. […]
Synapse Medicine, French creator of a ‘medication intelligence platform’ dedicated to correct drug use, has raised $8 million in a funding round led by by the MACSF, a French insurance provider for healthcare professionals, with the support of XAnge, BNP Paribas, BPI and Nicolas Dessaigne, co-founder of Algolia. In a press release, the Bordeaux-based startup […]
Prisma, a German-American software startup that aim to “revolutionize how application developers work with databases”, has raised a $12 million Series A round led by Amplify Partners, a VC based in Menlo Park, California. The funding coincides with a new product launch. After more than a year of running preview and beta versions of the […]
BotsAndUs, a London-based startup that provides ‘full-stack robot systems for public spaces’, has closed a $6 million equity funding round led by Kindred Capital and Capnamic Ventures, with participation from angel investors from the UK and the US. The company was also awarded funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme as […]
Shipup, a Paris-based company helping online retailers with the ‘post-purchase’ customer experience, has raised €6 million from Elaia and the Smart Cities Fund, managed by Bpifrance through the Programme of Investment for the Future. With the new capital, the French company will open an office in New York City and focus on expansion throughout the […]
Laserhub, a Stuttgart-based startup that helps industrial clients order metal materials on demand, has closed a Series A financing round. The full amount was not disclosed. Munich’s Acton Capital led the round, with participation from previous investors Project A and Point Nine in Berlin. Laserhub will use the capital to develop new markets in Europe. […]
Belgian startup EMAsphere has raised €2.5 million, from Sambrinvest and Luxembourg’s Dedicated Venture Capital, to continue expanding its B2B SaaS platform, which collects a company’s financial data and customer information in one place. Co-CEO Didier Vankeerberghen says monthly recurring revenue has increased by 90 percent in the past year. That revenue comes from over 8,000 […]
