Emjoy, a Barcelona-based startup that aims to ’empower women on their journey to sexual happiness’, has announced the closing of a €1 million seed round from VC firm Nauta Capital. Coincidentally, this is also the firm where founder and CEO Andrea Oliver Garcia worked as an investment associate before starting Emjoy with Daniel Tamas in […]
Bitwala, a Berlin-based provider of crypto banking services, has raised €13 million in Series A funding from a group of international investors in a round led by Sony Financial Ventures/Global Brain and NKB Group. Half the round comes from prior backers Earlybird and coparion. Founded in 2015, Bitwala says it is currently the only provider […]
Amsterdam-born recruitment and HR platform Harver has raised $15 million in Series B financing led by Insight Partners. The recent investment, which brings the startup’s total funding to $35 million, will be used on digital automation of the volume candidate selection process for enterprise organisations. Since its launch in 2015, Harver’s pre-employment assessment platform digitally […]
British tech unicorn Deliveroo has acquired Scottish software design and development firm Cultivate, giving it a tech hub in Edinburgh – its first UK office outside of its London home base – as it continues to grow at a healthy pace. The food delivery service giant had worked with Cultivate in recent years, as the […]
London-based startup CyberSmart, which uses machine learning to assess and address cyber compliance and vulnerabilities in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), has secured £1.3 million in new financing led by deep-tech investor IQ Capital. This funding will allow CyberSmart to scale within the British market and invest in technical capability. Founded in 2017 by Jamie […]
The Swedish tech startup behind the Minut smart home alarm has raised $8 million in Series A funding, bringing its total amount raised so far to over $10 million. The investment round was led by KPN Ventures and sees Centrica as a new investor, alongside previous backers Karma Ventures, SOSV, and Nordic Makers. The new […]
Techstars, the worldwide network of startup accelerators and mentoring programs for entrepreneurs, has raised $42 million in a financing round led by SVB Financial Group, the holding company of Silicon Valley Bank, with additional participation from existing investors including Foundry Group. The capital will be used to accelerate Techstars’ growth in the areas of seed-stage […]