Hello! We weren’t able to post a daily round-up yesterday due to planning issues, so here’s two days’ worth of European tech news goodness, prepared just for you: Deals – A Paris-based team has a dream for Beam: to turn it into a new, unique way to browse the Web and collect and store knowledge […]
Hello! Here is what happened today in European tech: Deals – Dublin-based LearnUpon, which offers e-learning solutions to corporates to use for development and training, has raised $56 million from a single investor, Summit Partners. – The rapid rise in the share price of Germany’s TeamViewer has apparently inspired its major shareholder to make cash. […]
Hello! Here is what happened today in European tech: Deals – Israel-based mobile games company Playtika has submitted a confidential filing for an IPO on Wall Street. The company said it had not yet decided on the size of the offering but Reuters reports that Playtika will try to raise $1 billion at a company […]
Hello! Here is what happened today in European tech: Deals – Israeli insurance industry software solutions provider Sapiens announced today the start of a proposed underwritten public offering of $100 million of its common shares. – Luxembourg-based Brighteye Ventures, which claims to be Europe’s first and largest edtech VC, has announced the $54 million first […]
Hello! Here is what happened today in European tech: Deals – German business transformation software maker Celonis has acquired Czech online automation startup Integromat. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Celonis co-founder and CEO Alexander Rinke said the deal was over $100 million. – Israeli AI-based machine monitoring solution provider Augury today […]
Hello! Here is what happened today in European tech: Deals – Banking on edtech: Norwegian user-generated gamified e-learning startup Kahoot! — which has clocked 1.3 billion “participating players” since launching in 2013 — has picked up $215 million from SoftBank in a private placement. – Spend it wisely: Spendesk, a Paris-based spend management platform for […]
Hello! Here is what happened today in European tech: Deals – Shares in Polish e-commerce group Allegro shot up more than 50% on their trading debut, giving the company a market value of about $17.6 billion in Europe’s biggest IPO so far this year. – Denmark’s Trustpilot, one of the world’s leading online business review […]