Hello! Here’s what happened today in European Tech. Deals – Made.com, the UK-based online furniture retailer, has reportedly picked a trio of investment banks to work on a stock market flotation that would value it at up to £1 billion. – Desenio, a Swedish direct-to consumer company that sells wall art online, today started trading […]
Hello! Here’s what happened today in European Tech. Deals – Swedish fintech scale-up Klarna is looking to raise up $1 billion at a $31 billion valuation. – UK-based virtual events platform Hopin is reportedly nearing the end of a Series C fundraise in which it is looking to raise roughly $400 million at a pre-money […]
Hello! Here’s what happened today in European Tech. Deals – French VC firm Serena has launched a new fund, Serena III, bringing the company’s available capital for early-stage and Series A startups to more than €300 million. – Filed! A couple of German entrepreneurs led by HelloFresh co-founder and CEO Dominik Richter are teaming up […]
Hello! Here’s what happened today in European Tech. Deals – Star investor Lakestar’s SPAC rose as it started trading in Frankfurt after raising €275 million in Europe’s largest-ever listing of a blank-check company focused on technology acquisitions. – Berlin-based ultrafast grocery delivery startup Gorillas has reportedly inked its €100 million investment deal. – Israeli fintech […]
Happy Friday! This week, our research team tracked over 60 tech funding deals worth more than €950 million, and about 30 M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe, including Russia, Israel, and Turkey. As always, we are putting all of them together for you in a handy list sent in our roundup newsletter […]
Hello! Here’s what happened today in European Tech. Deals – Danish-British log management software company Humio has been acquired by cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike for a total of around $400 million. – Earlybird Digital East Fund — a fund associated with Germany’s Earlybird VC, but operating separately — has launched a €200 million successor fund. – […]
Hello! Here’s what happened today in European Tech. Deals – SoftBank-backed Swedish cloud communications company Sinch, has agreed to acquire Inteliquent, a large voice communications provider in the United States, for a total cash consideration of $1.14 billion. – Portugal-born OutSystems, a low-code app development service provider, has closed $150 million in new capital at […]