Lavanda, the UK rental platform enabling real-estate companies and landlords to lawfully profit from Airbnb-style rentals and homeshares, has raised $5 million to continue streamlining and legitimising the market. The Series A round was led by real-estate private equity firm and VC, Henley. After starting as a laundry sharing-economy company, Lavanda pivoted when it saw […]
LearnWorlds, a Greece and UK-based edtech company that allow trainers and businesses to launch and monetise their branded online schools and training centers, has closed a $1.1 million seed round led by Marathon Venture Capital. Panos Papadopoulos, a partner at Marathon Venture Capital, shares the reasoning behind the recent funding: “LearnWorlds is a rare breed of […]
Cognism, an end-to-end sales acceleration platform that is using patented AI technology to streamline prospecting for B2B sales teams has raised $10 million in Series B. The round was led by New York-based PeakSpan Capital. Its recent financing brings the startup’s total funding to over $16.5 million and will be used to expand to new […]
Adepto, a skills-based Total Talent Software as a Service (SaaS) platform has raised £2 million in funding from Conviction Investment Partners (CIP), Triple Point, and other investors. The round led by CIP brings the total amount raised by the startup to date to £4.7 million, with the capital to be used on Adepto’s global […]
Tallin, Estonia-based Xolo (formerly known as LeapIN) has secured $6.8 million for its ‘virtual company service’ that allows pro freelancers from across the globe to launch and manage part of their business. Originally founded in 2015 in the wake of Estonia’s launch of the much-publicised e-Residency program, Xolo’s Series A round of funding came from […]
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Not long after raising $100 million at a $1 billion+ valuation, Belgium/US-based data governance technology company Collibra is today announcing the acquisition of SQLdep, a Prague-based SaaS provider of automated data lineage. The deal will help Collibra customers uncover faster and deeper insights from their data, the company says. SQLdep and Collibra announced a partnership […]