Edtech investment boomed during pandemic year 2020 and shows no signs of abating in 2021. In its recent edtech funding report, Brighteye Ventures found that European edtech venture capital surpassed $1 billion in the first half of this year, up from $711 million in all of 2020 — and it is on track to hit […]
The edtech sector was ripe for a revolution long before the global pandemic forced parents to become teachers and schools to go virtual. This accelerated switch to online learning also prompted investors to fling money at edtech startups, with the expectation that the education sector will be permanently changed. Education market researchers HolonIQ reported that […]
Neobanks and/or challenger banks have been popping up since the aftermath of the global financial crisis, and are steadily gaining ground on their old-school opponents, whilst attracting whopping amounts of venture capital. A KPMG report found global VC investment in fintech in 2020 totalled $42.3 billion, with big digital banks pulling off mega-rounds in the […]
Long one of Spain’s only two unicorns, ride-hailing startup Cabify is celebrating its 10th anniversary this month. After a rocky start in Madrid in 2011, the company launched operations in Mexico, Peru, and Chile just one year later, and is now also present in Colombia, Argentina, Ecuador and Uruguay. Cabify says it now has 33 […]
France’s tech sector has been on a tear for years now, even before French president Emmanuel Macron announced his ambition to transform the country into a “unicorn nation,” launching a bunch of tech business initiatives to foster home-grown startups and attract foreign ones. In its 2020 French Venture Capital Barometer, consultancy EY said that during […]
The Dutch-French e-scooter company Dott may not be as ubiquitous as the likes of Bolt and TIER, both of whom have hit the 100-city mark, however it is expanding with deliberate care, with an eye on long-term investments in cities. The three-year old company bagged €70 million in Series B funding in April to expand […]
Stockholm-based digital healthcare provider Kry, called Livi in the UK and France, raised €262 million in a Series D round in May, highlighting how investor interest in healthtech is not abating, even as coronavirus lockdowns lift and people can go back to their doctors. “The underlying megatrend was obviously there before the pandemic, and a […]