Renting Finders gets off with €700k to enhance its European growth
Renting Finders, a Madrid-based startup, has zoomed off with €700k in a new funding round. It designed a digital platform for car renting by making it more cost-effective and easier for users. The company, which houses the Iberian car rental marketplace, permits many people to hire vehicles. Car renting is becoming popular because of its […]
Fundrise, a real estate investing giant, breaks into venture capital
Fundrise is making a giant entry into a venture capital market to generate a new $1 billion growth equity fund to invest in late-stage tech startups. The company, which permits everyone to invest in real estate with just $10, announced the move today. According to the company, the new fund will be evergreen, have an […]
Headline raises €320 million to fund early-stage startups in Europe
Headline, the San Francisco and Berlin-based VC company, has raised its 7th European fund of €320 million to extend support to the continent’s startups from seed to Series A, paying attention to follow-on fundings. The firm plans to invest in 10 new start-ups yearly in Europe with a ticket size of €1-15 million. It focuses […]
French fintech FORMANCE raises $3.1 million for real-time payment flows
FORMANCE, a Paris-based fintech startup, has raised $3.1 million for real-time payment flows. The company, which designs low code solutions to create payment flows in real-time has tapped $3.1 million on a round. The round was co-headed by Hoxton Ventures and Frst and supported by Y Combinator and angel investors, including Don Hoang, Revolut’s former […]
Project A Ventures closes its fourth fund, garnering $375M, the biggest to date.
About a decade ago, a group of ex-Rocket Internet players launched a venture capital firm. The firm was dubbed Project A Ventures, and since its launch, it has invested in some of Europe’sEurope’s most well-known tech companies. Project A Ventures has invested in WorldRemit, Spryker, sennder, Trade Republic, Voi, and Kry. The Berlin-based VC recently closed its fourth funding round at $375 million, […]
Why Dutch startup Lalaland raises €2.1 million for inclusive fashion experience
Lalaland, a fashion tech startup focused on inclusive and sustainable fashion, has raised €2.1 million in the pre-Series-A funding round. The fashion e-commerce industry is an ever-growing sector. It’s currently worth more than $400 billion. Several photo shoots and runway shows are held annually to display new collections. These photoshoots cost fashion designers and retailers […]
CybSafe raises $28M Series B led by Evolution Equity Partners
CybSafe, a cybersecurity start-up based in the United Kingdom, has raised $28 million in Series B funding. The company’s platform uses behavioral and data science to provide staff with security awareness training. The company’s goal is to make employees more cybersecurity conscious by changing how they think about security and handle cyber risk. The SaaS […]
Paris-based nfinite gears up for 3D product visualization with $100 million
Online shopping has slowly integrated its way into human lives, especially after the pandemic. Many people became so accustomed to shopping online that they continued even when they didn’t have to. And although it improves the customer experience in terms of convenience and speed, it also prevents customers from seeing a product in all its […]
Broadcom acquires cloud service provider VMware for $61 billion
Earlier this week, a report on Reuters announced Broadcom Inc‘s plans to acquire multi-cloud service provider VMware Inc for $60 billion. The global chipmaker just made good on its plans. But this time, VMware was valued at $61 billion. VMware was bought in a cash-and-stock transaction to help Broadcom venture into the enterprise software space. […]
Jack Dorsey outlines Block’s bitcoin-centric future; Block is no longer just a payment firm.
On Wednesday, the Block executives, on its first investor day in five years, agreed that the company no longer wants to be seen as only a payment platform. The firm based in San Francisco held its investor day on Wednesday and made its case to Wall Street that its money app, Crypto, and music-streaming businesses […]