22 April 2021

French online driving startup Ornikar raises $120m

Founded: 2014 | HQ: FR | Sector: Edtech |Series C

Investment Raised: EUR 100M | Valuation: Remains Undisclosed | Investors: Bpifrance, Brighteye Ventures, Elaia, H14, Idinvest Partners, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts

News Link

22 April 2021

Copenhagen’s CluedIn raises $15 million in Series A round led by Dawn Capital

Founded: 2015 | HQ: DK | Sector: IT / Software |Series A

Investment Raised: USD 15M | Valuation: Remains Undisclosed | Investors: Dawn Capital, Nordic Makers, Collibra and Stijn Christiaens

News Link

22 April 2021

Audi spinoff Holoride collects $12M in Series A led by Terranet AB

Founded: 2018 | HQ: DE | Sector: Automotive | Series A

Investment Raised: EUR 10M | Valuation: EUR 20M | Investors: Skynet Trading, TerraNet

News Link

22 April 2021

Podcast recording platform Riverside.fm raises $9.5M

Founded: 2019 | HQ: IL | Sector: Media and Entertainment / Software |Series A

Investment Raised: USD 9.5M | Valuation: Remains Undisclosed | Investors: Alexander Köpping, Casey Neistat, Elad Gil, Guy Raz, Marques Brownlee, Seven Seven Six, Zeev Ventures

News Link

22 April 2021

Anavo Therapeutics Launches with EUR 20 Million Seed Financing to Create Industry-Leading Pipeline of Allosteric Phosphatase Modulators

Founded: 2020 | HQ: NL | Sector: Biotech |Seed

Investment Raised: EUR 20M | Valuation: Remains Undisclosed | Investors: Bioqube Ventures, INKEF Capital, M Ventures, Taiho Ventures

News Link

22 April 2021

Amsterdam’s BUX raises €67 million in a funding round led by Prosus Ventures and Tencent

Founded: 2014 | HQ: NL | Sector: FinTech |Series C

Investment Raised: EUR 67M | Valuation: Remains Undisclosed | Investors: ABN AMRO Ventures, Citius, Endeit Capital, HV Capital, Optiver, Prosus Ventures, Tencent, Velocity Capital Fintech Ventures

News Link

22 April 2021

PEP-Therapy raises €2.75 million in Series A financing to advance its lead candidate, PEP-010, into the clinic

Founded: 2014 | HQ: FR | Sector: Biotech |Series A

Investment Raised: EUR 2.75M | Valuation: Remains Undisclosed | Investors: Bernard Majoie, Business Angels des Grandes Ecoles, Doorway Capital, Italian Angels for Growth, Magna Capital Partners, Seventure Partners

News Link

22 April 2021

Nhost Raises $3M in Seed Funding

Founded: 2019 | HQ: SE | Sector: Developer Tools |Seed

Investment Raised: USD 3M | Valuation: Remains Undisclosed | Investors: Antler, Christian Bach, Mathias Biilmann Christensen, Nauta Capital, Scott Chacon, Tom Preston-Werner

News Link

22 April 2021

Stuttgart-based learning platform Knowunity raises €2 million seed funding

Founded: 2020 | HQ: DE | Sector: E-Learning, Edtech |Seed

Investment Raised: EUR 2M | Valuation: Remains Undisclosed | Investors: Chris Hitchen, Discovery Ventures, Inventures, Mario Götze, Project A Ventures, Saarbruecker 21, Tiny VC, Verena Pausder

News Link

21 April 2021

London-based, Bulgarian founded fintech Payhawk raises $20 million in Series A round

Founded: 2018 | HQ: UK | Sector: FinTech |Series A

Investment Raised: USD 20M | Valuation: Remains Undisclosed | Investors: Earlybird Venture Capital, QED Investors

News Link

21 April 2021

Dutch startup OneThird raises €1.5M to help reduce food waste globally; here’s how

Founded: 2018 | HQ: NL | Sector: IT |Seed

Investment Raised: EUR 1.5M | Valuation: Remains Undisclosed | Investors: OostNL, SHIFT Invest

News Link

21 April 2021

Today in European Tech: UiPath’s IPO, Trendyol nabs $330 million, BlaBlaCar raises $115 million, new EU rules on use of AI, and more

Founded: 2018 | HQ: BE | Sector: Delievery / Software |Series C

Investment Raised: USD 65M | Valuation: Remains Undisclosed | Investors: DST Global, Jan Hollez, Jelte Vrijhoef, Jerome Laredo, Newion, OMERS Ventures, Redpoint eventures, SmartFin, Zhong Xu

News Link

21 April 2021

Perception Point Raises $28M in Series B Funding

Founded: 2015 | HQ: IL | Sector: Cyber Security / IT |Series B

Investment Raised: USD 28M | Valuation: Remains Undisclosed | Investors: NGP Capital, Pitango Venture Capital, Red Dot Capital Partners, State of Mind Ventures

News Link

21 April 2021

Proximie Raises $38M in Series B Funding

Founded: 2016 | HQ: UK | Sector: Augmented Reality / Health Care |Series B

Investment Raised: USD 38M | Valuation: Remains Undisclosed | Investors: BECO Capital, Cedar Mundi Ventures, Eight Roads Ventures, F-Prime Capital, Global Ventures, Maverick Ventures, Questa Capital Management

News Link

21 April 2021

Baillie Gifford Backs Crypto With $100 Million in Blockchain.com

Founded: 2011 | HQ: UK | Sector: Cryptocurrency / FinTech |Series C

Investment Raised: USD 100M | Valuation: USD 5.2B (March 21) | Investors: Baillie Gifford

News Link

21 April 2021

OneSoil raises $5 million for its farm monitoring tech

Founded: 2017 | HQ: CH | Sector: AI / SaaS |Series A

Investment Raised: USD 5M | Valuation: Remains Undisclosed | Investors: Almaz Capital, PortfoLion Capital Partners

News Link

21 April 2021

Cyrebro raises $15M to expand its security operations platform

Founded: 2013 | HQ: IL | Sector: Cyber Security / Information Technology |Series B

Investment Raised: USD 15M | Valuation: Remains Undisclosed | Investors: Incapital, Mangrove Capital Partners, Mizrahi Tefahot Bank, PRYTEK

News Link

21 April 2021

This retail tech startup from London pockets £250K to focus on payments

Founded: 2019 | HQ: UK | Sector: Big Data / SaaS / Marketing / Payments |Pre-Seed

Investment Raised: GBP 250k | Valuation: Remains Undisclosed | Investors: SFC Capital

News Link

21 April 2021

Cquestr8 Raises $300K in Seed Funding

Founded: 2020 | HQ: UK | Sector: Clean Energy |Seed

Investment Raised: USD 300k | Valuation: Remains Undisclosed | Investors: Counteract

News Link

21 April 2021

Causal Raises $4.2M in Seed Funding

Founded: 2019 | HQ: UK | Sector: Software |Seed

Investment Raised: USD 4.2M | Valuation: Remains Undisclosed | Investors: Accel, Coatue, Naval Ravikant, Passion Capital, Varadh Jain, Verissimo Ventures

News Link

21 April 2021

Autonomous marine navigation startup Orca AI raises $13million Series A

Founded: 2018 | HQ: IL | Sector: AI |Series A

Investment Raised: USD 13M | Valuation: Remains Undisclosed | Investors: MizMaa Ventures, OCV, Playfair Capital

News Link

20 April 2021

European e-scooter and micromobility startup Dott raises $85 million

Founded: 2018 | HQ: NL | Sector: Shared Economy |Series B

Investment Raised: EUR 70M | Valuation: Remains Undisclosed | Investors: Aberdeen Standard Investments, EQT Ventures, Estari Group, Expon Capital, Felix Capital, FJ Labs, Invest-NL, McRock Capital, Prosus Ventures, Quadia, Sofina

News Link

20 April 2021

FintechOS raises €51m in mission to digitalise incumbent banks and insurers

Founded: 2018 | HQ: UK | Sector: AI / FinTech / IT / VC |Series B

Investment Raised: EUR 50M | Valuation: Remains Undisclosed | Investors: Draper Esprit, Earlybird Digital East (Fund I), Gapminder VC, LAUNCHub Ventures, OTB Ventures

News Link

20 April 2021

‘Bowl food’ startup Poke House closes $24M Series B led by Eulero Capital to expand in Europe

Founded: 2018 | HQ: IT | Sector: Food and Beverage |Series B

Investment Raised: EUR 20M | Valuation: Remains Undisclosed | Investors: Eulero Capital, FG2 Capital, Milano Investment Partners

News Link

20 April 2021

Grip Security raises $6M to improve SaaS security

Founded: 2021 | HQ: IL | Sector: Cyber Security / IT |Seed

Investment Raised: USD 6M | Valuation: Remains Undisclosed | Investors: Adi Sharabani, Andy Ellis, George Kurtz, Michael Sutton, Omkhar Arasaratnam, Sameer Sait, Sounil Yu, YL Ventures

News Link

20 April 2021

Sense Raises $50m Series B to Accelerate Launch of COVID-19 molecular test on its Veros™ Instrument-Free Product Platform

Founded: 2014 | HQ: UK | Sector: Health Care |Series B

Investment Raised: USD 50M | Valuation: Remains Undisclosed | Investors: Cambridge Innovation Capital, Earlybird Venture Capital, Jonathan Milner, Koch Disruptive Technologies, Mercia Asset Management

News Link

20 April 2021

Tel Aviv-based DataRails raises $18.5 million in Series A round

Founded: 2015 | HQ: IL | Sector: FinTech |Series A

Investment Raised: USD 18.5M | Valuation: Remains Undisclosed | Investors: Innovation Endeavors, Vertex Ventures Israel, Zeev Ventures

News Link

20 April 2021

Synendos Therapeutics Expands Series A to CHF 24 million with new investment

Founded: 2019 | HQ: CH | Sector: Health Care |Series A

Investment Raised: CHF 24M | Valuation: Remains Undisclosed | Investors: Ysios Capital

News Link

20 April 2021

AI video generation platform hooks $12.5 million Series A led by FirstMark

Founded: 2017 | HQ: UK | Sector: AI / Marketing / Automation |Series A

Investment Raised: USD 12.5M | Valuation: Remains Undisclosed | Investors: FirstMark

News Link

20 April 2021

HexagonFab secures £1.9m (USD 2.6m) seed funding to launch the Bolt

Founded: 2017 | HQ: UK | Sector: Biotech |Seed

Investment Raised: GBP 1.9M | Valuation: Remains Undisclosed | Investors: Cambridge Enterprise, New Ground Ventures, Parkwalk Advisors, R42 Group, Swiss Health Angels

News Link

20 April 2021

‘Pure’ nutritional supplements startup Feel closes $6.2M investment, led by Fuel Ventures

Founded: 2019 | HQ: UK | Sector: Health Care |Series A

Investment Raised: GBP 4.5M | Valuation: Remains Undisclosed | Investors: Fuel Ventures, Igor Ryabenkiy, Richard Longhurst, Sova VC, TMT Investments

News Link

20 April 2021

Poland-based Mindgram lands €1.9 million pre-seed funding to improve employee wellbeing across Europe

Founded: 2021 | HQ: PL | Sector: Health Care |Pre-Seed

Investment Raised: PLN 8.5M | Valuation: Remains Undisclosed | Investors: Market One Capital, Pamoja Capital Group

News Link

20 April 2021

Innoveo Raises $15M in Series A Funding

Founded: 2007 | HQ: CH | Sector: IT / Software |Series A

Investment Raised: USD 15M | Valuation: Remains Undisclosed | Investors: Remain Undisclosed

News Link

20 April 2021

PRESS RELEASE: NICO.LAB raises AU$13 million in Pre-IPO investment

Founded: 2014 | HQ: NL | Sector: AI / Health Care |Pre-IPO

Investment Raised: AUD 13M | Valuation: Remains Undisclosed | Investors: Canaccord Genuity Australia

News Link

19 April 2021

London-based fintech Zilch raises $80 million in Series B round

Founded: 2018 | HQ: UK | Sector: FinTech |Series B

Investment Raised: EUR 66.7M | Valuation: Remains Undisclosed | Investors: Gauss Ventures, M&F Fund

News Link

19 April 2021

Munich-based insurtech insureQ raises €5 million in seed round led by Nauta Capital

Founded: 2019 | HQ: DE | Sector: FinTech / InsurTech |Seed

Investment Raised: EUR 5M | Valuation: Remains Undisclosed | Investors: Flash Ventures, Global Founders Capital, Nauta Capital

News Link

19 April 2021

Healthtech startup Alan raises €185m and becomes a unicorn

Founded: 2016 | HQ: FR | Sector: Health Care |Series D

Investment Raised: EUR 185M | Valuation: EUR 1.4B | Investors: Coatue, Dragoneer Investment Group, EXOR N.V., H14, Index Ventures, Ribbit Capital, Temasek Holdings

News Link

19 April 2021

Digital Banking Challenger Starling Secures £50M in Capital from Goldman Sachs Growth Equity

Founded: 2014 | HQ: UK | Sector: FinTech |Series D

Investment Raised: GBP 50M | Valuation: Remains Undisclosed | Investors: Goldman Sachs

News Link

19 April 2021

Tel Aviv-based Affogata raises $5.5 million in seed round co-led by Mangrove Capital Partners and PICO Venture Partners

Founded: 2015 | HQ: IL | Sector: BI |Seed

Investment Raised: USD 5.5M | Valuation: Remains Undisclosed | Investors: Mangrove Capital Partners, Micha Kaufman, PICO Venture Partners, Wix Capital

News Link

19 April 2021

HalalBooking raises $5m in pre-Series B investment

Founded: 2019 | HQ: UK | Sector: Hospitality |Series B

Investment Raised: USD 5M | Valuation: Remains Undisclosed | Investors: British Business Bank

News Link

19 April 2021

Likeminded secures €3.5 million from Heartcore Capital and Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) Seed Fund

Founded: 2014 | HQ: DE | Sector: Health Care |Seed

Investment Raised: EUR 3.5M | Valuation: Remains Undisclosed | Investors: Christian Weiss, Hasso Plattner Ventures, Heartcore Capital

News Link