Deal of the Week
Each week our analysts go through the list of recently announced deals and select the most outstanding one to be awarded “Deal of the Week”.
The selection criteria are focused on the “whole picture” of the announced deal, such as raised investment, type of investment round, investors and further perspective of company development.
Awarded Deal Announcements in 2021
Calendar Week #41
Elliptic raises USD 60M to accelerate safe adoption of cryptoassets by mainstream financial markets
Founded: 2013 | HQ: UK | Sector: FinTech |Series C
Investment Raised: USD 60M | Valuation: Remains Undisclosed | Investors: Wells Fargo Strategic Capital, Softbank Vision Fund, SignalFire, SBI Group, Paladin Capital Group, Octopus Ventures, Evolution Equity Partners, Digital Currency Group, Albion VC
Calendar Week #40
Founded: 2019 | HQ: US | Sector: Biotech | Series A
Investment Raised: USD 500M | Valuation: Unknown | Investors: ARCH Venture Partners, SoftBank, Waycross Ventures, Surveyor Capital, re.Mind Capital, Polaris Partners, Newpath Management, Mubadala Capital | Ventures US ,Logos Capital, Invus, F-Prime Capital, Catalio Capital Management, ARCH Venture Partners, Altitude Life Science Ventures, Alexandria Venture Investments
Calendar Week #39
1NCE raises USD 50 M for global expansion led by investors including SoftBank and Deutsche Telekom
Founded: 2017 | HQ: DE | Sector: Telecommunications | Unknown
Investment Raised: USD 50M | Valuation: Unknown | Investors: SoftBank, Deutsche Telekom
Calendar Week #38
Fantasy football platform Sorare raises $680 million
Founded: 2018 | HQ: FR | Sector: Fantasy Sports |Series B
Investment Raised: USD 680M | Valuation: USD 4.3B | Investors: SoftBank, LionTree, IVP, Headline, H14, Futury Capital, Eurazeo, D1 Capital Partner
Calendar Week #37
Amsterdam’s Picnic raises €600M from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust to build the most sustainable European grocery delivery company
Founded: 2015 | HQ: NL | Sector: E-Commerce | Series D
Investment Raised: EUR 600M | Valuation: Unknown | Investors: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Calendar Week #36
Homeppl completes seven figure funding round
Founded: 2017 | HQ: UK | Sector: FinTech | Seed Round
Investment Raised: GBP 1M | Valuation: GBP 10Million | Investors: European Super Angels Club, ParticleX
Calendar Week #35
Scalable Capital founder backs crypto wealth app Coinpanion in €1.8m seed round
Founded: 2019 | HQ: AT | Sector: Crypto | Seed Round
Investment Raised: EUR 1,8M | Valuation: Unknown | Investors: High-Tech Gründerfonds
Calendar Week #34
Atheneum nabs $150M to build out its ‘research as a service’ platform for virtual surveys and interviews
Founded: 2010 | HQ: DE | Sector: Business Intelligence / IT | Series Unknown
Investment Raised: USD 150M | Valuation: Remains Undisclosed | Investors: Vogel Communication Group, Michael Brehm, Guidepost Growth Equity, Crosslantic Capital
Calendar Week #32
Largest Equity Funding Round for a European FBA Aggregator Announced as SellerX raises €100 ($118) Million led by L Catterton’s Growth Fund
Founded: 2020 | HQ: DE | Sector: E-Commerce | Series B
Investment Raised: EUR 100M | Valuation: Not available | Investors: L Catterton, Sofina, Cherry Ventures, Felix Capital and 83NORTH
Calendar Week #31
After raising $54m in a Series B funding round, European online electronics marketplace Refurbed is planning to invest in Ireland.
Founded: 2017 | HQ: AT | Sector: Marektplace | Series B
Investment Raised: USD 54M | Valuation: Remain undisclosed | Investors: Evli Growth Partners, Almaz Capital, Speedinvest, Bonsai Partners and All Iron Ventures, Hermes GPE, C4 Ventures, SevenVentures, Alpha Associates, Monkfish Equity (Trivago Founders), Kreos Capital, Isomer Capital
Calendar Week #30
Solarisbank raises $224M at a $1.65B valuation to acquire Contis, expand API-based embedded banking tech in Europe
Founded: 2016 | HQ: DE | Sector: FinTech | Series D
Investment Raised: USD 224M | Valuation: USD 1.65B | Investors: BBVA, Decisive Capital Management, HV Capital, Ilavska Vuillermoz Capital, Pathway Capital Management, Vulcan Capital, Yabeo Capital
Calendar Week #29
Soldo raises $180M for its business expense management platform
Founded: 2015 | HQ: UK | Sector: FinTech | Series C
Investment Raised: USD 180M | Valuation: Remains Undisclosed | Investors: Temasek, Sunley House Capital, Citi Ventures, Accel, Battery Ventures, Dawn Capital
Calendar Week #28
Bunq Raises $228M; Valued at $1.9 Billion
Founded: 2012 | HQ: NL | Sector: FinTech | Series A
Investment Raised: USD 228M | Valuation: USD 1.9B | Investors: Pollen Street Capital
Calendar Week #27
Austria’s Blockpit raises €8.4M to bring the necessary transparency to a blockchain-based financial market
Founded: 2017 | HQ: AT | Sector: FinTech | Series A
Investment Raised: EUR 8,4M | Valuation: Remains Undisclosed | Investors: MiddleGame Ventures, Fabric Ventures, Force over Mass Capital, Tioga Capital, Avaloq Ventures, European Super Angels Club
Calendar Week #26
Czech Republic’s new unicorn: Online grocery delivery startup Rohlik raises €100M at €1B valuation
Founded: 2014 | HQ: CZ | Sector: Grocery Delivery | Series C
Investment Raised: EUR 100M | Valuation: EUR 1 Billion | Investors: Index Ventures, Partech, EBRD (The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development), J&T Banka, Quadrille Capital, R2G
Calendar Week #25
Vienna’s GoStudent raises $244M at a $1.7B valuation for its online tutor marketplace
Founded: 2016 | HQ: AT | Sector: EdTech | Series C
Investment Raised: EUR 205M | Valuation: EUR 1,4 Billion | Investors: DST Global, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Tencent, Dragoneer, Coatue, Left Lane Capital, DN Capital
Calendar Week #24
Uberall raises $115M and acquires MomentFeed to scale up its location marketing services
Founded: 2012 | HQ: DE | Sector: IT | Private Equity Round
Investment Raised: USD 115M | Valuation: USD 500 Million | Investors: Bregal Milestone, Level Equity, United Internet, Uberall Management
Calendar Week #23
Crypto hardware wallet maker Ledger bags $380M funding
Founded: 2013 | HQ: FR | Sector: Cryptocurrency | Series C
Investment Raised: USD 380M | Valuation: USD 1,5 Billion | Investors: 10T Holdings, Alliance Entreprendre, Animoca Brands, Ascendant Capital, CapHorn Invest, Cardinal Capital Partners, Cathay Innovation, CITA Investissement, Crypto.com Capital, Crédit Agricole Centre Loire, Cygni Capital, Digital Currency Group, Draper Associates, Draper Dragon, Draper Esprit, Fabric Ventures, Felix Capital, FirstMark, Global Founders Capital, Groupe Arnault, iAngels, Inherent Group, Korelya Capital, Libertus Capital, MACSF, Marcy Venture Partners, Rosemoor Capital Management LLC, Scott Galloway, Tekne Capital, The Maze Group, Uphold, Warburg Serres Investments, Wicklow Capital
Calendar Week #22
wefox closes $650M in Series C Funding
Founded: 2015 | HQ: DE | Sector: FinTech | Series C
Investment Raised: USD 650M | Valuation: USD 3 Billion | Investors: ACE & Company, Alma Mundi Ventures, Cascade Ventures, CreditEase Fintech Investment Fund, Decisive Capital Management, EDBI, Eurazeo, FinTLV Ventures, G Squared, GR Capital, Horizons Ventures, Jupiter Fund Management, LGT group, Lightrock, Merian Global Investors, Mountain Partners, Mubadala Capital | Ventures Europe, OMERS Ventures, Partners Group, Salesforce Ventures, Seedcamp, Sound Ventures, Speedinvest, Target Global, Victory Park Capital
Calendar Week #21
Tractive raises $35 Million as it brings world’s most trusted GPS Tracker for dogs and cats to the U.S.
Founded: 2012 | HQ: AT | Sector: IT | Series A
Investment Raised: USD 35M | Valuation: USD 3 Billion | Investors: Guidepost Growth Equity
Calendar Week #20
Berlin’s Trade Republic nabs $900M led by Sequoia at a $5B+ valuation to take its neobroker app across Europe
Founded: 2015 | HQ: DE | Sector: FinTech | Series C
Investment Raised: USD 900M | Valuation: USD 5+ Billion | Investors: Sequoia, TCV, Thrive Capital, Accel, Founders Fund, Creandum, Project A
Calendar Week #19
Huma raises $130 million financing to scale its digital health platform for better care and research
Founded: 2015 | HQ: UK | Sector: Health Care | Series C
Investment Raised: USD 130M | Valuation: Remains Undisclosed | Investors: Bayer, Hitachi Ventures, Samsung Next, Sony Innovation Fund by IGV, Unilever Ventures, HAT Technology & Innovation Fund by HAT, Business Angel: Nikesh Arora (former president of SoftBank) and Michael Diekmann (Chairman of Allianz)
Calendar Week #18
Neuroelectrics gets $17M for new take on electrical therapy for epilepsy, depression
Founded: 2012 | HQ: ES | Sector: AI | Series A
Investment Raised: USD 17,5M | Valuation: Remains Undisclosed | Investors: Morningside, MassChallenge
Calendar Week #17
Brex hits $7.4bn valuation on $425m funding round
Founded: 2017 | HQ: US | Sector: FinTech | Series D
Investment Raised: USD 425M | Valuation: USD 7,4 Billion | Investors: Tiger Global, TCV, GIC, Baillie Gifford, Madrone Capital Partners, Durable Capital Partners LP, Valiant Capital Management, Base10, Y Combinator Continuity, Ribbit Capital, DST Global, Greenoaks Capital, Lone Pine Capital, IVP