16.01.2023

Deal of the Week |

Calendar Week # 3 |

2023

Fintech Anyfin raises €30 million Series C funding to further accelerate expansion across Europe

Founded: 2017

Investment Raised: EUR 30M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Accel (https://www.accel.com/) Augmentum Fintech (https://augmentum.vc/) Capricorn Capital Partners (https://capricorncapital.com/uk/) Citi Ventures (https://www.citi.com/ventures/) EQT Ventures (https://eqtventures.com/) FinTech Collective (https://fintech.io/) Northzone (https://northzone.com/) Quadrille Capital (https://www.quadrillecapital.com/)

05.12.2022

Deal of the Week |

Calendar Week # 50 |

2022

Acin, the global operational risk control data network, today announced it has closed $24 million in Series B funding from a strategic consortium of industry-leading banks, comprised of JP Morgan, Citi, BNP Paribas, Barclays, and Lloyds Banking Group

Founded: 2018

Investment Raised: USD 24M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Barclays Corporate Banking (https://www.barclayscorporate.com/) BNP Paribas (https://www.bnpparibas.at/en/) Citi (https://www.citi.com/) Fitch Ventures (https://www.fitch.group/) JP Morgan (https://www.jpmorgan.com/AT/en/about-us) Lloyds Banking Group Notion Capital (https://www.notion.vc/) Talis Capital (https://taliscapital.com/)

28.11.2022

Deal of the Week |

Calendar Week # 49 |

2022

Sweden-based Einride bags €475.5M to accelerate deployment of sustainable freight mobility

Founded: 2016

Investment Raised: USD 475.5M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: AMF (http://www.amf-capital.de/start.html) EQT Ventures (https://eqtventures.com/) Norrsken VC (https://www.norrsken.vc/) Northzone (https://northzone.com/) Polar Structure (https://polarstructure.se/) Temasek Holdings (https://www.temasek.com.sg/en/index)

21.11.2022

Deal of the Week |

Calendar Week # 48 |

2022

Crypto market maker Keyrock raises $72 million

Founded: 2017

Investment Raised: USD 72M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Middlegame Ventures (https://www.middlegamevc.com/) Ripple (https://ripple.com/) SIX FinTech Ventures (https://www.six-group.com/en/company/innovation/start-ups.html)

14.11.2022

Deal of the Week |

Calendar Week # 47 |

2022

Atom Bank has pushed back its flotation by at least two years after tapping backers for another £30 million, giving it a post-deal valuation of £460 million

Founded: 2014

Investment Raised: GBP 30M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: BBVA (https://www.bbva.com/en/) Toscafund (https://www.toscafund.com/)

07.11.2022

Deal of the Week |

Calendar Week # 46 |

2022

Matter Labs, the company behind zkSync, raises $200 million to scale Ethereum

Founded: 2018

Investment Raised: USD 200M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Andreessen Horowitz (https://a16z.com/) Blockchain Capital (https://blockchain.capital/) Dragonfly (https://www.dragonfly.xyz/) Lightspeed Venture Partners (https://lsvp.com/) Variant (https://variant.fund/)

31.10.2022

Deal of the Week |

Calendar Week # 45 |

2022

Another nail in the photographers’ coffin as PhotoRoom develops $19 million

Founded: 2019

Investment Raised: USD 19M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Adjacent (https://adjacent.com/) Balderton Capital (https://www.balderton.com/) Hugging Face (https://huggingface.co/) Meta (https://about.meta.com/)

24.10.2022

Deal of the Week |

Calendar Week # 44 |

2022

Lisbon-based RealFevr scores €10 million to lead football into the NFT era

Founded: 2020

Investment Raised: EUR 10M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Siegerlandfonds (https://www.siegerlandfonds.de/) Earlybird Venture Capital (http://earlybird.com/)

17.10.2022

Deal of the Week |

Calendar Week # 43 |

2022

Neoplants has raised more than $20 million in funding

Founded: 2018

Investment Raised: USD 20M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Collaborative Fund (https://collabfund.com/) Entrepreneur First (https://www.joinef.com/) Heartcore Capital (https://www.heartcore.com/) Niklas Zennström True Ventures (https://trueventures.com/)

10.10.2022

Deal of the Week |

Calendar Week # 42 |

2022

Munich-based vacation rental company Holidu secures €100M, eyes expansion

Founded: 2014

Investment Raised: EUR 100M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: 83North (https://www.83north.com/) Common Fund (https://www.commonfund.org/) coparion (https://www.coparion.vc/) EQT Ventures (https://eqtventures.com/) HV Capital (https://www.hvcapital.com/) LIOS Ventures (https://lios.vc/) Northzone (https://northzone.com/) Possible Ventures (https://www.possible.ventures/) Prime Ventures (https://www.primeventures.com/) Senovo (https://senovo.vc/) Vintage Investment Partners (https://www.vintage-ip.com/)

03.10.2022

Deal of the Week |

Calendar Week # 41 |

2022

Blockchain development platform Tatum nabs $41.5M to untangle Web3

Founded: 2018

Investment Raised: USD 41.5M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: 3VC (https://three.vc/) Christian Trummer Circle (https://www.circle.com/en/) DEPO Ventures (https://depoventures.com/) Eric Demuth Evolution Equity Partners (https://evolutionequity.com/) LeadBlock Partners (https://leadblockpartners.com/) Octopus Ventures (https://octopusventures.com/) Paul Klanschek Tensor Ventures (https://tensor.ventures/)

26.09.2022

Deal of the Week |

Calendar Week # 40 |

2022

Spanish cybersecurity startup IriusRisk secures €29 million to automate threat modelling

Founded: 2015

Investment Raised: EUR 29M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: 360 Capital (https://www.360cap.vc/) Bright Pixel (https://brpx.com/) Inveready (https://inveready.com/) Paladin Capital Group (https://www.paladincapgroup.com/) Swanlaab Venture Factory

12.09.2022

Deal of the Week |

Calendar Week # 38 |

2022

Andreessen Horowitz leads London fintech Sequence’s $19m seed round

Founded: 2022

Investment Raised: USD 19M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: 9Yards Capital (https://9yards.vc/) Andreessen Horowitz (https://a16z.com/) Crew Capital (https://crew.vc/) Dig Ventures (https://www.dig.ventures/) Fin Capital (https://fin.capital/) Firstminute Capital (https://www.firstminute.capital/) Passion Capital (https://www.passioncapital.com/) Salesforce Ventures (https://salesforceventures.com/)

05.09.2022

Deal of the Week |

Calendar Week # 37 |

2022

NEUMAN & ESSER and Ballard invest €50m in QUANTRON and establish a Hydrogen Alliance for a 360° H2 Ecosystem

Founded: 2019

Investment Raised: EUR 50M €

EUR 200M

Valuation

Investors: Ballard Power Systems (https://www.ballard.com/) Neuman & Esser (https://www.neuman-esser.de/)

29.08.2022

Deal of the Week |

Calendar Week # 36 |

2022

Planted gets $72M to put whole cuts of vegan chicken on Europe’s menu

Founded: 2019

Investment Raised: USD 72M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: ACE & Company (https://aceandcompany.com/) Be8 Ventures (https://www.be8.vc/) ETH Zurich Foundation (https://ethz-foundation.ch/) Gullspång Re

22.08.2022

Deal of the Week |

Calendar Week # 35 |

2022

Berlin’s topi raises $45 million in new funding round, reveals hardware-as-a-service platform for retailers and manufacturers

Founded: 2021

Investment Raised: USD 45M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Creandum (https://www.creandum.com/) Index Ventures (https://www.indexventures.com/)

15.08.2022

Deal of the Week |

Calendar Week # 34 |

2022

Celonis rakes in $1 billion at $13 billion valuation to combat supply chain challenges

Founded: 2011

Investment Raised: USD 1B €

USD 13B

Valuation

Investors: 83North (https://www.83north.com/) Accel (https://www.accel.com/) Activant Capital (https://www.activantcapital.com/) Alta Park Capital (https://www.altaparkcapital.com/) Arena Holdings (https://arenaholdings.com/) Common Fund (https://www.commonfund.org/) Durable Capital Partners (https://www.durablecap.com/) Franklin Templeton (https://www.franklintempleton.at/) Neuberger Berman Group (https://www.nb.com/en/global/who-we-are) Qatar Investment Authority (https://www.qia.qa/en/Pages/default.aspx) Sator Grove Holdings (https://www.satorgrove.com/) T. Rowe Price (https://www.troweprice.com/corporate/at/en/home.html) TCV (https://www.tcv.com/)

08.08.2022

Deal of the Week |

Calendar Week # 33 |

2022

Luminovo Raises €11M in Seed Funding

Founded: 2020

Investment Raised: EUR 11M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Chalfen Ventures (https://www.chalfenventures.com/) Cherry Ventures (https://www.cherry.vc/) Khadjavi Capital Partners (https://www.khadjavi-capital.com/) La Famiglia (https://www.lafamiglia.vc/) Tencent (https://www.tencent.com/en-us/) Verve Ventures (https://www.verve.vc/)

01.08.2022

Deal of the Week |

Calendar Week # 32 |

2022

Vector Biopharma closes $30M series A round to support new gene therapy vector

Founded: 2021

Investment Raised: USD 30M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Versant Ventures (https://www.versantventures.com/)

25.07.2022

Deal of the Week |

Calendar Week # 31 |

2022

Nexeon Raises Over $200m to Fund Battery Materials Manufacturing

Founded: 2006

Investment Raised: USD 200M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Daishin Securities (https://eng.daishin.com/group/en/company/intro/overview.html) Gly Capital Management (https://glycm.com/) Ischyros New York (https://www.ischyrosnewyork.com/) Shinhan Investment (http://www.shinhangroup.com/en/introduce/groupIntroduce1_03.jsp)

18.07.2022

Deal of the Week |

Calendar Week # 30 |

2022

Atlantic Money, a London-based low-cost money transfer service, has secured an additional injection of $3M seed capital to accelerate its growth having recently received its EU licence.

Founded: 2021

Investment Raised: USD 3 Millions €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Amplo (https://www.linkedin.com/company/amplovc/?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_company_admin%3Bwtof1xeYRP6FhgpgU2u0yA%3D%3D) Nordstar (https://www.linkedin.com/company/nordstar/?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_company_admin%3Bwtof1xeYRP6FhgpgU2u0yA%3D%3D) Martell Hardenberg (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAAAdYMogBKF7BJ6R_W_LB-f6Uj-MoL73FFN4) Index Ventures (https://www.linkedin.com/company/index-ventures/) Ribbit Capital (https://www.linkedin.com/company/ribbit-capital/?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_company_admin%3BgH1ds%2Fq8TsWJ%2F6AppiK2Dg%3D%3D) Kleiner Perkins.

11.07.2022

Deal of the Week |

Calendar Week # 29 |

2022

Contentsquare Closes $600M Growth Investment Round Led by Sixth Street; Doubles Valuation to $5.6B and Brings Total Funding to $1.4 Billion

Founded: 2012

Investment Raised: USD 400M €

USD 5.2B

Valuation

Investors: BlackRock (https://www.blackrock.com/at) Bpifrance (https://www.bpifrance.com/) Canaan Partners (https://www.canaan.com/) Eurazeo (https://www.eurazeo.com/en) Highland Europe (https://www.highlandeurope.com/) Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (https://www.kkr.com/) LionTree (https://www.liontree.com/) Sixth Street (https://sixthstreet.com/) SoftBank Vision Fund (https://visionfund.com/)

04.07.2022

Deal of the Week |

Calendar Week # 28 |

2022

Barcelona’s Impress heads toward a $125M Series B round in its bid to digitize orthodontics

Founded: 2019

Investment Raised: USD 125M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Claret Capital Partners (https://www.claret-capital.com/) LBO France (https://www.lbofrance.com/) Media Digital Ventures (http://www.mediadigitalventures.com/) Nickleby Capital (https://nicklebycapital.com/) Norgine Ventures (https://norgineventures.com/) TA Ventures (https://taventures.vc/) UNIQA Ventures (https://www.uniqaventures.com/)

27.06.2022

Deal of the Week |

Calendar Week # 27 |

2022

YuLife picks up $120M at an $800M valuation for gamified, wellness-focused life insurance

Founded: 2016

Investment Raised: USD 120M €

USD 800M

Valuation

Investors: Anthemis Exponential Ventures (https://www.anthemis.com/) Creandum (https://www.creandum.com/) Dai-ichi Life (https://www.dai-ichi-life.co.jp/english/) Eurazeo (https://www.eurazeo.com/en) Latitude (https://www.latitudeim.com/) LocalGlobe (https://localglobe.vc/) MMC Ventures (https://mmc.vc/) Notion Capital (https://www.notion.vc/) OurCrowd (https://www.ourcrowd.com/) Target Global (https://www.targetglobal.vc/)

20.06.2022

Deal of the Week |

Calendar Week # 26 |

2022

MiroBio raises $97 million in Series B financing

Founded: 2019

Investment Raised: USD 97M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Advent Life Sciences (https://www.adventls.com/) Medicxi (https://www.medicxi.com/) Monograph Capital (https://monograph.bio/) OrbiMed (https://www.orbimed.com/) Oxford Sciences Innovation (https://oxfordscienceenterprises.com/) Samsara BioCapital (https://www.samsaracap.com/) SR One (https://www.srone.com/)

13.06.2022

Deal of the Week |

Calendar Week # 25 |

2022

SumUp raises $624M at $8.5B valuation, with its payments and business tech now used by 4M SMBs

Founded: 2011

Investment Raised: USD 624M €

USD 8.5B

Valuation

Investors: Bain Capital Tech Opportunities (https://www.baincapitaltechopportunities.com/) BlackRock (https://www.blackrock.com/at) btov Partners (https://btov.vc/) Centerbridge Partners LP (https://www.centerbridge.com/) Crestline (https://www.crestlineinvestors.com/) FIN Capital (https://fin.capital/) Sentinel Capital Partners (https://www.sentinelpartners.com/)

06.06.2022

Deal of the Week |

Calendar Week # 24 |

2022

CoachHub Raises $200M Series C, Led by Sofina and SoftBank Vision Fund 2 to Democratize Coaching Worldwide

Founded: 2018

Investment Raised: USD 200M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: HV Capital (https://www.hvcapital.com/) Molten Ventures (https://www.moltenventures.com/) RTP Global (https://rtp.vc/) signals Venture Capital (https://signals.vc/) Sofina (https://www.sofinagroup.com/) SoftBank Vision Fund (https://visionfund.com/) Speedinvest (https://www.speedinvest.com/) SVB Capital (https://www.svb.com/svb-capital)

30.05.2022

Deal of the Week |

Calendar Week # 23 |

2022

Nfinite raises $100 million series B to extend leadership in immersive 3d e-commerce and e-merchandising categories

Founded: 2017

Investment Raised: USD 100M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Insight Partners (https://www.insightpartners.com/) U.S. Venture Partners (https://www.usvp.com/)

23.05.2022

Deal of the Week |

Calendar Week # 22 |

2022

Rimac raises $537 million in new funding round, CEO talks potential IPO

Founded: 2009

Investment Raised: EUR 500M €

EUR 1.5B

Valuation

Investors: Goldman Sachs (https://www.goldmansachs.com/) Porsche (https://www.porsche.at/) SoftBank Vision Fund (https://visionfund.com/)

16.05.2022

Deal of the Week |

Calendar Week # 21 |

2022

Car Subscription Platform FINN Raises $110M In Equity and $720M In Debt To Supercharge Its Growth in the U.S. and Europe

Founded: 2019

Investment Raised: USD 110M €

USD 390M

Valuation

Investors: Climb Ventures (https://climbventures.com/) Greentrail Capital (https://www.greentrailcap.com/) Heartcore Capital (https://www.heartcore.com/) HV Capital (https://www.hvcapital.com/) Keen Venture Partners (https://www.keenventurepartners.com/) Korelya Capital (https://www.korelyacapital.com/) Picus Capital (https://www.picuscap.com/) UVC Partners (https://www.uvcpartners.com/) Waterfall Asset Management (https://www.waterfallam.com/) White Star Capital (https://whitestarcapital.com/)