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04.01.2022

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2022

DNA Script bags US$200m financing

  • HQ: FR

Founded: 2014

  • Series C
  • Sector: Health Care

Investment Raised: USD 200M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Baillie Gifford Casdin Capital (https://casdincapital.com/) Catalio Capital Management Coatue (https://www.coatue.com/) Columbia Threadneedle Investments

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29.11.2021

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2021

Thought Machine closes $200 million round, now at a unicorn valuation

  • HQ: UK

Founded: 2014

  • Series C
  • Sector: FinTech

Investment Raised: USD 200M €

USD +1 Billion

Valuation

Investors: Nyca Partners (https://www.nyca.com/) with participation from ING Ventures JPMorgan Chase (https://www.jpmorganchase.com/) Standard Chartered Ventures Lloyds Banking Group (https://www.lloydsbankinggroup.com/) British Patient Capital (https://www.britishpatientcapital.co.uk/) Eurazeo (https://www.eurazeo.com/en) SEB (https://sebgroup.com/) Molten Ventures (https://www.moltenventures.com/) Backed (https://www.backed.vc/) IQ Capital (https://iqcapital.vc/)

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28.11.2021

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2021

Second-hand car auction platform Motorway hits Unicorn status after $190M raise with Index, ICONIQ

  • HQ: UK

Founded: 2017

  • Series C
  • Sector: Automotive

Investment Raised: USD 190M €

USD 810 Million

Valuation

Investors: Index Ventures (https://www.indexventures.com) ICONIQ Growth (https://iconiqgrowth.com/) Latitude (https://www.latitudeim.com/) Unbound (https://un-bound.com/) and BMW iVentures

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23.11.2021

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2021

Bitrise hooks $60M as mobile app development skyrockets

  • HQ: HU

Founded: 2014

  • Series C
  • Sector: Mobile Apps

Investment Raised: USD 60M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Fiedler Capital (https://www.fiedler.capital/) H14 (http://www.h14.it/) Insight Partners OpenOcean (https://openocean.finance/) Partech (https://partechpartners.com/) Y Combinator Zobito (https://zobito.com/)

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16.11.2021

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2021

AnyDesk, a maker of remote destkop software, raises USD 70M at a USD 660M valuation

  • HQ: DE

Founded: 2012

  • Series C
  • Sector: Software

Investment Raised: USD 70M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Possible Ventures (https://www.possible.ventures/) Insight Partners (https://www.insightpartners.com/) General Atlantic (https://www.generalatlantic.com/) EQT Ventures (https://eqtventures.com/)

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16.11.2021

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2021

Synthace raises USD 35M, helps scientists automate biology experimentation and insight sharing

  • HQ: UK

Founded: 2011

  • Series C
  • Sector: Software

Investment Raised: USD 35M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Sofinnova Partners (https://www.sofinnovapartners.com/) Horizons Partners (https://horizonpartners.com/)

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15.11.2021

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2021

Lifen raises USD 58M to digitize the healthcare industry

  • HQ: FR

Founded: 2015

  • Series C
  • Sector: Healthcare

Investment Raised: USD 58M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Serena (https://www.serena.vc/) Partech (https://partechpartners.com/) MACSF (https://www.macsf.fr/) Lauxera Capital Partners (https://lauxera.com/) Creadev (https://www.creadev.com/)

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11.11.2021

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2021

London customer data platform Ometria raises USD 40M in Series C round

  • HQ: UK

Founded: 2013

  • Series C
  • Sector: SaaS

Investment Raised: USD 40M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Summit Action (https://www.summitaction.com/) Sonae IM (https://sonaeim.com/) Octopus Ventures (https://octopusventures.com/) Lance Batchelor InfraVia Capital Partners (https://infraviacapital.com/) Columbia Lake Partners (https://clpgrowth.com/) Adjuvo (https://www.adjuvo.at/)

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04.11.2021

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2021

Kitman Labs, a sports analytics and technology company, raises USD 52M Series C funding round

  • HQ: IR

Founded: 2012

  • Series C
  • Sector: Artificial Intelligence

Investment Raised: USD 52M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Guggenheim Investments (https://www.guggenheiminvestments.com/)

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02.11.2021

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2021

Permutive raises USD 75M in SoftBank led round

  • HQ: UK

Founded: 2013

  • Series C
  • Sector: Advertising

Investment Raised: USD 75M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Softbank Vision Fund (https://visionfund.com/) Octopus Ventures (https://octopusventures.com/) EQT Ventures (https://eqtventures.com/) ACE & Company (https://aceandcompany.com/)

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01.11.2021

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2021

Moonfare raises USD 125M in Series C led by Insight Partners to accelerate global growth

  • HQ: DE

Founded: 2016

  • Series C
  • Sector: FinTech

Investment Raised: USD 125M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Insight Partners (https://www.insightpartners.com/) Fidelity Strategic Ventures (https://fisv.com/)

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28.10.2021

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2021

SimScale raises EUR 25M for its SaaS engineering simulation platform from Insight Partners, Draper Esprit, others

  • HQ: DE

Founded: 2012

  • Series C
  • Sector: Software

Investment Raised: EUR 25M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Vsquared Ventures (https://vsquared.vc/) Union Square Ventures (https://www.usv.com/) June Fund (https://june.fund/) Insight Partners (https://www.insightpartners.com/) Earlybird Venture Capital (https://earlybird.com/) Draper Esprit (https://draperesprit.com/)

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26.10.2021

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2021

DNA Script Raises USD 165M in Oversubscribed Series C Financing to Accelerate Commercialization of Enzymatic DNA Printing Platform

  • HQ: FR

Founded: 2014

  • Series C
  • Sector: BioTech

Investment Raised: USD 165M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: M Ventures (https://www.m-ventures.com/) Moore Strategic Ventures (https://www.moore-ventures.com/) Life Sciences Partners (https://www.lspvc.com/) Kurma Partners (https://www.kurmapartners.com/en) Illumina Ventures (https://www.illuminaventures.com/) Fidelity Management and Research Company (https://www.fidelity.com/about-fidelity/our-company) Farallon Capital Management (https://www.faralloncapital.com/) Danaher Life Science (https://www.danaher.com/our-businesses) Columbia Threadneedle Investments (https://www.columbiathreadneedle.com/en/) Coatue (https://www.coatue.com/) Catalio Capital Management (https://www.cataliocapital.com/) Casdin Capital (https://casdincapital.com/) Bpifrance (https://www.bpifrance.com/) ArrowMark Partners (https://arrowmarkpartners.com/) Alexandria Venture Investments (https://www.are.com/venture-investments.html) Agilent Technology (https://www.agilent.com/)

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25.10.2021

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Calendar Week # 44 |

2021

German investing start-up Moonfare raises $125m in Series C round

  • HQ: DE

Founded: 2016

  • Series C
  • Sector: FinTech

Investment Raised: USD 125 M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Insight Partners Fidelity International Strategic Ventures (http://www.fisv.com/)

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25.10.2021

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2021

Billie, a buy now, pay later specialist for the B2B market, raises USD 100M on a USD 540M pre-money valuation

  • HQ: DE

Founded: 2016

  • Series C
  • Sector: FinTech

Investment Raised: USD 100M €

USD 540M

Valuation

Investors: Tencent (https://www.tencent.com/) Speedinvest (https://www.speedinvest.com/) Picus Capital (https://www.picuscap.com/) Klarna (https://www.klarna.com/at/) GR Capital (https://gr.capital/) Global Founders Capital (https://www.globalfounderscapital.com/) Dawn Capital (https://dawncapital.com/) Creandum (https://www.creandum.com/)

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19.10.2021

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2021

Managed open source data infrastructure provider Aiven raises $60M

  • HQ: FI

Founded: 2016

  • Series C
  • Sector: Software

Investment Raised: USD 160M €

USD 1.9B

Valuation

Investors: World Innovation Lab (https://wilab.com/) Institutional Venture Partners (https://www.ivp.com/) Atomico (https://atomico.com/)

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18.10.2021

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2021

PragmatIC raises USD 80M Series C

  • HQ: UK

Founded: 2010

  • Series C
  • Sector: Electronics

Investment Raised: USD 80M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Erik Langaker Arm Holdings (https://www.arm.com/)

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17.10.2021

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2021

Enpal closes Series C with USD 174M USD from SoftBank for technology to make it easier for homeowners to switch to solar

  • HQ: DE

Founded: 2017

  • Series C
  • Sector: Energy

Investment Raised: USD 174M €

USD 930M

Valuation

Investors: SoftBank (https://www.softbank.jp/en/corp/)

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12.10.2021

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2021

Funnel funnels USD 66M in the door in final private funding round before IPO

  • HQ: SW

Founded: 2014

  • Series C
  • Sector: SaaS

Investment Raised: USD 66M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Stena Sessan (https://stenasessan.se/) Oxx (https://www.oxx.vc/) Industrifonden (https://industrifonden.com/) F-Prime Capital (https://fprimecapital.com/) Fourth Swedish National Pension Fund (https://www.ap4.se/en/) Eigth Roads Ventures (https://eightroads.com/en/) Balderton Capital (https://www.balderton.com/)

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12.10.2021

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2021

Reliance New Energy Solar invests in NexWafe as strategic lead investor

  • HQ: DE

Founded: 2015

  • Series C
  • Sector: Energy

Investment Raised: USD 29M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures (https://aramcoventures.com/) Reliance New Energy Solar (https://www.reliancepower.co.in/) Lynwood AG (https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/lynwood-schweiz-ag) InnoEnergy (https://www.innoenergy.com/)

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11.10.2021

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2021

Elliptic raises USD 60M to accelerate safe adoption of cryptoassets by mainstream financial markets

  • HQ: UK

Founded: 2013

  • Series C
  • Sector: FinTech

Investment Raised: USD 60M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Wells Fargo Strategic Capital (https://www.wellsfargo.com/com/financing/strategic-capital/) Softbank Vision Fund (https://visionfund.com/) SignalFire (https://signalfire.com/) SBI Group (https://www.sbigroup.co.jp/english/) Paladin Capital Group (https://www.paladincapgroup.com/) Octopus Ventures (https://octopusventures.com/) Evolution Equity Partners (https://evolutionequity.com/) Digital Currency Group (https://dcg.co/) Albion VC (https://www.albion.vc/)

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11.10.2021

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2021

Swiss BioNTech/Pfizer smart transportation maker SkyCell stores USD 35M

  • HQ: CH

Founded: 2013

  • Series C
  • Sector: Logistics

Investment Raised: USD 35M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Shuaa Capital psc (https://www.shuaa.com/) DisruptAD (https://adq.ae/)

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04.10.2021

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Calendar Week # 41 |

2021

Elliptic raises USD 60M to accelerate safe adoption of cryptoassets by mainstream financial markets

  • HQ: UK

Founded: 2013

  • Series C
  • Sector: FinTech

Investment Raised: USD 60M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Wells Fargo Strategic Capital (https://www.wellsfargo.com/com/financing/strategic-capital/) Softbank Vision Fund (https://visionfund.com/) SignalFire (https://signalfire.com/) SBI Group (https://www.sbigroup.co.jp/english/) Paladin Capital Group (https://www.paladincapgroup.com/) Octopus Ventures (https://octopusventures.com/) Evolution Equity Partners (https://evolutionequity.com/) Digital Currency Group (https://dcg.co/) Albion VC (https://www.albion.vc/)

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30.09.2021

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2021

Contract management startup ContractPodAI nabs USD 115M for AI-driven legal review

  • HQ: UK

Founded: 2012

  • Series C
  • Sector: Artificial Intelligence

Investment Raised: USD 115M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Softbank Vision Fund (https://visionfund.com/) Eagle Proprietary Investments (https://www.difc.ae/public-register/eagle-proprietary-investments-limited/)

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28.09.2021

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2021

Multiverse, the tech-focused apprenticeship startup, nabs USD 130M at an USD 875M valuation

  • HQ: UK

Founded: 2016

  • Series C
  • Sector: EdTech

Investment Raised: USD 130M €

USD 745M

Valuation

Investors: SemperVirens Venture Capital (https://www.sempervirensvc.com/) Lightspeed Venture Partners (https://lsvp.com/) Latitude (https://latitudeventures.vc/) Index Ventures (https://www.indexventures.com/) General Catalyst (https://www.generalcatalyst.com/) D1 Capital Partners (https://www.linkedin.com/company/d1-capital-partners/) Bond (https://www.bondcap.com/) Audacious Ventures (https://www.audacious.co/)

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27.09.2021

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2021

London’s Dice raises USD 122M at a USD 400M valuation for its intelligent event discovery and booking platform

  • HQ: UK

Founded: 2014

  • Series C
  • Sector: e-commerce

Investment Raised: USD 122M €

USD 278M

Valuation

Investors: SoftBank Vision Fund (https://visionfund.com/) Mirabaud Asset Management (https://www.mirabaud-am.com/en/) Future Shape (https://www.futureshapellc.com/) Evolution Equity Partners (https://evolutionequity.com/) Cassius Capital (https://cassiusfamily.com/) Blisce (https://blisce.com/) Xavier Niel (https://www.linkedin.com/in/xavier-niel-7661aa43/?originalSubdomain=fr)

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27.09.2021

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2021

Frontify raises USD 50M in Series C funding round led by female founded Revaia

  • HQ: CH

Founded: 2013

  • Series C
  • Sector: SaaS

Investment Raised: USD 50M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Tenderloin Ventures (https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/tenderloin-ventures) Revaia (https://revaia.com/) HighSage ventures (https://highsage.com/) EQT Ventures (https://eqtventures.com/) Blossom Capital (https://www.blossomcap.com/)

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24.09.2021

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2021

German delivery startup Gorillas reportedly raises EUR 810M to reach valuation of $3B; Delivery Hero invests €170M

  • HQ: DE

Founded: 2020

  • Series C
  • Sector: Delievery

Investment Raised: USD 950M €

3B

Valuation

Investors: Delivery Hero (https://www.deliveryhero.com) Tencent (https://www.tencent.com/en-us) Coatue Management (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwi85cKGxLjzAhVlgf0HHcRnDxsQFnoECAoQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.coatue.com%2F&usg=AOvVaw1kINyDNoz45u9v7RCRkW-V) DST (https://dst-global.com) and A-Star Partners

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20.09.2021

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2021

Monese launches New BaaS Platform and Strategic Partnership with Investec Bank

  • HQ: UK

Founded: 2013

  • Series C
  • Sector: Banking

Investment Raised: USD 90M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Investec (https://www.investec.com/en_za.html)

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16.09.2021

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2021

Form3 Announces a USD 160M Series C funding round

  • HQ: UK

Founded: 2016

  • Series C
  • Sector: Banking

Investment Raised: USD 160M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Nationwide Building Society (https://www.nationwide.co.uk/) Mastercard (https://www.mastercard.at/de-at.html) Lloyds Banking Group (https://www.lloydsbankinggroup.com/) Goldman Sachs (https://www.goldmansachs.com/) Draper Esprit (https://draperesprit.com/) Barclays (https://www.barclays.de/) 83 North (https://www.83north.com/)

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