HOT Is Klarna really worth $31 billion?
Klarna raising $1 billion at a $31 billion valuation is probably one of most significant piece of news from the European startup market. Not only because this makes it the …
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Klarna raising $1 billion at a $31 billion valuation is probably one of most significant piece of news from the European startup market. Not only because this makes it the …
SPACs are finally becoming a thing in Europe. One year later and 400 SPAC IPOs already executed in the US since the summer of 2020, Europe finally wakes up and …
That time of the year of analysing the big picture with what happened on the Nordic startup ecosystem last year. We tracked 1120 investment deals (worth $6.94bn) that were announced …
American VCs are coming to Europe - this was a very common refrain heard in the European venture circles in 2019-2020. Truth is, this was bound to happen sooner or …
Education is one of the most interesting markets that can be disrupted by technology startups. Europe doesn't have so many success edtech stories, and Kahoot of Norway and Brainly of …
Spain is one of the regions that has been coming up strongly in the Euro startup ecosystem in the last couple of years. An increasing number of success stories/exits, many …
Food is a hot sector right now in Europe, for many reasons. One of its hottest vertical is the food delivery, augmented by the last 12 months of Covid, whereas …
The Nordics is known as a great environment for their fintech startups, for many reasons - solid banks with great balance sheets, the consumer tech appetance and its widespread adoption …
After we analysed what the most promising fintech startups from the Nordics are, with unicorn potential no less, we thought the financial services Nordic picture would be better represented if …
We thought it would be interesting to see the new class of early stage marketplace operators from Europe and looked at the companies building such businesses. That means those startups …
We are wrapping up the books with the startup deals from the Nordics for the month of January 2021. It was an average month, 20% fewer deals than in January …
We have tracked the activity of exactly 617 investors in Sweden in 2020. That's about a hundred less than in 2019, when we tracked 706. Since we're reviewing the activity …
As we are looking at the big picture from what happened in the DACH area (Germany, Austria and Switzerland) in 2020, we put together all the venture fund announcement from …
As we're putting the final touches on the December's deal updates, we thought it would be interesting to have an overall look at what happened in 2020. And so we …
Insurance is an old and boring business. It is also a huge business in the Nordic countries and not only, relatively untouched by technology - both from a process development …
We have created a report listing the largest VC investment deals involving Nordic companies for 2020. We considered deals involving capital raise against minority stakes in the equity books. M&As …