Given the current investment environment in Europe, it is hard to pinpoint the exact funding stages of a startup, as the old schoolers in the business used to go about …
As Europe has started to build a startup track record, there's also a new category of people who are specializing in building tech startups that are and create a great …
This week it was announced that Paydock, a British startup offering orchestration solutions to financial institutions, brand retailers and non-profit organizations, raised $30 million series A from Silverstripe. Paydock has been boostrapped since …
Europe makes efforts to meet climate and energy security goals by relying heavily on heat pumps to replace gas boilers. Locally, in Germany there’s a new law to be adopted …
American venture companies are coming to Europe - this was a very common refrain heard in the European VC circles in 2019-2020. Truth is, this was bound to happen sooner …
We had a look over the angel activity from the last quarter - as expected, the big picture ain't pretty, the overall numbers are on a downward spiral showing a …
In 2023 we tracked 100 investment deals worth $900 million with startups doing robotics out of Europe. Building a robots startup is not for the fainted-hearted as it is a capital intensive …
I screened all the seed deals closed in Europe in the second half of 2023 and ended up with a list of about 80 startups that were seeded with a …
A British legal tech startup named Luminance just announced a $40 million series B round. The Brits have been in business since 2015 and are developing legal LLM used to automate …
In 2023 we have tracked about 2500 investors active in financing AI-based startups from Europe. That's about 1000 more than in 2022 - somewhat normal, since all the rage of the past 18-24 months …
active angels and their deals in UK in 2024 Every once in a while I have a look at the angel activity in Europe - last year we …
Venture scouting has become so normal in Europe that it's a weekly topic covered by the mainstream media. We thought it'd be interesting to put some data on top of …
That time of the year, respecting the tradition to review the startups from Europe participating at Y Combinator - we have been doing this for the YC summer 2021, winter …
After we looked into interesting web3 startups from Europe that raised seed funding in the past months, we thought the web3 startup space from Europe would be better represented if …
Web3 is the new hype on investors circle - a new, catchy name for startups creating value using blockchain technologies. In Europe it's not a thing, yet, judging by the …
Venture scouting has become so normal in Europe that it's a weekly topic covered by the mainstream media. While most of the time it doesn't really make sense for a …
As we wrapped up the investment deals for October, we put together all the data for the third quarter of the year and had a look at a holistic picture …
It has s become a tradition to review the European startups participating at Y Combinator, we have been doing this both this winter and in 2020. YC is probably one …
We tracked 642 investors involved in 225 $50M+ deals closed in Europe in January-August (20) 2021. To put it in context, the numbers are 2X as high as the ones …
We are mid-August and that means for some Europeans getting closer to the end of the holidays (Nordics), while others are still fully enjoying the summer (France, Spain, Italy). We …
We tracked almost 2000 angel investors active in startup deals in Europe in the first part of 2021. 14 of the more active were involved in at least 6 deals …
We had a look at the Nordic numbers related to startup investment activity from the Nordics for the first half of 2021. The growing trends we underlined at the end …
We tracked a number of 4370 investors active in startups based in Europe in H1 2021. The breakdown is as follows: 1313 venture companies 1635 angel investors 1422 other type …
Software is eating the world and software startups are among the most sought after kind of startups by venture investors. We made a screening of the SAAS deals made in …
The VC business in Europe seems to be booming these days, with new funds announced every other week and huge piles of money ready to be deployed, compared to the …
The German startup ecosystem is up and coming, with more and more interesting startups emerging every year. Add to that Switzerland and Austria, which have an increased interest in the …
The early stage VC activity of backing European startups has never been so busy. At pre-seed and seed levels in Europe, in 2021 alone we tracked almost 1000 investors active …
Seedcamp is one of the most active early stage investors from Europe. Launched in 2007 as a startup accelerator in London, they switched their model to a full VC business …
The French startup ecosystem has been pretty much a closed one, with deals done by and within the French connections. However, we have noticed that in the past few years …
After analysing who were the most active American investors in Europe in Q1 2021, and doing a portfolio analysis of the most active 15 of them, we thought it would …
We analyzed the portfolio of about 500 investors based in the United States who were active in Europe for a period of 15 months, between January 2020 and March 2021. …
We were interested to have a look at who is investing in the future of the financial services in Europe. In the first 8 months of 2021 (January-August), we have …
We were interested to have a look at who is investing in the future of the financial services in Europe. In the first 8 months of 2021 (January-August), we have …
Europe has become an interesting investment space for American funds looking to deploy capital in the private market. We had a look at who were the more active American angel …
As we screened the list of the most active American investors in startups based in Europe - all 311 of them - we thought it would be interesting to have …
Electric is the future, they say, and the Nordic countries are among the first in the world in adopting electric-based vehicles, particularly cars. But the people from the Nordic countries …
As we finalise updating the numbers for the Nordic deals we tracked in March, it is time to have a look at the big picture and draw some conclusions about …
We are wrapping up the Q1 numbers about the startup investment deals we tracked in Europe. It was an average quarter from the activity perspective - about the same number …
Doing a review of the European startups that were part of the Y Combinator is not a first for Nordic 9. In 2020 we produced a report profiling startups from …
Video software solutions (SAAS) are not a new topic in Europe, particularly since we are coming all the way from 2003 when Skype was founded. Besides, more recently, the working …
This week Whereby announced raising $12 million for a SAAS op selling a video collaboration tool for freelancers and small companies. If you don't know what Whereby is - in …
We're wrapping up the February numbers about the startup investment deals made in the Nordics. It was a relatively quiet month, definitely affected by the pandemic and by the entire …
On-demand grocery delivery startups are a hot topic for VCs in Europe. So hot that only this week we had announced exactly three investment rounds: Rohlik from Prague, Czech Republic …
Klarna raising $1 billion at a $31 billion valuation is probably one of most significant piece of news from the European startup market recently. Not only because this makes it …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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