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Investors
Apps
Mega deal: Zoom buys cloud provider Five9 for $ 14.7 billion
Startups
“Just Eat Takeaway” acquires Slovak delivery service bistro.sk
Fintech
Revolut raises 675 million euros in a mega financing round
Investors
170 seconds to pitch: handy lessons for impactful startup presentations from the pros
Investors
Dutch challenger bank bunq raises close to EUR 200m
FUNDING ROUND
Catalyst Romania II invests EUR 1.2m in SeedBlink
UNICORN
Danish fintech startup Pleo becomes Europe’s latest unicorn hitting $1.7b valuation
VENTURE CAPITAL
Belgium’s Spadel, owner of Bulgarian bottled water maker Devin, launches EUR 10m venture capital fund
STATS
Invest Europe: Private equity invests in record number of CEE startups & scaleups in 2020
FUNDING ROUND
FlexCar raises EUR 50m in biggest investment in Greek startup to date
FUNDING ROUND
Estonian-based crypto startup Kriptomat closes EUR 2.2m led by Bulgaria’s LAUNCHub Ventures
ANALYSIS
European Rennaisance 2.0
EDTECH
How Worddio’s data science approach to vocabulary building brought $50k From CEO Angels Club?
Ecosystem
Germany sets up EUR 10b “future” fund to support early-stage tech startups
VENTURE CAPITAL
IFC joins second closing of LAUNCHub’s EUR 70m CEE startup investment fund
STARTUP FUNDING
Vitosha Venture Partners injects EUR 2.7m in second series of Bulgarian startup investments
FUNDING ROUND
Croatian startup Gideon Brothers raise $31m for 3D robotic technology
DIVERSITY
Softbank, Speedinvest join forces to improve diversity in Europe’s startup sector
Analysis
There has never been a better time to be a startup founder in Europe
SCALE-UP FUNDING