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In today’s episode, we’ve prepared an interview with Boris Lokschin, co-founder and CEO of Spryker, an e-commerce platform founded in Germany. Listen to this one until the end to hear some very insightful and encouraging advice to today’s European founders.We hope you enjoy(ed) the podcast! Please feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions to [email protected] or tweet at us @tech_eu.

In today’s episode, listen to an interview with Giovanni Seppia from the European Registry for Internet Domains, or EURid. We’ve talked about how many .eu domains there are, the effect of Brexit, the importance of having a bloc-wide domain zone, and much more.We hope you enjoy(ed) the podcast! Please feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions to [email protected] or tweet at us @tech_eu.

In today’s episode, listen to an interview with Emil Eifrem, founder and CEO of Neo4j. The company has just been valued at over $2 billion and raised $325 million dollars. Listen to this one to learn more about the rise of graph databases, and the future plans of the Swedish-born unicorn. We hope you enjoy(ed) the podcast! Please feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions to [email protected] or tweet at us @tech_eu.

This episode of our show is sponsored by UiPath. One of Europe's most prominent success stories, the company is now valued at $35 billion — and it's actively giving back to the community. If you're a startup or scale-up from the CEE region or Turkey, apply today for the UiPath Automation Awards. In store for the winners are cash prizes, mentorship, substantial tech and marketing support, and much more. In today’s episode, listen to an interview with Vargha Moayed, chief strategy officer of UiPath, and Reshma Sohoni, founding partner at Seedcamp, one of the early investors in UiPath. Listen to this conversation to learn more about how UiPath started and raised its first money, and the advice Reshma and Vargha have for today's aspiring entrepreneurs. We hope you enjoy(ed) the podcast! Please feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions to [email protected] or tweet at us @tech_eu.

In today’s episode, listen to an interview with Robin Godenrath and Bastian Hasslinger of Picus Capital. The main topic of this interview is one big issue with VC valuations, which often results in numbers that don't quite reflect how much the company is actually worth. We hope you enjoy(ed) the podcast! Please feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions to [email protected] or tweet at us @tech_eu.

In today’s episode, listen to an interview with Arnd Benninghoff, EVP e-sports and games at Modern Times Group, also known as MTG. In this conversation, we talked about the impact of COVID-19 on the company and its portfolio, the role of Europe in the e-sports and gaming industry, and even our e-sports disciplines of choice. We hope you enjoy(ed) the podcast! Please feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions to [email protected] or tweet at us @tech_eu.

In today’s episode, listen to an interview with Per Vegard Nerseth, CEO of CMR Surgical. The company has recently raised $600 million to further work on its robots, which can help surgeons perform keyhole surgeries. We hope you enjoy(ed) the podcast! Please feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions to [email protected] or tweet at us @tech_eu.

In today’s episode, listen to an interview with Andrei Brasoveanu, partner at Accel. Listen to this one to learn more about how deal flow works at Accel, the firm's fintech anti-portfolio, the recent new funds worth $3 billion, and much more. We hope you enjoy(ed) the podcast! Please feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions to [email protected] or tweet at us @tech_eu.

In today’s episode, listen to an interview with Sarah Wood, a digital entrepreneur, co-founder of Unruly, writer, diversity advocate, and so many other things. Here are a few links mentioned in this conversation:🛠 Tech Nation's Diversity and inclusion toolkit📖 Stepping Up by Sarah Wood👧 Anna Freud National centre for children and familiesWe hope you enjoy(ed) the podcast! Please feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions to [email protected] or tweet at us @tech_eu.

In today’s episode, listen to an interview with Iggy Bassi, founder and CEO at Cervest. The company recently raised $30 million to provide what it calls climate intelligence — that is, information about potential climate-related risks for all sorts of assets based on an enormous amount of historical data points. We hope you enjoy(ed) the podcast! Please feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions to [email protected] or tweet at us @tech_eu.

In today’s episode, listen to an interview with Jean-Pierre Saad, partner at the investment company KKR. This episode is brought to you by SHOP4CF. Are you a manufacturing company? Are you looking for ways to optimise and automate repetitive tasks in the production process? Wouldn't it be great if you could get the support you need to implement robotics on your production floor?SHOP4CF offers just that — and, on top of that, €100,000 in equity-free funding. You've got less than a month to seize this opportunity — go to the application page and sign up today! The new era of human-centered robotics in Europe begins now. We hope you enjoy(ed) the podcast! Please feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions to [email protected] or tweet at us @tech_eu.

In today’s episode, listen to an interview with Dora Palfi, co-founder and CEO of imagiLabs. The startup, which is based in Sweden, develops tools and a community for creative coding that specifically target girls between 9 and 15 years old. Listen to this conversation to learn why this age is so important, and much more. We hope you enjoy(ed) the podcast! Please feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions to [email protected] or tweet at us @tech_eu.

In today’s episode, listen to an interview with Hanno Renner, CEO and co-founder of the Germany HR unicorn Personio. We hope you enjoy(ed) the podcast! Please feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions to [email protected] or tweet at us @tech_eu.

In today’s episode, listen to an interview with Meri Williams, CTO of Healx, recorded on Twitter Spaces last month. HealX is a fascinating company that looks for cures for rare diseases — but it doesn't necessarily want to develop new drugs; in many cases, it turns out, you can achieve great results by combining existing ones.This is the second time Meri comes on the show, so if you'd like to hear even more, check out the episode #187. We hope you enjoy(ed) the podcast! Please feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions to [email protected] or tweet at us @tech_eu.

In today’s episode, listen to an interview with Fiona Pathiraja, a former NHS doctor and the founder and managing partner of Crista Galli Ventures, a European healthtech VC based in London and Copenhagen. We hope you enjoy(ed) the podcast! Please feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions to [email protected] or tweet at us @tech_eu.

In today’s episode, listen to an interview with Valerie Krämer and Rebecca Görres, the co-founders of Remi that's just raised €1.2 million. The startup is all about building company culture in remote teams — which has become particularly important over the past year. We hope you enjoy(ed) the podcast! Please feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions to [email protected] or tweet at us @tech_eu.

In today's episode, we invited Kat Borlongan and Chris O'Brien to talk about the tech ecosystem in France. On the Tech.eu side, we've got Robin Wauters and Dan Taylor. Listen until the end to hear Dan playing the guitar; along the way, you can learn more about the actual French tech model, the omnipresent Bpifrance, the height of the language barrier, and much more. We hope you enjoy(ed) the podcast! Please feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions to [email protected] or tweet at us @tech_eu.

In today’s show, we talk with Michaël Niddam, co-founder and managing partner of the venture builder Kamet Ventures. In this conversation, we tried to get a better understanding of how a venture builder actually works, how much equity it takes in startups it launches, what the competitive landscape is like, and much more. We hope you enjoy(ed) the podcast! Please feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions to [email protected] or tweet at us @tech_eu.

In today’s show, we talk with Sergey Jakimov, co-founder and CEO of Longenesis, which has just won the Fifty Founders Battle at this year's TechChill conference. We hope you enjoy(ed) the podcast! Please feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions to [email protected] or tweet at us @tech_eu.

In today’s show, we talk with Marcus Gners, co-founder and chief strategy officer at Lifesum, a lifestyle and nutrition app that helps users feel better by eating healthier. Tune in to hear all about improving healthcare, drunken downloads, the age of mobile apps discovery — and a few opinions from the interviewer, Tech.eu's founding editor Robin Wauters. We hope you enjoy(ed) the podcast! Please feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions to [email protected] or tweet at us @tech_eu.

In today’s show, we talk with Johannes Schildt, CEO and co-founder at Kry (aka Livi), a European telehealth unicorn that employs thousands of people across continents. Among other — more serious — things, we're going to learn what the word Kry actually means, and why the company didn't just stick to one brand across Europe. We hope you enjoy(ed) the podcast! Please feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions to [email protected] or tweet at us @tech_eu.

In today’s show, we talk with Meeri Rebane, co-CEO and co-Troublemaker at digital insurance platform INZMO. Earlier this year, INZMO raised about €3 million, bringing the total funding amount to some €7 million. Listen to this interview to hear what it needs the money for, what the future of insurtech may be like, and how the ecosystem in Berlin is treating the Estonian founder.

In today’s show, we talk with Mark Durno, managing partner at Rockstart Agrifood, which recently raised a €22+ million fund. Rockstart has spent most of its existence as an accelerator, but for the past couple of years it's been transforming into an accelerator-VC. We asked Mark what it actually means in practice, what kind of agrifood companies he's looking for, and much more. We hope you enjoy(ed) the podcast! Please feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions to [email protected] or tweet at us @tech_eu.

In today’s show, we talk with Fred Lardieg, partner at Mubadala Ventures Europe, a €450 million fund investing starting from Series B. We hope you enjoy(ed) the podcast! Please feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions to [email protected] or tweet at us @tech_eu.

In today’s show, we talk with Dominique Piotet, CEO of Unit.City. Dominique was born and raised in France and has spent many years in Silicon Valley — but ended up helping to build an enormous startup ecosystem project in Kyiv, Ukraine. We hope you enjoy(ed) the podcast! Please feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions to [email protected] or tweet at us @tech_eu.

In today’s show, we talk about software, architecture, the future of work, and the UK tech ecosystem with Tariq Rauf, founder and CEO of Qatalog.We hope you enjoy(ed) the podcast! Please feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions to [email protected] or tweet at us @tech_eu.

In today’s show, listen to an interview that recorded recently on Clubhouse with Lubomila Jordanova, founder and CEO of Plan A. In case you missed it, every week on Tuesday at 16:30 CEST we're hosting the Podcast Hangout events on Clubhouse or Twitter Spaces, where we catch up with people whom we interviewed for the podcast earlier.Listen to this one to hear Lubomila's takes on the influx of new impact VCs in Europe, carbon offsetting issues, greenwashing in the VC industry, as well as advice on how to hire the best talent for a growing startup.We hope you enjoy(ed) the podcast! Please feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions to [email protected] or tweet at us @tech_eu.

And here are the notes and links for this week’s episode:❓ Help us decide on the future of the show! It takes just a minute to answer one question on Twitter or LinkedIn🎙 Interview: Jochen Ziervogel, co-founder of EnpalWe hope you enjoy(ed) the podcast! Please feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions to [email protected] or tweet at us @tech_eu.

And here are the notes and links for this week’s episode:🛒Berlin’s Razor Group raises $400 million to buy and scale Amazon Marketplace merchants🤖 Switzerland’s cyber protection firm Acronis raises more than $250 million, now valued at $2.5 billion💍 Fitness ring maker Oura raises $100 million💰 London’s Stride VC raised second £100 million seed fund, hunts for third partner🌱 Rockstart AgriFood fund closes at €22+ million🚙 Tallinn’s Bolt shifts into high gear with car-sharing service Bolt Drive👩‍💻 Klarna to double UK headcount👮‍♀ Trustly shelves IPO over regulator review🎙 Interview: Eva-Maria Meijnen, co-CEO of PlusdentalWe hope you enjoy(ed) the podcast! Please feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions to [email protected] or tweet at us @tech_eu.

And here are the notes and links for this week’s episode:🐦 Amsterdam’s MessageBird extends Series C round, raises $1 billion, snaps up US-based SparkPost for $600 million🛰 London’s internet-from-space OneWeb secures $550 million, brings total new raise to $1.9 billion💊 Stockholm’s digital healthcare provider Kry raises €262 million in Series D round💰 Add another new fund to the list, Warsaw-based Freya Capital launches, promises “Smart Money Package”🇪🇺 Apple set to get EU antitrust complaint over Spotify (update: here it comes)🇩🇪 German groups file Apple antitrust complaint as it makes privacy changes🎙 Interview: Vilve Vene, CEO and co-founder of ModularbankWe hope you enjoy(ed) the podcast! Please feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions to [email protected] or tweet at us @tech_eu.

This episode is sponsored by the Taiwan External Trade Development Council, or TAITRA, the organisers of Computex — one of world's largest and oldest trade shows focused on technology and electronics. This year, Computex will gather 80,000 attendees from May 31 to June 30 (!) in the virtual format for the first time, allowing even more people from all over the world to become part of the event. Over the past few years, TAITRA has been paying increasing attention to startups from all over the world — among other things, by organising InnoVEX, a satellite event that focuses on tech entrepreneurship. To discover what this year's Computex has in store for European founders, I sat down with Scully Wang, Senior Project Manager at TAITRA and one of the people responsible for organising this year's virtual show.

And here are the notes and links for this week’s episode:📈 UiPath climbs 23% in stock market debut after one of largest US software IPOs in history🚙 BlaBlaCar raises $115 million to build all-in-one travel app🤖 Europe proposes strict rules for artificial intelligence🛴 Dutch-French e-scooter startup Dott raises $85 million as it plans to roll out e-bikes🏒 Helsinki-based Icebreaker raises €120 million in fresh funds💰 Revolut founder plots path to $10 billion valuation with new fundraising🚔 Belarusian regime shuts down country's main startup hub💸 Paris-based insurtech Alan raises €185 million in series D round, now valued at €1.4 billion🚖 Ornikar raises $120 million as its driving school marketplace goes up a gear with car insurance✋ Proposed acquisition of ARM Limited by NVIDIA Corporation: public interest intervention 🎙 Interview: Keith Grose, PlaidWe hope you enjoy(ed) the podcast! Please feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions to [email protected] or tweet at us @tech_eu.

In this episode, we’ve prepared an interview with Annika Sjöberg and Bo Ilsoe of NGP Capital. We talked about a new report that the Finland-born VC firm has just published, focussing on the role gender plays in a startup founder's ability to raise private capital in Europe. It turns out that if you're a woman, your chances of raising cash are extremely low. We hope you enjoy this special format — please let us know what you think! Feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions at [email protected] or tweet at @tech_eu and @adegeler.

And here are the notes and links for this week’s episode:🔋 Polestar raises $550 million from outside investors as EV market grows💉 Medical device company CeQur raises $115 million💵 Berlin Brands Group raises $240 million to buy and scale up third-party Amazon Marketplace brandsInterview with Carlos Cashman of ThrasioInterview with Malte Horeyseck of SellerXInterview with Jānis Bošs of Fast Brands💻 Berlin’s subscription tech-rental Grover raises €60 million in Series B round🛂 Veriff secures $69 million funding to grow identity verification businessInterview with Tiit Paananen, VP of engineering at Veriff👩‍💻 Croatian unicorn Infobip looks to scale up by acquiring a developer conference. Wait, what?🌐 With two new funds, LocalGlobe has more latitude than ever📈 Swedish payments firm Trustly plans to go public imminently🎙 Interview: Shamillah Bankiya, Dawn CapitalWe hope you enjoy(ed) the podcast! Please feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions to [email protected] or tweet at us @tech_eu.

In this episode, we’ve prepared an interview with Elise Moutarlier, co-founder and VP of operations at Lovys, and Zeena Qureshi, CEO and co-founder of Sonantic. We hope you enjoy this special format — please let us know what you think! Feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions at [email protected] or tweet at @tech_eu and @adegeler.

And here are the notes and links for this week’s episode:🤖 Softbank acquires 40% stake in Norwegian robotics firm AutoStore for $2.8 billion🛒 Norway’s online grocer Kolonial bags €220 million, rebrands as Oda💵 Index closes $200 million dedicated seed fund to intensify multi-stage thesis❗️ Oslo-based employee engagement and learning platform Motimate acquired by Kahoot!🛴 Berlin-based micro-mobility firm TIER acquires app maker Makery, establishes new tech hub in Budapest🦄 Here be unicorns: These are 27 billion-dollar startups minted in Europe in Q1’2021🎤 Interview: Carlos Cashman, co-founder and co-CEO of ThrasioWe hope you enjoy(ed) the podcast! Please feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions to [email protected] or tweet at us @tech_eu.

And here are the notes and links for this week’s episode:🛒 Barcelona-based unicorn Glovo lands €450 million in series F funding, the largest in Spanish startup history👚 Amsterdam-based unsold fashion marketplace Otrium raises $120 million in series C funding, eyes US market entry🥖 Milan-based online grocer Everli raises $100 million in series C round🛰 Amsterdam-based IoT satellite network builder Hiber secures €26 million in EU and private investment📉 Amazon-backed Deliveroo crashes in London IPOLegal and General joins investors shunning Deliveroo IPO💸 Fintech Wise's CEO and early investors to retain control in £5bn London float🚙 Cazoo and AJAX I. A $7 billion SPAC merger. And the money kept rollin’ in from every side🚁 Bavaria-based air taxi Lilium plans to list on Nasdaq via SPAC Qell Acquisition Corp. at a $3.3 billion valuation🔔 UK stock market to lure SPACs with rules overhaul⚖️ Facebook sued for alleged fraud in buying Israeli startup Facebook’s purchase of Giphy raises competition concerns 🎤 Interview: Zack Weisfeld, head of Intel IgniteWe hope you enjoy(ed) the podcast! Please feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions to [email protected] or tweet at us @tech_eu.

In this episode, we’ve prepared an interview with Jonathan Satchell, chief executive at Learning Technologies Group. The company has been around for almost a decade, actively acquiring edtech organisations across the world. In the interview, Robin and Jonathan talk about the process of scaling up the acquired companies, developing the right culture, interacting with founders, and much more.

And here are the notes and links for this week’s episode:🛒 Turkish delivery startup Getir is raising $300 million at a mooted $2.6 billion valuation from Sequoia Capital and Tiger Global🦍 Gorillas, the on-demand grocery delivery startup, raises $290M and ‘surpasses’ $1B valuation💵 Crypto firm Blockchain.com rides bitcoin mania to a $5.2 billion valuation🍖 Meatable raises $47 million Series A to continue scaling trajectory and expand its product portfolio with beef🔲 London-based location tech what3words lands (close to) £12 million from Ingka Investments💻 London-based Hopin puts the new money to work, acquires Streamable and Jamm💰 Utrecht-based “people-centric” ERP firm Unit4 snapped up for $2+ billion📈 Trustpilot steady in debut as London IPO raises $655 million🎯 Deliveroo aims for $12 billion market cap in biggest London debut in a decade🚲 Deliveroo hit by investor, rider revolt ahead of London IPO🔌 Arrival becomes UK's biggest tech IPO with $13bn Nasdaq float💔 Seedrs terminates merger with Crowdcube, announces new funding round🎙 Interview: Ville-Veikko Mattila, director and head of research at Nokia Technologies We hope you enjoy(ed) the podcast! Please feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions to [email protected] or tweet at us @tech_eu.

In this episode, we’ve prepared an interview with Benedikt Blomeyer, Director of EU Policy at Allied For Startups, discussing the recently-signed Startup Nation Standard and the bigger picture of the EU regulation that's aimed at startups and entrepreneurs. We hope you enjoy this special format — please let us know what you think! Feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions at [email protected] or tweet at @tech_eu and @adegeler.

And here are the notes and links for this week’s episode:💳 London-based payments provider SumUp raises €750 million🦄 Is it a Bitpanda, is it the first Austrian unicorn? Peter Thiel’s Valar leads $170 million Series B round🛴 Bird to spend $150 million on European expansion plan💻 Norwegian video meeting startup Whereby raises $12 million in Series-A funding🔋 Northvolt receives $14 billion battery cell order for Swedish gigafactory from Volkswagen📈 Amazon-backed Deliveroo aims to raise $1.4 billion in upcoming IPO🇬🇧 UK pulls away from France and Germany on VC funding despite Brexit🚖 Uber grants UK drivers worker status in world first👋 France opens privacy investigation into audio app Clubhouse🎙 Interview: Nicolas Julia, co-founder and CEO of SorareWe hope you enjoy(ed) the podcast! Please feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions to [email protected] or tweet at us @tech_eu.

In this episode, we’ve prepared an interview with Eric Demuth, CEO of Bitpanda. The company has just become Austria's first unicorn, raising $170 million at a $1.2 billion valuation. We hope you enjoy this special format — please let us know what you think! Feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions at [email protected] or tweet at @tech_eu and @adegeler.

And here are the notes and links for this week’s episode:🔊 Epidemic Sound raises $450M at a $1.4B valuation to ‘soundtrack the internet’🔐 Snyk raises $300m at $4.7b valuation⭐️ Starling Bank confirms £272 million in new funding, claims unicorn status🍏 Urban farming startup Infarm raises extra $100 million to expand🏎 Porsche raises stake in electric car and components maker Rimac Automobili🎓 Kyiv-based edtech Preply raises $35 million in funding📈 Trustpilot set for $1.4bn London stock market listing💵 Amazon-backed Deliveroo reveals it lost $309 million in 2020 ahead of IPO📱 French startup lobby to file privacy complaint against Apple🇩🇪 Apple will invest over 1 billion euros in Germany and plans European Silicon Design Center in Munich👩‍💻 Web Summit is now licensing their conference software. First up: the United Nations🇪🇺 EU struggles to build antitrust case against Amazon🚲 Spain agrees on labour reform that will recognize delivery platform riders as employeesWe hope you enjoy(ed) the podcast! Please feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions to [email protected] or tweet at us @tech_eu.

And here are the notes and links for this week’s episode:💸 Stockholm-based Klarna receives fresh injection of a cool $1 billion, CEO challenges tech to focus on global sustainability🚁 Electric air taxi startup Volocopter raises €200 million in Series D funding🍄 Thiel-backed psychedelics firm hits $2 billion valuation🛒 Prague-based online grocery group Rohlik scores €190 million in Partech-led round to boost growth🛵 Flink, the Berlin-based grocery delivery startup that operates its own ‘dark stores’, raises $52 million💻 London-based virtual events platform Hopin raises $400 million in series C funding📈 Post-Brexit London aims to lure tech IPOs and SPACs in challenge to New York🎙 Interview: Christopher Plantener, KontistWe hope you enjoy(ed) the podcast! Please feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions to [email protected] or tweet at us @tech_eu.

And here are the notes and links for this week’s episode:🤑 VCs are chasing Hopin upwards of $5-6B valuation📈 Klarna may opt for direct listing as private funding loomsKlarna said to be raising $1bn at $31bn valuation🐚 HelloSPAC: HelloFresh founder Dominik Richter (and friends) file for $300 million US SPAC🚀 Lakestar gains in largest Europe tech-focused blank-check debut🚙 Cazoo acquires Cluno🎨 Graphic design platform Canva acquires two European tech startups: Kaleido AI (Austria) and Smartmockups (Czech Republic)🔄 Transferwise rebrands to Wise⚖️ Uber weighs its future in the UK after court ruling🇪🇺 Protecting people working through platforms: Commission launches a first-stage consultation of the social partners🛡 Interview: Matthieu Boutard, managing director of BodyguardWe hope you enjoy(ed) the podcast! Please feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions to [email protected] or tweet at us @tech_eu.

In this episode, we’ve prepared an interview with Dima Shvets, co-founder and CEO of Reface. If you're into memes and faceswap, you certainly know the name of the company — it's been downloaded more than 90 million times and used by people like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Justin Bieber. We hope you enjoy this special format — please let us know what you think! Feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions at [email protected] or tweet at @tech_eu and @adegeler.

And here are the notes and links for this week’s episode:🤝 Event networking app Grip raises $13M, as pandemic forces events to stay virtual📞 Sinch to acquire US voice communications company Inteliquent for $1.14 billion🐚 Tech investor Klaus Hommels launches $332 million SPAC in Europe💰 Emerging as an Eastern powerhouse, Earlybird Digital East Fund launches new $242M fund📈 Deliveroo pencils in 8 March to unveil blockbuster float⚖️ Deliveroo to appeal to Supreme Court after judges say riders are not freelancers💉 He disrupted finance — now TransferWise’s co-founder wants to fight the pandemic🛍 Web browser group Opera commits $100m+ to launch European fintech strategy🎤 Interview: Krystian Kolondra, EVP PC and EEA FinTech at OperaWe hope you enjoy(ed) the podcast! Please feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions to [email protected] or tweet at us @tech_eu.

And here are the notes and links for this week’s episode:💻 Buoyed by the Covid-19 crisis, Switzerland-based software firm Nexthink raises $180 million at $1.1 billion valuation🛒 Target Global leads $150 million round for Amazon Marketplace consolidator Branded❓ New consumer tech startup Nothing raises $15 million Series A led by GV📱 Klarna launches bank accounts in Germany📂 Napster to make debut on London stock market this month🚀 SPAC led by Rocket Internet co-founder files for IPO in $250 million deal🎙 Interview: Alex Kayyal, partner and head of Salesforce Ventures InternationalWe hope you enjoy(ed) the podcast! Please feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions to [email protected] or tweet at us @tech_eu.

And here are the notes and links for this week’s episode:🍷 Vivino raises $155 million for wine recommendation and marketplace app🤖 Software maker UiPath raises funds at $35 billion valuation🗃 Box to buy Dutch startup SignRequest for $55 million🏦 BBVA sells Holvi to co-founder🐷 Card retailer Moonpig soars 25% after pricing $1.64 billion London IPO🚘 SoftBank-backed used car marketplace Auto1 rallies 45% in debut💳 Israel’s Payoneer to go public on Nasdaq at $3.3 billion valuation🇬🇧 ‘Buy now pay later’ firms face FCA crackdown after Woolard review🎙 Interview: Aline Muylaert, CitizenLabWe hope you enjoy(ed) the podcast! Please feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions to [email protected] or tweet at us @tech_eu.

And here are the notes and links for this week’s episode:💰 SAP to acquire business process intelligence company Signavio (and the Bloomberg report)🍕 Finnish food delivery scale-up Wolt secures $530 million in new funding round led by ICONIQ🗞 Twitter buys Dutch-founded newsletter platform Revue🔐 Polish locker company InPost worth €9.5 billion after buoyant Amsterdam debut🎙 Interview: Nalin Patel, EMEA private capital analyst at PitchBook DataWe hope you enjoy(ed) the podcast! Please feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions to [email protected] or tweet at us @tech_eu.