Business
UK fintech GoCardless to acquire Latvia-based open banking data provider Nordigen…
Nordigen is a free open banking API that provides PSD2 data connections to all major European banks.
Funding
Spain-based H2SITE raises €12.5M to scale its on-site hydrogen-producing devices
H2SITE is a deeptech startup that uses advanced membrane reactor technology to solve the hydrogen transport problem.
Business
Amsterdam’s MyWheels, Eindhoven-based Amber come together to boost shared mobility
Coming together of MyWheels and Amber means that technology and scale will ensure that people always and everywhere have immediate access to a shared car.
Amsterdam
Amsterdam-based travel app Polarsteps reaches 4M users, reveals interesting travel…
Polarsteps is a platform to plan, track, and relive trips.
Funding
Creandum backs ‘the Tesla of sustainable food’, Berlin-based Project Eaden, in €8M round
Project Eaden’s goal is to make sustainable food products so irresistible that saving the world becomes a positive side effect.
Amsterdam
Amsterdam’s Dan.com enters agreement to bring its products, engine to GoDaddy
Dan.com claims to have reinvented domain trading by making it easier and accessible to all.
Funding
LUMO Labs backs Barcelona-based training platform Metacampus in €1.5M round
The Metacampus aims to eliminate bias in the virtual economy by rewarding talent solely based on merit, irrespective of background, personal details or other external factors.
Funding
Amsterdam’s The Ketchup Project bags €450K from DOEN Participaties and BNFI: Know more
The Ketchup Project creates regional centres to dry tomatoes and mangoes to increase their shelf life by 1.5 years and enable the use of complete crops in order to decrease waste and post-harvest losses.
Funding
Germany-based planqc raises €4.6M to build scalable quantum computers
planqc is building quantum computers that store information in individual atoms – nature’s best qubits.
Business
Austrian unicorn Bitpanda feels the chill of ‘crypto winter’; lays off about 240…
Bitpanda sent an email and Slack message to employees after a call, which mentioned, “We need to let part of our team go and scale down to a target organisational size of about 730 people.”
Business
Prague-based 4Trans bags €18M to help SMEs across Europe with factoring services
4Trans provides financial products for small and medium-sized companies operating in supply and logistics - an industry that is currently poorly served by financial services.
Funding
Notable European founders launch new investment platform to one-up investors who aren’t…
Plural is a scalable investment platform whose investors are exclusively former founders and operators with decades of company-building experience.