Europe's best angel investors, top VCs and what to do when you run out of money.

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Dec 08, 2019

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1. More money in the market
2. How others are doing it
3. Interesting bets
4. Data, research, observations
5. What others think

1. More money in the market

🇮🇹 United Ventures, a Milan, Italy-based venture capital firm, closed its second fund, at €120 million.

🇮🇱 Crescendo Venture Partners is launching its new VC fund planned to raise $80 million-$100 million.

🇸🇪 Mist Ventures made public launching an investment fund at the beginning of the year.

🇪🇺 European Commission awards more than €278 million to 75 start-ups and SMEs

🇬🇧 Juliette Souliman, one of the VC’s leading fintech investors, is leaving after a year and a half to work on a new fintech fund.

2. How others are doing it

🇩🇪 How learning German sparked Chatterbug founders to set up in Berlin

🇪🇸 How to proceed when you run out of cash, but you still believe?

🇪🇸 Observations from SportsTech Week in Barcelona

🇮🇱 A Chinese VC firm and an Israeli startup were tricked into sending $1 million to hackers

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3. Interesting bets

🇦🇹 Austria

developer of a headless content management system | $2.5 million | firstminute capital, capital300, Founders Factory

🇩🇰 Denmark

provider of software solutions for workforce management | €9.3 million | Viking Ventures

🇪🇪 Estonia

anti-money laundering (AML) startup | $2 million | Fly Ventures, Passion Capital, Seedcamp
career app startup | €1.5 million | Karma.vc, Enern VC, Change Ventures, Hummingbird

🇮🇪 Ireland

sports science company working to reduce the risk of injury within professional sports | $5.1 million | Blue Run Ventures

🇮🇹 Italy

SaaS platform that aims to facilitate the digitalisation of farms | €3 million | United Ventures, TiVenture
dental education platform for professionals | €2 million | Programma 102

🇳🇴 Norway

smart home alarm solution | $1.3 million | Schibsted

🇪🇸 Spain

student recruitment platform based on ISA | €1.15 million | Seedcamp, angel investors

🇸🇪 Sweden

platform for individualized support and feedback to the user to make it easier to take medication | $1.3 million | Bonnier Ventures

🇬🇧 UK

streaming service for educational books | £7 million | Dedicated VC, ADV, angel investors
provider of an ARM server architecture designed to power sustainable data centers | $4.5 million | Seraphim Capital
software-based job matchmaking platform | £850k | LocalGlobe, angel investors

🇺🇦 Ukraine

an intelligent platform for managing business performance | $5.2 million | Omers Ventures, Hambro Perks

4. Research, data, observations

🇪🇸 The 100 most promising startups and innovative companies in Spain in the seed and early stage.

🇪🇺 Europe’s top angel investors

🇪🇺 Regional winners of the 7th season of Nordic Startup Awards

🇩🇪 Global SportsTech VC Report

🇪🇺 Why Silicon Valley Investors Are Bonkers For European Startups

🇪🇺 The definitive ranking of the top 25 venture capitalists in Europe and Israel - the Midas List Europe

🇫🇮 Finland's "1 percent" AI scheme is now being rolled out nationally with the support of private companies and the government.

🇪🇺 Swedish 15-year-olds face the longest time in the workforce in EU, an average of 41.9 years. Italians work the least, about 10 years shorter.

🇩🇪 Car companies Daimler and BMW - once the pride of the German economy - are worth less than the sporting goods company Adidas.

🇬🇧 Analysis from 48 publicly traded SaaS companies
Founding teams retain more ownership, obtain higher valuations, and require less capital to reach IPO.

Bonus:

Linkedin released its Top Voices 2019 lists of lists, based on the people who are most vocal on that social network.
McDonald's doesn't sell burgers, it sells franchises. It's a real estate company, not a fast-food restaurant
How billionaires became billionaires (WSJ).

5. What others think

🇬🇧 The lesson to unlearn

🇩🇪 A framework to communicate your early enterprise traction to investors.

🇨🇭 The Hydrogen Car - here and now, not just for the future

🇬🇧 It was 2014 and the London tech sector had switched from the kind of party a teenager hopes someone might turn up to, to being swarmed by random hordes after the details are posted on Facebook - link

🇪🇺 How Europe’s AI ecosystem could catch up with China and the U.S.

🇬🇧 Psychologist Carol Dweck: ‘Everyone is a work in progress’

🇬🇧 Why Is European Tech Still Failing On Diversity And Inclusion?

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