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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
🇮🇱 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
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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
Bonus
Funding deep tech startups: evaluating science risk, team risk and your own biases
How to Conduct an Annual Life Review That Will Catapult You into the New Year + template
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
🇬🇧 Analysis from 48 publicly traded SaaS companies
Founding teams retain more ownership, obtain higher valuations, and require less capital to reach IPO.
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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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