Ex-CEO of Just Eat joins VC firm 83North as General Partner
More career moves in the world of European VC. This time it’s the turn of David Buttress, ex-CEO of Just Eat, who is joining 83North as a General Partner where he’ll be based in the VC firm’s London...
View ArticleLanda can make you a landlord with just $5
It’s safe to say that millions of Americans dream of becoming real estate investors but can’t or don’t due to a variety of challenges, including lack of accreditation, capital and time. So it’s no...
View ArticleHolidu pockets $102M to keep growing its vacation rentals business in Europe
Munich-based software and services vacation rental startup, Holidu, has topped up its coffers with an oversubscribed €104 million (~$102 million) Series E funding round of equity and debt, led by...
View ArticleTrigo raises $100M to expand its Amazon-style cashier-free store technology
Amazon has become the pacemaker in commerce, and today a startup that’s been building technology to help retailers keep up with it in the world of physical stores is announcing some funding to expand...
View ArticleTransit tech company Via raises $110M at $3.5B valuation
On-demand shuttle service and transit tech company Via has raised another $110 million, bringing the company’s total funding to around $1 billion. The fresh capital pushes Via’s valuation up to $3.5...
View ArticleWoven Capital, Nvidia back Foretellix’s autonomous vehicle validation tech
Startups working on driverless cars fully may no longer attract the kind of nine-figure acquisition or funding offers that were prevalent just a few years ago. But there are still pockets within the...
View ArticleFloLive connects with $47M to give its IoT and localized cellular technology...
Carriers and enterprises that rely on cellular networks to connect workers, devices and machines are forever grappling with tricky unit economics: The promise of 5G was that these costs would come...
View ArticleAI revolutionizing MRI scans — a Munich startup banked $32M to scan eggs, and...
Germany, France and Italy are among the countries which last year enacted laws to stop the practice of culling male day-old chicks, because, as they do not lay eggs, they are considered surplus to...
View ArticleForetellix raises an extra $42M to build and test self-driving scenarios
On their way to building fully autonomous vehicles, self-driving car makers are facing a tall task: training their AIs to be able to respond reliably to any and all scenarios that a car, truck or bus...
View ArticleVertice raises $25M for AI-based tools to help companies tackle software spend
When you say the phrase “expense management” in a business context, people might think of software like Concur that tracks what you spend on travel, entertainment and other work-related activities; or...
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