This week, more than 70 funding rounds took place in European entrepreneurship ecosystem. Here is the notable funding rounds and secondary transactions between July 30 – August 5:
Investments:
3 United Kingdom (UK), 1 France, 1 Austria, 1 Germany, 1 Switzerland
Acquisitions:
1 Poland, 1 Netherlands, 1 Germany, 1 Switzerland
Sectors Received Investments:
1 E-Commerce / SaaS
1 Educational Technologies
1 Manufacturing
1 Industrial biotechnology
1 Climate Tech
1 Biotechnology
1 FinTech
News of the Week
🎯 E-commerce SaaS platform Mirakl raised funding.
Mirakl, a SaaS solution that helps enterprises manage their marketplace and drop-ship business, has raised €100 million from BNP Paribas, HSBC, JP Morgan, Natixis and Societe Generale.
Transaction Type: Investment
Investment Amount: €100.000.000
Investors: BNP Paribas, HSBC, JP Morgan, Natixis, Societe Generale
Co-founders: Adrien Nussenbaum, Philippe Corrot
Country: France
🎯 Edtech startup GoStudent raised funding.
GoStudent, a digital platform that connects students to teachers in a virtual learning environment, has raised a $95 million in a mix of equity and debt funding round. The investment round was joined by Coatue, Deutsche Bank, DN Capital, DST Global, Left Lane Capital, Prosus, SoftBank Vision Fund and Tencent.
Transaction Type: Investment
Investment Amount: $95.000.000
Investors: Coatue, Deutsche Bank, DN Capital, DN Capital, Left Lane Capital, Prosus, SoftBank Vision Fund, Tencent
Co-founders: Felix Ohswald, Ferdinand von Hagen, Gregor Muller
Country: Austria
🎯 Chemical digitisation platform Chemify raised funding.
Chemify, a chemistry and chemical discovery digitisation platform, has raised as raised $43 million in Seris A funding round, led by Triatomic Capital. Alix Ventures, BlueYard Capital, Eos, Horizons Ventures, Possible Ventures, Rocketship.vc and UK Government Innovation Accelerators Programme also participated in the investment round.
Transaction Type: Investment
Investment Amount: $43.000.000
Investors: Triatomic Capital, Alix Ventures, BlueYard Capital, Eos, Horizons Ventures, Possible Ventures, Rocketship.vc, UK Government Innovation Accelerators Programme
Co-founders: Lee Cronin
Country: United Kingdom (UK)
🎯 Industrial biotechnology startup Bind-X raised funding.
Bind-X, which develops biotechnology applications to improve the sustainability of industries by optimizing biotechnological processes, has raised €10 million in Series B funding round from Greeneering Invest, HG Ventures, High-Tech Grunderfonds, K&K 1, Saxovent and Vantage Value.
Transaction Type: Investment
Investment Amount: €10.000.000
Investors: Greeneering Invest, HG Ventures, High-Tech Grunderfonds, K&K 1, Saxovent, Vantage Value
Co-founders: Martin Spitznagel
Country: Germany
🎯 Climate tech firm Revalue Nature raised funding.
Revalue Nature, which nature-based carbon project developer, has raised $10 million in Series A funding round. The investment round was co-led by Ecosystem Integrity Fund (EIF) and SJF Ventures.
Transaction Type: Investment
Investment Amount: $10.000.000
Investors: Ecosystem Integrity Fund (EIF), SJF Ventures
Co-founders: Stuart Rowland
Country: United Kingdom (UK)
🎯 Biotechnology startup Epiterna raised funding.
Epiterna, a biotechnology company that focuses on long-term medicines for humans and animals, has raised €10 million from Prima Materia.
Transaction Type: Investment
Investment Amount: €10.000.000
Investors: Prima Materia
Co-founders: Kevin Perez, Alejandro Ocampo
Country: Switzerland
🎯 Financial technology company Pockit raised funding.
Pockit, a financial technology company that provides a digital banking app for the underbanked masses, has raised $10 million growth funding round from North East Development Capital Fund and Puma Private Equity.
Transaction Type: Investment
Investment Amount: $10.000.000
Investors: North East Development Capital Fund, Puma Private Equity
Co-founders: Virraj Jatania
Country: United Kingdom (UK)
🛒 Wirtualna Polska Holding Group acquires Audioteka.
Polish web portals Wirtualna Polska Holding Group has acquired mobile and multi-language audiobook application Audioteka, for €17 million.
Transaction Type: Acquisition
Investors: Polska Holding Group
Co-founders: Marcin Beme
Country: Poland
🛒 PayU GPO, acquired by Rapyd.
Payments platform Rapyd has acquired payments and fintech business provider PayU GPO.
Transaction Type: Acquisition
Investors: Rapyd
Co-founders: Emre Güzer, José Fernando Velez, Martin Schrimpff, Nitin Gupta, Shailaz Nag
Country: Netherlands
🛒 Nexi Group acquires stake in Computop.
Finance company Nexi Group has acquired 30% stake in Computop, a multichannel payment solution.
Transaction Type: Acquisition
Investors: Nexi Group
Co-founders: –
Country: Germany
🛒 Ayre Group acquires majority stake in nChain.
Ayre Group has acquired blockchain and web3 IP library nChain in a $570 million deal.
Transaction Type: Acquisition
Investors: Ayre Group
Co-founders: Craig Wright
Country: Switzerland
Other News:
📌 NATO Innovation Fund has closed a €1 billion fund to invest in startups addressing defense and security challenges. Twenty-three NATO Allies have officially become Limited Partners of the NATO Innovation Fund (NIF), which is preparing to make its initial investments later this year.
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