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Norwegian educational gaming startup Kahoot raises ~$15.4M at a $300M valuation, tripling its March valuation (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Norwegian educational gaming startup Kahoot raises ~$15.4M at a $300M valuation, tripling its March valuation  —  School’s back in session and a startup that’s building games to help students learn has moved to the top of the class.  Kahoot — the educational gaming startup out of Norway …

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LinkedIn confirms it is testing a new, paid ticketed events service and says 21M people attended an Event on LinkedIn in 2020 (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

TikTok says it now has 1B MAUs  —  TikTok says it has crossed a key milestone: The social video app claims it now counts more than 1 billion monthly active users.  —  TikTok is the successor to Musical.ly, the short-form video app that was acquired by Chinese internet giant ByteDance in 2017 … Source link

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Czech on-demand grocery delivery service Rohlik raises €100M Series C led by Index Ventures at a €1B valuation (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Czech on-demand grocery delivery service Rohlik raises €100M Series C led by Index Ventures at a €1B valuation (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Czech on-demand grocery delivery service Rohlik raises €100M Series C led by Index Ventures at a €1B valuation  —  “Instant” grocery delivery has been a big theme among food startups in Europe, where customers can order from a limited assortment of items and get their purchases packed from … Source link

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Formative, a student learning and analytics service with at least one teacher signed up in 92% of all US school districts, raises $70M led by Summit Partners (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Formative, a student learning and analytics service with at least one teacher signed up in 92% of all US school districts, raises $70M led by Summit Partners  —  Tests are king in many school systems and other educational environments: they are seen as an efficient way to assess … Source link

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London-based Ebury, which provides foreign exchange and currency services for SMEs, raises £350M led by Santander, which now owns 50.1% of total shares (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

London-based Ebury, which provides foreign exchange and currency services for SMEs, raises £350M led by Santander, which now owns 50.1% of total shares (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: London-based Ebury, which provides foreign exchange and currency services for SMEs, raises £350M led by Santander, which now owns 50.1% of total shares  —  As the UK continues on its slow march to leave the European Union, a London-based startup that enables companies to work internationally …

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Filing: Wise, previously TransferWise, plans to go public on the London Stock Exchange via a direct listing in early July, reportedly at a $6B-$7B valuation (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Filing: Wise, previously TransferWise, plans to go public on the London Stock Exchange via a direct listing in early July, reportedly at a $6B-$7B valuation  —  Following Wise’s announcement earlier this month that it planned to go public by way of a direct listing on the LSE … Source link

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DataRails, which offers financial planning and analysis tools that integrate with Excel, extends its Series A by $25M to $43.5M, bringing total raised to $55M (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: DataRails, which offers financial planning and analysis tools that integrate with Excel, extends its Series A by $25M to $43.5M, bringing total raised to $55M  —  As enterprise startups continue to target interesting gaps in the market, we’re seeing increasingly sophisticated tools getting built … Source link

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Amsterdam-based Mollie, which offers developers plugins and APIs to integrate payments, raises $800M at a $6.5B valuation led by Blackstone Growth (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Amsterdam-based Mollie, which offers developers plugins and APIs to integrate payments, raises $800M at a $6.5B valuation led by Blackstone Growth  —  A payments startup whose backend was originally built by the founder while still living with his parents and bootstrapping the company … Source link

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Duda, which helps large businesses to build websites, raises $50M Series D led by Claridge IL, bringing its total raised to $100M (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Duda, which helps large businesses to build websites, raises $50M Series D led by Claridge IL, bringing its total raised to $100M  —  Self-expression for many consumers today comes in the form of social media and apps.  But if you’re a larger business, even if you can’t ignore platforms like Facebook … Source link

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Berlin-based Flink, a six-months old grocery delivery service built around its own delivery stores, raises $240M co-led by Prosus, BOND, and Mubadala Capital (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Berlin-based Flink, a six-months old grocery delivery service built around its own delivery stores, raises $240M co-led by Prosus, BOND, and Mubadala Capital  —  On-demand grocery delivery, which really came into its own with the emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic, continues to command huge attention from investors. Source link

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Cognigy, which offers a low-code conversational AI platform for businesses to create text and voice virtual agents, raises $44M Series B led by Insight Partners (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Cognigy, which offers a low-code conversational AI platform for businesses to create text and voice virtual agents, raises $44M Series B led by Insight Partners  —  Artificial intelligence is becoming an increasingly common part of how customer service works — a trend that was accelerated … Source link

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Yalo, previously Yalochat, which helps brands sell their products via messaging services like WhatsApp, raises $50M Series C led by B Capital (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Yalo, previously Yalochat, which helps brands sell their products via messaging services like WhatsApp, raises $50M Series C led by B Capital  —  Facebook has long been working on raising WhatsApp’s profile as a channel for businesses to interact with (and sell to) their customers. Source link

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Sinch, a Twilio competitor that offers messaging and marketing APIs, raises $1.1B from investors including SoftBank and Temasek (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Sinch, a Twilio competitor that offers messaging and marketing APIs, raises $1.1B from investors including SoftBank and Temasek  —  Sinch — a Twilio competitor based out of Sweden that provides a suite of services to companies to build communications and specifically “customer engagement” … Source link

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Paris-based app-only car rental startup Virtuo raises $60M Series C led by AXA Venture Partners and an additional $36M in asset financing (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Paris-based app-only car rental startup Virtuo raises $60M Series C led by AXA Venture Partners and an additional $36M in asset financing  —  Car ownership has become pricey and untenable in many towns and cities in Europe: between congestion charges to reduce emissions, parking fees … Source link

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Styra, which develops tools to manage authorization for cloud-native application environments, raises $40M Series B led by Battery Ventures (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Styra, which develops tools to manage authorization for cloud-native application environments, raises $40M Series B led by Battery Ventures  —  As cloud-native apps continue to become increasingly central to how organizations operate, a startup founded by the creators of a popular open-source tool … Source link