Tech.eu solarisBank raises €60M, six fresh funds in Europe and an interview with C4 Ventures' Raph Crouan
Jul 10, 2020
27:10
And here are the notes and links for this week’s episode:
UK regulators take aim at Apple’s search engine deal with Google
- UK regulators call Google, Apple search engine deal a ‘barrier’ to competition (ZDNet)
- U.K. Regulator Takes Aim At Apple And Google’s Billion-Pound Search Deal (Forbes)
Germany’s solarisBank raises funding
- SolarisBank Snaps Up €60m Funding For BaaS-Ic Instinct (Fintech Direct)
Transferwise ventures into offering investments
- Fintech start-up TransferWise is set to launch an investments feature (CNBC)
- TransferWise secures UK investment license (Business Insider)
Garmin goes shopping in Finland
- Garmin Acquires Firstbeat Analytics (FINSMES)
- Why Garmin buying Firstbeat is big news for sports watches (Wareable)
Funding in the ‘death care’ sector
Six VC firms raising fresh funds
- GP Bullhound announces fifth fund at €125 million, sticking with high-growth software one year after Slack exit
- Pan-European VC Nauta Capital launches fifth fund with a €120 million first close
- Berlin’s Cavalry Ventures closes €80M, backed by DACH founders and EIF
- K Fund has another €70M to back early-stage Spanish startups and is launching a pre-seed program
- French VC Axeleo Capital announces €50 million fund for seed-stage proptech startups across Europe
- Iceland Venture Studio raises additional $2 million to elevate Icelandic ecosystem in global tech scene
Raph Crouan, Partner Business Development at C4 Ventures