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And here are the notes and links for this week’s episode:🇩🇪 German HR tech company Personio raises $125 million at $1.7 billion valuation🛵 Turkish on-demand delivery leader Getir raises $128 million at a ∼$850 million valuation as it gears up for launch in the UK and Latin America🏫 School startup Ironhack raises $20 million to “disrupt the way we learn about technology”💳 PPRO nabs $180M at a $1B+ valuation to bring together the fragmented world of payments🕹 Opera acquires YoYo Games for $10 million and launches Opera Gaming division🖨 Protolabs buys Dutch online manufacturing platform 3D Hubs for up to $330 million in a mix of cash, stock⚖️ Brussels zeroes in on Google’s adtech business💿 Antitrust: Commission fines Valve and five publishers of PC video games € 7.8 million for “geo-blocking” practices🎙 Interview: Luke Lang, CMO and co-founder of CrowdcubeWe hope you enjoy(ed) the podcast! Please feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions to podcast@tech.eu or tweet at us @tech_eu.

And here are the notes and links for this week’s episode:💰 Israel-born fintech company Rapyd lands $300 million in financing, doubles valuation to $2.5 billion3️⃣ Checkout.com nearly triples value to $15 billion after funding🚚 Berlin-based digital freight forwarder Sennder bags $160 million at a $1 billion+ valuation💳 Curve seals $95 million equity round👩‍💼 French startup iziwork snags $43 million to help temporary workers find jobs and security🍅 Italian e-grocery startup Cortilia raises €34 million to get fresh local food to people’s homes🐽 Online greeting card retailer Moonpig plans London listing🍕 Deliveroo picks banks to serve up blockbuster floatAmazon-backed Deliveroo could be headed to a blockbuster IPO that values it above $13 billion in April🚙 German used car platform AUTO1 plans to list on Frankfurt stock exchange💸 Delivery Hero launches DX Ventures, a new VC fund with €50 million at hand💵 LAUNCHub Ventures seals €44 million first close of its €70 million target fund – here’s why📈 Baltic startup ecosystem will bloom thanks to new stock option policies, says Index Ventures🛰 European Investment Fund announces €300 million of space sector finance with new investments into Orbital Ventures and Primo Space🎙 Interview: Stephane Ouaki, the chair of the investment committee of the EIC FundEuropean Innovation Council kicks off equity fund with €178 million going to 42 startups‘It’s going to kill your business’: Startups turn on €2B EU fund We hope you enjoy(ed) the podcast! Please feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions to podcast@tech.eu or tweet at us @tech_eu.

And here are the notes and links for this week’s episode:💻 Hopin buys livestreaming startup StreamYard for $250M as it looks to expand its product line-up🛵 Delivery Hero raises €1.2 billion in new share offering💸 French fintech startup Pennylane snags €15 million in Series A funding🍖 Too Good To Go raises $31 million to fight food waste🏦 Mambu raises $135M at a $2B+ valuation for a SaaS platform that powers banking services🇪🇺 European Innovation Council kicks off equity fund with €178 million going to 42 startups🎙 Interview: Jan Goetz, co-founder of IQM, and Ilkka Kivimaki of Maki.vcWe hope you enjoy(ed) the podcast! Please feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions to podcast@tech.eu or tweet at us @tech_eu.

In this episode, we’ve prepared an interview with Stan Boland, CEO of the UK-based autonomous driving startup Five. The company has been around since 2015, and I was really curious to learn more about its recent pivot and get a snapshot of what the industry is like these days. We hope you enjoy this special format — please let us know what you think! Feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions at podcast@tech.eu or tweet at @tech_eu and @adegeler. 

Here are the links to the profiles of our interviewees:🎙Jean Marc Feghali, R&D lead at WeWALK🎙Tushar Agarwal, co-founder and CEO at HubbleHQWe hope you enjoy this special format — please let us know what you think! Feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions at podcast@tech.eu or tweet at @tech_eu and @adegeler.

In this episode, we’ve prepared an interview with Andrew Bud, founder and CEO of face verification firm iProov and an engineer who's witnessed first-hand a big chunk of the modern computing and communications history. We hope you enjoy this special format — please let us know what you think! Feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions at podcast@tech.eu or tweet at @tech_eu and @adegeler. 

We've talked to Jade Francine, co-founder and COO at WeMaintain, and Matti Rönkkö, founder and CEO of Cooler Future. Check them out to learn more about sustainable finance, carbon footprint of your savings, and the market of lift maintenance. 

And here are the notes and links for this week’s episode:🛴 Bolt raises $182M to expand its on-demand transportation network in Europe and Africa0️⃣ UK-based Zilch raises $30 million for its BNPL platform with a twist👀 Croatian startup Microblink leaves bootstrapping behind; collects $60 million first round🏎 EA acquires UK-based game developer Codemasters in $1.2 billion deal🐦 MessageBird acquires Pusher to bring more real-time communication APIs to businesses🚙 Online car retailer Cazoo acquires UK-based car subscription platform Drover👩‍🎓 Brainly raises $80M as its platform for crowdsourced homework help balloons to 350M users🚲 Dott to expand beyond e-scooters with bike-sharing service🇮🇪 Dogpatch confirmed as winner of €17m contract to run NDRC🗞 The Midas List Europe 2020 by Forbes🇪🇺 Europe lays out its plan to reboot digital rules and tame tech giantsWe hope you enjoy(ed) the podcast! Please feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions to podcast@tech.eu or tweet at us @tech_eu.

Welcome to an interview special episode of our podcast: a format, in which we put together a few pre-recorded conversations with some of the most interesting people of the European startup ecosystem.Before we get to the episode, a quick announcement: you've still got time to leave a voice message for our team, to be featured on Friday in the 200th episode of the show! Head to tech.eu/voicemail — and let us know what you think about European tech!To wrap up the topic of Amazon businesses and FBA aggregators — at least for this year, — this time we talked to Malte Horeyseck, co-founder at SellerX, which has recently raised €100 million in seed funding. We hope you enjoy this special format — please let us know what you think! Feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions at podcast@tech.eu or tweet at @tech_eu and @adegeler. 

And here are the notes and links for this week’s episode:💰 Catawiki raises €150 million in Permira-led round for its ‘curated online marketplace’🏎 MTG acquires UK game developer Hutch for $375 million👔 TransferWise to create 750 jobs globally in the next six months📱 Swedish entrepreneur behind OnePlus raises $7 million in all-star round for new venture in London🦄 eToro joins Israeli unicorn club by tripling valuation in two years to reach $2.5 billion💸 Highland Europe launches €700 million fund for growth-stage startups❗️ Exclaimer raises $133 million to help companies manage email signatures📊 Cisco to acquire audience interaction company Slido🇫🇷 France fines Google $120 million and Amazon $42 million for dropping tracking cookies without consent📁 The State of European Tech report by AtomicoWe hope you enjoy(ed) the podcast! Please feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions to podcast@tech.eu or tweet at us @tech_eu.