And here are the notes and links for this week’s episode:

💎 Farfetch secures $1.1bn backing from Alibaba and Richemont

📅 Hopin raises $125 million at $2.1 billion valuation as virtual events become the norm

🦄 Estonian-born Pipedrive achieves unicorn status with $1.5 billion valuation

👷 HR tech startup Remote raises $35 million Series A from Index, Sequoia and others

🛴 TIER Mobility raises mammoth $250 million Series C round

• What SoftBank backing scooter operator Tier means for European micromobility

🇪🇪 Estonia’s Bolt wants to become the largest micromobility provider in Europe next year

✒️ New bill in Ireland proposes to pull e-scooters out of a legal gray area

🕹 Take-Two to buy UK game maker Codemasters for $956 million

📣 Spotify to buy podcast ad company Megaphone for $235 million

🪦 Under Armour shuts down Endomondo, which it paid $85 million for in 2015

🔑 What’s all this about Europe wanting crypto backdoors?

⚖️ EU says Amazon breached antitrust rules, opens second investigation into its e-commerce business

💰 EU budget: European Commission welcomes agreement on €1.8 trillion package to help build greener, more digital and more resilient Europe

• ‘Breach of trust’: Horizon Europe cut prompts strong backlash

🎙Interview with Tjarda Voorneman, lead of the Techleap Rise Program

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