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🤖 Softbank acquires 40% stake in Norwegian robotics firm AutoStore for $2.8 billion

🛒 Norway’s online grocer Kolonial bags €220 million, rebrands as Oda

💵 Index closes $200 million dedicated seed fund to intensify multi-stage thesis

❗️ Oslo-based employee engagement and learning platform Motimate acquired by Kahoot!

🛴 Berlin-based micro-mobility firm TIER acquires app maker Makery, establishes new tech hub in Budapest

🦄 Here be unicorns: These are 27 billion-dollar startups minted in Europe in Q1’2021

🎤 Interview: Carlos Cashman, co-founder and co-CEO of Thrasio

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🛒 Barcelona-based unicorn Glovo lands €450 million in series F funding, the largest in Spanish startup history

👚 Amsterdam-based unsold fashion marketplace Otrium raises $120 million in series C funding, eyes US market entry

🥖 Milan-based online grocer Everli raises $100 million in series C round

🛰 Amsterdam-based IoT satellite network builder Hiber secures €26 million in EU and private investment

📉 Amazon-backed Deliveroo crashes in London IPO

• Legal and General joins investors shunning Deliveroo IPO

💸 Fintech Wise's CEO and early investors to retain control in £5bn London float

🚙 Cazoo and AJAX I. A $7 billion SPAC merger. And the money kept rollin’ in from every side

🚁 Bavaria-based air taxi Lilium plans to list on Nasdaq via SPAC Qell Acquisition Corp. at a $3.3 billion valuation

🔔 UK stock market to lure SPACs with rules overhaul

⚖️ Facebook sued for alleged fraud in buying Israeli startup

•  Facebook’s purchase of Giphy raises competition concerns 

🎤 Interview: Zack Weisfeld, head of Intel Ignite

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In this episode, we’ve prepared an interview with Jonathan Satchell, chief executive at Learning Technologies Group. The company has been around for almost a decade, actively acquiring edtech organisations across the world. In the interview, Robin and Jonathan talk about the process of scaling up the acquired companies, developing the right culture, interacting with founders, and much more. 

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🛒 Turkish delivery startup Getir is raising $300 million at a mooted $2.6 billion valuation from Sequoia Capital and Tiger Global

🦍 Gorillas, the on-demand grocery delivery startup, raises $290M and ‘surpasses’ $1B valuation

💵 Crypto firm Blockchain.com rides bitcoin mania to a $5.2 billion valuation

🍖 Meatable raises $47 million Series A to continue scaling trajectory and expand its product portfolio with beef

🔲 London-based location tech what3words lands (close to) £12 million from Ingka Investments

💻 London-based Hopin puts the new money to work, acquires Streamable and Jamm

💰 Utrecht-based “people-centric” ERP firm Unit4 snapped up for $2+ billion

📈 Trustpilot steady in debut as London IPO raises $655 million

🎯 Deliveroo aims for $12 billion market cap in biggest London debut in a decade

🚲 Deliveroo hit by investor, rider revolt ahead of London IPO

🔌 Arrival becomes UK's biggest tech IPO with $13bn Nasdaq float

💔 Seedrs terminates merger with Crowdcube, announces new funding round

🎙 Interview: Ville-Veikko Mattila, director and head of research at Nokia Technologies 

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In this episode, we’ve prepared an interview with Benedikt Blomeyer, Director of EU Policy at Allied For Startups, discussing the recently-signed Startup Nation Standard and the bigger picture of the EU regulation that's aimed at startups and entrepreneurs.

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💳 London-based payments provider SumUp raises €750 million

🦄 Is it a Bitpanda, is it the first Austrian unicorn? Peter Thiel’s Valar leads $170 million Series B round

🛴 Bird to spend $150 million on European expansion plan

💻 Norwegian video meeting startup Whereby raises $12 million in Series-A funding

🔋 Northvolt receives $14 billion battery cell order for Swedish gigafactory from Volkswagen

📈 Amazon-backed Deliveroo aims to raise $1.4 billion in upcoming IPO

🇬🇧 UK pulls away from France and Germany on VC funding despite Brexit

🚖 Uber grants UK drivers worker status in world first

👋 France opens privacy investigation into audio app Clubhouse

🎙 Interview: Nicolas Julia, co-founder and CEO of Sorare

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In this episode, we’ve prepared an interview with Eric Demuth, CEO of Bitpanda. The company has just become Austria's first unicorn, raising $170 million at a $1.2 billion valuation.

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🔊 Epidemic Sound raises $450M at a $1.4B valuation to ‘soundtrack the internet’

🔐 Snyk raises $300m at $4.7b valuation

⭐️ Starling Bank confirms £272 million in new funding, claims unicorn status

🍏 Urban farming startup Infarm raises extra $100 million to expand

🏎 Porsche raises stake in electric car and components maker Rimac Automobili

🎓 Kyiv-based edtech Preply raises $35 million in funding

📈 Trustpilot set for $1.4bn London stock market listing

💵 Amazon-backed Deliveroo reveals it lost $309 million in 2020 ahead of IPO

📱 French startup lobby to file privacy complaint against Apple

🇩🇪 Apple will invest over 1 billion euros in Germany and plans European Silicon Design Center in Munich

👩‍💻 Web Summit is now licensing their conference software. First up: the United Nations

🇪🇺 EU struggles to build antitrust case against Amazon

🚲 Spain agrees on labour reform that will recognize delivery platform riders as employees

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💸 Stockholm-based Klarna receives fresh injection of a cool $1 billion, CEO challenges tech to focus on global sustainability

🚁 Electric air taxi startup Volocopter raises €200 million in Series D funding

🍄 Thiel-backed psychedelics firm hits $2 billion valuation

🛒 Prague-based online grocery group Rohlik scores €190 million in Partech-led round to boost growth

🛵 Flink, the Berlin-based grocery delivery startup that operates its own ‘dark stores’, raises $52 million

💻 London-based virtual events platform Hopin raises $400 million in series C funding

📈 Post-Brexit London aims to lure tech IPOs and SPACs in challenge to New York

🎙 Interview: Christopher Plantener, Kontist

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🤑 VCs are chasing Hopin upwards of $5-6B valuation

📈 Klarna may opt for direct listing as private funding looms

• Klarna said to be raising $1bn at $31bn valuation

🐚 HelloSPAC: HelloFresh founder Dominik Richter (and friends) file for $300 million US SPAC

🚀 Lakestar gains in largest Europe tech-focused blank-check debut

🚙 Cazoo acquires Cluno

🎨 Graphic design platform Canva acquires two European tech startups: Kaleido AI (Austria) and Smartmockups (Czech Republic)

🔄 Transferwise rebrands to Wise

⚖️ Uber weighs its future in the UK after court ruling

🇪🇺 Protecting people working through platforms: Commission launches a first-stage consultation of the social partners

🛡 Interview: Matthieu Boutard, managing director of Bodyguard

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