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In this episode, we’ve prepared an interview with Dima Shvets, co-founder and CEO of Reface. If you're into memes and faceswap, you certainly know the name of the company — it's been downloaded more than 90 million times and used by people like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Justin Bieber.

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🤝 Event networking app Grip raises $13M, as pandemic forces events to stay virtual

📞 Sinch to acquire US voice communications company Inteliquent for $1.14 billion

🐚 Tech investor Klaus Hommels launches $332 million SPAC in Europe

💰 Emerging as an Eastern powerhouse, Earlybird Digital East Fund launches new $242M fund

📈 Deliveroo pencils in 8 March to unveil blockbuster float

⚖️ Deliveroo to appeal to Supreme Court after judges say riders are not freelancers

💉 He disrupted finance — now TransferWise’s co-founder wants to fight the pandemic

🛍 Web browser group Opera commits $100m+ to launch European fintech strategy

🎤 Interview: Krystian Kolondra, EVP PC and EEA FinTech at Opera

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💻 Buoyed by the Covid-19 crisis, Switzerland-based software firm Nexthink raises $180 million at $1.1 billion valuation

🛒 Target Global leads $150 million round for Amazon Marketplace consolidator Branded

❓ New consumer tech startup Nothing raises $15 million Series A led by GV

📱 Klarna launches bank accounts in Germany

📂 Napster to make debut on London stock market this month

🚀 SPAC led by Rocket Internet co-founder files for IPO in $250 million deal

🎙 Interview: Alex Kayyal, partner and head of Salesforce Ventures International

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🍷 Vivino raises $155 million for wine recommendation and marketplace app

🤖 Software maker UiPath raises funds at $35 billion valuation

🗃 Box to buy Dutch startup SignRequest for $55 million

🏦 BBVA sells Holvi to co-founder

🐷 Card retailer Moonpig soars 25% after pricing $1.64 billion London IPO

🚘 SoftBank-backed used car marketplace Auto1 rallies 45% in debut

💳 Israel’s Payoneer to go public on Nasdaq at $3.3 billion valuation

🇬🇧 ‘Buy now pay later’ firms face FCA crackdown after Woolard review

🎙 Interview: Aline Muylaert, CitizenLab

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💰 SAP to acquire business process intelligence company Signavio (and the Bloomberg report)

🍕 Finnish food delivery scale-up Wolt secures $530 million in new funding round led by ICONIQ

🗞 Twitter buys Dutch-founded newsletter platform Revue

🔐 Polish locker company InPost worth €9.5 billion after buoyant Amsterdam debut

🎙 Interview: Nalin Patel, EMEA private capital analyst at PitchBook Data

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🇩🇪 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 Crowdcube

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💰 Israel-born fintech company Rapyd lands $300 million in financing, doubles valuation to $2.5 billion

3️⃣ 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 float

• Amazon-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 Fund

• European 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

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💻 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.vc

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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.

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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 HubbleHQ

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