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💎 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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This time, Tech.eu’s founding editor Robin Wauters talked to two entrepreneurs who founded very different ventures — the language-learning startup Drops and the gaming company Kolibri Games, which was acquired by Ubisoft earlier this year.

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🍽 Meal kit company Gousto hits unicorn status, but founder Timo Boldt doesn't care all that much about valuations.

🔋 Skeleton Technologies, the Estonian startup developing the “SuperBattery,” has raised a €41.3m Series D funding round

💸 The pandemic’s impact on private equity so far: New report shows strong raising but lower investing

🇹🇷 Turkey fines social media giants for breaching online law

🎙 We interviewed Ott Vatter, former managing director of the e-Residency program in Estonia

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🧳 GetYourGuide closes $133M convertible note as travel startups continue to weather the COVID-19 storm

🏡 Helsinki proptech scale-up Kodit.io secures €100 million in equity and debt funding

🎶 Spotify recovers from early-pandemic slump

⚖️ Pressure grows for antitrust action against German software giant

• Italian watchdog investigates Google over alleged advertising market abuse
• France’s online ad lobbies file antitrust complaint against Apple
• German watchdog launches new investigation into Amazon

🤖 Fired by robots — Uber faces legal challenge for algorithmic dismissals

🎙 We interviewed Job van der Voort, CEO and co-founder at Remote.com

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📈 European venture picks up in Q3 following slow start

🎓 Irish elearning company LearnUpon closes €47.4 million investment

🇨🇳 China urges Sweden to reverse its Huawei, ZTE ban to avoid harming its companies

🌖 Nokia selected by NASA to build first ever cellular network on the Moon

💰 London explores hopping on Spacs bandwagon

• Almost everything you need to know about SPACs

🎙 Interview with Jambu Palaniappan, managing partner at OMERS Ventures

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🇳🇴 Kahoot picks up $215M from SoftBank for its user-generated, gamified e-learning platform

⚖️ Klarna under investigation by UK regulator for ‘unsolicited’ emails

• PayPal takes aim at Klarna with ‘Pay in 3’ service for UK shoppers

🇪🇺 EU targets Big Tech with ‘hit list’ facing tougher rules

• France and Netherlands join forces to back EU move against tech giants

🎙 An interview with Joe Perkins, founder of Landscape

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🗠 Seedrs and Crowdcube plan to merge into one £140 million company

• European Union approves new crowdfunding rules that apply to member states, funding cap set at €5 million
• Finally, a pan-European set of rules on crowdfunding: here’s why this is a huge step for the industry

🐛 Insect farming startup Ÿnsect tops up Series C round to $372 million

🐦 Europe’s newest unicorn: Amsterdam’s MessageBird closes $200 million funding round at $3 billion valuation

🎙 Interview with Jaime Novoa, investor at K Fund and author of the Dealflow newsletter

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🔋 Swedish battery maker Northvolt is raising $600 million from Volkswagen, Daniel Ek, Goldman Sachs and others

🚖 Uber granted 18-month London license as judge overturns ban

🚕 Uber weighs purchase of BMW-Daimler ride-hailing venture

🎙 Interview with Jonathan Keane, formerly of Fora.ie and Tech.eu

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🌜 Spotify co-founder and CEO Daniel Ek will pour €1 billion of his own money into European “moonshots”

📈 TransferWise grows annual revenue 70% to hit more than €330 million (and €23 million+ in net profit)

🎙 An interview with Frédéric Mazzella, co-founder of BlaBlaCar and co-president at France Digitale

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💲 Nvidia is buying Arm — or is it?

• Nvidia confirms $40B purchase of Arm, bringing together two chip giants
• Arm co-founder starts ‘Save Arm’ campaign to keep independence amid $40B Nvidia deal
• Hermann Hauser on BBC Radio 4 (around 01:18:00)

🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄 Klarna is a decacorn now

• Klarna announces $650M funding round to further accelerate global growth
• Klarna is the Ultimate Grower

🎙 An interview with Meri Williams, CTO at HealX, formerly of Monzo, Moo, and the UK government

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