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UK regulators take aim at Apple’s search engine deal with Google

• UK regulators call Google, Apple search engine deal a ‘barrier’ to competition (ZDNet)
• U.K. Regulator Takes Aim At Apple And Google’s Billion-Pound Search Deal (Forbes)

Germany’s solarisBank raises funding

• SolarisBank Snaps Up €60m Funding For BaaS-Ic Instinct (Fintech Direct)

Transferwise ventures into offering investments

• Fintech start-up TransferWise is set to launch an investments feature (CNBC)
• TransferWise secures UK investment license (Business Insider)

Garmin goes shopping in Finland

• Garmin Acquires Firstbeat Analytics (FINSMES)
• Why Garmin buying Firstbeat is big news for sports watches (Wareable)

Funding in the ‘death care’ sector

• London-based Farewill gets £20 million to modernise UK’s death care industry (Tech.eu)

Six VC firms raising fresh funds

• GP Bullhound announces fifth fund at €125 million, sticking with high-growth software one year after Slack exit
• Pan-European VC Nauta Capital launches fifth fund with a €120 million first close
• Berlin’s Cavalry Ventures closes €80M, backed by DACH founders and EIF
• K Fund has another €70M to back early-stage Spanish startups and is launching a pre-seed program
• French VC Axeleo Capital announces €50 million fund for seed-stage proptech startups across Europe
• Iceland Venture Studio raises additional $2 million to elevate Icelandic ecosystem in global tech scene

Raph Crouan, Partner Business Development at C4 Ventures

• C4 Ventures announces €80 million fund, led by former EMEA head of Apple Pascal Cagni

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Wirecard’s wild ride down

• ‘The Enron of Germany’: Wirecard scandal casts a shadow on corporate governance (CNBC)
• EY prepares for backlash over Wirecard scandal (Financial Times)
• Germany to sever ties with accounting watchdog after Wirecard scandal (Reuters)

Germany’s top court rules against Facebook’s ‘superprofiling’

• Germany’s highest court orders Facebook to stop cross-platform data sharing (EURACTIV)
• Facebook Loses Antitrust Decision in Germany Over Data Collection (The New York Times)
• Germany’s top court rules against Facebook on users’ data (Deutsche Welle)

Highlighting three big funding rounds:

• Checkout.com triples valuation to $5.5 billion, making it one of Europe’s top fintechs (CNBC)
• French fintech scale-up Swile secures €70 million to extend beyond its digital meal voucher alternative (Tech.eu)
• Cazoo raises $31 million at $1 billion+ valuation to help you buy used cars online (Tech.eu)

Steve King, co-founder and CEO of UK-based Black Swan

• How AI And Data Science Are Helping To Understand And Tackle COVID-19 (Forbes)

EU vs. Apple

• EU launches antitrust probes into Apple’s App Store and Apple Pay (CNBC)
• Opinion: Apple deserves the EU antitrust scrutiny it’s getting (Bloomberg)
• Opinion: Apple’s antitrust issues won’t go away; the company should act now (9to5Mac)

Wirecard’s missing billions

• Wirecard, a Payments Firm, Is Rocked by a Report of a Missing $2 Billion (The New York Times)
• Wirecard’s disappearing $2.1 billion (Fortune)
• Wirecard and the Dangerous Allure of Lots of Cash: Opinion (Bloomberg Tax)

Highlighting two interesting acquisitions:

• Facebook acquires crowdsourced mapping company Mapillary (Reuters)
• Square Buys European P2P App Verse (PYMNTS.com)

Highlighting three interesting funding rounds:

• Swedish video game developer Stillfront raises €113 million (Tech.eu)
• Berlin’s Contentful raises $80 million Series E for omnichannel content platform (Tech.eu)
• Monzo value falls 40% in latest fundraising (FT)

 Moray Wright, co-founder and CEO of UK-based Parkwalk Advisors

• London’s Imperial College debuts ‘Innovation Fund’ to back startups founded by students and staff (Tech.eu)

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🛒 Amazon's struggle with the EU

• Amazon to face antitrust charges from EU over treatment of third-party sellers [paywalled]
• Speech of Margrethe Vestager at the College of Europe, Bruges campus
• Tech.eu Podcast #127: EU vs. Amazon, future of alternative meats in Europe, is brain drain real, interview with Fifty Years’ Seth Bannon, and more

🎙 Maria Chatzou Dunford, CEO and founder at Lifebit

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🍕 The battle for Grubhub

• 'Nobody's making money in this business': Uber's CEO defends a possible GrubHub merger amid criticism of the reported merger talks
• Uber-Grubhub deal hinges on breakup fee after narrowing price gap
• Uber could lose its Grubhub deal to Just Eat or Delivery Hero
• Grubhub jumps on deal inquiries from Just Eat, Delivery Hero
• Grubhub rockets 11% on reports of takeover interest from 2 European peers
• Grubhub has two new suitors, Just Eat Takeaway and Delivery Hero
• Dara Khosrowshahi: How Uber is changing and being challenged by a global pandemic

🎙 Antti-Jussi Suominen, CEO at the Finnish fintech startup Holvi

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🎙 Margrethe Vestager, European Commissioner for Competition and Executive Vice President, Europe Fit for the Digital Age

🎙 Gerd Leonhard, a futurist from The Futures Agency

🎙 Emilija Stojmenova Duh, head of Slovenia's digital innovation hub 4PDIH

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🛴 E-scooter share co Wind to offer deliveries

🚕 Exclusive: BMW and Daimler now offer e-scooters with Free Now
🚗 BlaBlaCar partners with scooter startup Voi to launch new BlaBla Ride app

🎙 Nicolas Brusson, co-founder and CEO of BlaBlaCar

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🎙 Claire Munck, CEO at Be Angels and board member of Business Angels Europe

🎙 Philippe Collombel, managing partner of Partech

🎙 Inka Mero, founder and managing partner of Voima Ventures

🎙 Robin Wauters, founding editor of Tech.eu

🎙 Dmitry Kalaev, head of acceleration at IIDF.vc

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🎙 Roni Bonjack, head of developer programs — EMEA at Facebook

• Startup resources for coronavirus (COVID-19)
• How startups are pivoting during the pandemic

🎙 Cristina Vila Vives, founder and CEO at Cledara

• Melinda Gates’ Pivotal Ventures and M12 name Cledara top 5 enterprise software startup

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🎙 Karolina Korth, head of strategy for South-West Europe at Siemens Mobility

🎙 Joris Jeelof, chief commercial officer at RoadEO

🎙 Linus Frank, co-founder of Vesputi

🎙 Antonio Jara, CEO at HOPU

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