Jun 5, 2014 | News, Western Europe
Alternative investing startup Wikifolio has closed a €6 million funding round led by European early stage venture fund Speedinvest. The fresh capital will be used by the Austrian company, which I’m told broke-even in the first quarter of 2014, to expand beyond its...
May 30, 2014 | News, Western Europe
TechCrunch May 30, 2014 What is it about Finnish startups and fitness? We’ve recently covered Sportsetter, an app that lets you discover different fitness experiences, and HeiaHeia, the corporate wellness platform — both companies that hail from Finland. Today another...
May 8, 2014 | News, Western Europe
TechCrunch March 8, 2014 Down to its last £100 in November 2012, UK startup Hassle.com (then called Teddle) was at a crossroads: Exit the consumer space altogether, where it had been offering a local services marketplace, and try to flog its scheduling and CRM...
Apr 24, 2014 | News, Western Europe
TechCrunch April 24, 2014 When big data is more than a buzzword it can soon turn into a huge headache for developers or those charged with managing the storage and access of large and growing data sets. That’s the problem open source startup Crate Data has set out to...
Apr 23, 2014 | News, Western Europe
TechCrunch April 23, 2014 Last November, Robin Wauters, ex-TechCrunch writer and former European editor for The Next Web, launched new tech blog, Tech.eu, with a stated mission to fill the “gap” left for in-depth coverage of Europe’s technology industry (thanks for...