Sep 11, 2014 | News, Western Europe
Festicket, the UK startup that offers a travel booking and discovery site for festival goers, has closed a $2.7 million Series A round. The new funding, which adds to a $680,000 seed round raised in March 2013, is being led by European VCs, Wellington Partners and...
Sep 11, 2014 | News, Oceania, Western Europe
TechCrunch Online learning startups are aplenty right now — from heavily-funded U.S-based MOOCS, such as Coursera and Udacity, to more thrifty European players like Iversity and Eliademy — there’s no doubt the edtech space is heating up. Now another startup is...
Aug 26, 2014 | News, Western Europe
Brandnew, a Berlin-based startup that helps brands create native ad campaigns for Instagram and Pinterest, announced that it has raised a total of $1.9 million in seed funding. This includes a $1.1 million grant from the city of Berlin, as well as $845,000 from...
Aug 26, 2014 | News, North America, Western Europe
Tastebuds.fm, the app that matches people based on their musical tastes, has found a match of its own. The London-based startup is acquiring U.S. competitor moosify, a mobile-first “social dating” app that also connects people around music. Terms of the deal remain...
Aug 22, 2014 | News, Western Europe
STOCKHOLM, Aug 22 (Reuters) – Kinnevik welcomes Holtzbrinck Ventures as a rocket shareholder * Holtzbrinck Ventures (“HV”), is contributing its entire stakes in seven of Rocket’s most developed e-commerce businesses directly into Rocket, in...
Aug 21, 2014 | China, East Asia, MENA, News, Western Europe
JERUSALEM, Aug 21 (Reuters) Aug 21 (Reuters) – The Catalyst CEL Fund said on Thursday it had agreed to invest $42 million in Lamina Technologies, a Swiss-based maker of metal-cutting tools. The fund said it would invest $10 million of new capital into Lamina,...
