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Accountable Raises €10M Total in Extended Series A
May 05, 2022

Mobile tax and financial services startup Accountable secured a total of €10 million ($10.5 million) in an expanded Series A funding round, bringing its total raised since launching to €16 million, EU-Startups reported Thursday (May 5). Launched in 2017 by co-founder and CEO Nicolas Quarré,...

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French Healthcare Super App Alan Valued at $2.8B After Series E
May 05, 2022

French health insurer Alan has raised $193.1 million (183 million euros) in a Series E funding round that values the company at $2.8 billion (2.7 billion euros). As the company said in a news release Thursday (May 5),  Alan hopes to build its healthcare super...

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Jobandtalent Secures $250M to Drive Daily Wage Access
May 05, 2022

Managed job platform Jobandtalent locked down $250 million in debt financing to innovate its platform with financial product offerings such as flexible wage access. Citi, Goldman Sachs and AnaCap Financial Partners provided the debt financing to enable Jobandtalent to further build out its platform and...

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Nigerian Trade Tech Firm Norebase Raises $1M in Pre-Seed Round
May 04, 2022

Norebase, a Nigeria-based trade technology firm, announced Wednesday (May 4) it had secured $1 million in a pre-seed funding round. Based in Lagos, Nigeria, Norebase describes its goal as a platform that lets businesses “start, scale and operate in any African country. “Norebase is building...

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Cloud Infrastructure Startup Teleport Valued at $1B
May 04, 2022

Cloud infrastructure access platform Teleport has raised $100 million in a Series C round, funding that values the company at $1.1 billion, according to a Tuesday (May 3) press release. Teleport announced its unicorn status on its blog Tuesday (May 3), saying it signifies the...

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Musk Wants to Take Twitter Public, Report Says
May 04, 2022

Elon Musk has said to possible investors that he could return the company to public ownership in a few years, according to the Wall Street Journal. Musk, who announced last week that he’d buy the company and take it private for $44 billion, said he...

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Lithuanian FinTech kevin Nets $65M for A2A Infrastructure
May 04, 2022

Lithuanian fintech kevin., which provides an A2A payment infrastructure intended to replace card transactions, has gotten Series A funding for $65 million, a report says. The funding comes after the seed round six months ago, when the company got $10 million. The report says kevin.’s...

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FinTech Possible Finance Raises $20M in Equity Funding
May 03, 2022

FinTech firm Possible Finance, which works on financial services for the underserved, announced Tuesday (May 3) that it has received an additional $20 million in equity funding, along with important key executive hires and the rollout of new credit card and cash advance products. According...

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Italy’s BNPL Unicorn Scalapay Secures $27M From Poste Italiane
May 03, 2022

Buy now, pay later (BNPL) startup Scalapay has secured $27 million in a Series B extension from Italy’s postal service Poste Italiane. The fresh capital is an extension of Scalapay’s $497 million Series B in February and will go towards scaling and developing the startup’s...