Lisa Palchynska

German eco-startup the nu company closes a €3.7M financing round

As reported by der brutkasten, Leipzig-based eco-startup the nu company has closed a €3.7 million investment round led by German expert for green impact investing ForestFinance. Austrian food and beverage investor Square One Foods, CEO of Develey Michael Durach, Zurich-based

Europe encourages global online platforms to become more transparent in a fight with COVID-19 scams

On November 6, 2020, Didier Reynders, the EU commissioner for justice, met with 11 e-commerce and media companies including Amazon, Alibaba/AliExpress, eBay, Facebook, Google, Microsoft/Bing, Rakuten and Verizon Media/Yahoo to urge them “to join forces and engage in a peer-to-peer

German HR and legaltech startup twinwin raises €285k

Berlin-based startup twinwin has raised a €285,000 Pre-seed investment and welcomed Florian Eismann, previously founder wefox and FRI:DAY, on the board. It already includes such SaaS experts and investors from Silicon Valley, as Charlie Songhurst, former Head of Corporate Strategy

Vivid Money secures €15M from a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm

As reported by TechCrunch, German fintech Vivid Money has closed a €15 million Series A funding round that pushed its valuation to €100 million. Leading investor is the US Ribbit Capital VC fund. According to Finance Forward, the startup has totally

German developer of time recording software timeBro receives €500k

The Munich-based developer of the SaaS solution for the time recording automation timeBro has received €500,000 from primeCROWD investors including Heinz Raufer, a founder of Hotel.de, reports der brutkasten. Founded by Arne Reimann, Niclas Preisner and Mislav Boras, timeBro provides

List of German startups to watch in 2020. Part III

Germany is one of the leading startup powerhouses in Europe, attracting $4.8 billion in venture capital funding in 2019. The Sifted team has chosen a list of startups to follow in 2020. AIN.TECH publishes the third part of 20. Mambu

Austrian social media monitoring startup Storyclash secures €1.8M

As reported by der brutkasten, Linz-based martech startup Storyclash has secured €1.8 million in the funding round led by Austrian OÖ HightechFonds and German A Round Capital VC funds. Existing investors Gründerfonds, Speedinvest and Michael Grabner Media also participated.  Founded

Early wildfire detection startup SmokeD secures over $1M

Polish company SmokeD has raised more than $1 million from KnowledgeHub fund, reports MamStartup. SmokeD designs an early wildfire detection solution that consists of proprietary detector equipped with sensors and a microcomputer, AI-software, web and mobile app. The company’s technology

The 10 largest VC rounds of October 2020

AIN.TECH selected 10 startups from CEE that have raised the largest investments in October 2020. 4.5.6 Skin, $825M French startup 4.5.6 Skin has secured $825 million in a Seed round led by  Be Angels and French entrepreneurs including Fotolia and