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Map of Polish funding ecosystem 2022: active VCs, business angels, and accelerators

The Polish startup ecosystem is growing rapidly. According to Inovo Venture Partners data, in 2021, the total funding of Polish startups provided by local and international VCs amounted to €793 million (3.6 billion złotych). Meanwhile, the first quarter of 2022 hit the

Finnish indoor climate software Freesi raises €1.7M from Curiosity

The Espoo-based indoor climate software Freesi has raised a €1.7 million seed investment round from Curiosity VC. The funding will allow Freesi to grow its business internationally. Founded in 2017 by Samu Niska and Antti-Jaakko Alanko, Freesi offers software for indoor air

Finnish Leadfeeder and German Echobot merge and raise €180M

The Finnish sales lead generation tool Leadfeeder and the German sales cloud software Echobot have merged to fuel their next steps. The companies have also together raised €180 million from Great Hill Partners, TechCrunch reports. Founded in 2012 by Herkko Kiljunen, Pekka Koskinen, and Vicent

Banda, Bickerstaff.734, and Saatchi&Saatchi Ukraine win Cannes Lions Awards

Three Ukrainian projects have won silver and bronze awards at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity 2022, which began on June 20 and will run for four days. Banda Agency got a silver Cannes Lions award for its projects

Butterfly Ventures raises €47M for new Fund IV

Butterfly Ventures, a Helsinki-based venture capital firm, has raised the first €47 million of their new €100 million Fund IV. The Fund is going to invest in the Baltic and Nordic startups and is one of the first to be

WhatsApp founder secretly donates to organizations that help Ukrainians

Jan Koum, a Ukrainian-born Jew and WhatsApp founder, has quietly donated tens of millions of dollars to help Ukrainians. In particular, he finances some humanitarian programs aimed at supporting Ukraine and its migrants in Europe, Jewish Telegraphic Agency writes. According

Overview of IT salaries in Polish startups: up to $7,700 per month for seniors

The Warsaw-based VC fund bValue has created a report on the Polish startup labor market and salaries of IT specialists in the startup sector in Q1 of 2022. The research is based on the data from 2,958 job offers published on Just Join

Finland’s TILT Biotherapeutics raises €10M for cancer treatment

The Helsinki-based TILT Biotherapeutics has completed the first close of its financing round by raising €10 million. Lifeline Ventures is the lead investor, with Tesi joining this round to advance cancer therapeutics. TILT was founded by a cancer clinician Akseli

Finland-founded AlphaSense raises $225M and becomes unicorn

AlphaSense, a market intelligence software startup by Finnish founders, has raised a $225 million Series D investment. Goldman Sachs and Viking Global Investors co-led the round. The company became the fifth unicorn in the region, valued at $1.7 billion, ArcticStartup

Estonian NFTPort raises €24.9M for building NFT infrastructure

The Tallinn-based startup NFTPort has raised €24.9 million in a Series A funding round. It builds a decentralized NFT infrastructure to underpin the NFT market, EU-Startups reports. Founded in 2019 by Johannes Tammekänd and Kaspar Peterson, NFTPort provides one-stop and developer-friendly