Countries - page 96

Estonian identity verification startup Veriff becomes unicorn with $100M funding

Tallinn-based Veriff has closed a $100 million Series C round, becoming Estonia’s sixth unicorn. The other five are Skype, Wise, Pipedrive, Bolt, and Playtech. The fresh round values Veriff at $1.5 billion, Sifted reports. Founded in 2015 by the Estonians

Estonian fintech Tuum secures €15M for digital banking development

Tuum, a Tallinn-based fintech, has closed a €15 million Series A funding round led by Portage Ventures, a global investor dedicated to supporting fintech companies. The existing investors, Blackfin Tech and Karma Ventures, also participated, Sifted reports. Tuum was founded

Finnish market research startup Statzon raises €350k seed round

Statzon, a Lahti-based market intelligence startup, has closed a €350,000 seed funding round. Leading investor was Gorilla Capital, Aikainen, Nordea Startup & Growth, as well as some angel investors also joined the round, ArcticStartup informs. As a computer software company,

CallPage, a Poland-based startup founded by Ukrainians, acquired by SaaS Labs

The Polish startup CallPage has been taken over by the US company SaaS Labs, as announced by the startup’s co-founder Ross Knap. The parties have not revealed the financial terms of the deal. SaaS Labs is a US-Indian startup that

Top 10 birth countries of American unicorn founders

Ukraine was included in the list of ten countries in which the founders of the US unicorns were born. Twelve founders of the largest American startups are from Ukraine, per the Stanford University Graduate School of Business Venture Capital Initiative

Ukrainian startup market: business types, earnings, challenges

The Polish-Ukrainian Startup Bridge project has published a study about the Ukrainian startup ecosystem. The authors have surveyed 158 representatives of local startups and identified the problems of the companies and their immediate goals. The startups named the lack of

“For the first few weeks, The Credit Thing got the same number of clients as Koto for months.” Mykhailo Rogalskiy talks about rebranding

In December 2021, the fintech startup Koto from London, launched by monobank founders, has made rebranding and relaunched its product. Now it is The Credit Thing, and it looks even more similar to mono. An AIN.UA editor had a chat

UK’s Koto becomes The Credit Thing

In December 2021, the fintech startup Koto, launched in London by the co-founders of the Ukrainian service monobank, has rebranded and relaunched its product. It is now called The Credit Thing and looks even more like mono. Koto is a mobile banking

Yahaha Studios, Finnish platform for building games, raises $50M to launch no-code metaverse

Yahaha Studios, a Finland-based platform for building no-code, immersive games, has raised $50 million in three rounds ahead of its launch this year, TechCrunch reports. Yahaha Studios is a platform that provides both developers and players the ability to build,

Apple adds 20% VAT to App Store prices in Ukraine

It has been revealed to AIN.UA that within the next few days (January 13–14), Apple will raise its prices for applications and in-app purchases (excluding auto-renewable subscriptions) on the App Store in Ukraine by 20%. This is due to the