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#fundingalert 💼Company: fynk 💰Funding: $3.5 Million ⚡Round: New 👥Investors: 3VC, 10x Founders, Hansi Hansmann, Moritz Thiele (Finanzcheck), Ignaz Forstmeier (Personio), Domagoj Dolinsek (PlanRadar), Stefan Speiser (Latido), Alexander Brix (Canva) and Kai Romberg (Hg Capital). fynk empower businesses to make contract workflows their competitive advantage. Their teams use fynk to create beautiful and re-usable contracts, fill them with dynamic data and conditional logic, collaborate and sign in real-time, while delivering a best-in-class experience to their customers. Felix Haas, Peter L., Constantin Wintoniak, Markus Presle, Sebastian Nedoma, Dominik Hackl, Constantin Wintoniak Read more - https://lnkd.in/g6C4JGqW To share your startup story write us on - [email protected] #fynk #businesses #legaltech #fundraising #startup #funding #news

#fundingalert 💼Company: Sibill 💰Funding: €6.2 Million ⚡Round: New Round 👥Investors: Keen Venture Partners, Founders Fund, and Exor Ventures since founding. Sibill, a company founded in 2021, provides an integrated, all-in-one solution to help SMBs in #Italy meet their unique needs. The platform is easy to use and allows users to accomplish more with less resources. The money, which was raised in two tranches, will help Sibill achieve its goal of becoming the top #FinOps platform for small and medium-sized businesses in Italy, which is the largest SMB market in Europe. Mattia Montepara, Briehan Burke, Lorenzo Liguori, Federica Felicetti, Raffaele Mauro, Touria Mazyan, Francesco Benincasa, Marco Frieri Read more - https://lnkd.in/eMcNe4Ap To share your startup story write us on - [email protected] #Sibill #SMBs #businesses #fundingnews #news #startup #startupnews #startuprise

#fundingalert 💼Company: Glaut 💰Funding: €1.3 Million ⚡Round: Pre-Seed 👥Investors: Italian Founders Fund, David Clarke, Pietro Cesati, Brainstorm Ventures, Alecla7, Ithaca, BHeroes, Club degli Investitori, Eden Ventures, and Delirus Capital Glaut aids businesses in gaining qualitative insights that are missed by conventional surveys. They interview hundreds of customers in-depth at the price and duration of a survey. It hopes to utilise this funding to fortify its product and tech team, enhance its customer research platform, and provide vertical solutions for other market research use cases. Gioia Manetti, Matteo Cera, Giovanni Del Gallo, Christian Bianciotto Read more -https://lnkd.in/gv3a6HS6 To share your startup story write us on - [email protected] #Glaut #businesses #surveys #marketreasearch #funding #fundingnews #news #startupnews #startup

#fundingalert 💼Company: Dreamcraft Ventures 💰Funding: €66 Million ⚡Round: Fund II 👥Investors: Dreamcraft Ventures Dreamcraft makes pre-seed to series A investments in tech-driven #European businesses. As venture engineers, they support the team of dreamers and #craftspeople who work together to achieve success. Dreamcraft Ventures intends to further connect the Nordic and wider European IT sectors, having already made large investments in #Germany. As part of the firm's strategy, portfolio businesses receive full operational support from the start of their engagement all the way through Series A. Carsten Gjørtler Salling, Daniel Nyvang-Székely Mariussen, Jesper Søgaard, Nico Blier-Silvestri, Mathilde Lyet, Kenneth Dambo, Daniel Nyvang-Székely Mariussen Read more - https://lnkd.in/etyf92QK To share your startup story write us on - [email protected] #DreamcraftVentures #businesses #investments #fundingnews #news #startup #startupnews #startuprise

🗞️ Earlier this year, a survey by the European Union revealed 71% of Europeans have been affected by disinformation and 86% of Europeans agree that the rapid spread of disinformation is a major problem for democracy. Disinformation campaigns are increasingly being used against corporates and commercial entities for nefarious reasons. This has impacted the reputation of companies, their senior leaders and their share prices. ⛏️ In the mining sector, Rio Tinto's CEO claimed a "well-organised" disinformation campaign is undermining support for their lithium mine in Northen Serbia. In other news, Bloomberg reported a ruby-smuggling syndicate in Mozambique had ignited a disinformation campaign that the Gemfields Group “opened its mine for mining by anyone” for 24 hours. And this is happening across a number of industries and it's only growing. Tom Garnett and ‎Vlad Galu co-founded Refute to fight against disinformation, by building software to detect and respond to campaigns at the speed of the attackers. They have come out of stealth to announce their £2.3M pre-seed investment round, led by Playfair and Episode 1 Ventures and are joined by Amadeus Capital Partners, Notion Capital and Ventures Together. I'm grateful to be a small part of their entrepreneurial journey as an angel investor, and I can't wait to see them tackle this problem, at scale. Check out their TechCrunch coverage 👇

We are proud to announce that Refute has secured a £2.3m pre-seed investment round as covered by TechCrunch, led by Playfair and Episode 1 Ventures with participation from Amadeus Capital Partners, Notion Capital and Ventures Together. We’re also pleased to have experienced business angel investors on board, including: Alastair Paterson, Andrei David, Carlos Eduardo Espinal MBE, Charlie Songhurst, Colin Evans, James C., Mircea Danila Dumitrescu, Nefyn Jones, Paul Young and Rockman Law. This investment accelerates our mission to fight disinformation at the speed of the attackers. We’re excited to have the investors as part of the team. Read the TechCrunch article here: https://lnkd.in/gbV78PjC #playfair #episode1 #amadeus #notioncapital #venturestogether #ukfundraising #fundraiseannouncement #fundraisinground #preseedinvestment #preseedround #ukstartups #counterdisinformation #fightingdisinformation #ukstartupstowatch #uktechstartups #disinformation

In case you missed this during your holidays: With nearly 100 million #VentureCapital raised so far in 2024, #startups of the canton of #Bern have set a new record. As the latest Update of the #SwissVentureCapital report puts it: "The good results for these cantons (Bern & Geneva) show that they now have ecosystems that are able to produce promising start-ups." Exciting times to be part of this growing innovation ecosystem! Bern Economic Development Agency University of Bern Innovation Office University of Bern be-advanced AG Startupticker.ch

📰 Great to see Ugly Duckling Ventures' own Louise Lachmann featured in the 'Weekly Investor' ('Ugens Investor') profile feature in Danish startup media, Bootstrapping.dk today 🤩 The profile feature touches upon; 💪 The challenge of positioning oneself as a smaller venture fund in the current high-interest landscape 💰 The fundraise of our Fund II 🎯 Why we have decided to narrow our investment focus to B2B Subscription, and the benefits of having a concentrated portfolio model with a strong follow-up thesis 🙋♀️🙋♂️ 📈 Learnings from, and development in, Fund I, including recent positive markups in portfolio companies such as Eupry, Unioo, and YOGO.DK 👩⚖️ Louise's recent elevation to chair at Fonden for Entreprenørskab, and her focus on strengthening entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial culture Link to the article in the comment section below 👇 #uglyducklingventures #bootstrapping #venturecapital #startups #vc #vcfundraise #portfolio #b2b #saas

Read this article and convince me how you don’t need a strong Chair or NonExec. No need for governance in startups. Or accelerators! No need for entrepreneurs and founders to understand the legals and the implications of the agreements they sign. We are letting our founders down by focusing only on pitching, fund raising and culture. #Entrepreneurship #Founders #VC #AI #Fundraising #Scotland

Majority of Startups fail in their pitches to the investors because they are often not investor-ready. There are several risks and opportunities that investors see before investing. Startups should build their business model from the investors' perspective and get investor-ready or else it becomes a premature attempt. Here is a quick test for you to know whether you are investor-ready or not. To take the quick test visit https://lnkd.in/gu9JQd6f #StartupIndia #startupfund #startupfunding #fundraise #funding Viswanadham Duppatla Bindu Nishal M R Rao Manohar Reddy Ramana Prasad Alam Sharad Saxena Raghu Babu Gunturu Vivek Tuljapurkar Dr. Kishore Nuthalapati Sanjay Jesrani Viiveck Verma Chandrasekhar Padmasola