Top news of the week: 13.09.2022.
This Week in European Tech: A newborn Swiss unicorn, Lightyear nabs €81 million, Instagram gets hefty €405 million fine, Cazoo retreats from the EU, and more
Here's a roundup of this week's biggest European Tech funding rounds, exits, 'other news' that you might have missed, and a compendium of must-read articles on all things #EUtech.
Move over Amazon and Netflix, this London-based startup is building, "a recommendation engine for life"
Martin Gould launched and sold his company Sonalytics to Spotify in less than 9 months. After four years of driving the teams that drive Spotify, Gould and co-founder Johnny Hunter want to ...
The ETH merge cometh
Equity is a TechCrunch podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines.
The Merge is upon us (and other TC news)
The TechCrunch Podcast covered the Y Combinator Demo Day and the upcoming Ethereum chain merge. And more. Find out what you've been missing on TechCrunch.
Paris-based Figures scores €6.67 million for its salary compensation benchmarking app
HRtech startup Figures has just secured about €6.67 million in a new investment round. The company has been an early pioneer in the salary compensation
Spanish platform Exoticca wraps up €20 million to plan travel in the ‘new normal’
Focusing on digitisation of multi-day tour packages to enable the online sale of complex trips with multiple components, the startup aims to provide a frictionless purchasing experience
London-based construction tech Modulous scores £10 million to build net-zero modular homes
It automates design, costing and programming so that developers, architects and contractors can figure out pricing and decide whether a site is viable in hours, not weeks
The biggest moonshots in YC’s S22 batch
This year’s batch gives a glimpse on what a cohort of YC-approved founders are prioritizing amid a downturn, pandemic, high inflation and ongoing war.