This week in European technology: Wayflyer gets an investment round of 300 million dollars, Flink buys Cajoo, Earlybird VC closes a new fund of 350 million euros and more

This week, the team (Tech. eu (and Webrazzi) were in Brussels for our first summit Tech. eu (some photographs here, many more here).

We’re excited about how things went. See you the year?

This week, however, our studio team tracked more than 9 five generation investment deals worth more than €1800 million and more than five exits, M&A transactions, rumours and similar news across Europe.

As always, we bring them all combined for you into a list that will be sent out in our abstract newsletter next Monday (note: the full list is for paying consumers only and also comes in downloadable spreadsheet form).

Below you will find a review of the main news of the European generation of the last few days (subscribe to our free newsletter to receive this summary in your inbox every Monday morning).

Dublin-based Unicorn Wayflyer, a company that provides revenue-based financing and an expansion platform for e-commerce companies, announced on Monday that it had raised $300 million (about 288. 28 million euros) as part of a J. P. Morgan debt financing circular.

London-based Thought Machine raised $160 million in a Series D investment circular directed through Temasek. With its cutting-edge software solutions, the startup is helping banks and monetary establishments move away from legacy IT systems.

Antin Infrastructure Partners, an independent personal equity firm that specializes in infrastructure investments, announced Wednesday that it has agreed to obtain a co-ownership stake in Power Dot, an owner-operator of electric vehicle charging infrastructure founded in Portugal. The investment amount is 150 million euros

Paris-based DiliTrust, a SaaS provider that responds to legal departments to achieve excellence in corporate governance, announced on Friday that it has raised €130 million in a new fundraising circular.

Berlin’s Zolar reports a quadrupling of visitor demand over the past five months, as emerging energy prices increase demand for solar solutions, and has raised €100 million in a Series C investment to meet and exceed that demand.

Grid Finance, a lender of money advances for micro and small businesses, has obtained a financing line of 100 million euros from the British asset manager Fasanara Capital from its expansion in the coming years.

London-based fintech payments and credit company MarketFinance has ended up £100 million in a build-up of Deutsche Bank debt.

Integrated invoice platform Modulr has raised £83 million in a Series C investment led by General Atlantic.

London- and Helsinki-based e-commerce aggregator eBrands has raised $30 million to enable Nordic players to go global.

Flink, the German fast-delivery startup, will buy its competitor Cajoo in France, which will deliver it to French supermarket chain Carrefour.

The Treatwell Group, a good-looking and well-being app in Europe, announces the acquisition of Wavy, the French SaaS company founded in 2016 through Clément Moreno.

Backed by Sofia-based LAUNCHub Ventures, the leanplum cellular marketing platform was acquired through CleverTap for an undisclosed amount.

Earlybird Venture Capital has closed its seventh start-up fund of the company’s Digital West investment team with a ceiling of €350 million, making it one of the largest start-up budgets in Europe.

London-based global personal equity platform Lightrock, which supports marketers to solve the world’s most pressing problems, has closed a new $330 million personal equity fund for Latin America.

Manchester-based venture capital firm Praetura Ventures has closed its most recent investment round, bringing the total raised through its Corporate Investment Scheme (EIS) fund to £100 million since its launch in 2019.

Upfin, a new VC to support the Nordic fintech community, has raised €30 million to invest in startups in the region.

While last week was undoubtedly the worst week for crypto asset functionality in a long time, it doesn’t seem to avoid eFounders. The Software Startup Studio as a Service announces the launch of a new sub-studio called 3founders.

Google’s Russian unit will file for bankruptcy after the government seized the tech company’s bank account.

The EU and the EE. UU. se have moved closer to a common form of synthetic intelligence (AI) following the last assembly of the Transatlantic Trade and Technology Council (TTC), their national methods for regulating generation remain at odds with each other.

Google is facing a new lawsuit in the UK over a fitness data scandal that erupted in 2016, when it emerged that its artificial intelligence division, DeepMind, had acquired data on more than a million patients as part of an app development task through Royal. Free NHS Trust in London: wisdom or consent of patients.

The largest vehicle battery recycling plant in Europe comes into operation.

Helsinki-based ArcticStartup, the organizer of Arctic15 and an independent generation company that reports on virtual startups and business expansion in the Nordic and Baltic countries, has raised an undisclosed amount in a bridge circular. The circular was attended by several well-known angel investors. , adding American investor Gary Vaynerchuk, who invested in the company for a while and became the third largest shareholder.

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