#SeoTips Sitting in Athens during the first Covid-19 lockdown, entrepreneur Rania Lamprou watched as online e-commerce exploded because of social distancing. But merchants still struggled with low conversion rates because their checkout processes w...
Friday, September 20, 2024
Friday, July 12, 2024
A startup set out to fight climate change — it did it by helping plumbers #Ecommerce
#SeoTips The founders of HERO Software didn’t start out to help small tradespeople in construction with a platform. They started out to fight the climate crisis. But in doing so, they stumbled on a way to help the whole business. Now, the company h...
Thursday, July 4, 2024
Forestay, Europe’s newest $220M growth-stage VC fund, will focus on AI #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Forestay, an emerging VC based out of Geneva, Switzerland has been busy. This week it closed its second fund, Forestay Capital II, at a hard cap of $220 million. The VC wasn’t well known in Europe until it started to lead rounds in enterpr...
Monday, July 1, 2024
Vaire Computing raises $4.5M for ‘reversible computing’ moonshot which could drastically reduce energy needs #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Vaire Computing, based in London and Seattle, is betting that chips that can do reversible computing are going to be the way forward for the world. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. via https://www.aiupnow.co...
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
Berlin-based trawa raises €10M to use AI to make buying renewable energy easier for SMEs #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Trawa simplifies energy purchasing and management for SMEs by leveraging an AI-powered platform and downstream data from customers. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. via https://www.aiupnow.com Mike Butcher...
Shipping logistics startup Harbor Lab raises $16M Series A led by Atomico #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Cargo ships docking at a commercial port incur costs called “disbursements” and “port call expenses.” This might be port dues, towage, and pilotage fees. It’s a complex patchwork and all ports operate their own procedures, much of it on sp...
Wednesday, May 8, 2024
Checkfirst raises $1.5M pre-seed, applying AI to remote inspections and audits #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Checkfirst enables businesses to schedule inspectors based on geographical location and qualifications, in addition to allowing for remote inspections. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. via https://www.aiupno...
Monday, April 15, 2024
Lawhive raises $12M to expand its legaltech AI platform for small firms #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Lawhive has raised £9.5 million ($11.9 million) in a seed round to offer AI-driven services to ‘main street’ law firms. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. via https://www.aiupnow.com Mike Butcher, Khareem Sud...
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
TransferGo raises $10M to expand its remittance business in Asia, doubling valuation #Ecommerce
#SeoTips TransferGo, the UK-based fintech best known as a consumer platform for global remittances, has raised a $10 million growth funding round from Taiwan-based investor Taiwania Capital, with a view to expanding in the Asia-Pacific region. It l...
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
Healthcare platform Anima brings Salesforce-like capabilities to clinics, raises $12M #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Globally, healthcare IT systems are groaning under the weight of legacy platforms. Thankfully, there’s a new wave of startups entering the arena: UK startup Anima is a “care enablement” platform that operates almost like a combination of S...
Friday, February 23, 2024
Two years since Russia’s invasion, Ukraine’s startups soldier on #Ecommerce
#SeoTips This weekend marks exactly two years since Russia’s illegal, unprovoked and brutal invasion of Ukraine. Despite overwhelming odds and continued hiccups in the supplies of Western aid to fight off Russia’s onslaught, the country and its tec...
Tuesday, February 6, 2024
Open Source ‘headless commerce’ builder Saleor closes $8M round led by Target Global and Zalando #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Saleor — a Poland and U.S.-based startup that develops an open-source headless’ e-commerce platform that developers then use to build online shops — has pulled in an $8 million Seed-extension round led by Target Global (the investors which...
Friday, February 2, 2024
As Podcastle raises $13.5M, its founder credits AI-driven growth in Armenia’s ‘Mini-Silicon Valley’ #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Podcastle, a podcasting platform that has boosted its product with various generative AI-driven features, has raised $13.5 million in a Series A funding round led by Mosaic Ventures. Also participating were existing Podcastle investors RTP...
Thursday, February 1, 2024
MessageBird rebrands as Bird, and slashes prices by 90% on SMS to take on Twilio #Ecommerce
#SeoTips No, don’t think Bird Scooters. Think Bird, formerly MessageBird. For the Amsterdam-based unicorn is now re-branding as such after reportedly acquiring the Bird.com domain name a couple of years ago, allegedly for many millions. Founded in ...
Monday, November 6, 2023
Lidl owner and Bosch Ventures co-lead $500M Series B into German AI start-up Aleph Alpha #Ecommerce
#SeoTips German AI start-up Aleph Alpha has raised a Series B funding round of $500 million from a consortium of seven new investors, as well as existing investors from previous rounds. Founded in 2019, Aleph Alpha’s funding may be dwarfed by that ...
Tuesday, October 24, 2023
Oxolo bags €13M for Gen AI-driven video platform which can optimise engagement on the fly #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Much has been made of AI-powered videos which can either make a real person speak different words or other languages, or generate a synthetic person which can speak on-demand. A few years ago former football star David Beckham helped push ...
Tuesday, October 4, 2022
Slovenia’s Bunny.net raises a $6M round to offer a ‘developer-friendly’ CDN #Ecommerce
#SeoTips It might be a little early to say ‘look out Cloudflare!’ especially given it’s $20B valuation, but a Slovenian startup thinks the web security giant has missed a trick in the market, as developers become more ignored in favor of large corp...
Thursday, September 29, 2022
Can companies issue stakes in their success without using shares or options? This startup thinks so #Ecommerce
#SeoTips So-called ‘stakeholder capitalism’ has not had the most illustrious of histories. Yes, there have been ‘Walmart Associates’ who were able to own stock in the company, or ‘John Lewis Associates’ (in the UK), but it’s hardly made the average...
Tuesday, June 28, 2022
These four iconic European founders plan to kick the asses of VCs who never started a company #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Until recently, Taavet Hinrikus, co-founder of Wise, and Sten Tamkivi, co-founder of Teleport, had banded together as a sort of “mini Angel brand” known as “Taavet+Sten.” Tamkivi has done around 50 angel deals, Hinrikus has, reportedly, do...
Wednesday, December 1, 2021
Fresh from a $10M round, Plan A launches SaaS tool for ESG reporting aimed at startups/VCs
#Tech With key ESG reporting regulations such as the EU Taxonomy and the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) covering more than 75 percent of European companies, across the EU and the UK, the regulatory environment is evolving fast. No...