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French Georges.tech becomes Indy and raises $42.5 million

 Lyon-based Indy, a SAAS startup, has raised $42.5 million in Series B financing. The round was led by Singular, with participation from Alven Capital and Kerala Ventures.  Founded in 2016 by Côme Fouques, Pablo Larvor, Adrien Plat and Romain Koenig,

German drone startup Wingcopter closes a $22M Series A round

Wingcopter, a developer, manufacturer and operator of unmanned delivery drones, has raised $22 million in a Series A funding round led by Silicon Valley-based Xplorer Capital and Futury Regio Growth Fund, a Germany-based growth capital fund. Futury Ventures and Hessen

Austrian startup QuickSpeech raises €500k for its learning app

Edutech QuickSpeech has raised €500,000 from the construction company Porr, business angel Nathalie Karré and the Austrian Research Promotion Agency, der brutkasten writes. Launched in 2018, QuickSpeech is the mobile learning app designed for corporate needs. It offers tailored to

Tomorrow’s Education lands €1.1M for the development of its e-learning platform

Berlin’s edtech startup Tomorrow’s Education has raised €1.1 million in a pre-seed funding round led by a British early-stage fund Emerge Education, EU-Startups reports. Tomorrow’s Education is developing a mobile-first learning platform for students all around the globe. Unlike the

Berlin-based Elinvar closes a €25M round to scale its multi-tenant platform

Wealthtech Elinvar has raised €25 million in a funding round led by a London-based multi-asset alternative investment management firm Toscafund Asset Management. Previous investors Ampega Asset Management, finleap and Goldman Sachs also participated in the round, the company said in

Lerta raises $2M to develop the virtual power plant

Poznań-based Lerta, a company developing modern technological solutions for the energy sector, has raised $2 million. Photon Energy, a global provider of solar power solutions and services, has invested over $1 million and acquired 12% of Lerta’s shares. It is

Polish customer service automation solution PAPU.io lands $990k

Poznań-based startup PAPU.io has received $990k in a seed round from PKO VC and RKKVC funds, MamStartup writes. Founded in 2018 by CEO Emil Konrad and Michał Strecker, PAPU.io is a POS system that automates processes related to the delivery

HiPeople raises $3M in a seed round for its reference checks product

Berlin-based HiPeople has closed a $3 million seed round led by Mattias Ljungman’s Moonfire with participation from Capnamic Ventures and Cherry Ventures, TechCrunch reports. HiPeople is HRtech that enables companies to collect in-depth candidate reference checks without any additional manual

Real estate investment platform Exporo closes a €16M funding round

German startup Exporo has raised €16 million in a round led by Partech with participation from its previous backers e.ventures, HV Holtzbrinck Ventures and Heartcore Capital, EU-Startups writes. Exporo develops an online marketplace that offers real estate projects as an