adyen News of 07/14/20

Target Global Has A €1m “Super Seed” Fund Incoming To Switch On Laid Off Tech Talent In Spain During COVID-19

Target Global is backing a €1 million support fund for tech talent in Spain laid off or furloughed as a result of the coronavirus crisis. The aim is to provide pre-seed financing to help crisis-hit tech workers switch gears and build out a ...

With A String Of Hits Behind It, Felicis Ventures Wraps Up Its Newest Fund With $510 Million

Felicis Ventures , the early-stage, Menlo Park-based venture firmed founded nearly 15 years ago by Aydin Senkut, has closed its seventh and newest fund with $510 million in capital commitments. That’s almost twice what Felicis raised for its ...

US Regulators Need To Catch Up With Europe On Fintech Innovation 

Alastair Mitchell Contributor Share on Twitter Alastair Mitchell is a partner at multi-stage VC fund EQT Ventures and the fund's B2B sales, marketing and SaaS expert. Ali also focuses on helping US ...

Atomico Partner Tom Wehmeier Reviews ‘The State Of European Tech’ 2019 Report

Atomico , the European venture capital firm founded by Skype’s Niklas Zennström , has released its latest annual The State of European Tech report, published in partnership with Slush and Orrick. As part of the report, the authors ...

Elavon To Acquire Sage Pay, A Gateway That Competes With Stripe, PayPal And Adyen, For $300m

E-commerce continues to gain momentum — a trend we’ll see played out in the next two months of holiday shopping — and with that comes more consolidation. Today, Elavon , the payments company that is a subsidiary of US Bancorp, ...

Europe Shows The Way In Online Privacy

Alastair Mitchell Contributor Share on Twitter Alastair Mitchell is a partner at multi-stage VC fund EQT Ventures and the fund's B2B sales, marketing and SaaS expert. Ali also focuses on helping US ...

Still In Stealth Mode, Duffel Raises $21.5m In Series A From Benchmark For Its Travel Platform

Ten months ago London startup Duffel hinted that it would be “a new way to book travel online, aiming at the booking experience ‘end to end’”, and announced a healthy $4.7M funding round, but not much else. Today it goes further, ...

There’S Definitely Reason To Worry About Brexit, Says Accel’S London Team; “It’S Not Just Startups; I’M Not A U.K. Citizen”

Longtime Accel partners Philippe Botteri, Sonali De Rycker, Luciana Lixandru, and Harry Nelis took the stage at Disrupt Berlin earlier today, and unlike many London-based investors, who have downplayed how much Brexit could hurt their local ...

As Stock Rises On A Slim Earnings Beat, EBay Tells Analysts To Focus On Payments And Ads

Despite increasing competition from traditional retailers like Walmart and Target, which have invested heavily in e-commerce, and the whupping it’s routinely taking from Amazon among pure e-commerce companies, eBay the 20-year-old lumbering ...