europe News of 12/09/19

Reddit Links UK-US Trade Talk Leak To Russian Influence Campaign

Reddit has linked account activity involving the leak and amplification of sensitive UK-US trade talks on its platform during the ongoing UK election campaign to a suspected Russian political influence operation. Or, to put it more plainly, the ...

Move Over Slack — Space Is A New Project Management Platform For Developers

Move over Slack — Space is a new project management platform for developers image While file sharing, time tracking, email integration, Gantt Charts, and budget management are usually some of the most requested features in the average project management platform, we still have a proliferation of tools taking a multiplicity of ...

Dutch Startup Meatable Is Developing Lab-Grown Pork And Has $10 Million In New Financing To Do It

Dutch startup Meatable is developing lab-grown pork and has $10 million in new financing to do it image Meatable, the Dutch startup developing cruelty-free technologies for manufacturing cultured meat, is pivoting to pork production as a swine flu epidemic ravages one quarter of the world’s pork supply — and has raised $10 million in ...

No Libra Style Digital Currencies Without Rules, Say EU Finance Ministers

European Union finance ministers have agreed a defacto ban on the launch in the region of so-called global ‘stablecoins’ such as Facebook’s planned Libra digital currency until the bloc has a common approach to regulation that ...

Einride To Launch Commercial Pilot Of Driverless Electric Pods With Coca-Cola European Partners

Autonomous robotic road-riding cargo pod startup Einride has signed a new partner for a commercial pilot on Sweden’s roads, which should be a great test of the company’s electric driverless transportation pods. Einride will be providing ...

GitGuardian Raises $12m To Help Developers Write More Secure Code And ‘Fix’GitHub Leaks

Data breaches that could cause millions of dollars in potential damages have been the bane of the life of many a company. What’s required is a great deal of real-time monitoring. The problem is that this world has become incredibly complex. A SANS ...

Dataiku Is Now Worth $1.4 Billion Following Secondary Round

Enterprise AI company Dataiku has announced some changes in its capitalization table. CapitalG (formerly Google Capital), Alphabet’s growth equity investment fund, is investing in the startup by buying out some of Serena Capital’s shares. ...

Prolific Wants To Challenge Amazon’S Mechanical Turk In The Online Research Space

Prolific , a U.K.-based startup that wants to make it easier to conduct online research, has raised $1.2 million in seed funding. The round is co-led by Silicon Valley-based Pioneer Fund, and Altair Capital, with support from various angel ...

Otta Picks Up £850,000 Seed To Match You To Relevant Jobs

Otta , one of the latest startups aiming to fix what it sees as a broken job search and recruitment market, has picked up £850,000 in seed funding. Backing the young London company is LocalGlobe, along with a number of U.K. angel investors and ...

Carbon Dioxide Emissions Are Set To Hit A Record High This Year (It’S Not Fine, But Not Hopeless)

Carbon dioxide emissions are set to hit a record high this year (it’s not fine, but not hopeless) image Carbon dioxide emissions, one of the main contributors to the climate changes bringing extreme weather, rising oceans, and more frequent fires that have killed hundreds of Americans and cost the U.S. billions of dollars, are set to reach another ...

Fronted, From Former Bud, Monzo And Apple Employees, Wants To Make Life Easier For Renters

Fronted , a new London-based startup aiming to make life easier for renters, is breaking cover today. The company, founded by Jamie Campbell, Simon Vans-Colina and Anthony Mann — former employees at Bud, Monzo and Apple, respectively — ...

Rapyd, Which Offers Fintech-As-A-Service Via A Single API, Adds $20m More To Its Coffers At A $1.2b Valuation

One of the biggest trends in the world of financial technology has been an ongoing push towards consolidation , where larger fish are snapping up smaller fish (including a proliferation of interesting startups ) to get improved economies of scale ...

Salv, The Anti-Money Laundering Startup Founded By Ex-TransferWise Employees, Picks Up $2m Seed

Salv , an anti-money laundering (AML) startup founded by former TransferWise and Skype employees, has raised $2 million in seed funding. The round is led by Fly Ventures, alongside Passion Capital and Seedcamp. Angel investors also participating ...

Xometry Acquires European On-Demand Manufacturing Marketplace Shift

Xometry , the U.S.-based marketplace for on-demand manufacturing that raised $55 million in Series D funding this summer, has acquired Munich-based Shift as a path to European expansion. Exact terms of the deal remain undisclosed, although the ...

Credit Startup Migo Expands To Brazil On $20m Raise And Africa Growth

Credit startup Migo expands to Brazil on $20M raise and Africa growth image After growing its lending business in West Africa, emerging markets credit startup Migo is expanding to Brazil on a $20 million Series B funding round led by Valor Group Capital . The San Mateo based company — previously branded Mines.io — ...

Cuvva Raises £15m Series A To Launch Flexible Monthly Car Insurance

Cuvva , the app-based insurance provider that began life offering pay-as-you-go driving cover but has since expanded to also sell travel insurance, has raised £15 million in Series A funding. Backing comes from RTP Global, Breega, and Digital ...

Penta, The German Business Banking Challenger, Partners With SumUp To Target Offline Businesses

Penta , the Berlin-based business banking challenger that also now operates in Italy, has partnered with BBVA-backed card reader company SumUp in a bid to attract more offline businesses. Up until recently, Penta had been targeting digital ...

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

Atomico Partner Tom Wehmeier reviews ‘The State of European Tech’ 2019 report image 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 ...

Facebook Launches A Photo Portability Tool, Starting In Ireland

It’s not friend portability , but Facebook has announced the launch today of a photo transfer tool to enable users of its social network to port their photos directly to Google’s photo storage service, via encrypted transfer. The ...

Uncapped Raises £10m To Offer ‘Revenue-Based’ Finance To Growing Businesses

Uncapped , a London headquartered and Warsaw-based startup that wants to provide “revenue-based” finance to growing European businesses, is officially launching today and disclosing that it has raised £10 million in funding. The ...