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Spotify plans to raise its Premium subscription by $1 to $12.99/month in the US, its first US price hike since July 2024, and increase it in Estonia and Latvia

Spotify plans to raise its Premium subscription by $1 to $12.99/month in the US, its first US price hike since July 2024, and increase it in Estonia and Latvia

Spotify Technology SA is raising the price of its premium subscription service by 8% in an effort to achieve sustained profitability.

Estonia-based Blackwall, formerly BotGuard, raised a €45M Series B to protect SMBs from malicious online traffic, after a €12M Series A in March 2024

A huge chunk of online traffic now comes from bots, both good and bad — but AI is boosting the latter.

Helsing, which makes AI tools for defense, raised a €450M Series C led by General Catalyst, a source says at a €4.95B valuation, taking its funding to €769M

- Company formed in 2021 has now raised nearly €770 million  — Helsing will open entity in Estonia as part of Baltic push

Estonia-based 3Commas, an automated crypto trading and portfolio management service, raised a $37M Series B led by Target Global, Alameda, Jump Crypto, and more

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Estonia-based Ready Player Me, which helps build cross-world animated avatars, raised a $56M Series B led by a16z, following a $13M Series A in January 2022

Last week, Mark Zuckerberg was roundly mocked for the bad graphics in his preview of a new expansion of Horizon Worlds, Meta's metaverse effort.

Estonia-based NFT infrastructure startup NFTPort has raised a $26M Series A co-led by Taavet+Sten and Atomico to help developers quickly launch NFT apps

The round was co-led by Atomico and Taavet+Sten, the investment arm from the co-founders of Wise and Teleport.

Estonia-based ride hailing service Bolt says it is launching a car sharing service in Europe, Bolt Drive, investing $24M in the expansion

Sam Shead / CNBC :

Estonia-based identity verification startup Veriff raises $69M Series B led by IVP and Accel, bringing its total raised to $92.8M

Bruce Rogers / Forbes :

Bolt, the Estonia-based on-demand transport network covering 200 cities in 40 countries, raises €150M led by D1 Capital Partners

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