Copenhagen-based Agreena, whose AI monitors satellite images to let farmers earn carbon credits, raised a €46M Series B led by HV, after a €20M Series A in 2022
🌾 Regenerative agriculture and carbon farming offer … Andreas Bernstrom : Well done everyone at Agreena, incredible progress and incredible mission. Since Kinnevik's first investm...
Report: only 15% of GPs at European VC firms are women, managing just 9% of total assets; in the UK, 13% of GPs are women, managing 5% of total assets
Across Europe as a whole, 85% of VC GPs are men. — In worse than the average in the UK, where 87% of GPs are men.
Delivery startup Gorillas lays off half its “global office workforce”, around 300 people, and will reassess its operations in Italy, Spain, Denmark, and Belgium
An unsustainable business or just a side effect of the tech downturn? — Grocery app Gorillas … Source: gorillas.io .
Klarna tells employees it plans to lay off 10% of its workforce, after reports of raising money at a reduced $30B valuation; LinkedIn shows it has 6,500+ staff
Avi Medical, which offers app-based personalized telehealth services, raises a €50M Series B led by Balderton Capital, after raising €28.5M in June 2021
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Used-car marketplace Cazoo raises £25M at a $1B+ valuation, bringing its total raised to £200M+
and it hasn't even raised a penny from SoftBank: https://sifted.eu/... Amy Lewin / @amyrlewin : Cazoo - the UK's latest unicorn - is yet another online retailer to have seen a bump...
Used-car marketplace Cazoo raises £25M at a $1B+ valuation, bringing its total raised to £200M+
and it hasn't even raised a penny from SoftBank: https://sifted.eu/... Amy Lewin / @amyrlewin : Cazoo - the UK's latest unicorn - is yet another online retailer to have seen a bump...
Survey of 200 UK startups during the pandemic: 49% have frozen hiring, 43% have stopped online ads, 40% have under one year's runway, and 30% have cut salaries
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Inside Israeli startup Infibond, which says it's using AI to create psychological profiles and is valued at $1.25B despite no publicly available product
an intriguing long read from @Siftedeu @orr_hirsch 'Talking to the dead, psychological profiling and a trail of lawsuits: Inside one of Israel's most valuable startups' https://sif...