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GetYourGuide picks up $484M, passes 25M tickets sold through its tourism activity app

As we swing into the summer tourist season, a company poised to capitalise on that has raised a huge round of funding. GetYourGuide — a Berlin startup that has built a popular marketplace for pe

Sunstone Technology re-brands as Heartcore to become a consumer-only European tech fund

Update: An earlier version of this story positioned the €160 million fund as newly announced, when in actual fact it was disclosed in late 2017 and consists of a combination of Heartcore Fund III (

Inboard opens general availability of its premium electric scooter

Inboard, the startup that sells a range of electric scooters and skateboards, has just opened sales of its first premium scooter — just in time for the holiday season. The company has already so

Inboard Technology raises $8 million to be the Tesla of electric skateboards

If you're a company working on an electric skateboard that's already raised nearly $500,000 on Kickstarter and slayed the Shark Tank sharks what do you do for an encore? The answer, at least for

Peakon Raises €4M To Bring ‘People Analytics’ To Employee Engagement And Retention

Brain Training App Peak Scores $7 Million Series A Round

Late last year I declared a penchant for so-called brain training games, which claim to be able to help you improve your cognitive ability, while also cleverly tapping into the casual mobile gaming ph

Brain Training Startup Memorado Raises $1.3M

I've recently become hooked on so-called brain training games, which claim to be able to help you improve your cognitive ability, while also cleverly tapping into the casual mobile gaming phenomena. T

Shipbeat Is A “Logistics-As-A-Service” To Solve E-Commerce Delivery Woes

Denmark's <a target="_blank" href="http://shipbeat.com">Shipbeat</a> plans to offer an API that aggregates the services of leading parcel delivery companies, such as UPS, Fedex, Royal Mail, Deutsche P

Sunstone Capital Backs Beacon Platform Kontakt.io To The Tune Of $2 Million

"Bluetooth Low Energy and iBeacon are the building blocks of the next wave of computing," says Max Niederhofer of the micro-location technology that lets your smartphone trigger events based on how cl

Wishlist Startup, Addwish, Nabs $1.8M Seed From Sunstone Capital To Grow Its Presence In The U.S.

Tis the season for wish-lists. Addwish, a Danish startup offering online wish-list services for consumers and online businesses has closed $1.8 million in seed funding from Nordic-based early stage VC

Freespee Raises Further €3.3 Million For Its Mobile Click-To-Call Advertising And Analytics Service

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.freespee.com">Freespee</a>, the European mobile click-to-call advertising and analytics startup, has raised a new round of funding: €3.3 million (approx. $4.3m) l

Podio, the connected work platform, secures $4m in Series A round

<img class="shot" title="Podio" src="http://www.crunchbase.com/assets/images/resized/0010/0372/100372v1-max-250x250.png" alt="" width="140" height="61" /><a href="http://www.podio.com ">Podio</a>, whi

Prezi Gains VC Funding And Jack Dorsey As An Advisor

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/prezilogo-nofilter-215x92.png" width="215" height="92" />I was genuinely amazed when I first saw a demo of <a href="http://prezi.com/">Prezi</