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This week, our聽 team tracked more than 60 tech funding deals worth over 900 million euros ($997.7 million), as well as more than 10 M&A transactions, rumors and related news stories across Europe, including Russia, Israel and Turkey.
Meanwhile, here鈥檚 an overview of the 10 biggest European tech news items for this week (聽to get this roundup in your inbox every Monday morning):
1)聽Estonian ride-hailing service Bolt said on Tuesday聽聽from London-based investment firm in a deal valuing the European rival of Uber at 1.7 billion euros.
2)聽Buyout group聽, a Spanish online marketplace for graphics and stock photos. The deal values at 250 million euros, according to a report by local newspaper El Economista citing market sources.
3)听, a Zurich-based enterprise platform for computer vision and augmented reality, 聽led by , which was joined by , , , , and .
4)聽French cloud-based telephony platform聽 to capitalize on the surge in remote communication needs. The round was led by , with participation from new investors Swisscom and Adam Street, as well as existing investors , , and NextWorld.
5) British artificial intelligence drug discovery company 聽led by a new investor, Denmark鈥檚 , with existing investors such as , and chipping in.
6)听叠别谤濒颈苍-产补蝉别诲 , a credit comparison platform that offers cheaper loan options to consumers, has聽, along with existing investors , , and . The round includes a mix of capital and growth debt.
7)聽Amsterdam-based venture capital firm has launched its fourth fund, henQ 4,听. The Dutch VC typically leads pre-seed to Series A rounds in B2B software companies across Europe.
8)听, a London-based customer experience analytics platform,听, a family fund in the U.K. The round also includes an initial investment of $17 million from , and Ventureforgood. The company has raised $54 million to date.
9)聽Berlin-based startup , creator of digital HR management tools for the health care sector, 聽led by , with participation from existing investors , and .
10)聽A unit of Group-backed Indian ride-hailing company聽 as part of its plan to locally build electric vehicles.
Podcasts:
聽Robin Wauters talks to Roni Bonjack, who runs startup acceleration programs in the EMEA region for Facebook. You鈥檒l also hear from Cristina Vila Vives, whose startup Cledara helps companies manage their SaaS subscriptions.鈥�
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: Listen to a few fragments of a panel discussion about the VC landscape in Europe, organized by Nastasya Savina in early May. The participants, including our own Robin Wauters, discussed the changes in the industry related to the COVID-19 crisis and shared actionable advice for fundraising startups.
Bonus links:
This week marked the second anniversary of the EU鈥檚 landmark general data protection regulation (GDPR), but enforcement of EU data privacy rules is being聽, according to聽.
On that note, privacy activist Max Schrems has called on the European authorities to push the Irish regulator聽 on the second anniversary of the introduction of rules designed to help protect the data of consumers.
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