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☆ Embat, a Spanish treasury-management fintech startup founded by ex-JPMorgan employees, just raised $16 million using this 14-slide pitch deck
  + stars: | 2024-02-27 | by ( Callum Burroughs | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Read previewSpanish fintech startup Embat has raised $16 million in fresh funding from VC fund Creandum, the company said Tuesday. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Treasury-management startups and similar offerings targeting the office of the CFO have become a key focus for fintech investors in recent years. Embat's proposition is directly aimed at financial software users, with data security at the forefront of its platform's architecture, cofounder Carlos Serrana told Business Insider. "We were probably born in the worst period to raise capital but we have built a solid product which has traction, and our sales have traction," Serrana told BI.
Persons: —, Embat, Carlos Serrana, Creandum, Serrana Organizations: Service, JPMorgan, Business, Treasury, Venture Locations: Madrid, Germany
☆ Founders of Wise and Skype raise $436 million to build tech giants in Europe
  + stars: | 2024-01-23 | by ( Ryan Browne | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +2 min
The founders of Wise, Skype and Songkick have raised 400 million euros ($436.4 million) for a new fund to back technology startups in Europe. Plural Fund II, the firm's second to date, arrives just 18 months after the firm raised its last fund, a 250 million-euro vehicle. Only 8% of VCs in Europe are former founders, he says, much lower than the 60% in the United States. So, if we look at the track record, and our ability to get the deals done, I think that all seems to say that this is really missing in Europe," Hinrikus added. Plural raised the funds from a mix of limited partners, including British and American university endowments, U.S. foundations and insurers, strategic family offices in Europe and the United States.
Persons: Wise, Taavet Hinrikus, fintech, Ian Hogarth, Sten Tamkivi, Khaled Helioui, Hinrikus, they're, we've, Carina Namih Organizations: Skype, Balderton, Bigpoint, CNBC Locations: Europe, VCs, United States, American
☆ Y Combinator-backed headless commerce startup Vue Storefront just raised $20 million with this 14-slide pitch deck
  + stars: | 2023-03-23 | by ( Tasmin Lockwood | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Y Combinator-backed Vue Storefront has developed a frontend system for e-commerce sites. Vue Storefront, a Y Combinator-backed startup that aims to improve customers' experiences with e-commerce sites, just raised $20 million in fresh funds. The Polish company, founded in 2020, has built a plug-and-play frontend system for marketplace sites. This is what customers see and interact with, rather than the behind-the-scenes backend system, and is known as "headless commerce". Vue Storefront is rooted in open-source development, having spun out from a design agency.
☆ How to design a successful app, according to a UX designer who's worked on them for startups like Gorillas
  + stars: | 2023-03-02 | by ( Lisa Ksienrzyk | Nathan Rennolds | Business Insider Deutschland | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +6 min
He's helped design the apps for a host of successful startups, including Gorillas and Arive. He then helped build Zapp, an app for delivery services in the UK, before designing the layout for Gorillas' app. He has since started his own business, Blossom, a design studio for apps, while he's also a designer-in-residence at the Swedish venture-capital firm Creandum, advising startups in the firm's portfolio on app design and recruitment. The company already had a functioning app, but Haas said the company tasked him with "cleaning up" the design. That's why the team also conducted interviews with the brands that sell their items via Arive's app, Haas said.
☆ HR software startup Factorial has raised $120 million at a $1 billion valuation. Here's the 11-slide pitch deck it used.
  + stars: | 2022-10-11 | by ( Callum Burroughs | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Spanish HR tech startup Factorial has raised $120 million in fresh funding. Its software lets employers manage time off, hiring, payroll, and other HR functions. The Barcelona-based company has become a unicorn after raising a new deal led by Atomico. Spanish HR tech startup Factorial has raised $120 million in fresh funding to become the country's latest unicorn, valued at $1 billion. Founded in 2016, Factorial provides an HR platform to small- and medium-sized businesses.
☆ 2 women left Tesla and Apple to build a B2B fintech, and got funding from the founders of N26 and Hellofresh
  + stars: | 2022-02-04 | by ( Nina Anika Klotz | Nathan Rennolds | Business Insider Deutschland | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
Charlotte Pallua and Estelle Merle studied at Harvard and had successful corporate careers. "You can make more of a difference as a founder," Merle said. a small to medium-sized company, can use directly with just a few clicks. "We see ourselves as an enabler for retailers and as a supporter of medium-sized companies," Pallua explained. But we think it will actually be most helpful for small and medium-sized businesses," said Estelle Merle.
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