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Peppy raises £1.7M for its employee healthcare benefits platform
Peppy, the U.K. employee healthcare benefits platform focusing on family support, female health and mental wellbeing, has raised £1.7 million in seed funding. Leading
Alkemics picks up €21M for its supplier-retailer collaboration platform
Alkemics, the Paris-based platform that lets brands collaborate and launch products with retailers, has picked up €21 million in a Series C funding. It
Lilium adds $35M from Baillie Gifford at a $1B+ valuation for its electric aircraft taxi service
While most air travel continues to be ground to a halt, a German startup working on what it hopes will be a major breakthrough
Silverfin wants to modernize accounting software with its cloud service
Meet Silverfin, a startup focused on accounting software. This isn’t about helping small startups handle accounting tasks themselves. Silverfin wants to build the cloud
Challenger bank Bnext revamps rewards for purchases in partner stores
Spanish startup Bnext is revamping its cashback program so that you can buy from partner stores directly from the Bnext app and get some
Curve begins quietly testing Curve Credit, its planned Klarna competitor
Curve, the “over-the-top” banking platform that lets you consolidate all of your bank cards into a single Curve card and app, is quietly testing
UK’s COVID-19 health data contracts with Google and Palantir finally emerge
Contracts for a number of coronavirus data deals that the U.K. government inked in haste with U.S. tech giants, including Google and Palantir, plus
All Facebook users can now access a tool to port data to Google Photos
Facebook’s photo transfer tool is now available globally half a year on from an initial rollout in Europe, the company said today. The data
Sourcing software provider Keelvar raises $18M from Elephant and Mosaic
It was perhaps not until the COVID-19 pandemic hit the planet that most of us had ever heard or uttered the phrase “supply chain”.
