Chinese online travel agent CTrip acquired Skyscanner at a valuation of £1.4B, predominantly in cash. That’s roughly 12x 2015 revenues, 64x 2015 normalised EBITDA. We estimate that on an LTM…

France is having a blow out year in 2016, both in terms € amount of venture capital invested and by number of rounds. To understand better what is driving…

Among the many filters available in Dealroom is client focus: B2B or B2C. Last week, Pawel Chudzinski ‏from Point Nince Capital asked us on Twitter to show investment activity of B2B vs.

It’s been two weeks since the IPO of Takeaway.com, the Dutch food delivery logistics service. Europe now has several public and private well-funded food tech companies. This makes researching and…

Spanish Artificial Intelligence recruitment platform source{d} completed a $6 million series-A round. The founding team were previously behind Tyba. Source{d} does algorithmic matching of developer skills with development needs, by…

During the third quarter of 2016, European companies raised about €3.2 billion in venture capital, preliminary data from Dealroom shows. After several quarters of €4 billion+ funding this is quite a…

We already knew that Continental Europe is catching up to the UK. But this chart, showing number of rounds in Europe by % contribution, does a really nice job of demonstrating…

We just upgraded the Investor Finder tool in a big way. It remains a free tool for those seeking capital. To see how it works, a random example with french startup La Ruche…

Dealroom now has assigned a B2B or B2C classification to over 120,000 companies, using machine learning and manual curation. Machine learning is an important part of our data model.