301 results for: investors

  • Europe

    Media for Equity: a closer look

    23 March, 2017

    Media for equity structures enable start-ups to exchange some of their equity for media (usually TV ads). Companies like Zalando and Trivago have been highly successful in benefiting from TV advertising. More…

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    Media for Equity: a closer look
  • Travel

    Momondo acquisition by Priceline: a closer look

    14 February, 2017

    Momondo Group was sold to Priceline, owner of rival Kayak, in a $550 million deal. The two Momondo Group brands, Momondo and Cheapflights, will fall under the Kayak division.

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    Momondo acquisition by Priceline: a closer look
  • Europe

    Corporate tech investing boom

    21 January, 2017

    Corporate rounds grew by 74% (!) to 535 rounds in 2016. The combined size of corporate rounds grew by 33% to € 4.9 billion. This includes …

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    Corporate tech investing boom
  • Blog

    Startup survival and exit chances

    19 December, 2016

    You may have seen this slide in the Atomico’s State of European Tech presentation, based on Dealroom data. The implications are interesting from the perspective of both the founders and the…

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    Startup survival and exit chances
  • Nordics, Western Europe

    Nordics snapshot (presentation)

    10 December, 2016

    Both France and Sweden have been on fire this year. The Nordics are known for creating several tech icons (examples at bottom of this article). The below image opens a short presentation on…

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    Nordics snapshot (presentation)
  • Travel

    £1.4B Skyscanner acquisition: a closer look

    26 November, 2016

    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…

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    £1.4B Skyscanner acquisition: a closer look
  • France, Western Europe

    What’s driving France’s VC surge?

    20 November, 2016

    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…

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    What’s driving France’s VC surge?
  • Europe

    Where is European VC coming from

    31 October, 2016

    The below chart looks at the long-term evolution of European venture capital by country of origin. Funding from Continental European based VC funds has been on the increase, at the expense…

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    Where is European VC coming from
  • Food

    European Food Tech: a Recap

    16 October, 2016

    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…

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    European Food Tech: a Recap