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Bring your international delegation to Disrupt Berlin 2019

Brilliant ideas, founders, entrepreneurs and early-stage startups know no borders — they come from every corner of the world. Consider this your invitation to showcase the amazing early-stage startups in your country at Disrupt Berlin 2019 on 11-12 December.

How? Secure a Country Pavilion located within Startup Alley, the exhibition floor and the

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Koru Kids, the London-based startup that helps you find and manage childcare, has raised £10 million in new funding to scale its platform.

The Series A round is led by Atomico, with Atomico partner Niall Wass joining the company’s board. Also participating are previous investors AlbionVC, Forward Partners, Samos, JamJar, Rocket Internet’s Global Fo

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Compete in the TC Hackathon at Disrupt Berlin 2019

Indulge us as we paraphrase the song, Anything You Can Do from the movie, “Annie Get Your Gun.” Anything you can code, I can code better. I can code anything better than you.

If that describes your skills and attitude, it’s time — as we say in the States — to put up or shut up. We’re calling all code slingers to take part in the TC Hackathon at Disr

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Residently raises £7M to digitise the rental experience

Residently, the U.K.-based “proptech” startup that is building a platform to improve the rental experience, has picked up £7 million in seed funding. Backing comes from Felix Capital, LocalGlobe and A/O PropTech, along with a number of the startup’s existing angel investors.

The new funding will be used to grow the startup’s engineering and product

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How UK VCs are managing the risk of a ‘no deal& Brexit

Grab your economic zombie mask: A Halloween “no deal” Brexit is careening into view. New prime minister Boris Johnson has pledged that the country will leave the European Union on October 31 with or without a deal — “do or die” as he put it. A year earlier as the foreign secretary, he used an even more colorful phrase to skewer diplomatic concern a

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Bestmile raises $16.5 million to manage human and AI-driven fleets

Bestmile, a transportation software startup, has raised $16.5 million in a Series B round led by Blue Lagoon Capital and TransLink Capital.

Existing investors Road Ventures, Partech, Groupe ADP, Airbus Ventures, Serena and others also participated in the round. The company, which launched in 2014, has raised $31 million to date.

Bestmile has

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