Finlands social shopping app combining gamification and social group buying Blidz has raised €6 million in seed funding. It will be used to accelerate the company s growth.
The valuations of several Turkish tech companies have vaulted above one billion dollars over the past year, a figure that “is seen as a global marker for start-up success”, the Financial Times reported on Thursday.
UK’s Bloom & Wild raises $102M to seed its flower delivery service across Europe
Bloom & Wild, a London-based startup that takes an updated and online approach to the very traditional business of ordering and delivering flowers, has seen business blossom in the last year. And today, it is announcing a big round of funding to help it double down on the opportunity ahead.
The company has raised £75 million ($102 million), a Series D that it plans to use to continue expanding across Europe (in addition to the UK, it operates today in Ireland, France, Germany and Austria) as it also continues to build out the business through technology, hiring new talent, thinking up more ideas and new partnerships, such as a new deal with supermarket giant Sainsbury’s to spearhead a new brick-and-mortar push.