What do you know about Nokia, $500M+ for quick delivery, Seedrs 💔 Crowdcube

In today’s show, we talk about funding deals, IPOs and SPACs, one blocked merger (you can guess), and much more. The featured interview is with Ville-Veikko Mattila, director and head of research at Nokia Technologies.

Show Notes

And here are the notes and links for this week’s episode:

🛒 Turkish delivery startup Getir is raising $300 million at a mooted $2.6 billion valuation from Sequoia Capital and Tiger Global

🦍 Gorillas, the on-demand grocery delivery startup, raises $290M and ‘surpasses’ $1B valuation

💵 Crypto firm Blockchain.com rides bitcoin mania to a $5.2 billion valuation

🍖 Meatable raises $47 million Series A to continue scaling trajectory and expand its product portfolio with beef

🔲 London-based location tech what3words lands (close to) £12 million from Ingka Investments

💻 London-based Hopin puts the new money to work, acquires Streamable and Jamm

💰 Utrecht-based “people-centric” ERP firm Unit4 snapped up for $2+ billion

📈 Trustpilot steady in debut as London IPO raises $655 million

🎯 Deliveroo aims for $12 billion market cap in biggest London debut in a decade

🚲 Deliveroo hit by investor, rider revolt ahead of London IPO

🔌 Arrival becomes UK's biggest tech IPO with $13bn Nasdaq float

💔 Seedrs terminates merger with Crowdcube, announces new funding round

🎙 Interview: Ville-Veikko Mattila, director and head of research at Nokia Technologies 

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