– Genially, a leading interactive content creation platform, has raised $20M with its latest round of funding.
– Their Series B financing was led by the U.S. venture capital firms 645 Ventures and Owl Ventures and aims to accelerate the company’s goal to set a global standard in content creation.
– They were joined by the European venture capitalists DN Capital and Brighteye Ventures and successful entrepreneurs like s16VC and Kahoot founders.
– This capital injection advances Genially’s place as a leader in interactive content.

– Aforza, a digital twin platform for orchestrating consumer packaged goods sales, has landed $22m in series A funding.
– The investment will help grow employees and create a new U.S. headquarters.
– Investors included DN Capital, Bonfire Ventures, Daher Capital, and Next47.
– The company was founded by former Salesforce execs involved in CPG efforts.

– GoStudent is a Vienna, Austria-based edtech company.
– The company raised €205M in Series C funding.
– The round was led by new investor DST Global with participation from new investors SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Tencent, Dragoneer and existing investors Coatue, Left Lane Capital and DN Capital.
– The new investment will be used to further develop its presence in Europe, expand overseas, launching in Mexico and Canada this summer, and invest in branding, product development and first acquisitions.

– Tesseract from Helsinki is an institutional digital asset lending company in Europe and emerging markets.
– The company raised $25m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Augmentum Fintech with participation from Icebreaker.vc, BlackFin Capital Partners, Concentric, DN Capital, Jabre Capital Partners, LeadBlock Partners, Sapphire Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Wintermute and Woorton as well as undisclosed local and international investors and strategic angels.
– The new investment will be used to develop the company’s institutional offerings and cross-trading venue margin lending platform even further, hire new talent to develop new and existing partnerships, and to boost innovation in new undisclosed financial products.

– Divido has raised a $30m Series B funding round to fuel international expansion, while continuing to build out its market-leading platform for lenders and merchants.
– The round was led by global banks HSBC and ING, with participation from Sony Innovation Fund by IGV*, SBI Investment, OCS, Global Brain and DG Daiwa Ventures along with existing investors DN Capital, Dawn Capital, IQ Capital and Amex Ventures.
– Divido’s whitelabel platform connects lenders, merchants and partners at the point of sale, transforming retail finance with proven technology and industry expertise to create a flexible way to control and configure payments.

– Cognigy is a Düsseldorf, Germany-based provider of a Conversational AI platform for omnichannel Customer and Employee Service Automation.
– Company raised $44m in Series B funding.
– The round was led by Insight Partners with participation from DN Capital, Global Brain, Nordic Makers, Inventures and Digital Innovation and Growth.
– The new investment will be used to accelerate company’s global customer growth, create new partnerships, and continue to enhance its platform capabilities for companies to speed up enterprise-grade AI adoption.

– GoStudent, a Vienna, Austria-based edtech company, raised €70m in Series B funding.
– The round was led by Coatue with participation from existing investors Leftlane Capital and DN Capital.
– The new investment will be used to advance the presence in tutoring markets such as France, Spain, Italy, the UK, and Ireland with Turkey and Greece to be launched in the first half of 2021 amongst other countries.
– Over the past months, the company has expanded its team to +300 employees and opened up new offices in Lyon, London, Madrid, Dusseldorf, Berlin and Milan.
– New offices in Athens, Istanbul and Amsterdam will be opened in the second quarter of 2021.

– European online grocery shopping marketplace Everli raised $100m in Series C funding.
– The round was led by Verlinvest and joined by Luxor, DN Capital, C4 Ventures and Convivialité Ventures, FITEC (part of Fondo Italiano d’Investimento), 360 Capital, Innogest and DIP.
– The company plans to use the injection of capital to accelerate growth and further expand its international footprint.

– Incode is a San Francisco, CA-based identity verification and authentication platform for enterprises.
– The company raised $25M in Series A funding.
– The round was led by DN Capital and 3L Capital, with participation from Framework Ventures, Walter Ventures, FJ Labs, and DILA Capital.
– The new investment will be used to scale its technology as well as accelerate growth in North America and Europe.

– Cubyn, a logistics startup, raised €35m funding.
– The round was led by Eurazeo and Bpifrance Large Venture, with participation from First Bridge Ventures and Fuse Venture Partners.
– Existing backers DN Capital, 360 Capital, Bpifrance Smart Cities fund and BNP Paribas Développement followed on.
– The company will use the new funding to double its team of 85 to more than 170 employees by the end of 2021, and deploy its service more internationally.
– First up is Spain and Portugal (launching next month), followed by Italy, the U.K. and Germany.