How Microsoft buying GitHub is good news for Dutch startup and rival GitLab
Yesterday morning, rumors were rife in the tech media world that global tech giant Microsoft is all set to buy software development platform GitHub. By the afternoon, it was confirmed the Microsoft ac...
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Belgium-based PieSync raises €2,8 million for its contact sync platform
If you've used more than one cloud app to save contacts (think CRM, Gmail, LinkedIn, ZenDesk), it's most likely that you've felt the agony of data gaps between sales, marketing, and customer care. Syn...
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Dutch startup Messagebird raises a €50M Series A from Accel and Atomico
MessageBird, an Amsterdam startup that provides cloud communications for enterprises, has raised a staggering €50,1 million ($60M) Series A round led by Silicon Valley-based Accel with a "signif...
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Dutch fintech scale-up Ohpen raises €15M Series B for cloud banking software
Ohpen, a Dutch fintech-scale-up offering cloud banking software closed a €15 million Series B funding round at a valuation of €100 million. Private equity firm Amerborgh led the round to help Ohpen sc...
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Months after acquiring Dutch startup SEOShop, Lightspeed announces their first lovechild
After Canadian cloud-based point of sale retail innovator (what a mouthful) Lightspeed purchased Dutch startup success story SEOshop last November, the company has now revealed what their joint future...
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Is the “underwhelming” acquisition of Dutch Cloud9 by Amazon “not that big of a deal”?
Cloud9, a Dutch founded cloud-based IDE, announced in nothing more than just a teeny-tiny blogpost that they have been acquired by Amazon, to integrate them with its renowned Amazon Web Services. Part...
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