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The European Investment Fund (EIF) and Swedish fintech company Invoier have signed a guarantee agreement worth up to €58 million to provide small and medium firms (SMEs) and other companies with better access to funding.

CrankTank, a digital marketing and e-commerce strategy agency, has announced the formation of an office in Innsbruck, Austria. The new facility will serve its U.S. brand partners wishing to expand D2C sales success found in North America to their European customers.

Retailers looking to grow revenues at home and abroad should factor Singles Day (11 November) into their planning for 2023's peak season, nShift says. 

Startup Wise Guys, a long-standing startup accelerator in Europe, announced the launch of Growth Ukraine programme to empower private sector innovative companies and entrepreneurs who are active in Ukraine.

This integration empowers B2B marketers and ad agencies seeking to reach highly specific audiences within EMEA and Canada in addition to the company’s existing targeting capabilities for the US.

A recent IAB Europe survey of over 100 Retail Media buyers and sellers found that over two thirds of buyers (70%) think the lack of standards for Retail Media is a barrier to investment.

European media group Mediahuis has invested in CareerFairy, a fast-growing Swiss Recruitment technology scale-up from Zürich, matching students and graduates of European universities with companies that want to reach this young potential.

DEPT® has been an early supporter of the program, hiring several talented graduates, providing training and office space in multiple countries where Blue Road Academy operates.

Blended agency iO combines expertise in marketing, technology, strategy, data, and content — and AI is an indispensable addition to this. The AiO tool is based on popular GPT models but is hosted in a GDPR-compliant environment in Europe — and not through OpenAI's US servers.

Alexandra succeeds Dragica Pilipović Chaffey in the role. Dragica has been an integral part of United Group's management team since 2008.

Parisian Digital mental health platform Teale, has raised €10 million second round of funding in Series A, to provide mental health benefits to employees and employers, promoting workplace well-being.

Klarna, the Swedish AI-powered global payments network and shopping assistant, announced strong growth across Europe.

Berlin-based insurtech startup SureIn has closed a €4 million Seed round for its mission to provide end-to-end insurance solutions to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in Europe.

Zhero Europe was founded with the vision that large integrated projects, including generation from high quality wind and solar resources, and captive long-distance exports, would be the most effective way to accelerate the energy transition in high demand areas.

Playtika Holding Corp., a mobile games pioneer and interactive entertainment player, and Azerion Group N.V. one of Europe’s largest digital advertising and entertainment media platforms, have announced they have entered into a definitive agreement for Playtika to acquire from Azerion its Youda Games portfolio of games, including social card themed title Governor of Poker 3.

Nielsen, a global player in audience measurement, data and analytics and digitalAudience, an Amsterdam-based Data Collaboration and Cleanroom platform, has announced their cooperation to power open web measurement in key international markets in Northwestern Europe.

As calls for brands to embrace sustainability in their operations grow, the advertising industry has stepped up its resolve.

European media group Mediahuis has acquired EURACTIV, the pan-European news brand, focused on EU policy. For Mediahuis, as a news publisher present in Belgium, the Netherlands, Ireland, Luxembourg and Germany, the acquisition means an expansion of its portfolio to include for the first time a pan-European news brand.

IKEA does 2 million shipments a year and 4.3% of the total IKEA value chain climate footprint comes from product transport.

Under the CampX concept, startups with promising technologies for electric and autonomous vehicles and digital solutions are invited to collaborate with Volvo’s chief engineers and business experts during short validation projects at the CampX innovation hubs.

Ankorstore is an online B2B marketplace connecting brand and retailers all around Europe. Nicolas d'Audiffret the startup’s co-founder explains.