86 European companies joined the Crunchbase Unicorn Board

An unprecedented number of European companies—86 total—joined the Crunchbase Unicorn Board in 2021, per Crunchbase data. This is more than 5x the count of new unicorns in 2020 from Europe, and more than 3x the previous record in 2019. One of the more colorful stories making headlines now surrounds the arrest of a rap and advice video-making couple charged with conspiring to launder around $4.5 billion worth of cryptocurrency stolen from the crypto platform Bitfinex. With that in mind, we look at some of the large crypto thefts in recent years and their impact on the target platforms’ future funding.

86 European companies joined the Crunchbase Unicorn Board

More money—and more deals—are going into the agtech sector than ever before. A record $5 billion was invested in the space globally last year and last month saw the sector haul in another $1 billion. We speak with investors about why the sector is suddenly red-hot. Amid the Great Resignation, we’ve seen a boom in global investment to startups developing tools and platforms focused on upskilling and reskilling workers. Really, how common are remote work opportunities at hot startups? To get a sense, we compiled a sampling of U.S. companies that raised some of the largest early-stage funding rounds in the past six months. We then scrutinized job openings at each, looking to see how many are tethered to a physical location.

Sofia Laurell is the co-CEO and co-founder of Tiny Organics, an early childhood nutrition and wellness company. In this Q&A, Laurell discusses what inspired her to start Tiny Organics and shares her advice for other female founders. If chip designer Arm, one of the U.K.’s largest and most well-known tech companies, picks New York over London for its IPO, that would represent a major setback for Britian’s tech scene, which has seen some of its homegrown companies fizzle in their London Stock Exchange debuts recently.

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