Foodpanda: restaurant delivery in Asia, Africa and Europe
Founded: 2012.
Funding to date: $310 million.
Founders: Ralf Wenzel and Ben Bauer.
HQ: Berlin.
Foodpanda lets people place orders and local restaurants online or using its mobile app. The company has partnered with 60,000 restaurants across five continents. It is known as Foodpanda in Asia and Europe, and Hellofood in Africa and the Middle East.
Hello Fresh: home-cooked meals delivered to your door
Founded: 2012.
Founders: Dominik Richter.
HQ: Berlin.
Funding to date: $193.5 million.
Hello Fresh delivers customised boxes of fruit, vegetables and other ingredients to help people cook more fresh food.
Huddle: cloud storage for big businesses
Founded: 2006
Founders: Andy McLoughlin and Alistair Mitchell.
HQ: London.
Funding to date: $89.2 million.
Huddle lets large agencies to share, save, and collaborate on documents online, and control who has access to them. Rather than competing with consumer-focused DrobBox, the company faces competition from legacy enterprise software such as Microsoft SharePoint, which companies have often been using for years.
iZettle: helps small businesses take card payments
Founded: 2010.
Founders: Magnus Nilsson, Jacob de Geer.
HQ: Stockholm.
Funding to date: $114.3 million.
iZettle's card reader plugs into a smartphone or tablet so that small businesses can take card payments more easily, and is now integrated into a complete point-of-sale solution with an app and sales overview tools.
Kreditech: creates credit ratings for the "unbanked" using big data
Founded: 2012.
Founders: Sebastian Diemer, Alexander Graubner-Müller.
HQ: Hamburg.
Funding to date: $263 million.
Kreditech uses big data to create a credit rating for those with thin credit files — which could be those without bank accounts, students or migrants. The company uses around 20,000 data points establish whether the applicant is likely to pay back a loan, from parts of bank account statements to how they interact with soc. Its subsidiaries also provide financial services for the "unbanked".
Sigfox: low-cost, low-energy cellular network for the internet of things
Founded: 2009
Founders: Christophe Fourtet.
HQ: Labège, France, near Toulouse.
Founding to date: $151.3 million.
Sigfox is creating a low cost, alternative cellular network for the Internet of Things. This means that small connected objects can send small amounts of data to each other even with small batteries and cheap hardware.
The company's latest round of funding reached $115 million, making it the largest VC round in France to date. Samsung also just announced it was investing an undisclosed sum in the company.
SoundCloud: music sharing service
Founded: 2007.
Founders: Eric Wahlforss, Alexander Ljung.
HQ: Berlin.
Funding to date: $123.3 million.
SoundCloud is a Swedish music streaming service that lets people upload and share songs. The company just made a royalty deal with music licensing company Merlin, which means the 20,000 independent labels Merlin looks after will start making money from the songs played on SoundCloud. Sony withdrew some big artists from the platform last month after a falling out over revenue, but GP Bullhound seems to think things are looking up for SoundCloud.
Takeaway.com: food delivery in Europe
Founded: 2000.
Founders: Jitse Groen.
HQ: Netherlands.
Funding to date: $117.7 million.
Takeaway.com lets people order from their favourite restaurants online, and works with some big brands like Domino’s Pizza, Coca-Cola, Heineken and Ben & Jerry’s across. As well as the Netherlands, the site is active in the UK, Germany, Belgium, Austria, France, Switzerland and Denmark.
TheHut.com: online retailer
Founded: 2004.
Founders: Matthew Moulding.
HQ: Norwich, Cheshire, UK.
Funding to date: $21.6 million.
The Hut Group owns a collection of 16 websites including sports nutrition company MyProtein, music website Zavvi, cycling retailer ProBikeKit, and TheHut.com. It also powers online retail platforms for other companies like ASDA, Woolworths, Argos, Tesco and WHSmith.
Tradeshift: cloud platform for B2B invoices and supply chain financing
Founded: 2009.
Founders: Gert Sylvest, Mikkel Brun, Christian Lanng.
HQ: Denmark.
Funding so far: $129 million.
Tradeshift lets businesses collaborate using a cloud platform to help sort out invoices between companies and make supply chain financing more efficient.
Truecaller: lets you block unwanted calls
Founded: 2009
Founders: Nami Zarringhalam, Alan Mamedi.
HQ: Stockholm.
Funding to date: $80.1 million.
Truecaller is a mobile app that lets you see who is calling and block unwanted calls.
Trustpilot: lets consumers know whether they can trust a business
Founded: 2007
Founders: Peter H. Mühlmann.
HQ: Denmark.
Funding to date: $116.9 million.
Trustpilot lets consumers submit reviews of businesses, and builds a "TrustScore" based on recent reviews, allowing people who are considering purchasing a product or service to make an informed decision. Businesses can also use the platform to see how their customers see them.
WorldRemit: lets people send remittances at a cheaper rate
Founded: 2010
Founders: Ismail Ahmed.
HQ: London.
Funding to date: $147.7 million.
WorldRemit lets migrants and expats send money home using a variety of pickup options, including mobile money, without the hidden fees charged by banks and other money transfer providers like Western Union.
The company raised a bumper $100 million round in February 2015.
