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2B Company Highlights
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The 2B Top 5
The top 5 start-ups and scale-ups we have profiled for this month. Click the logos to learn more!
Company Info
Fluent Commerce’s goal is to be the engine that powers global commerce. They’ve built a distributed order management system in the cloud that stands apart from the rest.
It’s not rigid, but flexible at scale. Something clients and partners love. Why? Because they can build customer experiences that are unique. Never boring. And as customer preferences change, their clients can adapt. Quickly.
About Fluentcommerce
$22.3m
Series B | August 2019
2013
Founded
125
Staff
Locations in New York, Paris, and London
Sydney HQ
Why we love Fluentcommerce
“Fluent Commerce is one of our favourites! These guys are building something special, and you can see that by the growth trajectory, recently announcing 129% YoY sales growth in 2021. With 2022 set to be an even bigger year, this is definitely one to watch!“
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Company Info
The Netflix of Enterprise Market Research”, Stravito is a knowledge technology company that helps decision-makers in consumer businesses deliver on their customers’ needs, wants and desires better than anyone else. Simplicity-first drives every aspect of Stravito’s cloud service.
Stravito’s digital library makes gathering market research and sales data as easy as sending an email. They use machine learning to categorize and index documents automatically, and natural language search for speedy discovery and answers. No training is ever required.
About Stravito
$14.6m
Series A | September 2021
2017
Founded
74
Staff
Locations in London, Amsterdam, and New York
Stockholm HQ
Why we love Stravito
““It is hard not to like these guys – an unbelievable Leadership team (ex-Zettle, ex-Spotify, with two of the founders having spent over 15 years each in Market Research). Stravito was voted by Forbes at one of Europe’s Top 25 AI Start-ups in 2021.
Stravito is solving a genuine pain point for global B2C enterprises – enabling these companies to access all their market research data with the click of a button. We are excited to see how far these guys can take it, and 2022 looks set to be their best year ever!”
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Company Info
Bolt’s one-click checkout boosts sales and conversions by narrowing the gap between browsing and buying. It’s simple: after shoppers join the Bolt network, their information is pulled up in just one click every time they check out at a Bolt retailer. It’s fast, secure, and convenient.
About Bolt
$3m
Series C | December 2020
2014
Founded
800
Staff
Locations in UK and USA
San Francisco HQ
Why we love Bolt
Bolt has been a primarily US based business, but recently acquired a Swedish company called Tipser as they start their European expansion. Really solid technology, an amazing leadership team and solid funding to date. We love these guys and can see them starting to dominate the one-click checkout market. Exciting times for everyone at Bolt!
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Company Info
Primer is the world’s first no-code automation platform for payments. They enable companies to unify their payment stack and build sophisticated, end-to-end payment flows with a checkout developers love.
About Primer
$18.7m
Series A | November 2020
2020
Founded
140
Staff
Locations in London and Paris, remote work worldwide
London HQ
Why we love Primer
“Primer is an absolute rocket ship. Only founded in 2020 they are already a team of 140 (over 1,000% growth in the last 2 years!). Not only this but the technology is a total game-changer. If Primer isn’t on your radar then it should be!”
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Company Info
Akeneo is a global leader in Product Experience Management (PXM) solutions that help merchants and brands deliver a compelling customer experience across all sales channels, including eCommerce, mobile, print, and retail points of sale. Akeneo’s open-source enterprise PIM, and product data intelligence solutions, dramatically improve product data quality and accuracy while simplifying and accelerating product catalogue management.
About Akeneo
$132m
Series D | March 2022
2013
Founded
300
Staff
Locations in New York, London, Paris, Dusseldorf, Amsterdam
Nantes HQ
Why we love Akeneo
“Akeneo has been on our radar for a while now and having just announced a Series D raise of $135m in March 2022, they look set to continue hyper-growth over the next few years. Amazing reviews on Glassdoor, great investors, and extremely strong technology. We are excited to see how far Akeneo can go in 2022 and beyond!“
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Funding Rounds
Click the below icons for a round up for funding rounds for companies HQ’d in each location!
United Kingdom
France
Netherlands
Sweden
United Kingdom Funding Rounds
Company
Location
Amount
Round
Sector
London, UK
£4.1m
Seed
22nd March 2022
B2B Analytics
London, UK
£1.5m
Pre Seed
15th Mar 2022
E-learning
London, UK
$3m
Series A
22nd Mar 2022
Extended Reality Platform
Huddersfield, UK
£1.1m
Pre Seed
25th Mar 2022
Customer Value Management
London, UK
£1.6m
Pre Seed
15th Mar 2022
Information Technology
London, UK
£3m
Venture
22nd Mar 2022
eCommerce
London, UK
£27m
Series B
22nd Mar 2022
Mobile Payments
London, UK
£5.5m
Series A
31st Mar 2022
Enterprise Software
London, UK
$4.5m
Seed
10th Mar 2022
Enterprise Software
London, UK
£4m
Seed
8th Mar 2022
FinTech
Sussex, UK
£12m
Series A
21st Mar 2022
Supply Chain Management
Leicestershire, UK
£1.3m
Seed
9th Mar 2022
Management Software
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France Funding Rounds
Company
Location
Amount
Round
Sector
Paris, France
€5m
Seed
10th Mar 2022
Supply Chain Software
Lyon, France
€12m
Series A
15th Mar 2022
Cyber Security Software
Paris, France
€3m
Series A
16th Mar 2022
Enterprise Software
Paris, France
€20m
Series A
24th Mar 2022
Artificial Intelligence
Paris, France
€8m
Series A
22nd Mar 2022
Resource Management Software
Paris, France
€5m
Seed
22nd Mar 2022
Sales Software
Paris, France
€1.7m
Seed
14th Mar 2022
Sales Software
Paris, France
€20m
Series B
16th Mar 2022
Cloud Software
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Netherlands Funding Rounds
Company
Location
Amount
Round
Sector
Amsterdam, Netherlands
€800k
Seed
1st Mar 2022
Marketing Tech
Leiden, Netherlands
€45.5m
Series B
15th Mar 2022
eCommerce
Amsterdam, Netherlands
$4.3m
Venture
8th Mar 2022
Cloud based Tech
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Sweden Funding Rounds
Company
Location
Amount
Round
Sector
Stockholm, Sweden
€2.5m
Seed
30th Mar 2022
Search Analytics
Stockholm, Sweden
€19m
Series A
9th Mar 2022
FinTech
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Hot Jobs
Our Picks for May
Head of Global Solutions Partners
Stockholm, London or Boston
Partnerships
Martech
Vice President Global Sales
Amsterdam
Sales Leadership
SaaS
Regional Sales Manager - Nordics
Sweden
Sales
Customer Experience Platform
Solutions Consultant
UK
Solutions
eCommerce
Senior Implementation Manager
UK
Solutions
Payments
Solutions Engineer
London
Solutions
eCommerce
Head of Growth Marketing
London
Marketing
Payments
Technical Account Manager - Spanish Speaking
London
Account Management
eCommerce
Channel & Alliance Manager - Northern Europe
London
eCommerce
Enterprise Account Executive
London
Sales
Customer Experience
Enterprise Account Executive
London
Sales
eCommerce
Enterprise Account Executive
London
Sales
eCommerce
Account Executive - UK
London
Sales
eCommerce
Account Manager
London
Account Management
Payments
Funnel, one of Europe’s finest SaaS scale-ups, offers a marketing data platform that gives you business-ready data, that makes sense. They have achieved up to 200% YoY growth the last 3 years running but their partner eco-system is relatively infant in it’s development.
Head of Global Solutions Partners
As Head of Solution Partners you will lead and inspire a team of 8 Partner Account Manager’s to really accelerate this next stage of their growth with an IPO a clear part of the road-map.
Stockholm, London or Boston
Partnerships
Mar-tech
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Vice President Global Sales
As VP Global Sales you will lead & scale their commercial team of 10, lay the foundations needed to accelerate their growth and make a big impact in helping build something from the ground up.
Amsterdam
Sales Leadership
SaaS
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Voyado, one of Sweden’s most promising SaaS start-ups, offers the most intuitive CXP for the eComm space on the market that learns behaviours with pinpoint precision and improves the customer experience at every single touchpoint.
Regional Sales Manager - Nordics
We are searching for Senior Sales Executives to hunt new tier 1 eComm/retail logo’s and accelerate their growth in Finland, Norway & Denmark.
Sweden
Sales
Customer Experience Platform
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A rapidly growing scale-up with a true global presence, ParelLabs’ innovative solution allows brands and retailers to regain control over the end-to-end customer journey. Founded in 2014, they now boast regional offices in all major continents.
Solutions Consultant
A Solution Consultant role within the dynamic presales team, looking to partner with the largest retailers/B2B distributors in the U.K. Highly value-driven and strategic by nature, you must be a highly accomplished seller with a strong foundation of technical skills.
UK Remote/Hybrid
Solutions
eCommerce
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Global Payments provider, Adyen’s technology is deeply integrated into all that we do. Adyen’s unified commerce offering simplifies all things payments, allowing partners to accept payments anywhere, on any device.
Senior Implementation Manager
Working with some of the biggest companies globally, we need profiles who can add real value commercially, as well as in high level technical delivery. As a Senior Implementation Manager, you are expected to manage all aspects of a project, including coding where necessary. U.K focused clients, Mid-market to large enterprise.
UK (remote / hybrid)
Solutions
Payments
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Fluent Commerce’s OMS is the first cloud-based platform that can be customised to meet your omnichannel fulfilment strategy. Fluent Commerce have an awesome EVP, actively encouraging employees to travel abroad and maximise remote working!
Solutions Engineer
Supporting lead generation by providing technical guidance for prospective clients. Purely Presales focussed. No coding/programme language hard skills are required. Candidates must have direct experience selling eCommerce software.
London
Solutions
eCommerce
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TrueLayer is a global open banking platform that makes it easy for anyone to build better financial experiences. Founded in 2016, TrueLayer has raised $271.5m to date, achieving unicorn status in under 5 years.
Head of Growth Marketing
As Head of Growth Marketing, you’ll lead a team of demand generation experts with the goal of driving awareness and demand for TrueLayer, aligning closely with Sales & Product to execute vertical-specific, multi-channel campaigns.
London
Marketing
Payments
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Dynamic Yield is a 4 x Gartner Magic Quadrant leading personalisation platform. They help companies build and test personalized, optimized, and synchronized digital customer experiences.
Technical Account Manager - Spanish Speaking
Acting as the bridge between the technology team and the user, responsible for providing technical support to a portfolio of strategic customers and providing technical support throughout implementation.
London
Account Management
eCommerce
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Fluent Commerce offers a powerful, cloud native order management solution that offers a host of omnichannel order fulfilment options. Series B, 130 FTE globally, 129% YoY growth in 2021.
Channel & Alliance Manager - Northern Europe
3rd hire in the European partnerships team, responsible for a variety of European system integrators. Aligning closely with the sales team to drive new business whilst building new partnerships across Northern Europe.
London
Partnerships
eCommerce
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Voyado is a ground-breaking Customer Experience Platform made for e-commerce and retail. With Voyado any brand could personalise their customer experiences across channels in a powerful, scalable way and having a lot of fun while working. Voyado has for several years been the go-to solution in the Nordic countries and we are now growing rapidly internationally.
Enterprise Account Executive
50% YoY growth last 6 years running, the Uk is a new market so you’ll be one of the first hunters on the ground. Voyado was a team of 30 people 5 years ago but remain passionate about keeping the start up mentality | they have a goal orientated but friendly culture and are only looking for committed team players.
London
Sales
Customer Experience
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Fluent’s technology is hugely disruptive, positioned perfectly to take advantage of a shifting paradigm experienced across the commerce ecosystem. Some of the biggest brands are now looking to bypass retailers, and go pure D2C, this then creates huge potential for e-commerce solutions such as those of Fluent Commerce.
Enterprise Account Executive
As an enterprise seller with Fluent commerce you’ll be responsible for creating and driving new business revenue within your retail and direct to consumer brand target client base whilst managing your personal sales pipeline from first contact to deal close.
London
Sales
eCommerce
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parcelLab are an Operations Experience Management platform that transforms complex data into intelligent solutions.
Their technology allows real-time monitoring of every single order for maximum support & customer engagement. Communication automation focuses on customer relevance to maximize customer satisfaction and retention.
Enterprise Account Executive
parcelLab have very ambitious growth plans for 2022 for the region and are looking for a seriously good, experienced seller to open up their network across the UK and go after enterprise retailers/eCommerce players across the region. There is a lot of revenue being pumped into the region as they want to start building out a full team and most importantly want to start it with a excellent enterprise seller. A special chance to build something here and work towards their expansion targets.
London
Sales
eCommerce
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ParcelLab connect online retailers with their customers to improve customer experience.
They optimise the customer experience and customer communication for retailers post checkout. It means that everything that happens after you actually hit the checkout button, the process through the warehouses, delivery and returns is all handled.
Account Executive - UK
Enterprise Account Executive selling into enterprise-grade brands and retailers within the UK market.
London
Sales
eCommerce
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Adyen delivers frictionless payments across online, mobile, and in-store channels. They are the payments platform of choice for many of the world’s leading companies including Netflix, Spotify, Uber, Facebook, L’oreal and thousands more..
Account Manager
You’ll be responsible for managing some of the largest global accounts on their platform, driving strategic initiatives with merchants, identifying growth opportunities and delivering on-going optimisations to the merchants.
London
Account Management
Payments
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