Our voicemail experiment, Bolt raises €150M, new Dott e-bikes, MessageBird acquires Pusher

And here are the notes and links for this week’s episode:

🛴 Bolt raises $182M to expand its on-demand transportation network in Europe and Africa

0️⃣ UK-based Zilch raises $30 million for its BNPL platform with a twist

👀 Croatian startup Microblink leaves bootstrapping behind; collects $60 million first round

🏎 EA acquires UK-based game developer Codemasters in $1.2 billion deal

🐦 MessageBird acquires Pusher to bring more real-time communication APIs to businesses

🚙 Online car retailer Cazoo acquires UK-based car subscription platform Drover

👩‍🎓 Brainly raises $80M as its platform for crowdsourced homework help balloons to 350M users

🚲 Dott to expand beyond e-scooters with bike-sharing service

🇮🇪 Dogpatch confirmed as winner of €17m contract to run NDRC

🗞 The Midas List Europe 2020 by Forbes

🇪🇺 Europe lays out its plan to reboot digital rules and tame tech giants

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