Shamillah Bankiya of Dawn Capital, money for EVs and medtech, Infobip acquires Shift

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

🔋 Polestar raises $550 million from outside investors as EV market grows

💉 Medical device company CeQur raises $115 million

💵 Berlin Brands Group raises $240 million to buy and scale up third-party Amazon Marketplace brands

• Interview with Carlos Cashman of Thrasio
• Interview with Malte Horeyseck of SellerX
• Interview with Jānis Bošs of Fast Brands

💻 Berlin’s subscription tech-rental Grover raises €60 million in Series B round

🛂 Veriff secures $69 million funding to grow identity verification business

• Interview with Tiit Paananen, VP of engineering at Veriff

👩‍💻 Croatian unicorn Infobip looks to scale up by acquiring a developer conference. Wait, what?

🌐 With two new funds, LocalGlobe has more latitude than ever

📈 Swedish payments firm Trustly plans to go public imminently

🎙 Interview: Shamillah Bankiya, Dawn Capital

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