solarisBank raises €60M, six fresh funds in Europe and an interview with C4 Ventures' Raph Crouan

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

UK regulators take aim at Apple’s search engine deal with Google

• UK regulators call Google, Apple search engine deal a ‘barrier’ to competition (ZDNet)
• U.K. Regulator Takes Aim At Apple And Google’s Billion-Pound Search Deal (Forbes)

Germany’s solarisBank raises funding

• SolarisBank Snaps Up €60m Funding For BaaS-Ic Instinct (Fintech Direct)

Transferwise ventures into offering investments

• Fintech start-up TransferWise is set to launch an investments feature (CNBC)
• TransferWise secures UK investment license (Business Insider)

Garmin goes shopping in Finland

• Garmin Acquires Firstbeat Analytics (FINSMES)
• Why Garmin buying Firstbeat is big news for sports watches (Wareable)

Funding in the ‘death care’ sector

• London-based Farewill gets £20 million to modernise UK’s death care industry (Tech.eu)

Six VC firms raising fresh funds

• GP Bullhound announces fifth fund at €125 million, sticking with high-growth software one year after Slack exit
• Pan-European VC Nauta Capital launches fifth fund with a €120 million first close
• Berlin’s Cavalry Ventures closes €80M, backed by DACH founders and EIF
• K Fund has another €70M to back early-stage Spanish startups and is launching a pre-seed program
• French VC Axeleo Capital announces €50 million fund for seed-stage proptech startups across Europe
• Iceland Venture Studio raises additional $2 million to elevate Icelandic ecosystem in global tech scene

Raph Crouan, Partner Business Development at C4 Ventures

• C4 Ventures announces €80 million fund, led by former EMEA head of Apple Pascal Cagni