Today in European Tech: Personio raises $125 million, Heal Capital closes €100 million fund, Bloom & Wild scores £75 million, and more
Summary
- Heal Capital, a young German investment firm that is keen to back European health tech ventures at the early stages of their businesses, has closed on a €100 million fund. - Zurich-based fintech company Numbrs announced it closed a funding round back in December, topping €25 million to roll out a new subscription service and fuel growth in new and existing markets. Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) confirmed Saturday it sent a draft decision to fellow EU DPAs towards the back end of last year. - Facebook has started the process of appointing a legal entity as a local representative in Turkey in compliance with a new social media law which critics have said will muzzle dissent. - The data regulator for the German state of Lower Saxony has fined a local laptop retailer a whopping €10.4 million for keeping its employees under constant video surveillance at all times for the past two years without a legal basis.