| Date | Title | Description |
| 12.08.2025 | Lausanne-based Haicker selected for Project Europe's first cohort |
Not only in Switzerland, but throughout Europe, it is difficult to establish new large companies. To improve the conditions for rapid growth, more than 200 European start-up founders joined forces in spring 2025 and launched Project Europe... |
| 29.01.2025 | TravelPerk's Bold Leap: Merging Travel and Expense Management | In the fast-paced world of business travel, efficiency is king. TravelPerk, a Barcelona-based platform, has just made a significant move that could reshape the landscape of travel and expense management. With a fresh infusion of €191 millio... |
| 28.01.2025 | TravelPerk Raises $200M in Series E; Acquires Yokoy | TravelPerk, a Barcelona, Spain-based provider of a business travel platform, raised $200M in Series E funding, at $2.7 Billion valuation.
The round was led by Atomico, alongside EQT Growth, with participation from Noteus Partners and existi... |
| 04.09.2024 | 2024 B2B SaaS Rising 100 (ft. Yokoy) | - |
| 01.07.2024 | B2B SaaS Rising 100 (ft. Kittl & Yokoy) | - |
| 03.06.2024 | Sifted 30: Central Europe (ft. Yokoy) | - |
| 22.03.2024 | Pascal Bieri wird zum HSG-Gründer des Jahres 2024 gekürt |
Pascal Bieri wird anlässlich des START Summit-Gründergipfels zum HSG-Gründer des Jahres 2024 ernannt und kann sich nun mit der gleichen Auszeichnung schmücken wie vor ihm etwa die Gründer von VIU, Wefox oder die Gründerin von Yokoy. Für Bi... |
| 07.09.2023 | A biotech company ranks first at the TOP 100 Swiss Startup Award | |
| 08.09.2022 | The TOP 100 Swiss Startup Award 2022 celebrates Switzerland’s most promising startups | |
| 14.06.2022 | Gian Reto à Porta ist der Business Angel of the Year 2022 | |
| 25.04.2022 | Wenn Startups zeigen, wie Marketing geht | |
| 22.04.2022 | Challenges And Strategies Of Hiring C-Level Talent And Executives | Hiring C-suite and executive level talent can be a challenge. Here are 20 perspectives on what to do ... [+] and what's working for companies of all different sizes. Jenn Zhang & Sherveen Mashayekhi |
| 29.03.2022 | Yokoy, Europe’s leading all-in-one spend management platform, raises $80M Series B | Balderton first invested in Yokoy's Series A in October 2021. The new Series B round brings the total raised to over $107m.
Founded in Switzerland in 2019, Yokoy’s mission is to finally rid the corporate spending world of the legacy proces... |
| 29.03.2022 | Yokoy yokes $80 million in Sequoia-led round | Zurich-based spend management platform Yokoy has raised $80 million in a Series B round. The tool uses a combination of AI tools and API integrations to automate expense management, supplier invoice management, and corporate credit cards, w... |
| 29.03.2022 | Yokoy closes $80 million Series B led by Sequoia Capital | |
| 29.03.2022 | Yokoy raises USD 80 million in Series B funding from Sequoia Capital | Yokoy raises USD 80 million in Series B funding from Sequoia Capital 29.03.2022 10:35, Isabelle Mitchell linkedIn facebook twitter instagram youtube -->
Yokoy is the leading one-stop solution for all spend management tool services design... |
| 29.03.2022 | Sequoia leads $80 million funding round for Swiss expense management start-up Yokoy | - |
| 29.03.2022 | Bad news for unicorns: The IPO market just had its worst quarter in 6 years | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
For any company looking to go public, the landscape is looking bleak.
Paid Content How an updated... |
| 29.03.2022 | After expanding in the Netherlands, Swiss fintech startup Yokoy secures €72.45M from Sequoia and others | Zurich-based Yokoy, a fintech scale-up that offers an all-in-one global spend management platform, announced on Tuesday that it has raised $80M (nearly €72.45M) in its Series B round of funding. The company has now raised total funding of o... |
| 18.02.2022 | Yokoy expands into the Dutch market | |
| 08.02.2022 | Innosuisse trainer Klea Wenger: ‘Take as much advice from as many people as possible, but then make up your own mind’ | Innosuisse trainer Klea Wenger: ‘Take as much advice from as many people as possible, but then make up your own mind’ 08.02.2022 17:30, Isabelle Mitchell linkedIn facebook twitter instagram youtube -->
The Innosuisse Start-up Training in... |
| 30.11.2021 | Swiss deeptech startups dominate Forbes 30under30 DACH | |
| 05.11.2021 | Major Swiss bank and fintech company join forces | |
| 27.10.2021 | Yokoy lands $26M for spend management | Left Lane Capital has led a $26 million Series A in Zurich-based Yokoy, with participation from Balderton Capital. Founded in 2019, the startup's platform combines expense management, supplier invoice management and corporate credit cards i... |
| 26.10.2021 | Yokoy Raises $26M in Series A Funding | Yokoy, a Zurich, Switzerland-based provider of a spend management platform, raised $26M in Series A funding.
The round was led by Left Lane Capital with participation from European investor, Balderton Capital.
The company intends to use the... |
| 26.10.2021 | Meet 20 (small) companies looking to save the future of ESG | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
Small things can make a big difference.
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| 26.10.2021 | Yokoy raises USD 26 million to grow its all-in-one global spend management platform | Yokoy raises USD 26 million to grow its all-in-one global spend management platform 26.10.2021 14:19, Isabelle Mitchell linkedIn facebook twitter instagram youtube -->
Yokoy has raised USD 26 million in Series A funding in a round led by... |
| 26.10.2021 | Meet 20 (small) companies looking to save the future of ESG | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
Small things can make a big difference.
Paid Content Commerce content and the power of the partne... |
| 26.10.2021 | $26 million for all-in-one spend management solution | |
| 26.10.2021 | AI-powered spend management platform Yokoy secures $26M | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Spend management platform Yokoy today announced t... |
| 26.10.2021 | AI-powered spend management platform Yokoy secures $26M | Spend management platform Yokoy today announced that it raised $26 million in series A financing from Left Lane, with participation from prominent European investor Balderton Capital. The Zurich, Switzerland-based company says that it’ll us... |
| 26.10.2021 | Softbank, PwC and award jurys select Swiss start-ups | |
| 26.10.2021 | Zurich-based spend management platform Yokoy bags €22.4M funding; eyes Europe and US expansion | Yokoy, the all-in-one global spend management platform, has announced that it raised $26M (approx €22.4M) funding in a Series A round led by US investor Left Lane Capital. Prominent European investor Balderton Capital also participated in t... |
| 07.07.2021 | The Swiss FinTech Awards 2021 go to FQX and Yokoy | Since 2015, the Swiss Fintech Awards bring promising start-ups into the limelight. For the sixth time two companies and a supporter were awarded in three categories.
The «Early Stage Start-up of the Year» category is for start-ups which are... |
| 05.07.2021 | Melanie Gabriel vom Fintech Yokoy zum «Innovator of the Year» gewählt | |
| 02.07.2021 | EURO/FINTECH 2021 Pt. 5 | Quarterfinals: Spain vs. Switzerland; Belgium vs. Italy
Hello and welcome back to my European Championship/Fintech series, covering this year’s knockout tournament and intriguing fintechs emerging from the countries competing.
This started ... |
| 10.06.2021 | Die Finalisten des Swiss Economic Award stehen fest | |
| 07.06.2021 | Yokoy expands offering after winning 500 customers for its expense managment solution | |
| 21.01.2021 | Swiss Fintech Awards reveals the Top 10 finalists | The agenda of the Swiss Fintech Awards takes the same format as the previous editions. The candidates will attend a boot camp on 18 and 19 May and speed dating program on 14 June. The teams will also pitch at FuW Forum FinTech Conference 20... |
| 21.01.2021 | Swiss Fintech Awards reveals the Top 10 finalists | |
| 18.11.2020 | Austria to serve as Yokoy’s gateway into Europe | The complexity of local legislation often poses major challenges for all those involved in the expense process. From its in-house AI research laboratory, Yokoy address such challenges by using artificial intelligence to fully digitalise and... |
| 18.11.2020 | Austria to serve as Yokoy’s gateway into Europe | |
| 03.11.2020 | Startup sorgt für Konsolidierung bei Spesentools | Im Bereich von Spesentools für grössere, internationale Firmen kennt man die Mitbewerber gut, da die bestehenden Markteintrittsbarrieren nur wenige Tools zulassen, welche die geforderte Komplexität abdecken können. “In Kontakt kam man, nach... |
| 03.11.2020 | Startup sorgt für Konsolidierung bei Spesentools | |
| 21.10.2020 | Höhle der Löwen: Für einmal die Startups am längeren Hebel | |
| 21.10.2020 | Höhle der Löwen: Für einmal die Startups am längeren Hebel | Drei Unternehmen aus dem Kanton Zürich, eines aus der Waadt und eines aus Deutschland versuchten gestern Abend die TV-Investoren von sich zu überzeugen. GNL-Shoewear (ZH) mit einer innovativen Schuhsohle, Carify mit einem Automietprotal, Al... |
| 31.08.2020 | Expense robot becomes Yokoy and launches corporate prepaid credit card | Founded in 2019, Yokoy (formerly known as Expense Robot) offers automatic expense and corporate credit card processing based on artificial intelligence (AI). The company built an “AI Research Lab” employing a team of leading physicists and ... |
| 31.08.2020 | Expense robot becomes Yokoy and launches corporate prepaid credit card | |
| 31.08.2020 | Swiss fintech startup Expense Robot rebrands to Yokoy; launches Yokoy Mastercard | We covered Expense Robot back in March after their seed-round-announcement when the Swiss fintech startup raised $1.79 million to automate expense and business credit card processing using AI. A lot has changed since then. In an email to Te... |
| - | Yokoy yokes $80 million in Sequoia-led round | Zurich-based spend management platform Yokoy has raised $80 million in a Series B round. The tool uses a combination of AI tools and API integrations to automate expense management, supplier invoice management, and corporate credit cards, w... |
| - | Sequoia leads $80 million funding round for Swiss expense management start-up Yokoy | Yokoy, a Swiss start-up helping companies manage their expenses, has raised $80 million in a financing round led by Sequoia Capital.
The deal values the three-year-old company at more than $500 million, a person familiar with the matter tol... |
| - | Yokoy raises $26M to bring its cutting edge all-in-one spend management platform to more customers worldwide | Founded in Switzerland in 2019 by experienced business professionals and scientists, Yokoy’s mission is to finally rid the corporate spending world of the legacy processes that have plagued it for decades, resulting in companies spending an... |
| - | This Week in European Tech: big rounds for ArK and Deepki, TIER buys Fantasmo, Sequoia leads $80M round for Yokoy, and more
What happened this week in European Tech? | This week, the Tech.eu research team tracked more than 85 tech funding deals worth over €1.3 billion, and over 15 exits, M&A transactions, and rumours across Europe.
As always, we are putting all of them together for you in a handy list... |
| - | Swiss AI-powered spend management platform Yokoy raises $26 million | Zurich-based spend management platform Yokoy has raised $26 million in a Series A round. The tool uses a combination of AI tools and API integrations to automate expense management, supplier invoice management, and corporate credit cards, w... |
