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Icelandic audiobook publisher Skynjun acquired for estimated €200.000

Skynjun, Icelandic publisher of audiobooks, has been acquired by Sweden’s Storytel. The purchase is payed for with shares in Storytel priced at a 30 day weighted price point. In the end of 2019, an additional, performance based earn-out payment. The total payout is estimated at €200K.

Storytel’s acquisition of Skynjun is one of three recent acquisitions of local audiobook publishers, Breakit reports. The others are from Bulgaria and Turkey.

Anti-Money-Laundering startup Lucinity raises $6.1m, co-led by Karma Ventures and byFounders

Anti-Money-Laundering (AML) software startup Lucinity, which uses “Human AI to ‘make money good’, by augmenting financial crime fighters in financial firms with AI technology” just announced a $6.1m funding round, co-led by Karma Ventures and byFounders. Previous investors Crowberry Capital and Preceptor Capital also participated. The funding round can

Sidekick Health raises $20m Series A led by Wellington Partners and Asabys Partners

Digital Therapeutics company Sidekick Health just announced a $20m Series A funding round, led by Wellington Partners and Asabys Partners, with participation from existing investors Novator and Frumtak. The company specialises gamified digital therapeutics solutions and programs focused on chronic and lifestyle diseases. SidekickHealth maker Goodlifeme raises $1.5m round

Indy studio Tasty Rook just released its first title: Triple Agent

Tasty Rook, an Icelandic indy game studio just released its first title: Triple Agent, described as “a thrilling party game of betrayal and espionage for 5-9 people played on a single mobile device,” in the press release. (Get it – it’s free – for iOS / Android). From the announcement: At the

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