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April 7, 2022

Grover wants you to rent your TV and it's raised $330m to make it happen

The Series C funding will be used primarily for expansion in its current markets


Michael Cassau, cofounder of Grover

Germany’s stable of unicorns can count one more among its ranks after consumer tech subscription platform Grover raised $330m in Series C funding.

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Miriam Partington

Miriam Partington was a senior reporter at Sifted, based in Berlin. She covered the DACH region and the future of work, and wrote Startup Life , a weekly newsletter on what it takes to build a startup.

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