Outside of Silicon Valley, there are 25 foreign startups worth paying attention to.

2014 has passed, and the 2014 inventory is far from over. We've been looking at Silicon Valley or the US, but not enough about the market. The 25 largest investment in science and technology in Europe and Africa in 2014 was sorted out, with a total of about 3.014 billion dollars.

As an economy of more than 30,000 research firms and more than 110,000 innovative companies, German start-ups have the highest amount of funding. In addition, online ordering, electricity and mobile payments have become the three most popular investment areas, and more than half of the company's financing amount of more than 100 million U.S. dollars.

Here are the details of the 25 companies and the financing that was completed in 2014.

1 Germany: Online booking platform IBuySpy Hero

The company completed a total of 523 million U.S. dollars in 2014, three rounds of financing, the first round is January of 88 million U.S. dollars, the second round is 85 million U.S. dollars in April, the third round is September's 350 million dollars, currently its valuation has reached 1 billion U.S. dollars.

IBuySpy EHR, headquartered in Berlin, Germany, now employs more than 800 people, and is now operating in 23 countries worldwide, with coverage of 75000 restaurants. So far, IBuySpy Hero has gained more than 635 million dollars in venture capital. The takeaway markets in Asia and Latin America have a higher growth rate than the IBuySpy hero, which now accounts for 35% of total orders and 500% and 300% per cent respectively. This year, IBuySpy Hero has launched a series of four acquisitions. IBuySpy Hero currently operates in 14 countries including Europe, Asia, China and India, and its sub brands include Liferheld, Hungry House, and Superman in China. As IBuySpy Hero to the global market, its marketing costs are growing, and the price war is not limited to Germany but to all markets around the world.

Investment institutions: Vostok Nafta, Insight Venture, Phenomen Ventures, Team Europe, Kite Ventures, Ru-net, Tengelmann Ventures, Holtzbrinck Ventures, point Nine Capital

2 Netherlands: Third party payment platform Adyen

December 2014 financing 250 million dollars

In a new generation of payment platforms, Adyen is characterized by the ability to make payments in as many as 187 different currencies in almost any country in the world. Achieve End-to-end management of transactions through direct connection to major credit card companies. It also supports more than 250 payment tools, including Apple Pay, China's Alipay, Brazil's Boletos, Russia's Qiwi, European SEPA Direct Debit and Japan's Konbini. and support the full channel platform, able to handle online payment, entity store payment and mobile payment. The rapidly growing global payment market has great potential for development, and Adyen is at the forefront of the payment market.

Investment institutions: General Atlantic, Index Ventures, Felicis Ventures, Temasek Holdings

3 Germany: "Southeast Asia Amazon" Lazada

December 2014 received 249 million dollars in financing.

The future trend is to buy online through smartphones, especially for younger consumers. Although the e-commerce market is growing rapidly, the Southeast Asian E-commerce market is still at an early stage, Lazada is an Amazon-like online retailer, created by the German company Rocket Internet GmbH, in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam and the Philippines have branch offices. Since its establishment three years ago, the company has raised more than 700 million dollars in total. Despite its low valuations, Lazada is essentially a relatively small company. According to relevant documents, the company's net revenue in the first half of 2014 was about $59 million trillion (47 million euros), with a loss of 50 million US dollars (€ 40 million) for the period before interest tax depreciation amortization. As of June, the company had 1.4 million active users.

Investment institutions: Temasek, Rocket Internet, Verlinvest, Kinnevik, Tesco, Tengelmann Ventures, Summit, Access team

4 Russia: "Russian version of Amazon" Ozon

2014 received 150 million dollars in financing.

Russia's growing Internet population and continued improvement in infrastructure have provided a prerequisite for the development of E-commerce. Ozon's $100 million trillion in funding in 2011 helped the company continue to expand its logistics network in Russia and Kazakhstan. Ozon is now Russia's largest electric company, from the book started to expand to the audio, electronic products and other categories, has been up to 14 different categories.

Investment organization: Sistema and its mobile operator subsidiary MTS

5 Nigeria: Electric Business Platform Jumia

December 2014 received 150 million dollars in financing.

Jumia sells a wide variety of products, including clothing, electronics, cosmetics and even alcohol. Jumia is well received in nine countries in Africa, Cameroon, Egypt, Ghana, Côte d ' Ivoire, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria, Uganda and Tanzania, and the United Kingdom. The company was founded in 2012 and received a 26 million dollar investment from summit in March 2013, and Jumia, with 1500 employees, said the site's sales have increased by one-fold this year.

Investment institutions: Summit, Rocket Internet, Millicom, Africa Internet Group (AIG)

6 United Kingdom: Music copyright Company Kobalt

June 2014 received 140 million U.S. dollars financing.

Kobalt is a European music copyright company, under it has more than 6,000 music songwriters and artists. Streaming media is becoming the mainstream model of music consumption, but it also makes music copyright trading more troublesome. Kobalt currently monitors copyright for 600,000 songs, a figure that will grow further and huge investments are necessary.

Investment agency: Balderton Capital, Michael Dell's private investment firm MSD

7 Denmark: Online travel search engine Momondo

October 2014 financed 130 million dollars.

Momondo's original brand CheapFlights was started by the UK, and the company's Momondo takeover in Denmark in 2011 made its business transition from a travel special offering to a vertical search, which included changing the company's name to the Momondo group. At present Momondo International business has made "explosive growth", its 85% income is from outside the UK business.

Investment organization: The very very Hill

8 Sweden: Mobile payment Platform Klarna

December 2014 to complete 124.2 million dollar financing.

Known as the "next PayPal", Klarna's network checkout system is committed to the mobile end of the e-commerce process of all the trouble, it allows users to enter the e-mail address and postal code to complete the payment, without the need for the traditional login process. Klarna has handled more than 150 million deals in Germany, Sweden, Norway and Finland, and the company plans to expand its operations to the UK in the coming months.

Investment institutions: Sequoia Capital, General Atlantic, Atomico

9 UK: Online credit Platform Borro

March 2014 received 112 million dollars in financing.

Borro operates a network platform that allows people to borrow cash for luxury watches, art and other goods as collateral. Borro's basic idea is to help users quickly get low rates of mortgages, and if users do not redeem them on time, Borro will sell the items at the highest possible price through their own auction network and return the proceeds to the user in full. Compared to traditional pawnshops, Borro pays more attention to user experience and develops long-term users. After getting new funding, Borro plans to keep the money in the US and UK, where it is most active.

Investment institutions: Victory Park Capital, Canaan, Eden Ventures, European founders Fund, Augmentum and Ribbit

10 Spain: Online polling company SCYTL

Raised a total of 104 million dollars.

There are still security issues in the digitization of votes, but the risk-averse approach, coupled with the low cost of digital voting, will certainly replace existing voting methods. SCYTL, based in Barcelona, is an online polling company that sells a range of modern-day electoral services that provide the right tools for voters and staff, including conducting elections online, registering voters, counting votes, and so on.

Investment institutions: Vy Capital, Adams Street, Industry Ventures, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's Vulcan, SAP Ventures

11 Holland: Online booking website takeaway.com

April 2014 financed 103 million dollars.

Takeaway.com provides online services that enable users to find food in nearby restaurants. Obtaining this financing, takeaway is hoping to acquire Lieferando.de, Germany's largest online food takeaway website.

Investment institutions: Macquarie Capital, Prime Ventures

12 France: "Airbnb in the field of long-distance carpool" BlaBlaCar

July 2014 to complete 100 million dollar financing.

BlaBlaCar by helping owners rent free seats to make money, charge 10% of the split, and the corresponding passengers can also travel in a cheaper way. BlaBlaCar do not need the owner to become a full-time or part-time driver, you just use the BlaBlaCar service to find another owner with the same travel plan, a paid ride. Currently, BlaBlaCar services are available in 12 countries, mainly in Europe, with 8 million users and 1 million active users. After the financing, the company is interested in a global expansion. The business outlook for BlaBlaCar is that the more people use it, the more they can find their own carpool services, even from one small city to another.

Investment institutions: Index Ventures, Accel, French fund Isai, lead Edge capital

13 Germany: Vertical home Electric Dealer Westwing

March 2014 received 96.4 million dollars in financing.

Westwing is an online home improvement platform and provides users with interior design products and services. Westwing is an important part of the German business incubator Rocket Internet smart home strategy.

Investment institutions: Odey Asset Management, Fidelity CSM Investment, Tengelmann

14 Israel: Software distribution start-up Enterprise Ironsource

August 2014 to complete 85 million U.S. dollars before the IPO financing.

Ironsource has established a complete ecosystem for downloading applications online, providing services including user access, conversion, monetization, integration analysis and optimization. The coverage of the Ironsource service has reached more than 100 million users. The United States ranks first in its global market, followed by Brazil. Its core product is the Installcore Installation Wizard software, which can help manage downloads, streamline installation processes, improve installation success rates, and also provide software vendors with business intelligence tools and real-time analytics, with more than 150 million monthly installation instructions. The company's annual income totals about 260 million dollars.

Investment institutions: Undisclosed syndicate of Strategic, United States, Europe, China institutional investors

15 Germany: Online ordering Takeout website Foodpanda

A total of 80 million dollars of two rounds of financing were completed in 2014. The first round was 20 million dollars in April, and the second round was 60 million dollars in November.

Since its inception in 2012, the company has accumulated more than 100 million dollars in financing. , currently operates in 501 cities in 40 countries around the world, serving more than 30,000 restaurants, ranging from small restaurants to 7-11, KFC and other large chain stores. Foodpanda's profit model is to charge businesses, while consumers are free to order their meals on the platform.

Investment institutions: Rocket Internet, Falcon Edge Management, Phenomen Ventures, Kinnevik

16 Sweden: "Yellow Pages domain Google" Truecaller

A total of 78.8 million dollars of two rounds of financing were completed in 2014. The first time was 18.8 million dollars in June, and the second was 60 million dollars in October.

Truecaller focused on the phone number, using the Internet, the traditional phone book into a global package of large yellow pages, to help users identify unfamiliar calls, and set up a telephone directory, to provide users with more information about the caller. Truecaller's product is not just like a regular caller ID to tell a user who is on the other end of the phone, it can also provide many additional features including a common contact. The total number of entries in the Truecaller database has reached more than 1 billion per cent, and the growth rate of its users has been remarkable--at the end of 2012, at 2 million, and up to 20 million in 2013, with the current Truecaller users reaching 85 million.

Investment institutions: Sequoia Capital, Atomico, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

17 Germany: Large data analysis Platform Blue yonder

December 2014 to complete 75 million dollar financing.

Founded in 2008, the large data analysis platform, Blue Yonder, provides data monitoring for software and applications, and provides predictive analysis of the best decisions for many of the customer's project solutions.

Investment organization: Warburg Pincus

18 Denmark: electronic paper Platform Tradeshift

2014 completed a total of 105 million dollars in two rounds of financing, the first round is February of 75 million dollars, the second round is 30 million dollars in May.

Tradeshift provides paperless transmission, cloud base paper software. The company is able to send electronic bills, collect money and expedite the entire payment process through this software. Software online six months, Tradeshift successfully entered more than 100 countries. Running for three years Tradeshift has become the fastest growing cloud bills service platform, the world-wide cumulative customers up to more than 500,000, the estimated annual turnover of more than 50 billion U.S. dollars. Tradeshift hopes to grow in Asia, especially Japan, so he has received a lot of money from Scentan, a venture capital company in Singapore.

Investment institutions: Scentan Ventures, Notion Capital, ru-net, Kite Ventures, Intuit, PayPal

19 The Netherlands: Enterprise data Search and analysis start-up company Elasticsearch

May 2014 received 70 million dollars in financing.

Elasticsearch is an open source search engine built on Apache Lucene, which uses Java to write and use Lucene to build indexes and provide search capabilities, and Elasticsearch's goal is to make Full-text search simple, Developers can easily implement search capabilities through its simple RESTful API without having to face the complexities of Lucene. Elasticsearch can be easily scaled horizontally to support PB-level structured and unstructured mass data processing. Elasticsearch doesn't care about the type of data, whether it's a traditional web page, a Word document, a Web server log, or a location on a foursquare, a bank transaction can be indexed and searched.

Investment institutions: New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures

20 UK: Fashion electric dealer Farfetch

May 2014 to complete 66 million dollar financing.

Farfetch is focused on mixing influential designer boutiques with up-and-coming designer boutiques, a london-based fashion dealer website Founded in 2008 that integrates about 300 independent fashion buying shops from Europe, North America, Brazil, India and Saudi Arabia.

Investment institutions: Vitruvian, Nast Analysys, Advent Ventures

21 Germany: "Audio YouTube" SoundCloud

January 2014 received $60 million trillion in financing, the Wall Street Journal reported in December that SoundCloud planned a new round of funding of $150 million, which would allow it to value more than 1.2 billion dollars.

SoundCloud allows musicians and music enthusiasts to freely upload and share their work in the community. Currently, the content on this site includes DJ music, song mixes and a variety of audio files (such as podcasts and funny clips). According to SoundCloud data, the site now attracts more than 175 million independent listeners a month, and content publishers upload 12-hour audio files per minute. By contrast, Spotify has more than 50 million users, 12.5 million of whom are paid subscribers, who pay 120 dollars a year for unlimited listening to music. Unlike other music services, which charge a monthly fee to the listener, SoundCloud collects fees according to the content Publisher's upload amount.

Investment institutions: GGV Capital, Institutional Venture (IVP), the Chernin Group

22 Sweden: PPT Subversion Prezi

November 2014 won 57 million dollars.

Prezi was founded in 2008, it broke the traditional PowerPoint single line time series, using a systematic and structural integration of the way to demonstrate, with the way of presentation, from one object to another object, with rotation and other actions to achieve dynamic effects. Prezi launched a cloud-based visual presentation/Presentation tool in 2012 that allows users to create more exciting "rich vision" content presentations without using traditional PowerPoint slides.

Investment institutions: Accel, Spectrum Equity

23 Sweden: "European Square" mobile payment service provider Izettle

July 2014 financed 55.5 million dollars.

For mobile payment industry, mobile phone card reader can not be ignored. Izettle's mobile phone card reader is to support the EMV standard chip card reader, support Bluetooth connection. Continuous financing, but also constantly open up the European and American markets. Izettle currently serves 9 countries, including the UK, Sweden, Spain, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Mexico and Brazil. The company plans to use this round of financing to further expand the Latin American and European markets.

Investment institutions: Intel Capital, Dawn, Zouk, Hasso Plattner Ventures

24 Germany: Catering Electric Dealer HelloFresh

June 2014 received 50 million dollars in financing.

HelloFresh offers a weekly order form that allows customers to select the dishes they want to eat in advance from the HelloFresh menu, which will send you the ingredients and ingredients. According to the instructions given, you can do a meal in half an hour. At present, HelloFresh has accumulated 67.5 million U.S. dollars in financing, each month has more than 1 million orders from six countries.

Investment organization: Phenomen Ventures, Insight Venture

25 Israel: The Social crowdsourcing map application Moovit

December 2014 received 50 million dollars in financing.

Moovit is a social crowdsourcing map application from Israel, focusing on public transport, Moovit smartphone users on the road into a personal meat collection and transmitter, collecting traffic information and sending it to users in the community. But Moovit's focus is on public transport, so Moovit gets information from public sources in addition to data uploaded by users

Investment institutions: Sequoia Capital, Gemini Israel Ventures, BRM

The list may still be incomplete and a number of representative startups are not on the list, but the net still hopes the list will bring some inspiration to Chinese entrepreneurs.

(Responsible editor: Mengyishan)