• GetYourGuide raised $194 million, TextMagic acquired Voog in a €1.1 million deal, and more than €1.2 billion was invested in European Tech last week
    Sunday, June 4, 2023 from Tech.eu
    Last week, we tracked more than 80 tech funding deals worth over €1.2 billion, and over 15 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe.Haberin devamını okumak için tıklayı...
  • Five things I learned using our startup’s product - and why other VCs should do the same
    Sunday, June 4, 2023 from Tech.eu
    A couple of years ago, our VC fund launched a platform where startups could upload their internal data and receive an in-depth analysis – the kind we do during due diligence – but it soon ran into pro...
  • Climate impacts are coming, let’s get excited about the solutions
    Saturday, June 3, 2023 from Tech.eu
    Climate solutions are significantly underfunded and under-prioritised by both the public and private sectors. Currently, only an estimated 16% of climate finance needs are being met, with early techno...
  • Friday, June 2, 2023 from Tech.eu
    With the team finally recovered from anything and everything that was the Tech.eu Summit, we're back guns a-blazin'. This week we're talkin':- Sex tech - it's not what people think it is.- Quinky is a...
  • Portugal's Zypho is acquired by Ailaxis as it gives Seedrs investors a happy retreat with a 3.8x return
    Friday, June 2, 2023 from Tech.eu
    Portuguese start-up Zypho, whose technology sits underneath a bath or shower and recovers heat from waste water, improving the efficiency of showers by 30-75%, has been acquired by water and energy ma...
  • This Week in European Tech: GetYourGuide gets $194 million, SellerX buys and raises, Spain's Jeff goes bankrupt, Monzo and Tandem hit profitability, and more
    Friday, June 2, 2023 from Tech.eu
    This week, our research team tracked 80 tech funding deals worth over €1.2 billion (debt and equity), and over 15 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe.As always...
  • May 2023: Deals, exits and Tech.eu Summit highlights
    Friday, June 2, 2023 from Tech.eu
    It is the beginning of the month, and that means one thing - we have researched our database and prepared for you the numbers on the European tech ecosystem for the previous month!Haberin devamını oku...
  • Green hydrogen can Jolt into action as Barcelona start-up raises €6 million
    Friday, June 2, 2023 from Tech.eu
    Barcelona-based start-up Jolt is ‘revolutionising’ electrode production with its patented catalytic coating technology. It is making the manufacturing of electrodes more cost and energy efficient. A s...
  • InsuranceGPT will take over your claims process thanks to Norway’s Simplifai
    Friday, June 2, 2023 from Tech.eu
    Oslo-based Simplifai is bringing AI to the the insurance industry through what it is claiming is 'a world-first custom-built GPT tool', Simplifai InsuranceGPT. The AI automation solutions provider has...
  • Europe kicks off new support measures to help (future) deep tech innovators scale up their businesses
    Friday, June 2, 2023 from Tech.eu
    The European Commission kicked into gear a fresh initiative on Thursday to help 100 unicorns scale up to become Europe's deep tech champions and help achieve the EU's digital and green objectives.In a...
  • Spanish startup Jeff never closed a €90 million round, hasn’t paid employees for nine months, and is now filing for bankruptcy
    Friday, June 2, 2023 from Tech.eu
    Valencia-based entrepreneurship-for-all startup Jeff has voluntarily filed for bankruptcy according to a report first filed by Jesus Martinez at La Información. The filing arrives after a €45 million ...
  • ‘Revolut is growing at almost one million customers per month’ says Storonsky as Revolut hits over 30 million users
    Friday, June 2, 2023 from Tech.eu
    London-based neobank Revolut has announced it has surpassed 30 million users which is good news for it but not so good news for those of us desperately trying to invite new friends and family on the p...
  • Money for martech and adtech as FirstPartyCapital and Astus announce a primarily UK-focused partnership
    Friday, June 2, 2023 from Tech.eu
    London-based early-stage VC FirstPartyCapital(FPC) and global corporate barter company Astus have announced a partnership which sees a new investment portfolio focus on accelerating adtech and martech...
  • uWare robotics map what lies beneath the ocean with its autonomous underwater drone tech
    Thursday, June 1, 2023 from Tech.eu
    This week Belgian-Spanish startup uWare Robotics has secured €500,000 in seed funding from Semper Amplifi. uWare Robotics is aiming to revolutionise underwater data gathering for marine conservation a...
  • How creative equity empowers startups and scaleups to overcome growth challenges and unlock brand potential
    Thursday, June 1, 2023 from Tech.eu
    One of the most challenging aspects of creating a successful startup is marketing. Young companies struggle to gain trust and credibility, shape a unique value proposition, acquire customers and attra...
  • Swedish fintech Froda sets sail for Blighty as it partners with Treyd to bring financing solutions for inventory purchases to UK merchants
    Thursday, June 1, 2023 from Tech.eu
    Swedish fintech Froda has set its sights on the UK market and through a partnership with fellow Swedish fintech firm Treyd, which has been established in the UK for over a year now, it is set to bring...
  • Lindus Health kicks off more clinical trials through its clinical trial management platform
    Thursday, June 1, 2023 from Tech.eu
    London-based medtech Lindus Health has announced a new rake of clinical trials which will be managed through its platform. It claims that using its clinical trial management platform it can speed tria...
  • Funding gap threatens Europe's pioneering role in climate tech startups
    Thursday, June 1, 2023 from Tech.eu
    :flushed: As climate risk is increasingly threatening the environment, society, and global economy, it is up to both the public and private sectors to undertake serious actions in order to adjust to new environ...
  • Connecting Central Europe, the US, and Japan, ffVC announces €60 million fund, first close at €32 million
    Thursday, June 1, 2023 from Tech.eu
    Warsaw/New York-based ff Venture Capital has announced a new €60 million aimed at bridging Central European startups with both the US and Japanese markets. With a first close of €32 million, the Red &...
  • Deal Dive: AI relationship coach Amorai offers more questions than answers
    Saturday, May 13, 2023 from TechCrunch » Europe
    Amorai is creating an AI relationship coach but the startup isn't sharing what it could look like, and an AI expert isn't sure it would work. Deal Dive: AI relationship coach Amorai offers more questions than answers by Rebecca Szkutak...
  • Major decision on the legality of Facebook’s EU-US data transfers is due to be adopted today
    Friday, May 12, 2023 from TechCrunch » Europe
    Reminder: Today is the deadline for the Meta’s lead privacy regulator in Europe to adopt a final decision on a nearly decade-long complaint against Facebook’s transfers of personal data from the EU to the U.S. that could see...
  • MediShout wants to bring Amazon-like efficiency to hospital operations
    Thursday, May 11, 2023 from TechCrunch » Europe
    MediShout founders Ash and Ali The U.K.’s floundering National Health Service (NHS) is not in the best of shapes by just about any estimation, the victim of chronic underfunding and understaffing that has led to excruciatingly long waiting times and healthcare...
  • EU lawmakers back transparency and safety rules for generative AI
    Thursday, May 11, 2023 from TechCrunch » Europe
    In a series of votes in the European Parliament this morning MEPs have backed a raft of amendments to the bloc’s draft AI legislation — including agreeing a set of requirements for so called foundational models which underpin...
  • Fairphone gets its audio groove on with repairable over-ear BT headphones
    Thursday, May 11, 2023 from TechCrunch » Europe
    Fairphone Fairbuds XL headphones in green Dutch social enterprise Fairphone is best known for its mission to build ethical smartphones via a brand that promises fairer wages for supply chain workers and design choices that encourage consumers to cherish and repair the hardware...
  • Microsoft makes strategic investment into Builder.ai, integrates its services into Teams
    Thursday, May 11, 2023 from TechCrunch » Europe
    Builder.ai tapped into a new wave of businesses wanting their own native apps with a turnkey approach, accelerated by the rapid digitization of life during the pandemic. That led to led to a $100 million Series C funding round last year...
  • Wingcopter, Germany’s drone delivery startup, raises another $44M from the EIB
    Thursday, May 11, 2023 from TechCrunch » Europe
    Wingcopter, a startup out of Germany that has made a name for itself in the world of delivery drones used primarily for delivery of medicine and other goods to remote areas, has picked up some more financing to expand its business. The...
  • Could Odin be Europe’s answer to AngelList?
    Wednesday, May 10, 2023 from TechCrunch » Europe
    Most U.S.-based tech investors are likely familiar with smaller-ticket investor marketplaces AngelList and Carta. In Europe, Germany’s Bunch and the U.K.’s Vauban (acquired by by U.S.-based Carta last year) have attempted to do similar...
  • Clearview fined again in France for failing to comply with privacy orders
    Wednesday, May 10, 2023 from TechCrunch » Europe
    Clearview AI, the U.S. startup that’s attracted notoriety in recent years for a massive privacy violation after it scraped selfies off the internet and used people’s data to build a facial recognition tool it pitched to law...
  • We’re disrupting TechCrunch Disrupt: 8 stages, 3 days, 1 city
    Tuesday, May 9, 2023 from TechCrunch » Europe
    For founders and investors, there’s no platform like TechCrunch Disrupt. Just as the industry is always evolving and innovating — especially in recent months — we’re doing the same to keep Disrupt on the cutting edge for first-time...
  • Liquidity, a growth-stage debt financier, raises $40M, launches $250M Europe debt fund
    Tuesday, May 9, 2023 from TechCrunch » Europe
    Last year we covered how late-stage tech backer Liquidity Group had raised $775 million for its fintech platform from Apollo (private equity) and MUFG (a Japanese bank). Liquidity is part tech platform and part lender, using its...
  • Europe’s CSAM scanning plan looks unlawful, per leaked legal advice
    Tuesday, May 9, 2023 from TechCrunch » Europe
    A legal opinion on a controversial European Union legislative plan set out last May, when the Commission proposed countering child sexual abuse online by applying obligations on platforms to scan for abuse and grooming, suggests the...
  • UK greenlights $7.3B merger between satellite rivals Viasat and Inmarsat
    Tuesday, May 9, 2023 from TechCrunch » Europe
    The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has officially greenlighted the proposed $7.3 billion merger between Viasat and Inmarsat. London-based Inmarsat and its U.S. rival Viasat offer various satellite services including...
  • MWC’s organizer slapped with GDPR fine over biometrics ID checks due diligence
    Monday, May 8, 2023 from TechCrunch » Europe
    Conferences and other in-person events rushing to impose facial recognition on attendees in Europe without doing the necessary due diligence over data protection risks beware: The organizers of the global connectivity industry shindig,...
  • After bootstrapping for five years, Instruqt raises a €15M Series A from Blossom Capital
    Friday, May 5, 2023 from TechCrunch » Europe
    Netherlands-based Instruqt has a product allowing companies to more easily test how new software would run inside their organization. After bootstrapping its way to growth, it has now raised €15 million in a Series A round led entirely...
  • Europe’s top court clarifies GDPR compensation and data access rights
    Thursday, May 4, 2023 from TechCrunch » Europe
    The European Union’s top court has handed down a couple of notable rulings today in the arena of data protection. One (Case C-300/21) deals with compensation for breaches of the bloc’s General Data Protection Regulation...
  • HV Capital closes €710M fund amidst the wider European and global funding downturn
    Thursday, May 4, 2023 from TechCrunch » Europe
    If you’ve heard of Flixbus, SumUp, StudiVZ, Seatwave, Cafe Press, Zalando, Wooga, HelloFresh, Depop, Delivery Hero and Agreena, then you’ve heard of companies invested in by HV Capital. The German early- and growth-stage VC has been a...
  • Meta’s ad business slapped with interim measures in France over suspected antitrust abuse
    Thursday, May 4, 2023 from TechCrunch » Europe
    More regulatory woes for Meta: France’s competition watchdog has announced interim measures on the adtech giant — saying it suspects it of abusing a dominant position in the French market for ads on social media and across...
  • UK’s antitrust watchdog announces initial review of generative AI
    Thursday, May 4, 2023 from TechCrunch » Europe
    Well that was fast. The U.K.’s competition watchdog has announced an initial review of “AI foundational models”, such as the large language models (LLMs) which underpin OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft’s New...
  • Green-Got is a neobank for climate-conscious customers
    Thursday, May 4, 2023 from TechCrunch » Europe
    French startup Green-Got is building an alternative to your traditional bank account with a focus on climate change. Essentially, Green-Got guarantees that your savings and the money that is sitting in your bank account aren’t going to...
  • AirPods Pro Given Zero Rating By Teardown Specialist iFixit
    Thursday, October 31, 2019 from TechWeekEurope UK
    Like its predecessors, the latest generation AirPods are glued together, which earns the AirPods Pro a zero repairability rating
  • Indian Confirms Nuclear Power Station Hack
    Thursday, October 31, 2019 from TechWeekEurope UK
    Well that's a tad worrying...India confirms its newest nuclear power plant has suffered cyberattack
  • Facebook Shrugs Off Scandals With Strong Financials
    Thursday, October 31, 2019 from TechWeekEurope UK
    What crisis? Profit and revenue surge over 20 percent at Zuckerberg's house, despite a torrid year
  • IoT Security: The Internet of Threats?
    Thursday, October 31, 2019 from TechWeekEurope UK
    With billions of connected devices, IoT will deliver a new data-rich environment. However, will this new space be safe and secure?
  • Apple Profits Slide, As Cook Points To Wearable Growth
    Thursday, October 31, 2019 from TechWeekEurope UK
    Profits and year revenues at Apple slide amid slow iPhone sales, but sales from wearables and services rose
  • Twitter Bans All Political Advertising Worldwide
    Thursday, October 31, 2019 from TechWeekEurope UK
    Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey says that from next month, his platform will ban all political advertising
  • Digital Realty To Acquire Interxion For $8.4bn
    Wednesday, October 30, 2019 from TechWeekEurope UK
    Data centre consolidation sees US real estate giant acquire Europe's largest colocation provider, Interxion
  • Apple ‘Mobilising Suppliers’ For 5G Handsets – Report
    Wednesday, October 30, 2019 from TechWeekEurope UK
    5G is going to be an 'aggressive' push for Apple in 2020, with three smartphones due next year
  • Amazon Pinged For Misleading Prime Sign Up – ASA
    Wednesday, October 30, 2019 from TechWeekEurope UK
    Advertising watchdog: Amazon used misleading payment page to get users to sign up for its Prime subscription service
  • Smart City: How IoT Creates Intelligent Built Environments
    Wednesday, October 30, 2019 from TechWeekEurope UK
    IoT coupled with 5G are the key foundations onto which the smart city will be built. From transport to personalised services, a data-rich environment is taking shape
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