Interview | Startup Life | 6 Dec Formation: the Berlin-based company builder with a difference It's free, run by volunteers, for underrepresented founders and named after a Beyoncé song. What's not to love about company builder Formation?
News | Startup Life | 6 Dec What’s Europe done this month for diversity in tech? A €21m Dutch fund to invest solely in female founders, female venture capital partners call for more female venture capital partners and a pan-European VC internship programme begins.
News | Mobility | 27 Nov The week in mobility: how “green” are Tier’s scooters? Our roundup of Europe's top mobility news this week: Uber loses its London licence, e-moped rental service Coup quits Europe and we look at how "green" Tier's e-scooters are.
News | Investment | 20 Nov New European microfund launches; 85% of its investors are women Unconventional Ventures is a new investment company backing Nordic businesses with underrepresented founders.
News | Mobility | 20 Nov The week in mobility: E-bikes for Deliveroo couriers launch Our roundup of Europe's top mobility news this week: Bolt Bikes launches e-bikes for couriers in the UK and Wayve raises $20m for self-driving cars.
News | Mobility | 13 Nov The week in mobility: Big raises for Voi and Frontier Car Group Our roundup of Europe's top mobility news this week: Voi raises $85m, Frontier Car Group raises $400m and Cowboy launches e-bikes in three new markets.
News | Mobility | 12 Nov Electric bike startup Cowboy hits the streets in three new countries This is where the direct-to-consumer phenomenon meets Europe’s micromobilty revolution.
News | VC | 12 Nov Balderton raises new $400m fund to invest in more European heavy-hitters It’s one of Europe’s top venture capital firms but, as Balderton raises its seventh fund, we ask: what makes it different and how great, really, is its portfolio?
Analysis | VC | 12 Nov European VC firm Balderton’s heavy hitters As Balderton raises its 7th fund, we ask: how great, really, is its portfolio?
News | Mobility | 11 Nov Voi raises $85m, promises to improve unit economics Europe’s leading scooter startup Voi has raised another big round just a year after launching. With so much VC cash, how will it not do an Uber?
Interview | Finance | 6 Nov Brunch with Hiroki Takeuchi, founder of GoCardless He’s one of the most widely-respected founders in Europe’s startup ecosystem — but that doesn't mean Hiroki Takeuchi, founder of payments company GoCardless, has found the transition from startup to scaleup easy.
News | Health | 6 Nov European healthtech roundup: digital vet FirstVet goes abroad As Swedish digital vet startup FirstVet raises €18.5m to tackle the $70bn US market, we take a look at what other European healthtech news there's been this week.
News | Food | 4 Nov Karma Kitchen: A dark kitchen startup to watch London-based Karma Kitchen is small — but smart — in the hot world of dark kitchen startups. Today it launches a new marketplace on Uber Eats and is gearing up to open two new sites. The food delivery sector should pay attention.
Interview | Transport | 30 Oct Bigger than BlaBlaCar? French unicorn BlaBlaCar has convinced millions of customers to carpool on long trips; now it wants to tap into a much bigger market by getting people to carpool to work.
News | Mobility | 30 Oct European mobility weekly: FiveAI launches groundbreaking self-driving car trials in the UK As passengers try out self-driving cars for the first time on British streets, ViaVan launches another on-demand bus service in Germany and Paris introduces new scooter laws.
News | Travel | 28 Oct Travel disrupter Duffel raises another $30m and finally comes out of stealth Travel tech startup Duffel is ready to tell the world what it’s up to at last. This could be the start of a new era of travel innovation.
