Big Ideas | Food | 14 Aug The food delivery startups, compared Ahead of further fierce battles to be fought between Europe's food delivery companies, we lay out the state of play: who's who, who's where and what's next?
Big Ideas | Software | 14 Aug Food delivery firms cause kitchen chaos Competing food delivery channels can boost small restaurants' profits — but they cause havoc for staff.
Big Ideas | Food | 14 Aug Ride-hailing startup Bolt moves into food delivery Bolt, the Tallinn-based thorn in Uber’s side, is moving into food delivery in eastern Europe this year — and it thinks it has an edge over its much better-funded competitors.
Places | Food | 12 Aug Deliveroo pulls out of Germany Food delivery giant Deliveroo has told customers that it is pulling out of the competitive German market this week.
Voices | Food | 12 Aug Deliveroo’s helicopter: New heights or new lows? Last Friday, Deliveroo's "1,000ft" restaurant took off. It was a fun PR stunt; it was also a sign of what happens when startups are high on too much VC cash.
In Practice | Communities | 6 Aug Top 50+ communities for underrepresented founders in Europe An ever-growing list of schemes and networks which support diverse and underrepresented founders in Europe's tech ecosystem.
Big Ideas | Accelerators | 6 Aug Google and TechHub offer 30 grants to support diverse founders The new scheme in London is one of a wave of recently launched initiatives across the continent to support underrepresented founders.
Voices | Consumer | 6 Aug Estée Lauder won’t stop fighting this tiny French beauty startup French startup Wired Beauty has been fighting multinational beauty conglomerate Estée Lauder over the name of its trademarked app for four years — and it keeps on winning.
Big Ideas | Banking | 1 Aug Lime x N26: When a scooter startup gets into bed with a digital bank US mobility company Lime and German digital bank N26 have partnered up. Why?
Big Ideas | Finance | 22 Jul Europe’s fintechs are playing the long game Startup football leagues are springing up across Europe — and they're a sign that the ecosystem is ready to compete globally.
In Practice | Investment | 19 Jul What is a family office? What founders need to know about the mysterious world of family offices: what they do, where they invest and how to find them.
Big Ideas | Finance | 18 Jul N26 hits a $3.5bn valuation — but can it break into the US? The first European digital bank has landed Stateside — and raised an extra $170m to turbocharge its expansion globally.
Big Ideas | Mobility | 17 Jul What Citymapper did next It was going to be the transport operating system of cities around the world — and then it wasn’t. As Citymapper ends its ride-hailing service, we ask: what’s next?
Big Ideas | Mobility | 15 Jul From Voi to Circ, we compare Europe’s scooter startups As scooter startups meet with London’s transport minister today in a bid to get their vehicles on the city’s streets, we update our comprehensive guide to Europe’s scooter wars.
Big Ideas | VC | 15 Jul Does Europe need VCs who’ve actually run startups? Just 8% of UK venture capitalists have experience working at or running a startup. That's bonkers — or is it?
In Practice | VC | 11 Jul Just 8% of UK VCs know what it’s like to work at a startup We pick the four things we all already suspected, but didn’t have hard data for, highlighted in Diversity VC’s latest report into the sector in the UK.
