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Analysis

Analysis | Investment | 5 Feb

Warm introductions are bad for diversity

Startups with all-female founding teams reap less benefits from warm introductions than all-male female founding teams.

Analysis | Artificial Intelligence | 5 Feb

The startup helping you learn smarter

Joel Hellermark is not afraid of sounding ambitious: he wants to use AI to personalise education.

Analysis | VC | 4 Feb

Pitching to this London VC is (literally) a walk in the park

London investor Tim Jackson has an unconventional method for scoping out talent.

Analysis | Investment | 4 Feb

Draper Esprit is investing in seed funds as well as startups

London-based investor Draper Esprit has an unusual strategy to back dozens of early-stage seed funds.

Analysis | Investment | 1 Feb

No, they’re not spies; they’re startup hunters

European investors are developing new strategies for discovering promising companies earlier in their lifetime.

Analysis | Artificial Intelligence | 31 Jan

Europe is losing the AI race

Research in to artificial intelligence is led by institutions and companies in China, the US and South Korea.

Analysis | Property | 30 Jan

The Google of buildings

Geophy founder Teun van den Dries is using artificial intelligence to formulate accurate prices for every part of the world’s $200tn property market.

Analysis | Investment | 30 Jan

“Why we turned down millions from VC firms”

Finding the right investors is key. ”Although many are good, the majority are not”, says Måns Ulvestam, the co-founder of Acast.

Analysis | Future of Work | 29 Jan

Tech founder at 45? Then you are average

Most tech founders are in their 40s, but still ageism is the second most common form of discrimination in the industry.

Analysis | Investment | 25 Jan

Does Europe need a sovereign wealth fund for tech?

European scaleup companies had eight times less new capital invested in them than their US counterparts.

Opinion | Investment | 25 Jan

“VCs too often pressure investments to grow at all costs”

Overly optimistic valuations from VCs can lead to undue pressure on startups, which is helpful for no-one, argues Nic Brisbourne.

Analysis | Hardware | 23 Jan

Drone defence industry takes flight after Gatwick

As numbers of unmanned aerial vehicles grow, so too does the need for tech to monitor and control them

Analysis | Investment | 23 Jan

Want to invest in startups? Your pensions may already be doing it

Sweden has recently opened the floodgate for pension funds to invest in VC. In Germany, investment managers are looking elsewhere.

Analysis | VR/AR | 21 Jan

How to future-proof museums: detective games and virtual dinosaurs

Immersive technology is at the centre of a government-funded plan to evolve cultural institutions for the digital age.

Analysis | Investment | 18 Jan

VC interest moves from startup to scaleup

Smaller startups may have to look to non-traditional investors and governments for funding

A Mosa Meat burger today. Credit: Mosa Meat.

Analysis | Biotech | 18 Jan

What’s cooking in Europe’s lab-grown meat startups?

Whether you fancy lab-grown pork, beef or chicken for dinner, a host of European entrepreneurs are hoping to serve you first.

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