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
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.
