Interview | Venture Capital | 12 Dec The Scot who helped turn Peter Thiel-backed startup Xero into a €7bn business Gary Turner, a 51-year-old college drop out, has helped accounting software provider Xero to grow into a €7bn business.
Interview | Investment | 10 Dec Launching Europe’s “unicorn factory” Jean-Eric Paquet has a €10bn war chest to turn the European Innovation Council into "the biggest deeptech equity fund in Europe.”
Interview | Healthtech | 10 Dec With €2.7m Iceland’s star therapy startup is springing into Europe “Leaving Iceland is something I should have done earlier,” says Kara Connect founder and chief executive Thorbjorg Helga.
Interview | Corporate Innovation | 10 Dec Startups: speak up. Corporates: listen Five ways corporates and startups can improve a partnership
Interview | Government | 9 Dec Inside La French Tech Government organisation French Tech Mission is leading the way in Europe with its support package for startups. But why does it bother — and is it working? Amy Lewin meets director Kat Borlongan to find out.
Interview | Agriculture | 6 Dec Plantix cofounder wants investors to open their eyes to agtech With 1m users per month in India, Simone Strey runs the world’s largest agtech app. Yet, the cofounder and chief executive of Plantix says the work to help the world’s small-scale farmers is “never, ever done”.
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?
Interview | Fintech | 4 Dec Why these “three old French men” launched a fintech to help millennials save A former Bank of America exec has cofounded a savings app for the next generation. The business model looks promising, but will millennials take interest?
Interview | Corporate accelerators | 3 Dec “Self-centred” insurance industry needs to adapt, says Zurich’s Stuart Domingos How the 147-year-old company is teaching itself about millennial and GenZ tastes
Interview | Corporate Innovation | 3 Dec What working with companies like Apple and Ikea has taught IDEO about innovation Interview with Axel Unger, partner at IDEO.
Interview | Software | 2 Dec How the secure messaging app Wire is taking on Slack and Microsoft Teams Chief executive Morten Brøgger says his company isn’t competing with other, more consumer-driven encrypted messaging apps anymore. Instead he’s taking on Slack and Microsoft Teams.
Interview | Education | 29 Nov How learning German sparked Chatterbug founders to set up in Berlin These founders left their US tech unicorn Github and headed out to Berlin to found Chatterbug. One says the city’s startup culture is “the best in Europe”.
Interview | Investment | 29 Nov “Technologies and practices change – people never do” – Bookclub with Swoop’s Andrea Reynolds Books on timeless business wisdom from legendary investor Warren Buffett, autobiographies and learning about business from Formula 1.
Interview | Digital Banks | 26 Nov Inside Anne Boden’s Starling Starling Bank now manages £1bn in deposits across 1m users. Its chief executive shares her plans to continue the fintech's growth spurt, M&A potential and beating the big banks.
Interview | Corporate Innovation | 26 Nov “Better to partner than start from scratch” — Luca de Meo on SEAT’s micromobility ambitions SEAT is bringing out new scooters, mopeds and even a weird-looking quadricycle, but believes cars still have a role to play, too.
Interview | Corporate Innovation | 26 Nov Companies should fail more often Instead, 70% of innovation projects are developed but then shelved
