Interview | Corporate Innovation | 21 Apr “Your wider organisation is looking for guidance from people like you” Grace Francis, chief experience officer at Droga5, says innovation teams who are already used to working with change are crucial to companies right now.
Interview | Government | 14 Apr Why France is bailing out its startups With a €4bn cash injection for its startups, France has been more generous than most in Europe. Here’s why.
Interview | Corporate Innovation | 7 Apr How to prepare your business for a post-pandemic future We asked three futurists what the world would look like after the Covid-19 pandemic. Here are their thoughts on staying relevant to customers.
Interview | Venture Capital | 6 Apr Startup funding during the crisis: What’s really going on? Funding rounds plummeted by 22% in March, valuations are dropping and founders are worried they won’t be able to raise their next round.
Interview | Corporate Innovation | 31 Mar “You cannot assume that old knowledge is still valid” Alex Mahr, cofounder of Stryber, helps companies build startup portfolios. Many companies, he says, start the process late and don't know how to measure results.
Interview | Fintech | 30 Mar How $5.3bn US fintech Plaid is taking on Europe We spoke to the team leading its move across the Atlantic.
Interview | Property | 26 Mar Coronavirus real estate slowdown hits Badi hard Spare-room rental app Badi slashes revenue forecasts due to coronavirus real estate slowdown, but opportunities lie ahead.
Interview | Deeptech | 17 Mar Scouting deeptech startups with iPod inventor Tony Fadell The inventor of the iPod and founder of smart home startup Nest now runs deeptech investor Future Shape out of Paris.
Interview | Artificial Intelligence | 11 Mar The SoftBank-backed startup stopping Google robo-taxis from dominating Europe Goggo Network has raised millions to try and design the regulatory rulebook for self-driving cars in Europe.
Interview | Corporate Innovation | 10 Mar “You need a certain naivety to uncover customers’ true needs” Nathalie Gaveau, a French serial entrepreneur (who cofounded PriceMinister and Shopcade) now builds startups for big corporations. BCG's Digital Ventures has a particular method for doing this.
Interview | Robotics | 9 Mar The robotics startup helping to fight coronavirus Blue Ocean Robotics finds success amid “the worst years of robotics history”.
Interview | Fintech | 9 Mar TransferWise’s next generation: can the new guard drive it forward? TransferWise's Taavet Hinrikus is among fintech's most respected founders. But who's running the show now — nearly a decade on — and what's life really like there?
Interview | Food | 6 Mar YFood: Germany’s fast-growing competitor to Huel and Soylent Meal replacement brand YFood was boosted by a hit TV show appearance and winning a big-name investor
Interview | Mobility | 4 Mar Self-driving cars: The long road ahead FiveAI has raised $41m to develop its self-driving car software — and realised quite how damn hard that will be.
Interview | Corporate Innovation | 3 Mar “Disruption is not about being radical” It is about the size of the problem you are solving, says Costas Papaikonomou, the "grumpy innovator" and cofounder of Happen.
Interview | Fintech | 27 Feb Revolut-rival Monese set to make 30 employees into millionaires as it eyes unicorn status Monese's equity scheme has proven lucrative for its staff. But the fintech still needs to show it can deliver shareholder value and keep apace with its peers.
