News | Funding | 2 Apr Crowdfunding platforms grapple with slowdown Seedrs and Crowdcube are focusing efforts on companies that are booming, hoping to stop investors retreating.
News | Cities | 1 Apr Air pollution drops in European cities: how does your street look? Europeans are stuck at home because of coronavirus and pollution is dropping. Check out these before and after air-quality maps.
News | Biotech | 1 Apr Call for small UK labs to embrace Dunkirk spirit and produce Covid-19 tests Veteran UK entrepreneur Mike Fischer calls on small labs to help provide a collective 100,000+ tests a week for front-line healthcare staff.
News | Corporate Innovation | 31 Mar Corporate innovation weekly — bacterial protein, pneumonia vaccines and London’s electric avenue This is what Europe's biggest corporations are have been doing in innovation in the last week, featuring UBS, Roche, Danone, Siemens and more.
News | Data | 30 Mar Fighting Covid-19 without turning into a surveillance state NHSX launches a hackathon to find tech to beat Covid-19 that doesn’t compromise privacy
News | Government | 25 Mar France pledges €4bn liquidity support to startups France is piling on measures to help startups through coronavirus. The latest announcement is a massive cash injection.
News | Corporate Innovation | 24 Mar Coronavirus: Turning windscreen wiper motors into emergency ventilators The devices can be made in four hours using basic materials
News | Flying Cars | 24 Mar Engine fires and coronavirus: How Lilium managed to raise $240m in tough times Last month its prototype aircraft caught fire. Now coronavirus will halt all test flights. But Lilium has still managed to raise a new round.
News | Government | 18 Mar Support measures for startups affected by coronavirus: the ultimate resource Government-backed resources for startups in Europe impacted by coronavirus, including grants, loans and other measures.
News | Fintech | 18 Mar Revolut launches banking app for the under-18s The company becomes the first of the major challenger banks to go after Generation Z.
News | Corporate Innovation | 17 Mar Corporate innovation weekly: soy sauce taps, electric cars and robots to file your expenses This is what Europe's biggest companies got up to this week with startups and new ideas, featuring Unilever, Nestlé, Maersk, VW, RBS and more.
News | Consumer | 17 Mar Refurbed raises $17m to sell you second-hand laptops and smartphones With every new smartphone and laptop our e-waste footprint is only growing
News | Corporate Innovation | 13 Mar How artificial intelligence is changing the game for banks Eigen Technologies, which uses small datasets to train its AI, has bagged deals with ING and Goldman Sachs.
News | Startup Life | 11 Mar UK government slashes tax relief for entrepreneurs The tax break was criticised as benefiting just a few rich people. But others argue it was a good incentive for founders and helped stop brain drain.
News | Corporate Innovation | 10 Mar Corporate innovation weekly: self-driving wheelchairs, BBVA “ninjas” This is what Europe's largest corporations did this week with startups and new ideas. Featuring ABB, Airbus, Munich Re, British Airways, Alstom and more
News | Fintech | 5 Mar Customer blunders and tensions at the top – behind N26’s failed UK expansion Last month, German digital bank N26 announced it was leaving the UK, blaming Brexit. But an investigation shows the company had faced a regulatory mishap in the weeks prior.
