News | Corporate Innovation | 7 Jan Corporate innovation weekly: toilet robots, deepfakes and the next frontier for AI This is what Europe's biggest corporations got up to in terms of innovation and working with startups
News | Food | 7 Jan Karma battles food waste with smart fridges The Swedish food waste app is rolling out communal fridges to make it easier to distribute meals
News | Venture Capital | 23 Dec Klarna cofounder Niklas Adalberth’s Norrsken Foundation launches €100m impact fund Klarna’s cofounder is launching the biggest impact fund for early-stage tech startups in Europe — and he wants to convince other VCs to follow suit.
News | Mobility | 20 Dec Solar electric car startup Sono Motors has less than two weeks to crowdfund €50m A Munich-based startup has dumped prospective investment deals to embark on an ambitious — some say impossible — crowdfunding campaign to get its solar electric vehicle into production. But will it make it?
News | Workspaces | 20 Dec No more posh milk: WeWork members notice cost-cutting at London offices There have been downgrades to books, milk, beer and mugs, according to WeWork members across the capital.
News | Food | 19 Dec On-demand delivery startup Glovo raises €150m and becomes Spain’s second unicorn The Spanish competitor to Uber Eats and Deliveroo claims it will do what its rivals seem unable or unwilling to do: hit profitability in 2021. We catch up with chief executive Oscar Pierre on wooing investors, dark kitchens and acquisitions.
News | Cities | 19 Dec Chaotic strikes push Parisians to startup way 15 days of French strikes force Parisians to explore alternatives for mobility and getting work done. Startups like BlaBlaCar, Cityscoot, Zenpark and Neo-nomade are some of the winners.
News | Drones | 18 Dec Manna raises $5.2m, plans to start delivering takeaways by drone in early 2020 The Irish startup has backing from US investors and plans to launch services in Europe and the US
News | Analytics | 18 Dec Pexxi founder says venture capital funds are “painfully” clueless about birth control Investors are “afraid" of women's health, says Pexxi's Shardi Nahavandi. The femtech founder is building the world's first algorithm for oral birth control.
News | Fintech | 18 Dec Spanish Fintech Twinco raises €2.5m to make our products more ethical Supply chain finance is nothing new, but Twinco's pitch is that it can help companies behave more ethically and provide workers, many of which are in Bangladesh, with better conditions.
News | Angel Investing | 17 Dec Calling all European female angel investors and syndicates Sifted is building a list of female angel investors and syndicates in Europe, in partnership with women in tech community Femstreet — and we need your help.
News | Corporate Innovation | 17 Dec Corporate innovation weekly: Pocket rockets to Dr T-shirt This is what Europe's largest corporations have been doing with new technology and startups this week, from Airbus to Iceland.
News | Artificial Intelligence | 16 Dec DeepMind exec Andrew Eland leaves to launch startup The startup, called Diagonal Works, aims to find new ways to improve towns and cities with software.
News | Venture Capital | 13 Dec Atomico launches second angel programme The European venture capital fund has given 15 new angels across Europe $100,000 each to invest in early-stage startups — and is honing in on female founders and sustainability.
News | Public | 12 Dec Labour activists using Tinder election bots to sway vote The UK's general election is seeing dating-tech enter the fray, with left-wing activists running a Tinder bot to boost the Corbyn vote. But does it really work?
News | Corporate Innovation | 11 Dec Corporate innovation weekly: seaweed, electric shocks and the “crazy rules” theory of success This is what Europe's biggest companies — from Volvo and Unilever to Roche and NatWest — have been doing with startups and new technologies this week.
