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Places | Investment | 12 Sep

Armenia: how booming startups are reversing a population exodus

Tech startups are creating jobs and encouraging people to move back to an increasingly confident and optimistic post-revolution Armenia.

Places | Events | 4 Sep

Stockholm eyes the world record for the biggest female hackathon

This weekend Sthlm Tech Fest is attempting to break the record for the world’s largest female hackathon – but can it attract enough women?

Places | VC | 3 Sep

Why is Dutch VC investment lagging?

The Netherlands has produced 15 unicorns and the pace is accelerating. But someone seems to have forgotten to tell the VCs about the party.

Places | Food | 13 Aug

Noma veterans run a drinks business like a tech company

Since the start in late 2016 the distillery Empirical Spirits has sparked the interest of tech venture capital and the public alike.

Places | Food | 12 Aug

Deliveroo pulls out of Germany

Food delivery giant Deliveroo has told customers that it is pulling out of the competitive German market this week.

Places | Finance | 7 Aug

Meet the fintech startups born out of a financial crisis

When a financial crisis hits town it may be the perfect timing to kick-off your startup.

Places | Angel Investing | 31 Jul

Leuven, the university town where students + beer = startups

Home of Anheuser Busch, the world’s largest beer company

Places | Cities | 24 Jul

“In five years there will be five tech hubs in Europe that matter, and Lausanne will be one of them”

Lausanne creates about the same number of startups as Zurich does, with only a third of the population. This is how the city’s tech community manages to punch above its weight. 

Places | Accelerators | 19 Jul

Italy sends its startups abroad to grow into unicorns

Where many other countries are trying to stop the brain drain and keep their entrepreneurs at home, Italy appears to be actively exporting its founders.

Places | Communities | 10 Jul

Insider view: Iceland, in the perfect spot halfway between Europe and the US

Within ten years the Icelandic startup ecosystem has gone from non-existant to somewhere startups can thrive.

Places | Telecoms | 27 Jun

Croatia’s tech sector is a lot bigger than you think

Companies like Infobip and Rimac Automobili are doing big business despite the country's sluggish bureaucracy

Places | Cities | 30 May

Krakow’s Dragon Valley is gearing up to grow a unicorn

Startups in Poland's second city pull in the big funding rounds

Places | Cities | 10 May

A third of the world’s top startup cities are in Europe

Europe is strong when it comes to deeptech. But it really needs to solve the female founder problem.

Places | Finance | 25 Apr

How Lithuania became a mecca for fintech

For years Lithuania was best known for its world-class basketball team. Lately, the small country of under 3m people is getting noticed for something else – fintech.

Places | Communities | 11 Apr

Insider view: Oslo is becoming the greentech capital of Europe

Impact tech, easily available startup grants and a perfect test environment - three reasons why Oslo could be the ultimate place to build your startup.

Places | Hiring and workforce | 10 Apr

In Amsterdam, tech is hiring more than any other sector

On a hunt for "purpose" at work, employees are increasingly choosing to work in Amsterdam's tech sector.