Analysis | Other | 16 Dec 2020 Vision: predictions from 28 big-hitters in Europe’s startup scene What will 2020 bring for European startups? We hear from startup experts such as Jan Hammer at Index Ventures, Taavet Hinrikus at Transferwise and Roxanne Varza at Station F.
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 | Manufacturing | 11 Dec Sulapac raises €15m, begins mass rollout of biodegradable straws A mojito-proof compostable straw will finally be rolled out to consumers and Sulapac has raised €15m to expand its plastic alternative to other categories, too.
Analysis | Corporate Innovation | 10 Dec “Forget the money, startups” says chief executive of German unicorn Otto Bock The chief executive of Europe's 100-year-old unicorn tells founders to stop focusing on profit.
News | Data | 10 Dec Polish-Chinese startup quietly tracking 1.1bn mobile phones raises $12m Cosmose, a little-known startup based between Shanghai and Warsaw, boasts luxury brands such as LVMH, Richemont, Kering, Estée Lauder and L'Oréal as clients.
News | Artificial Intelligence | 6 Dec DeepMind cofounder Mustafa Suleyman comes out of hiding Mustafa Suleyman announced on Twitter that he will be joining Google in January after spending 10 years at DeepMind.
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”.
News | Agriculture | 5 Dec Goodbye herbicide, hello weed-zapping farmbot The UK’s Small Robot Company and RootWave partner to develop a non-chemical weed control
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.
Analysis | Artificial Intelligence | 28 Nov 30 AI people in Europe to follow on Twitter Researchers from companies like Facebook, DeepMind and Amazon love to talk about their work and the latest artificial intelligence news on Twitter. Here are some of the best people to follow in Europe.
News | Software | 27 Nov Czech your invoice Prague-based startup Rossum raised $4.5m to take care of your paperwork
Analysis | Food | 27 Nov This startup built a €250k edible-insect farm inside an old mine — with its own sauna Finnish startup EntoCube says it will make insect farming cheaper by taking it 1436m underground.
News | Artificial Intelligence | 22 Nov EU launches €2bn AI and blockchain fund The European Commission and European Investment Fund are launching a €2bn fund to invest in fundamental technologies amid fears that the US and China are pulling ahead in areas such as AI and blockchain.
News | Energy | 22 Nov Spanish solar startup Holaluz to go public Spanish green energy startup Holaluz will list on the public market, looking to take advantage of the “huge opportunity” in Spain’s solar market.
News | Corporate Innovation | 19 Nov Week in corporate innovation: veggie Whoppers and electric car wars A roundup of what Europe's biggest companies are doing with startups and technology: from BMW to Goldman Sachs.
Interview | Intrapreneurship | 19 Nov Waitrose: £10m in annual cost savings through innovation The UK supermarket chain saved £460,000 just from tweaking tills to allow people to opt out of getting a receipt — and that was just one of 4000+ staff ideas.
