Big Ideas | Gaming | 17 Apr Esports needs to start charging for premium content Esports has 380m fans, but not that much money. Jens Hilgers, one of esports' biggest investors, says the industry needs to rethink how it charges for big events.
Opinion | Funding | 15 Apr “Missing: Working class founders” Investors — and even crowdfunding sites — still throw up too many hurdles for working class founders looking for funding, says our first ‘Secret Founder’ columnist.
Opinion | VC | 11 Apr What I’ve learned from a year of working with female founders Female entrepreneurs need to bring their business plans down to earth and stop taking setbacks so personally
Big Ideas | Industry 4.0 | 8 Apr Robots, self-driving cars and smart factories: Why Octopus Ventures is doubling down on “Industry 4.0” Plus: The car and robot startups to keep a close eye on.
Voices | VC | 3 Apr “Nepotism is rife, innovation is rare and diversity is a sham” Raising a fund for the first time has exposed some uncomfortable truths about the VC industry for our inaugural ‘Secret VC’ columnist.
Voices | Finance | 3 Apr Europe’s biggest fintech OakNorth calls out “clueless fintech people” Don't be one of them.
Big Ideas | Mobility | 2 Apr From Voi to Flash, we compare Europe’s scooter startups Scooter mania is sweeping across Europe, as VCs throw cash at a handful of scooter startups in a race to conquer the continent. We meet the contenders — and ask whether investing in scooters is even a good idea?
Opinion | Funding | 27 Mar “Disruptive startups get less money” Disruption has become a hot topic and describing your startup as 'revolutionary' certainly captures investors' attention. But it can be a double-edged strategy.
Big Ideas | Investment | 24 Mar Silicon Valley VCs are investing more in European startups Last year was a record year for fundraising by European startups with €20.5bn (£18.1bn).
Big Ideas | Incubators | 22 Mar Inside Zinc, the company builder with a mission It’s a company builder with a mission to make the world a better place. Two years in, is it working?
Places | Communities | 21 Mar Insider View: Zurich’s cool tech collaborators Zurich is a melting pot for tech startups and big corporates, with gorgeous mountains to boot.
Opinion | VC | 20 Mar “VCs are exploiting underrepresented people to solve their diversity problems” VCs need to rethink how they're using scouts in a bid to improve their diversity problems, argues Anisah Osman Britton.
Big Ideas | VC | 17 Mar Where are all the UK’s black VCs? There are fewer than 20 black people in decision-making roles in VC firms in the UK. Here's how they plan to increase that number.
Voices | Investment | 7 Mar Balderton dives into new VC funding model Balderton’s $145m fund to purchase equity directly from early shareholders has made its first investment. Is this what Europe needs?
Voices | Energy | 6 Mar How a tiny cleantech company won over the tech billionaires European companies have so far failed to get the famous tech entrepreneurs’ Breakthrough Energy Ventures to notice them – until now.
In Practice | Funding | 1 Mar 7 fundraising lessons from Latvia’s million-dollar startups Rising stars Giraffe360 and Nordigen on the dos and don'ts of startup fundraising.
