TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2023

His focus is early-stage technology investments, particularly in HR tech, robotics, and healthcare industries. However, data from 2022 is showing that these innovation hubs may have some serious competition as the investment landscape in Europe is starting to outstrip robotics’ biggest players. In 2022, nearly $8.5

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

In a response to the proposed ban, Cellular Agriculture Europe called it “bad public policy,” and that it would “reduce consumers’ ability to choose the food they want,” especially new products for those “who are concerned about animal welfare and the environmental impact of their food.” Anonymity requests will be respected.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

NeoCarbon , a Berlin-based climate tech startup that’s taking a retrofitting approach to scaling direct air capture (DAC) devices for uptake of CO2 emissions has nabbed pre-seed funding. Though it says it hopes, longer term, to develop tech for really large towers too.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2021

The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners (UTEC) , a deep-tech investment firm, announced the first close of its fifth fund, which is expected to total 30 billion JPY (or about $275 million USD) by June 2021. UTEC’s deep-tech investments around the world. What do we mean when we talk about deep tech?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

Butternut Box , a London-based fresh dog food business with a tech-driven platform that delivers HelloFresh-style, catered dog food, has raised $55.4 Founded in 2016, Butternut Box bills itself as a “human-grade, fresh dog food company” with a “personalized dietary offering” driven by its own tech platform. million (€47.2

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Berlin-based climate startup ecoworks is using digital technologies, AI and industrial robots to tackle a huge and critical problem: Energy inefficient buildings.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2022

and Europe are on a mission to bring some of that industrial work back to its own shores. Robco , a Munich-based startup that has built a platform for designing low-cost modular robots for small and medium industrial businesses, has picked up €13 million (abut $13.8 annually on average.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Zego , the insurtech that got its start by offering flexible motorbike insurance for gig economy workers but has since expanded with a range of tech-enabled commercial motor insurance products, has raised $150 million. It combines tech with multiple data sources to offer insurance products that it claims save time and are more cost-effective.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

If you ask me, climate tech investor Contrarian Ventures isn’t so contrarian anymore. The five-year-old firm is targeting $100 million for its second seed-stage fund, and it’s doing so smack in the middle of a climate-tech dealmaking boom. In 2017, PitchBook recorded 578 climate tech deals globally, altogether worth $12.5

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MARCH 18, 2025

The AI industry hit a significant bend in the road toward artificial general intelligence in 2024. And all the while a small AI lab in China was quietly developing new AI models, including reasoning models, that would begin sending shockwaves through the AI industry by the end of 2024. The rest of the industry has followed its lead.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

based computer vision-powered e-scooter parking startup whose tech Tier had been trialing in multiple cities in Europe. Fantasmo has about 20 to 25 cities mapped out predominantly in Europe, and some in North America, according to Ryan Measel, co-founder and CEO of Fantasmo. Bird developed a similar tech in-house.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Packaging is a trillion-dollar-per-year industry that, by and large, has some sustainability challenges. Impacked is a B2B company that’s bringing green tech to the forefront for everything from jars, tubes and pouches to bottles. I believe that shifting our industry to more sustainable solutions starts with education.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

Munich-based AM Ventures just closed a $100 million fund focusing specifically on the early growth stages of industrial and commercial 3D printing applications. TechCrunch (TC): 3D printing seems a bit niche — why focus your entire venture fund on that industry? We come from engineering or from the industrial 3d printing domain.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2022

In survey after survey, this blatant sexism is continually proved evident in the technology industry, and a new survey has provided yet another dismal glimpse into how women are treated. Regarding the gender ratio in the technology industry, this appears to be going moving in reverse. That said, the majority (70.4

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2022

Bfree was founded by Chukwudi Enyi (COO), Moses Nmor (CPO) and Flosbach (CEO), who were looking to develop better, ethical and tech-inspired debt-collection tools and processes following their firsthand experience working for digital lenders in Nigeria. “We Flosbach anticipates that the startup will be handling 1.4 Lenders in the U.S.

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The Next Web

MARCH 29, 2019

There’s little arguing that artificial intelligence is one of the hottest sectors of the tech industry. From recommending personalized content in your YouTube feed to translating text, diagnosing cancer and driving cars, the number of domains that the AI industry is touching is constantly expanding.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The trillion-dollar construction industry is often tarred with the inefficiency brush , accused of failing to move with the times and ignoring digitization in favor of legacy tools. But there is plenty of evidence that things are changing, with countless startups raising large sums of cash to help the construction industry modernize.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

In particular, Doctolib acts as a booking platform that connects doctors with patients; 300,000 health professionals pay for the service and 60 million people have used it in Europe. Tanker helps healthcare tech companies secure user data. In other words, if you’re not the sender nor the recipient, you can’t decrypt the data.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Seoul Robotics says the wrong-way detection feature is being deployed on freeways and highways in California, Florida and Tennessee, as well as in Europe and Asia. Inside Seoul Robotics’s contrarian approach to autonomous vehicle tech by Kate Park originally published on TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Soleadify is a startup that uses machine learning to create profiles for businesses in any industry. The first of the company’s products is a business search engine that keeps over 40 million business profiles updated, currently used by hundreds of companies in the USA, Europe and Asia for sales and marketing activities.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 13, 2025

Ukraines minerals fuel industries and militaries Ukraines mineral resources are concentrated in two geologic provinces. Before Ukraines independence in 1991, both areas supplied the Soviet Union with materials for its industrialization and military. Its the largest source in Europe and the fifth largest globally.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

According to local media reports , Bielefeld’s has experienced a tech boom in recent years, with accelerators like the local Founders Foundation (backed by the Bertelsmann Foundation) and Garage 33 (at the University of Paderborn) attracting a new wave of young company founders to the East Westphalia-Lippe region. What does it lack?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2022

HR tech platform Darwinbox has more than tripled its valuation to become a unicorn in a new $72 million funding round as the Indian startup leads what an investor calls the “SaaSification of Asia” trend. Why can’t vendors from the US or Europe continue to dominate here? You may ask why SaaS for Asia needs to even exist as a category.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Elevation has been a nonprofit partner since 2007 and currently supports more than 200 different organizations in Europe and the Americas. Founded back in 2007, we’ve built a team of industry specialists with a passion to make the world a better place.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

The startup will use the funds to hire more than 50 engineers, data scientists, business development, insurance and compliance specialists, as well as scale into new industry verticals and across into Europe. While insurance is certainly on offer here, it’s the screening tech that makes DigiSure’s product unique.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

is the latest startup to grab some venture capital dollars as the travel industry gets back on its feet amid the global pandemic. million to bring spontaneous travel back to a hard-hit industry and Wanderlog bag $1.5 million to bring spontaneous travel back to a hard-hit industry and Wanderlog bag $1.5 YouTravel.Me

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

Founded in 2016, viAct currently serves more than 30 construction industry clients in Asia and Europe. Construction tech startups are poised to shake up a $1.3-trillion-dollar trillion-dollar industry. ” Investor momentum builds for construction tech.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

Demand for talent continues to make tech recruitment a hotbed of startup activity. To wit: Madrid-based startup Circular.io , which is now expanding its “talent sharing platform” — initially focused on tech skills — into the U.K. opening to in-house tech recruiters in London from today).

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Over the years, the event has become a relatively low-tech, low-budget showcase for a group of tech investors and billionaire industry insiders to take a look at early stage businesses that could be their next billion-dollar opportunity. the raw materials are products of the current agricultural industry.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

Mobile and preventative health services are the future of the health industry,” said Per Brilioth, CEO of VNV Global. “As 60%) and Western Europe (20%). 3 golden rules for health tech entrepreneurs. 60%) and Western Europe (20%). 3 golden rules for health tech entrepreneurs.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

There is no more blaming or cutting corners because the system validates that and also makes construction a healthier industry to work in.”. He felt that Buildots, with such a premium product, would have a challenge selling to a low-margin industry that was late to adopt technology in general.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

and Europe and helps protect the reputation of the fintech industry. and Europe and helps protect the reputation of the fintech industry. To that end, Railsbank’s credit card as a service offering means that any company can offer a branded credit card using the fintech’s infrastructure and tech.

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TechCrunch

JULY 5, 2021

We operate in Europe and we are the industry leader in online sales,” co-founder and co-CEO Philippe de Chanville told me. For the logistics part, we work with third-party logistics companies — we are a tech company,” co-founder and co-CEO Christian Raisson told me.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Open banking platforms, where services that might not have previously lived next to each other are now joined up by way of APIs, has been one of the emerging trends of the last couple of years, and today one of the leaders in the space out of Europe has closed a round of funding to expand its business.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Where is the heart of the technology industry ? Europe’s tech scene has been busy in recent years , meaning that it can’t be ignored in any such conversation. Europe’s tech scene has been busy in recent years , meaning that it can’t be ignored in any such conversation.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

As Doctolib operates in a highly sensitive industry, the company has also been investing in security and privacy. Healthcare tech platform Doctolib acquires encryption startup Tanker. With Doctolib Team , the company is creating an instant messaging service for health professionals. Doctolib acquired Tanker, as I first reported.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Swedish food tech company N!CK’S CK’S got started in 2017 in Europe when founder and head of R&D Niclas Luthman’s mother was diagnosed as a diabetic, and Luthman diagnosed as pre-diabetic, according to Altschul. “He In Europe, the company makes ice cream, snack bars and confectionery products. However, Altschul says N!CK’S

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