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The buzzy new tech will be available next month in BYD's flashy new Han L sedan. Despite tariffs and trade war escalations, China's global slice of the EV pie is steadily growing. million EVs to the rest of the world 50 percent more than the next highest exporter, Germany. In 2023, China exported 1.7
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In a letter to a US senator, a Florida-based data broker says it obtained sensitive data on US military members in Germany from a Lithuanian firm, revealing the global nature of online ad surveillance.
Presented by: Heather Mansfield of Nonprofit Tech for Good. Attendees will also gain insight by learning benchmarks for success as revealed in the 2019 Global NGO Technology Report. Date: Tuesday, October 15, 2019. Time: 1pm EDT / 10am PDT. << Register Now >> Please Note: This webinar will be recorded.
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Presented by: Elizabeth Ngonzi , Adjunct Faculty at New York University Center for Global Affairs and Former CEO of Afrika Tikkun USA. Date: Tuesday, March 24, 2020. Time: 1pm EST / 10am PST. charitable giving in 2018 was $428 billion, yet most international organizations are unaware about how the U.S.
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The main hub for starting a tech business is currently San Francisco. It’s an amazing city, full of people working at tech businesses, and ready to start the next big thing. The costs of living are incredibly high and you will compete with the world’s most successful tech businesses for talent.
Google workers across the world are coming together to form a global union alliance. The newly formed coalition, called Alpha Global, is comprised of 13 different unions representing workers in 10 countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, and Switzerland.
Tech-talent marketplace MVP Match has raised €5 million ($5 million) seed funding from Stage 2 Capital to double down its strategy for pairing companies with talent from across the globe. We see entering Egypt as the first step in our exciting journey to bring the entire continent into the global talent pool.
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GoTo Global, an Israeli mobility company that offers shared micromobility and car sharing services in Spain, Israel, Malta and Germany, is going public on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange through a merger with shell company Nera Tech Media. Adam Neumann is back in the shared economy business with an investment in GoTo Global.
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Amagi, which offers cloud broadcast and targeted advertising software to scores of media and entertainment giants, has raised a large new funding round as it looks to expand its tech offerings and invest in AI-powered personalization stack. General Atlantic values media tech Amagi at $1.4
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Co-founder and CEO Saar Yoskovitz said in an interview that the funding will be used to expand the services that it provides to customers, as well as to build out its global customer base, and the ecosystem of companies that it works with so that it can expand the kinds of customers it targets to include smaller businesses and scale-ups.
The global supply chain was one of the major industrial casualties of the pandemic, so it perhaps goes without saying that companies tackling issues related to the global supply chain would remain an alluring proposition for otherwise hesitant venture capitalists. million) Series A round eight months ago.
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Given the likely global recession, small businesses are reaching for new kinds of financing. But in Germany, B2B Payments company Mondu has emerged as a significant entrant to the market. which is bigger than the global consumer BNPL market.”. The company has now raised $57 million to date.
ConstellR , a space tech startup with a technology that can monitor land surface temperatures from space, has raised a €1 million pre-seed round led by FTTF, with the participation of strategic investor OHB Venture Capital, Baden-Württemberg’s state bank L-Bank and an undisclosed investor.
Superscript , an insurance broker and tech platform targeting SMEs and “high-growth” tech firms, has raised £45 million ($54 million) in a Series B round of funding. Germany’s Wefox last year raised $400 million at $4.5 and across the European Economic Area (EEA). and across the European Economic Area (EEA).
Chinese manufacturer Changan Automobile said on Tuesday it had opened a new European office in Germany, facilitating the companys entry into the worlds third largest regional market where peers such as BYD and Chery are also forging ahead. READ MORE: Chinese carmakers to become dominant globally despite tariffs AlixPartners
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It will aim to make the European Union the most attractive place to create a startup, in comparison with obvious global leaders like the U.S. Lisbon’s startup scene rises as Portugal gears up to be a European tech tiger. Therefore, its significance is not to be underestimated. Proactive CEOs should prioritize European expansion.
The Augsburg, Germany-based company has raised $20 million, funding that it plans to use to continue building out its business, as well as its technology, both in terms of the hardware and the cloud-based software platform, German Bionic IO, that works with the exoskeletons to optimize them and help them “learn” to work better.
The country’s capital Warsaw has an angel investment scene, but founders instead often look to Germany for smaller investments because “the distance from Wroc?aw However, there is an air of optimism about the future: “We will have more and more global companies grown from the Wroc?aw’s ski , CEO, Valueships.
Also participating is Anthos Capital, Global Brain, Clocktower Technology Ventures, Moneta VC, Mitsui Fudosan and Firestartr. Nigel Verdon, co-founder and CEO of Railsbank, tells me the injection of capital will be used to continue expanding the fintech’s global footprint and for further product development.
It plans to use the funding to expand its footprint across metropolitan areas in its existing three markets — the Czech Republic, Hungary and Austria — as well as to break into Germany, Poland, Romania and other countries in the near future. And this is not a comprehensive list.).
Germany, Switzerland, Scandinavia and China. To meet demand, Buildots will use the new funding to continue that expansion; double the size of its global team with a focus on sales, marketing and R&D; and grow on the business side. Despite the hype, construction tech will be hard to disrupt.
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