Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

I just had the thrill of spending an hour with Janet Gornick, the Director of LIS, an international data archive that is located in Luxembourg. LIS is the institute that created and manages this giant database, which is called the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) Database. single-adult households, multi-generational households?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

It’s just under two years since the Berlin-based startup raised a $30M Series C. Currently, it says more than 2,500 companies, across 10,000+ locations in its two active European markets, are signed up to its platform to get temps on demand — with 40,000+ workers using the platform each month to book side jobs.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

To power the expansion, which will see Lightyear land in 19 new markets, including the Baltics and much of Western Europe, London-based Lightyear has also raised $25 million in a Seres A round of funding led by U.S. Lightyear , a U.K. fintech startup that promises consumers commission-free trading on U.S.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

Stripe’s Atlas service offers some related tooling, meaning that the market for helping founders set up and run their business is hot.). British Virgin Islands, and soon, from Luxembourg. Crunchbase data indicates that Carta has raised $1.1 More importantly, they can accept LP capital from anywhere in the world.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

With this new product, the company is entering a new market — home cinema sound systems. We are at the high end of the market but we have a product that is an all-in-one audio system,” Devialet CEO Franck Lebouchard told me. We realized that it’s a market that is taking off,” Lebouchard said. and it costs $2,400 (€2,190). “We

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

With this new mechanism, fund managers should be able to raise a new fund more easily. And he strongly believes that the ability to raise large growth rounds in Europe will lead to large tech companies down the road. We are starting to see companies like Back Market or Ynsect that are better than American ones.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The trend of space companies heading to the public markets via SPAC mergers is not over yet. The new fund, which will operate out of Luxembourg, will be focused on early-stage space companies. Image Credits: Orbital Reef (opens in a new window). Satellite manufacturer Terran Orbital is going public via SPAC merger.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2023

The collapse of the US bank came after it tried to raise $2.25bn to offset losses from the sale of (mainly) US government bonds, leading to a 60% share price collapse, with customers and investors subsequently racing in their droves to empty their accounts. The law firms and other VCs caused the panic imho. There was no crisis before this.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

The third-generation Cowboy is available in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Spain, the Netherlands, and the UK, with Denmark in the works. US sales will happen someday, but right now, the European e-bike market is ten times the US market, says Cowboy, so it’s not in a rush. Putting €33 million to good use.

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