Tesla & Waymo: Same goals, different approaches
Recently Tesla and Waymo have been passing jabs over who has the best approach when it comes to autonomous driving. Waymo CEO John Kraficik, head of Alphabet’s autonomous car subsidiary, has claimed that Tesla will never be able to reach
Personio has Reached €103.5M Series D funding and 1.4 Billion Valuation
Personio, a Munich based company that digitises and simplifies time-consuming HR processes and improves workflow, has reached €103.5 million Series D funding. This brings the total investment to over €206 million - giving the company a valuation at around €1.4
Stockholm’s vegan razor startup Estrid raises $18m
The Stockholm based startup company, Estrid, whose aim is to build a DCT operation, announced that it has successfully raised a funding round of $18m. The money was raised from a range of local Swedish investors, including Camsten, Mattias Miksche, Josefin
The start-up developing an alternative to emails
"The way we manage work, principally through email, needs to change. We allow really complicated parts of the global economy to be run over email and it’s not fit for purpose.” says Bill Dobie, who has founded a new workplace
The tech startup tackling Rome’s rubbish problem
Italy’s capital, Rome, is utterly ridden with rubbish. There is so much of it that wild boars now come in from the countryside to pick through it. There used to be a landfill called Malagrotta, run by a local tycoon
Dutch brewery becomes first in the world to burn iron as a clean recyclable fuel
A green fuel alternative is emerging in the form of metal powder, which hopes to reduce the need for burning fossil fuels. Cheap iron powder, when ground very fine, burns readily at high temperatures, releasing energy as it oxidises. This
EU fintech startup Payer develops revolutionary e-commerce registration product
Swedish B2B payments startup, Payer, is revolutionising how customer relationships are made between companies online, with their newly developed registration product. The product enables e-commerce merchants to verify new customers as trustworthy so purchases can be made with ease. Today,
Swiss startup Typewise has raised €1 million to develop its next-gen smartphone keyboard
Swiss-based startup Typewise has successfully raised €1 million in a seed round from Swiss investors to develop the future between human and machines through on-device, AI powered, text prediction technology. Typewise Keyboard was the first app produced by the company and
Customer insights startup Streetbees raises $40m
Each year, brands will spend billions typically relying on surveys and observation groups, to try and understand what their customers think. One company who wants to switch up this cycle is Streetbees. This customer insights startup has created a mass online
How lockdowns can provide new opportunities for women in tech
The technology sector is experiencing constant innovative change, however, even whilst going from strength to strength, there is still one setback: women remain underrepresented. There is an increasing demand for ICT related skills in the EU, yet women are reluctant to