Robin Wauters

This week we recap The Global Startup Ecosystem Report, fintech’s fun times, Mistral AI’s seed round, Elon’s activities in Europe, EU AI regulations, and Monty Munford ponders a16z’s move to London.

Over 10% of cyber attacks occur via physical security breaches due to outdated access control. NineID increases access security, corporate site security and privacy compliance.

3YOURMIND’s platform analyses CAD data and develops a library of files categorised by technical and economic metrics that help determine if a part is suitable for additive manufacturing and what type of time or cost advantages can be applied.

We interviewed Svilen Rangelov, co-founder and chief exec of Bulgarian deep tech company Dronamics, which is building the world’s first cargo drone airline.

The German firm has added another two German firms to its stable adding marketing and consultancy expertise to its string

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X-xogFWI2A Founded in London back in 2012, Onfido has become one of the global leaders in the digital identity verification and authentication services. We caught up with Mike Tuchen, who joined the company almost three years ago after stints as CEO of companies like Rapid7 and Talend, and was brought on board to lead the scale-up and supercharge global growth. Started with merely $30,000 in seed funding a decade ago, Onfido has raised more than $200 million i…

Today Tech.eu celebrates a decade of chronicling the development of the European tech community. In so much, I thought it most appropriate, and time-saving for me, to finally put down in words the answers and stories to the questions I’m most often asked about Tech.eu. So, here we go. Rijeka dreaming In the middle of the summer of 2013, I found myself in the Croatian port city Rijeka, sat down for breakfast in a rather posh coastal hotel. I felt slightly grouchy, having just been let go over…

Amadeus Capital Partners has been investing in technology-enabled products and services for nearly three decades. Founded by Anne Glover and Hermann Hauser in 1997, Amadeus has backed more than 190 companies and raised over $1 billion for investment to date.When we had a chance to sit down with Anne on the sidelines of the recent Tech Tour Growth 50 Europe event in Paris, we jumped on the opportunity to get her take on the state of the European deep tech entrepreneurship and investment ecosystem…

Dr. Christian Nagel is a co-founder and partner of Earlybird, a technology investment powerhouse with more than €2 billion under management.Founded in 1997, Earlybird invests in all development and growth phases of tech companies, and has nestled itself among the largest and most experienced venture investors operating in Europe today.We caught up with Christian at a recent event in Paris, to gain some more insights into the firm’s investment strategy and hypotheses. Aside from that ’VC eleva…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFxBLbtHcUo What made Jacqueline van den Ende decide to start climate fund investment platform Carbon Equity as a way to try and solve some of the world’s greatest challenges - with private capital as the main driver? It’s the central theme of an enjoyable and insightful conversation we had with the Amsterdam-based company’s affable co-founder and CEO, whose career spans entrepreneurship and PE/VC investment. Born in early 2021, today Carbon Equity has more…