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TechHub’s new NYC site brings London startups Revolut, Aire, Cronofy, Callsign
Co-working and startup office leviathan WeWork continues to expand in London. It’s latest accounts show that it has £2 billion of lease commitments in the UK (25 offices in London and two in Manchester) over the next 25 years, indicating it is upbeat about the prospects of the city post-Brexit. However, rival office space provider Regus is less bullish, issuing a property warning… Read More
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Station combines all your messy web apps into a single app
Meet Station, a startup that was created by startup studio eFounders. Station has been working on the only work app you need. It combines all the services you need into a single window and handles notifications and documents better than a normal browser. If you don’t spend your life in Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook, chances are you spend most of your days in a web browser… Read More
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Workey launches ‘Tinder for recruitment’
“I’m a millennial, we did something bad to the HR market,” says Ben Reuveni, co-founder and CEO of Israeli career development and recruitment startup Workey. Part confessional, part company pitch, he argues that, different to the generation before it, millennials change jobs every two years, while so-called Generation Z are even more fickle. Read More
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Music startup Roli adds Pharrell Williams as new investor and chief creative officer
When it comes to music and technology, the bulk of attention has been focused on companies building digitised services to help deliver music to the masses, such as Spotify and Soundcloud. But an equally interesting development is how tech innovations have bridged into the world of music hardware, from devices to appreciate it to devices to create it; and today, one of the bigger movers in… Read More
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Convargo grabs $19 million to improve road freight
French startup Convargo is a marketplace for shippers and carriers so that you can find a truck and send goods across France more efficiently. The startup just raised a $19 million Series A round led by Inventure Partners and Earlybird. Tony Fadell, Patrick Sayer and Oskar Hartmann, Roger Crook, Clément Benoit and Romain Afflelou are also participating in today’s round. As always… Read More
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Adthena brings its AI-driven search tools to the U.S.
There’s no shortage of companies — both legitimate businesses and the seemingly endless supply of spammers who’ve found my email address — promising to improve your performance in online search. But founder and CEO Ian O’Rourke said Adthena is doing something different, because it uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to create what it calls a… Read More
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Publicly-listed UK VC Draper Esprit acquires Seedcamp’s Fund I & II for $23.6M
Following on from its announcement that it would invest in other early-stage VC firms in Europe, and doing so by investing in the UK’s Seedcamp, and Episode 1 Partners, Draper Esprit, the publicly-listed VC firm based in London, has gone a stage further. It’s now acquired Seedcamp Funds I & II for £17.9 million (€20 million / $23.6M). The original Fund 1 size was €2.5m and… Read More
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Medication management app Echo raises £7M Series A led by White Star Capital
Echo, the U.K. startup that offers an app to help you manage your medication and order repeat prescriptions for delivery, has raised £7 million in Series A funding. The round is led by White Star Capital, with participation from MMC Ventures, LocalGlobe, and Rocket Internet’s Global Founders Capital. Read More
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HireSweet monitors Github and Stack Overflow to recommend you your next engineer
Hiring engineers sucks and many, many companies are trying to leverage artificial intelligence to solve this issue. French startup HireSweet is focusing on finding you candidates who didn’t even think about applying to your company. The startup scans GitHub, Stack Overflow and other technical platforms to find the experts you’re looking for. HireSweet processes unstructured data… Read More
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OpenIO raises $5 million to build your own Amazon S3 on any storage device
French startup OpenIO just raised $5 million from Elaia Partners, Partech Ventures and Nord France Amorçage. The company has been focusing on object storage technology for different kinds of infrastructure. With today’s funding round, the company plans to work on getting new clients in the U.S. and Japan in addition to the EMEA region. Object storage is a different way of thinking… Read More
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Another AI chatbot shown spouting offensive views
Yandex, Russia’s homegrown Google rival — which offers a suite of similar products in its target non-U.S. markets, from search to webmail to maps — outed another equivalent offering earlier this month: An AI assistant. Read More
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In Europe, Facebook’s data law buffer looks to be on borrowed time
Facebook’s European business may not, for too much longer, be able to rely on its preferred privacy buffer of arguing that data protection oversight of its business is exclusively limited to the Irish watchdog on account of its European HQ being located in Ireland. Read More
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iAdvize raises $37.6 million for its customer engagement platform
French startup iAdvize raised another $37.6 million (€32 million) from Idinvest, Bpifrance and Quadrille Capital. The company wants to convert casual website visitors into clients. Thanks to iAdvize, companies can track what you’re doing and engage with you to convince you that you should open a bank account, buy a coat or upgrade your subscription. With today’s funding round… Read More
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Call to tighten UK law over data breaches
Consumer group Which? is unhappy with the U.K. data protection bill and has called on the government to amend the draft legislation to allow third-party organizations to seek collective redress for data breaches on behalf of consumers. Read More
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Shift Technology raises another $28 million to prevent fraudulent insurance claims
Shift Technology is raising a Series B round of $28 million from Accel and General Catalyst. Accel had already led the company’s previous round. Existing investors Elaia Partners and Iris Capital are also participating in today’s round. Read More
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N26 announces plans to launch in the US by mid-2018
European fintech startup N26 has plans to expand beyond Europe. The company’s co-founder and CEO Valentin Stalf is announcing today at the Money20/20 conference that N26 is going to launch in the U.S. around mid-2018 and has hired a handful of people who are already working in New York. Read More
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Amazon to open visually focused AI research hub in Germany
Ecommerce giant Amazon has announced a new research center in Germany focused on AI and on improving customer experience especially in visual systems. Read More
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