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View ArticleAs our populations age, this startup is turning live-in care into a...
As developed-world populations increasingly get older, healthcare is being rapidly digitized and “platformized” in order to meet the huge scale of change heading our way. I recently covered how Cera in...
View ArticleOppo stays ‘committed’ to Europe despite sales suspension in Germany
Chinese smartphone titan Oppo will keep Germany as its main operational hub for its European business despite recently withdrawing sales from the country, Billy Zhang, the firm’s vice president of...
View ArticleAudi to join Formula 1 with German-built hybrid power unit
Audi said Friday it will join Formula 1 for the 2026 season, competing alongside rival sportscar makers such as Aston Martin and Mercedes-Benz as the series shifts its focus to electrified race cars....
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Drop’s DCX keycaps give your old keyboard a new lease on life
Most people don’t spend a lot of time thinking about the keycaps on their keyboards. Chances are, they are white with black text or black with white text and that’s about it. Like with all things...
View ArticleKlim harvests $6.6M seed to get more farmers growing greener
Berlin-based agriTech startup Klim is in a hurry to get farmers adopting so-called ‘regenerative’ methods — which are touted as less harmful to soils and biodiversity than conventional farming —...
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Amazon is buying Cloostermans, a mechatronics specialist in Belgium, to ramp...
Amazon has made a string of startup acquisitions over the years to build out its robotics business; now, the e-commerce leviathan is taking an interesting turn in that strategy as it expands its...
View ArticleDope Security emerges from stealth to shake up the SWG market
San Francisco-based cybersecurity startup Dope Security has launched from stealth with $4 million in funding to modernize the secure web gateway market. A secure web gateway, or SWG, is a network...
View ArticleMVP Match, a tech-talent marketplace, raises $5M from Stage 2 Capital
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. The...
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Autonomous electric truck company Einride rides into Germany
Autonomous and electric truck maker Einride is rolling into Germany, representing its first new market in Europe outside its native Sweden. Founded out of Stockholm in 2016, Einride has raised some...
View ArticleLockerGoga ransomware victims can now recover their files for free
Victims of the LockerGoga ransomware can now recover their stolen files for free, thanks to a new decryptor released by Romanian cybersecurity firm Bitdefender and the NoMoreRansom Initiative. The...
View ArticleEurope’s top court chalks up more strikes against bulk data retention
Yet more strikes against general and indiscriminate data retention in the EU: The bloc’s top court has issued a couple of rulings on joined cases today — one related to a German law on telecoms data...
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A ‘Stripe for phone plans’: Gigs raises $20M to help any company be an MVNO
A new startup wants to make it easier for any company to sell phone and data plans as part of their own branded mobile network subscriptions — and to help, it has secured the backing of big-name...
View ArticleHuman Impact Capital is a new $50M fund investing in social impact startups
Redstone and EnjoyVenture have combined forces to create Human Impact Capital (HIC), Germany’s first dedicated scial impact VC fund. The fund will deploy cash into digital business models focusing on...
View ArticleFacebook political microtargeting at center of GDPR complaints in Germany
In its latest piece of strategic litigation, the precision-punching European privacy rights campaign group noyb has used data donated by users of the ‘Who Targets me‘ browser extension, which analyzes...
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How SeaTable navigates the China backlash as it goes West
Chinese startups aspiring to make it big in the West now face a major hurdle: their connections to home. The scrutiny faced by TikTok in the U.S. over its management structure and data practices is a...
View ArticleCan Europe’s cannabis market avoid the US’ mistakes? Investors chime in
When it comes to Europe’s cannabis market, the biggest piece of news this year is what didn’t happen. Contrary to what a lot of people expected, Germany isn’t on the way to legalizing recreational use...
View ArticleAlibaba-backed autonomous driving darling Deeproute sets sight on Europe...
Deeproute.ai, the Shenzhen-headquartered robotaxi startup with $350 million in funding and over 500 employees worldwide, is aiming to open an operations center in Germany in 2024. The move will make it...
View ArticleVW bails on its plan for a $2.1B EV plant in Germany
Volkswagen’s $2.1 billion plan to launch a dedicated electric-vehicle factory in Wolfsburg, Germany is kaput. The automaker instead reportedly plans to modify its existing plants in Zwickau and...
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