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Funderbeam CEO to talk about disrupting startup funding at Disrupt Berlin
Startup funding hasn’t changed much in the past decade. Funderbeam is an interesting company trying to turn everything upside down…
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Amazon says it will add 1,000 more employees in the UK, bringing the total to 28,500, bucking the Brexit chill
A lot of uncertainty hangs over the U.K. as it continues its slow march out of the European Union, but…
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Banksy’s rigged art frame was supposed to shred the whole thing
In the connected future will anyone truly own any thing? Banksy’s artworld shocker performance piece, earlier this month, when a…
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Bill Gates and the EU announce a €100M investment fund to combat climate change
Bill Gates and the EU announced that the union and Breakthrough Energy — an investor group led by Gates — will…
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Emma, the money management app, rolls out cryptocurrency support
Emma, the U.K. money management app (or self-described “financial advocate”), is launching a cryptocurrency feature by integrating with a plethora…
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Applied gets $2M to make hiring fairer — using algorithms, not AI
London-based startup Applied has bagged £1.5M (~$2M) in seed funding for a fresh, diversity-sensitive approach to recruitment that deconstructs and…
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Memory raises $5M to bring AI to time tracking
Memory, a startup out of Norway and maker of time tracking app Timely, has raised $5 million in further funding.…
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European late-stage FinTech startups get a boost with new Corviglia fund
In a boost to late-stage funding for FinTech startups looking to scale-up without having to leave Europe, what claims to…
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Roborace to replace F1 racing drivers with robots at Disrupt
Formula E is so 2017. This year, it’s all about Roborace, an upcoming F1-style competition. And the big new thing…
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