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Its mission is to build the greenest battery in the world with a minimal carbon footprint and the highest ambitions for recycling to enable the European transition to renewable energy

Founded in Vienna in 2016 by Felix Ohswald (CEO) and Gregor Müller (COO), GoStudent is a platform for online teaching operational in 18 markets.

Launched in 2004, Mollie is one of the largest PSPs in Europe. Today, it serves more than 120,000 monthly active merchants of all sizes across the continent. In 2020, Mollie processed more than 10 billion Euros in transactions and is on track to handle more than 20 billion Euros during 2021

Jeremy Howard, University of San Francisco I’m a data scientist at the University of San Francisco and teach courses online in machine learning for fast.ai. In late March, I decided to use public mask-wearing as a case study to show my students how to combine and analyze diverse types of data and evidence. Much to […]

All of us in this time of Covid 19 emergency have been thinking that one of the new, powerful, business was the mask business. These guys made it: Giovanni Gallo and Salvatore Cobuzio are the founders of iMask, a startup company bloomed to produce the mask we were missing and that is definitely smarter than […]

The world as we know it may never be the same. The global economy has slowed, people are living in isolation and the death toll from an invisible killer is rising exponentially. The coronavirus pandemic has imposed a harsh reality of bereavement, illness and unemployment. Many people are already facing financial hardship and uncertainty over […]

Tim Romero is the author of Disrupting Japan, that is considered the reference point for the Japanese start-up ecosystem and in this column, he wrote for Startupbusiness, explains how the Country is living a new season of big changes and why start-ups are so important for its future Startups are already changing Japan. The country […]

The MedTech Finn startup Sooma raises 1.2 million euros with its system for a non-pharmacological therapy for the treatment of depression. The investors are Kustaa Piha, CEO of Athensmed and Italian Angels for Growth (one of the most active Italian business angel networks), which participates with 520,000 euros and has chosen Michele Marzola and Carlo Brunetti as co-champion of the operation.

Balderton Capital, which was recently named the most active Series A investor in Europe*, is launching a new $400m fund to continue to support outstanding European founders at this critical stage in a startup’s journey. The fund is launched against a backdrop of unprecedented momentum within the European tech ecosystem. The number of Series A […]

The investment focus of the new fund will be on advanced and smart material like graphene. That's why they are partnering with the best Italian universities

The Italian market of investments in hi-tech startups reached in 2019 the amount of 694 million euros, compared to 593 million euros in 2018, a growth of 17%. More than last year but still not enough. This is one of the figures of the seventh edition of the report “Hi-tech Startups Observatory Research Results”  of  […]

9 startups selected from over 50 applications took part in the second edition of EndeavorX Italy. At the Investor Day, they met 6 European Venture Capitalist

Blockchain applications are countless and begin to shift from paper to reality. This Italian example is the success of a municipality and a tech company.

This Italian startup develops technologies to support nurses and caregivers. Ancelia is its first product, a digital assistant with artificial intelligence.

Ted Stuckey, Managing Director of QBE Ventures, outlines how QBE works and shares with us his thoughts on the future of insurance and insurtech 2020