Next May (5-6), downtown Las Vegas, will take place Collision the Web Summit’s sister event, that aims to bring a new vision for a new type of tech conference in America: a meeting place for people who are both building the companies of tomorrow and managing the companies of today. In 4 short years, Web Summit […]
Feeling gratified for what you do is so important that, for some, it can overcome a basic monetary remuneration. Some say “what goes around comes around”, some call it “karma”, others simply define it as reputation and track-record. Your past influences how others perceive your current actions. But even for those who think money is […]
The passion for food can bring on different roads, included the webpreneurial one. Daniele Biffoli, born in 1983 in Florence, graduated in Bocconi University in Milan, gave up with a career in company Menarini pharmaceutical to carry out his personal business project, Gourmant. Food enthusiast, always loves to cook for his friends, and now he […]
Helpling, the most widely-available online platform for on-demand home services, has secured US$ 17M in Series A funding. The group of investors includes among others Mangrove Capital Partners, Phenomen Ventures, as well as Point Nine Capital and Lukasz Gadowski. The investment follows the company’s rapid expansion throughout Europe and beyond. Helpling first started its […]
The Green Innovation and Investment Forum– a new pitching and training event for founders and start-ups – is looking for your business ideas with high market potential. You are a founder or start-up currently looking for financing and support? Apply now and find your partners for (start-up) financing, development or licensing of your technologies or […]
I’ve been thinking for many years about “the idea”. The right project, however, did not seem to arrive, despite several attempts, so much so that I began to wonder if the problem was “the right project”, or rather a latent risk aversion. But things happen, and while I was developing another idea, linked to the […]
One of healthcare’s biggest concerns is the discrepancy between potentially achievable success rates and the actual treatment success rates when it comes to patients. Studies show that something as simple as getting patients to take their meds, on time, in the right order and in the proper amount, could actually prevent as many as 125,000 […]
United Ventures, the European technology-focused Venture Capital firm, has today announced the closure of its first fund with $80 Million. The new fund, entitled United Ventures One, is a significant milestone for the Milan-based Venture Capital firm and signals a renewed interest by investors into the European tech sector. The firm to date has already […]
Today in a note Innogest SGR announces the Second Closing of Innogest Capital II fund at € 70 million (around $90M million). Innogest Capital II is the second fund raised by Innogest SGR. Total capital under management currently amounts to over € 160 million (over $200 million). New investors contributing to the Second Closing include […]
Cortilia, an Italian Online Local Grocery Marketplace, announced today a €1.5 million round lead by Milan-based venture capital firm P101. This new capital injection brings the total funds raised by the company since its founding in 2011 to €2.5 million and represents the first step of a midterm €5 million Investment Plan. P101 thus joins […]
It was the not far summer of 2011 when I (an entrepreneur with Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Assistant expertise) met, for the first time, Fabrizio Gramuglio (it.linkedin.com/in/gramuglio/) a well known expert in speech recognition technology, Fabrizio introduced himself subjecting a “crazy” idea: to develop a product that would be able to create realistic digital persona […]
Today the High Level Group on Innovation policy management released its new Blueprint document ‘The way forward to improve people’s lives: inspiring and completing European innovation ecosystems’ (the full document will be available here in the next hours and is now avilable for Startupbusiness members at this link). As anticipated by Startupbusiness (here the previous […]
I grew up in Switzerland. The closest place where we could go skiing in the winter was a 1,650m mountain 15min away from home. Due to global warming and the progressively poorer snow conditions, in 2003 the resort was converted into a summer-only park, with a spa and hiking trails. To me this is a […]
InterNations is the first international community for all people living and working abroad. Founded in 2007 by three young entrepreneurs from Germany (former expatriates themselves), it has become the biggest expatriate network worldwide. InterNations now unites more than 1 million expats and global minds in all countries around the world. As a network based on […]
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