This article features an interview with Vinted CEO Thomas Plantenga, who is speaking at TNW Conference on June 21. Check out the full event schedule here. Vinted CEO Thomas Plantenga has reason to celebrate. His company recently became the first “pre-loved” c
France’s (and Europe’s) GenAI darling Mistral has reportedly almost tripled its valuation, reaching €5.8bn. First reported by Sifted and later confirmed by the Financial Times, the Paris-based startup has raised a €468mn equity funding round, led by DST global
A UK startup has used an AI algorithm to identify a previously unknown kind of rare-earth free magnet, in a potential breakthrough for how we discover and create new materials. Materials Nexus, headquartered in London, used its machine learnin
In May, a research team from MIT announced a new programming language. Finch, its creators say, is “a simple bytecode interpreted, purely object-oriented, prototype-based, dynamically-typed programming language.” Not to be confused with the Swedish fintech of the
Just last month, the Guardian described the housing crisis in Amsterdam as “next level.” And things are not much better across Europe as a whole. Prices and rents are soaring across the continent, and the lack of availability is staggering.
The Netherlands is the number one startup ecosystem in the EU, surpassing both Paris and Berlin. That’s according to the 2024 Global Startup Ecosystem Report (GSER) by Startup Genome, which ranked the Netherlands at 14 globally. According to the report, the co
The European Commission today launched the first version of Destination Earth (DestinE), an AI-powered simulator that looks to improve the accuracy of climate predictions. The first version of DestinE includes two models: one for extreme weather events and an
As we count down to TNW conference in Amsterdam on June 20 and 21, we’re previewing the sessions that we’re most excited about. One of my must-see talks mixes two of my great passions: sports and technology. Bringing them together is António Félix da Costa, a w
NATO’s Innovation Fund (NIF) has led a €9mn seed investment into German startup ARX Robotics, which builds unmanned ground robots for the battlefield. The startup’s war bots look like small tanks — but without guns. The vehicles drive ar
The ocean covers over 70% of our planet. It regulates the global climate, is home to 80% of life on Earth, acts as a carbon sink, and supports the livelihoods of billions of people. As an avid swimmer and surfer I also think the ocean is simply bl