Why European startups should consider moving to Dubai


Dubai is a city on the rise. The first nine months of 2023 saw its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) increase by 3.3%, while in the same period, its information and communications sector shot up by 4.4%. Alongside its prolonged economic success, the

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Northvolt suspected of manslaughter in latest blow to flailing battery startup


Swedish prosecutors are set to serve Northvolt with a suspicion of gross manslaughter notice following the death of a worker at the EV battery-maker’s struggling gigafactory in the country’s icy North, the Financial Times reports.  Environmental prosecutor C

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Big wave surfer emerges from the barrel with $120M fund for regenerative agriculture


What do the Rothschilds, big wave surfing, and cows have in common? A Portuguese man by the name of Francisco Roque de Pinho, of course. Francisco used to be a banker at Rothschild, the most famous of European banking dynasties. For the past eight y

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Dutch hotel tech unicorn Mews bags $100M to fuel acquisition spree


Amsterdam-based scaleup Mews has bagged $100mn in credit financing as it looks to swallow up competitors and become a market leader in SaaS software for the hospitality industry. Vista Credit Partners, the credit-investing arm of tech-focused private equity firm Vi

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UK startup Pact opens factory to grow skin-like leather alternative


UK startup Pact has raised £9mn in funding and opened a new factory to scale up the “world’s first” sustainable and scalable biomaterial made from collagen — the primary building block of your skin. The material

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Spain’s tech sector offers a view into Draghi’s ‘Innovation Gap crisis’


This month, the European Commission published Mario Draghi’s long-awaited EU competitiveness report. Its key finding? The EU must overcome the innovation gap to prevent economic slowdown. According to the report, only four out of the 50 leading tech companies

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Arm: AI will turn smartphones into ‘proactive assistants’


Arm wants to upgrade the brains inside our devices. The chip designer — whose architectures power 99% of smartphones — envisions AI bringing a new wave of breakthroughs to our handsets. The company outlined this plan after the release of Llama 3.2 — Meta’s first ope

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Dutch neobank bunq launches stock trading ‘tailored to digital nomads’


Bunq has become the latest fintech to enter the crowded European stock trading market. The Amsterdam-based neobank yesterday announced its new Stocks product, which it claims is “tailored to digital nomads.” The Dutch bank already provides in-app portfolio inv

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TNW Podcast: The future of Northvolt, underwater Wi-Fi, and power-hungry data centres


Welcome to the new episode of the TNW Podcast — the show where we discuss the latest developments in the European technology ecosystem and feature interviews with some of the most interesting people in the industry. In today’s episode, Linnea

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Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR): The EU mandate set to shake up sustainability in the tech sector


As part of the EU’s drive to become the first climate-neutral region globally by

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