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Google launches €10M social innovation AI fund for European entrepreneurs

Story by Linnea Ahlgren In conjunction with a visit of CEO Sundar Pichai’s visit to Stockholm yesterday, Google announced the launch of the second Google.org Social Innovation Fund on AI to “help social enterprises solve some of Europe’s most pressing challenges.”  Through the fund, Google is making €10 million available, along with mentoring and support, […]

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The future of Dutch aerospace? Meet Fokker Next Gen’s hydrogen plane

Story by Linnea Ahlgren Dutch aerospace pioneer Fokker is looking to make a comeback. This time however, it won’t be polluting Jet A fuel propelling the company’s aircraft. Instead, in the revived guise of Fokker Next Gen, it is playing the long game and joining in on the clean-burning hydrogen hype.  With €25 million in

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Spain’s Crowmie empowers everyone to invest in green energy

Story by Jill Petzinger This profile is part of the main prize of the Pitch Battle at TNW Valencia 2023 won by Crowmie. Want your company to get featured as well? You’ve only got a few days to join the startup contest at TNW Conference in Amsterdam on June 15 & 16! Valencia’s hottest green-fintech

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Wingcopter bags €40M from EU to scale ‘new era for drone delivery’

Story by Linnea Ahlgren German drone solution startup Wingcopter announced today it had landed €40 million in funding from the European Investment Bank (EIB) to scale up services and ramp up production of its latest model. According to its developers, the Wingcopter 198 introduces a “new era for drone delivery.” Additions to the latest version

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Google releases Bard to the world – but leaves the EU behind

Story by Linnea Ahlgren During its I/O 2023 event yesterday, Google announced it had officially removed the waitlist for its AI-powered chatbot Bard and made the service available in 180 countries and territories. Sadly for most Europeans keen on testing the tech giant’s contribution to the generative AI race, the countries of the European Union

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Revitalising European democracy: AI-supported civic tech on the rise

Story by Linnea Ahlgren According to a study by the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) released late last week, digital technologies will become an increasing factor in European democracy in the coming decade. This is perhaps not entirely surprising; after all, the pandemic shifted much of our lives into the digital realm,

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A new hope: HV Capital raises record €710M to invest in European startups

Story by Linnea Ahlgren The first quarter of 2023 was pretty bleak for the European startup ecosystem, to say the least. Funding fell a whopping 57% compared to Q1 of 2022, and fundraising is on pace for the lowest total since 2015. As such, the recent developments being heralded from Berlin might bring particularly welcome

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Europe’s first solar panel roof-covered bike lane unveiled in Germany

Story by Linnea Ahlgren At the beginning of the year, news readers were treated to images of German police forcefully removing climate activists from the village of Lützerath to make way for an open-air coal mine. Indeed, Germany may have averted a looming energy crisis this past winter by upping its coal consumption. While prioritising

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Can plant-based meats be healthy? This foodtech startup says yes

Story by Linnea Ahlgren Barcelona’s food tech startup Heura has unveiled its new patent-pending technology aimed at producing meat substitutes without the lengthy and sometimes off-putting ingredients list. The company says it is the first scalable technology of its kind to add “superior” nutritional value to plant-based foods.  The data is abundantly clear – if

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New research milestone could solve quantum scalability

Story by Linnea Ahlgren Wherever you fall on the quantum sceptic spectrum, you cannot deny that the potential of the technology is fascinating. Don’t worry, we will admit to not understanding it fully yet either, but the founders of QuiX Quantum do.  Together with scientists from the Leibniz University Hannover, the team has demonstrated a

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