Young founders show their skills at Best of X – Smart City Young founders have developed new project ideas in workshops together with the energy supplier ENTEGA, which were verbally presented on Thursday evening (6th) in exciting duels in a boxing ring. The Best of X Smart City event will…
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Verena Reuber and Stefan Häfner are the faces behind MO14, the ‘innovation booth’ at R + V Versicherung, as they describe their project itself. For a little over two years, they have been experimenting with the use of highly automated, autonomous minibuses. What has to do with insurance, how to…
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AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM) announces the launch of AXA WF Framlington FinTech. The Fund aims to provide investors with access to the long-term growth potential of the emerging global fintech industry. The AXA WF Framlington FinTech was launched on the back of successful fundraising in Japan, where the strategy…
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General Motors Financial, the financial arm of the vehicle giant, said yesterday that it is partnering with Spring Labs, a company that begins to operate with block chains, in solutions for identity verification. In addition, the new company, which has former Trump economic adviser Gary Cohn on its advisory board,…
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Zurich – Fintech startup Tradeplus24 AG raised more than CHF 120 million in equity and debt in a round under the leadership of SIX Fintech Ventures, Berliner Volksbank Ventures (BVBV) and Credit Suisse, a record for Swiss fintech startups. Tradeplus24, which provides working capital credits to small, mid and mid-cap…
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In terms of funding, it almost never happened in 2018 for startups in Germany. More than 4.5 billion euros were raised by young companies in total. A not so rosy picture of the situation draws a new evaluation of the auditing firm KPMG – at least for Fintechs. Because in…
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The financial platform SDK.finance has partnered with Oracle to use the Oracle Blockchain platform to improve payment processes and eliminate intermediaries. The association was announced in a press release published on February 12. SDK.finance is a fintech startup based in Europe that offers a payment platform for banks and financial…
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The Vienna startup Parkbob has been working with satellite data so far. A cooperation with the European Space Agency ESA should take this access to a new level. Recently, the Viennese Smart City startup Parkbob caused a stir with the announcement of a worldwide cooperation with Amazon. The big step…
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The Viennese startup Medicus AI has developed a support software for diagnostic laboratories. A now announced Series A investment of 2.75 million euros is to be increased in the coming months to 5 million euros. Around 200 billion findings are currently being generated in diagnostic laboratories worldwide each year. This…
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Successful start-up promotes new investor funds Since its founding five years ago, the Fintech Start-Up Weltsparen has provided investments of EUR 10 billion to partner banks. Investors currently receive up to 1.25 percent interest on a one-year fixed-term deposit with the interest rate portal; in times of low interest rates,…
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