350 multinationals, 40 VCs, $6,4 billion VC investments in 2018, and a long list of billion dollar exits to IT giants like Intel, Google, Cisco, IBM or HP: Israel is calling itself the „Startup Nation“ for many good reasons. When AI company Mobileye sold to Intel for $15.3 billion in…
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Bayer brought startups to the boat as early as 2013 – when many other pharmaceutical companies did not think so. Meanwhile, 150 founding teams have gone through the Accelerator Grants4Apps. According to Bayer, this resulted in 29 cooperations – a success rate of 20 percent. The Group is reorganizing the…
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If you find yourself in a low moral moment, if you think that you will never be able to recover and that you only have to fall lower, the technology sector can inspire you to move forward. Not in vain, there are countless stories of companies that literally started from…
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In mid-March this year, selected start-up teams in Karlsruhe had the opportunity to present their startup to business angels and venture capitalists at the big Venture Day and to establish contacts with potential lenders. The tenth Venture Day was also organized by the business network CyberForum e.V. together with the…
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The Bundestag has just published its new app, which was developed by a start-up, but not from Berlin or Hamburg, but from the Czech start-up company Ackee. Danyal Bayaz, start-up representative of the parliamentary group Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen, does not find it reprehensible to award the contract to…
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These candidates can probably laugh only tiredly over green broadcasts like “2 minutes 2 millions” on pulse TV in Austria or “the cave of the lions” in Germany: On a frosty morning entrepreneurs from the whole world near the Finnish city Oulu rose through a hole in the ice cover…
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The great technology and its way to revolutionize the economic game board Amazon Logistics Center in Madrid. / RC The way to sell Amazon, Uber or Airbnb force many traditional to change their strategy to survive. In recent years companies such as El Corte Inglés, Inditex or large car rental…
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2018 was not the year in which we decided to protect our personal data, but at least it served to realize how important they are and, above all, the important business that the internet giants do with them. Cambridge Analytica, Facebook, Yahoo or Gmail suffered security breaches that led to…
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Lesara Just a few months ago, it seemed unthinkable that the Berlin-based online retailer Lesara could become the number one in the international fashion discount market as planned. Then, suddenly, in November last year came the news that Lesara has to file for bankruptcy; the industry was shocked. A few…
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Artificial intelligence (AI) attracts investors. However, as a recent study now shows, many so-called AI startups do not use the technology at all. How is it even possible? AI start-ups, but without artificial intelligence – this is how one could summarize briefly a result of a recent study of the…
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