Boston-based Motif Ingredients, a food-tech startup and part of biotech company Ginkgo Bioworks, has received the largest Series A funding from Breakthrough Energy Ventures in the industry. Breakthrough Energy Ventures includes multi-billion dollar investors such as the founders of Virgin, Microsoft and Amazon and now provides Motif Ingredients with an…
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With artificial intelligence for fraud detection attacks the start-up from Paris in the insurance market. Investors are putting millions into expansion – even to Germany. The French-American start-up Shift Technology has collected the equivalent of around 53 million euros from investors. The fresh capital from the Series C round of…
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Niklas Zennström, founder of Skype, is investing more than two million euros with five other investors in Refurbed. Millions investor is Inventure Partners. The heavyweight based in the Cayman Islands is invested among others in the Uber competitor GETT. Four Austrian investors increase their shares. Barely two years after its…
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Los Angeles-based Japanese public relations consultant and bestselling author Marie Kondo is known to millions of audiences since the release of the Netflix series Clean Up with Marie Kondo. Her books have been sold millions of euros and translated into 27 languages. Clearance expert Marie Kondo, according to US media,…
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The Linz startup Butleroy has presented a completely reworked version of its app at the SXSW in Austin, Texas. In the past, personal butler “Roy” was still helping to find the perfect date within a group of people – now the focus is on increasing the productivity and scheduling of…
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To simply put, yes. But let’s look into why does our world really need those green startups. One might think that food startups work with the same ingredients: a dose of entrepreneurship, a punch of innovation and, at best, a pinch of idealism. But even with the green food startups,…
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The economist and famous critic of cryptocurrencies Nouriel Roubini has affirmed that crypto “as a technology has absolutely no basis for success”. Roubini presented his new arguments against the cipher in an interview with the CFA Institute on March 6. In a conversation with the global association of professional investors,…
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Swiss banking group Swissquote has revealed plans to launch cryptocustody services by the end of March, according to the company’s results report for 2018, published on March 8. According to the report, the company has been marketing five major cryptocurrencies since 2017 and is now introducing a cryptocustody service. The…
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Alexander Marx and Manuel Buschmeyer have been running the advertising and communications agency markt 8 GmbH for 16 years. With the idea to use the gathered know-how not only for customers, but also for fresh ideas, two own online projects were created: a blogazine for fashion, beauty and lifestyle; and…
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It is not news that the digital transformation surrounds us and is changing the way we live. Throughout the history of AT & T, the parent company of Vrio, we have become accustomed to constant change, but the digital transformation is driving change at a pace that continues to surprise…
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