Top news of the week: 04.05.2021.
Europe Startup News
Artifical intelligence for the textiles industry: APEX Ventures, Bayern Kapital and HTGF invest in robotics start-up sewts
The German robotics start-up sewts successfully completed a seven-figure financing round. sewts develops a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution, which enables industrial businesses to ...
How did Atlanta become a top breeding ground for billion-dollar startups in the Southeast?
Over the past five years, the Southeastern region, led by Atlanta, has gone from being “one of the best kept secrets” in tech, to a vibrant ecosystem teeming with a herd of the billion ...
THE GOLDEN TICKET
This spring presents the unique opportunity for software and smart hardware startups to win a golden ticket to the five-week Draper University Hero Training program in San Mateo.
The State of U.S. Early-Stage Venture: 1Q21
Based on AngelList data, 1Q21 is the new “best quarter ever” for early-stage venture. Read our report to learn why.
Fintech startups set VC records as the 2021 fundraising market continues to impress
The first three months of the year were the most valuable period for fintech investing, ever. Where did the fintech venture capital market push the most money in Q1, and why? Let's dig in.
Seed financing round for female-founded circular bioeconomy startup traceless materials
The Hamburg-based, female-founded startup traceless materials has developed a holistically sustainable alternative for plastics and bioplastics that is fully compostable in …
ReleaseHub nabs $2.7M seed to give developers on-demand environments
Every developer relies on environments like testing, staging and production as they build software, but building them can be a time-consuming operation. ReleaseHub, an early stage startup ...
The Duolingo EC-1
Education may well be the most important activity we conduct as a society — and it may also be the hardest space to build a startup in. Selling to school districts and universities is ...