Top news of the week: 27.07.2021.
Europe Startup News
Employee mental health platform Oliva raises $2.2M pre-seed round led by Moonfire Ventures
Just as many other employee services have gone digital, so too is mental health. In the consumer space there are growing startups like Equoo, but the race is now on for the employee. And ...
German startup Aleph Alpha raises $27M Series A round to build ‘Europe’s OpenAI’
With Microsoft now being an investor in OpenAI the field now more open for new insurgents into the open-source AI arena. Now a German company hopes to take on the next AI mantle and produce ...
The DL on CockroachDB
As college students at Berkeley, Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis created a successful open-source graphics program, GIMP, which got the attention of Google. The duo ultimately joined ...
The real ROI of making your products more accessible
Accessibility isn’t, like many believe, kryptonite for profits. It is a moneymaker. Remember this: The cost of noncompliance is about three times higher than that of complying.
Canada’s startup market booms alongside hot global VC investment
Canada’s startup industry seems to be benefiting from both domestic and international trends, a wide genre focus and more than one hub. Let’s talk aboot it.
25 years of venture capital in Europe: the history and why now is the best time to start-up
The 2021 European startup and investment scene is much bigger than any would have anticipated. Many companies have made it into the coveted circle of
Marketing automator Postoplan raises $1.5 million, sets sights squarely on the US
Tallinn’s Postoplan is an automated marketing platform for social media and messengers. According to the startup, its algorithms help drive 70% more traffic and subscribers on social media, ...
From Online to Oxford Street: How I started a small business while working for the NHS full-time during lockdown.
Summer 2020 was a time of eat out to help out, cancelled holidays and socially distanced picnics among greeneries littered with discarded…