Quest Hunter, the escape room marketplace, has opened a public fundraising round on Funderbeam, the cross-border fundraising and trading platform for private companies. Quest Hunter is focused on becoming the single reference point for real life escape room entertainment, enabling anyone to discover, experience and love these immersive games all over the world. In this […]
Wiliot, the semiconductor pioneer and innovator, raises a $30 million Series B for a total of $50 million in funding. This follows its demonstration of the first ever sticker-sized Bluetooth sensor tag incorporating an ARM processor powered solely by scavenging energy from ambient radio frequencies. Wiliot made the announcement today at the National Retail Federation […]
The award-winning Immersive Labs platform uses real-time feeds of the latest attack techniques, hacker psychology and technological vulnerabilities to rapidly build cyber wargames for IT and security teams to learn from. The platform can upskill people within hours of a threat emerging and can also be used to identify and fix less immediate weaknesses in […]
What can corporate venture capital bring to the table? Back on day one, it was interesting to hear the head of Salesforce Ventures talk about the approach that the software giant’s corporate venturing arm takes to investing in startups. Perhaps most interesting was the fact that Salesforce Ventures — and, he thought, corporate venturing arms […]
If you weren’t fortunate enough to make the trip, and didn’t manage to watch any of the live streams throughout the day, hopefully the FieldHouse report on day one will usefully plug some gaps. Hello Helsinki Say what you like about needing to because of their mother tongue’s minority status on the global stage, but […]
What impresses me even more than the latest high-end consumer gadgets, though, is technology with scope to genuinely change lives. All the more so when it combines transformative impact with a top-notch hardware package. And especially when the product comes not from Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, etc., but a visionary upstart looking to get the […]
I suspect it’s that conditioning, coupled with the feeling of — despite our shared language — being distinctly foreign, that led me during a recent business trip to New York (of which more to follow in a separate post) to a powerful thought I have been unable to shift since. The New York City subway […]
I was fortunate enough to bag myself a pass for the 2017 incarnation of Northside, setting off not entirely sure of what to expect in spite of the dizzying array of big names and interesting characters due to take part in the various panels, presentations, and fireside chats. Set on stages across three gorgeous modern […]
Last night, I was lucky enough to attend a fireside chat between TechCrunch’s Steve O’Hear and LocalGlobe’s Robin Klein, hosted by Startup Grind Europe at WeWork’s London Moorgate campus. The conversation was genuinely insightful — as you might expect when you put a hugely experienced journalist with his own personal experiences of the startup and […]
Nostradamus, perhaps the most renowned of historical prognosticators, has a track record probably best described as somewhat patchy when it comes to the eventual veracity of his predictions: the world certainly seems not to have ended just yet, however we may feel about the numerous celebrity deaths and seismic political decisions that took place during […]