Over recent years, major European cities have been subject to the swift uptake of micro-mobility solutions, with a series of benefits being pitched regarding the rollout of e-scooters, including the freeing up of parking spaces, reducing urban congestion and decreasing air pollution. However, there has been no shortage of critics, with some claiming that e-scooters […]
Editor’s note: last summer, I was asked to contribute to a book called ‘Faster than the future’, commissioned by the Digital Future Society, a programme supported by the Government of Spain in collaboration with Mobile World Capital Barcelona that seeks to build an inclusive, equitable and sustainable future in the digital era. I wrote a […]
Germany-based Point Nine, a pan-European and US focused VC firm that specialises in B2B SaaS and marketplace investments, has closed a new €100 million seed fund (technically €99,999,999) dubbed ‘P9 V’. You guessed it, this is the firm’s fifth fund since its founding in 2011. Aside from having the greatest of VC websites, Point Nine […]
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As EU member states are set to sign off on a series of broad commitments to transform the bloc’s digital agenda, the World Economic Forum (WEF) today released a great report entitled ‘Bridging the Gap in European Scale-up Funding: The Green Imperative in an Unprecedented Time’ (PDF link). In the interest of full disclosure, I […]
Editor’s note: this is a guest post, syndicated with permission from Crunchbase News and written by Dr. Johannes Lenhard, the Centre Coordinator of the Max Planck Cambridge Centre for Ethics, the Economy and Social Change. With fieldwork in Silicon Valley, New York, London and Berlin, his current book project focuses on the ethics of venture capital. His recent edited […]