In today’s show, we discuss some funding rumours, a handful of acquisitions, run a mandatory SPAC news briefing, and finish off with a pinch of policy goodness. In the second part, listen to an interview with Matthieu Boutard, managing director of Bodyguard — that's a French tech startup that protects social media users against cyber-bullying, hate speech and toxic content online.

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Bodyguard against toxicity, no SPACs for Klarna, gig economy in Europe

In this episode, we’ve prepared an interview with Dima Shvets, co-founder and CEO of Reface. If you're into memes and faceswap, you certainly know the name of the company — it's been downloaded more than 90 million times and used by people like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Justin Bieber.

Interview Special: Dima Shvets, Reface

In today’s show, we discuss fresh funding,  a new startup, an acquisition deal, an IPO, a court case — and of course mention a SPAC. In the second part, listen to an interview with Krystian Kolondra, who explains the latest $100-million announcement by the browser maker Opera.

Opera's fintech push unpacked, Deliveroo loses in ?? court, Sinch's biggest acquisition, Lakestar SPAC

In today’s show, we discuss some of the most interesting funding rounds of the week — and of course mention a SPAC. In the second part, listen to an interview with Alex Kayyal, partner and head of Salesforce Ventures International.

Alex Kayyal of Salesforce Ventures, money for Nothing, SPAC news

In today’s show, we discuss some of the most interesting funding rounds of the week and a couple of M&A deals. In the second part, listen to an interview with Aline Muylaert, co-founder of CitizenLab, about civic engagement, urban decision-making, and which countries are more likely to embrace digital government solutions.

Aline Muylaert of CitizenLab, money for wine and robots, European IPOs pop

In today's show, we discuss some of the most interesting funding rounds of the week and a couple of M&A deals. In the second part, Robin Wauters takes over to talk to Nalin Patel, EMEA private data analyst at PitchBook Data. PitchBook has just released a big report on the European startup ecosystem — so there's a whole lot to unpack.

PitchBook's Nalin Patel, Wolt wants to deliver everything, Twitter buys Revue, InPost's IPO

In today's show, we'll talk about some of the most interesting funding rounds of the week, a couple of M&A deals, and some policy news. Later on, check out an interview recorded by Robin Wauters with Luke Lang, co-founder and CMO at Crowdcube. The topics included the fintech revolution, Crowdcube's merger with Seedrs, and why founders coming on the platform should listen to the advice they're given.

Luke Lang of Crowdcube, more $100M+ rounds, Brussels investigates Google (again), and more

This week, we talked about what’s going on in European tech, including some of the biggest funding rounds of the week, IPO announcements, and more. We also discussed extensively the question of European money for startups, and the EIC Fund in particular. To that end, we talked to Stephane Ouaki, the chair of the investment committee of the EIC Fund, about what could've gone wrong with the first batch of startups selected for the blended financing scheme.

What's up with EIC Fund, newly announced European IPOs, funding rounds big and small, and more

This week, we talk about what’s going on in European tech, including some of the biggest funding rounds of the week, M&A deals, tech policy, and more. The featured interview of this episode is with Jan Goetz, co-founder of IQM, and Ilkka Kivimaki of Maki.vc. We discussed when quantum computers will actually become practical, how different countries approach the technology, and whether quantum computing make sense from the VC point of view. 

Quantum computing in Europe, funding comes in all flavours, Hopin snaps StreamYard, and more

In this episode, we’ve prepared an interview with Stan Boland, CEO of the UK-based autonomous driving startup Five. The company has been around since 2015, and I was really curious to learn more about its recent pivot and get a snapshot of what the industry is like these days.

Stan Boland, CEO of Five [Interview special]

In this episode, we’ve prepared two interviews to share with you, covering a wide range of topics, from assistive tech for visually impaired customers to how an office space marketplace has managed to survive the COVID-19 pandemic so far.

Jean Marc Feghali (WeWALK) and Tushar Agarwal (HubbleHQ) [Interview special]

In this episode, we’ve prepared an interview with Andrew Bud, founder and CEO of face verification firm iProov and an engineer who's witnessed first-hand a big chunk of the modern computing and communications history.

Andrew Bud, iProov [Interview special]

In this episode, we've prepared two interviews with startups from very different parts of Europe: Finland and France.

Jade Francine (WeMaintain) and Matti Rönkkö (Cooler Future) [Interview special]

This week, we talk about what’s going on in European tech, including some of the biggest funding rounds of the week, M&A deals, tech policy, and more. Today's show also features the voices of our listeners who sent us recorded messages this week — do check this out!

Our voicemail experiment, Bolt raises €150M, new Dott e-bikes, MessageBird acquires Pusher

To wrap up the topic of Amazon businesses and FBA aggregators — at least for this year, — this time we talked to Malte Horeyseck, co-founder at SellerX, which has recently raised €100 million in seed funding.

Malte Horeyseck, co-founder of SellerX [Interview special]

The Tech.eu podcast is a weekly show discussing the most interesting stories from the European technology scene.

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