With a gigantic bottleneck in tech talent, companies are turning to tech to speed up the recruitment process. But baked into hiring startups’ algorithms are biases and prejudices as old as time…
“AI Goes Beyond Algorithmic Brilliance” – OurCrowd CEO Jon Medved
Jon Medved, CEO of equity crowdfund OurCrowd, is one of Israel’s leading AI investors. But, the enigmatic, Hawaiian shirt-loving VC says, deep tech brings its own deep and unique issues for entrepreneurs.…
Emirati Startup Bayzat Wins $16m Funding
Dubai-based Bayzat, which offers e-insurance and HR solutions, has won a $16 million Series B funding round to expand its enterprise HR and payroll resources. The round was led by Steve Cohen’s…
Mapillary CEO and founder Solem: “It never really felt daunting…it just made sense”
Jan Erik Solem is CEO and founder of Mapillary, a Malmö-based street-level imagery platform that that uses computer vision to fix maps. Thus far the company has won almost $25 million in…
BGL Group CIO Stuart Walters: AI Will Change Insurance Forever. Rushing it Can be Fatal
BGL Group has spent 27 years becoming European insurance royalty. Now the Peterborough, UK-based fintech unicorn, with offices spread across the continent, the company’s CIO explains that BGL is perfectly positioned to…
London is Europe’s AI King – Will it Protect the Throne Past Brexit?
London is the perfect place to grow a deep-tech startup. But with Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union fast approaching, is there a danger its sprawling, frenetic capital may lose its belt…
TwentyBN: A Robot That Can Push Your Buttons
In-store retailers are losing cash to e-commerce. Enter Millie, a life-size digital sales assistant whose computer vision pedigree is beyond compare. “You look like a rock star,” the sales assistant says, as…
AI Translator Unbabel Wins $60m Series C Funding Round
Unbabel, a Lisbon-headquartered “translation-as-a-service” platform that uses artificial intelligence and human translations, has won a $60 million Series C funding round that brings its total backing above $90m. The Portuguese firm, founded…
Honda Innovation’s Dennis Clark: “The Multinational-Startup Relationship is No Longer in Question”
As managing director of strategic partnerships at Honda Innovations, the venture capital wing of the world’s seventh-largest automaker, Dennis Clark is a keystone in the bridge between the corporation and its growing…
Acast Shoots for Germany’s Nascent Podcast Market
The popularity of podcasts is soaring. From last year the total number of pods has leapt from 550,000 to 700,000—with over 50% more episodes available this year than last. That equates to…