All Episodes

Displaying 31 - 60 of 421 in total

From 'body leasing' to 'friendshoring': Romania's Accesa demonstrates the value-add in IT partnerships

Acquired by Germany-based Ratiodata in November 2020, Romania-born tech solutions giant Accesa is a perfect example of how 'IT outsourcing' has evolved in the last 20 ...

🎙️Generative AI is an “absolute game-changer” and will be as revolutionary as email, say experts, but they caution it will take time for firms to reap the benefits

The fintech industry- and the business world- is grappling with generative AI, which experts say has the potential to revolutionise financial services. Spearheaded by ...

Checking in with 'climate fintech' scale-up Doconomy: An interview with CEO Mathias Wikström

We caught up with Mathias Wikström, CEO of Sweden's Doconomy, to learn more about its platform to measure climate and social impact in the financial services industry....

🎙️Moving at angel speed without the traditional VC formality: Solo GP Sarah Drinkwater and her new £10 million fund

On this Drive at Five editione speziale the omnipresent community builder/angel investor/and now Solo GP, Sarah Drinkwater sits in to discuss her newly announced fund,...

🎙️ Sex, Money, Creative Equity, Travel, AI, and Jeff - the Drive at Five - Episode 35

With the team finally recovered from anything and everything that was the Tech.eu Summit, we're back guns a-blazin'.This week we're talkin':- Sex tech - it's not what ...

🎙️ Founder and CEO of Dutch challenger bank bunq reveals possible new funding round, profitability landmark and rubbishes claims he’s a bad boss

Niknam set up bunq in 2012, inspired to reinvent banking in the wake of the financial crisis. Today, bunq is one of the most well-known challenger banks across Europe,...

🎙️ The Drive at Five - The Tech.eu Summit wrap up, Flink holds Getir at bay, and AI believe in miracles

Alright meow, listen up, because we've got a whole lotta content to recap and a whole lotta people to thank. If you missed us in Brussels earlier this week, you missed...

🎙️ The Drive at Five - The Tech.eu Summit, pet tech, Revolut, Seedcamp, fake tans, and the AI of the Tiger

It's all happening man! The Tech.eu Summit is coming up next week, and on a personal note, I can't wait to see and meet and have a beer with each and every one of you....

🎙️ The Drive at Five - The European EV revolution, the Baltics beyond borders, Kubernetes, Aiii carumba, and more than just groceries?

Should anyone tell you that preparing for an event is a piece of cake, run. Run far and fast. In case you don't know what I'm alluding to, it's crunch time here at Tec...

🎙️ The Drive at Five - TIER, Getir, AI oh my! and updates on the Tech.eu Summit

Aaaaaand we're back! Due in part to the Tech.eu editorial staff being here there and everywhere last week, the Drive at Five took a breather, but to make up for the ab...

🎙️ The Drive at Five - Valuations are in freefall, Rovio gets acquired, Kate's affordable EV's, and de-spamming the spam

Hey, you did it! You made it through another week, but did you catch all the European tech news that's fit to print? If the answer is no, well you've come to the right...

🚗 French electric car maker Kate CEO Matthias Goldenberg reveals the company's secret sauce 🚗

It’s not every day that we hear of a new automotive startup. Automotive accessories, parts, innovations, sure, but a full-blown tyres-to-top, bumper-to-bumper creation...

🎙️ The Drive at Five - All the European tech news fit to talk about. This week.

Live and direct from the Tech.eu newsroom, it's been a short week, but topics abound.This week we're talkin':00:57 - Spotted Zebra raised a seed round of $1.8 million ...

🎙️ The Drive at Five - Your weekly European Tech recap

Up this week:01:10 - Tech startup tackles Ireland's housing crisis by connecting buyers with vacant properties.08:27 - Quantexa raises a $129 million round at a $1.8 b...

🎙️ The Drive at Five with Fiona Alston, Cate Lawrence, and Dan Taylor - Episode 27

As to be expected, lots of wheeling and dealing this week with a news cycle that was ringing off the hook. To put it mildly, if we discussed everything that happened t...

🎙️ The Drive at Five with Fiona Alston, Cate Lawrence, Dan Taylor and Robin Wauters - Episode 26

Well alright, alright, alright. Spring has sprung and what would a week without a little controversy be? This week we're looking at Hedonova and Carbonomy, or not, the...

The EUROe with Membrane Finance CEO and co-founder Juha Viitala and Maki.vc's Partner Paavo Räisänen

Digital currencies. Love 'em, hate 'em, or ambivalent about 'em, the financial instruments are here to stay. But for all the volatility that we've seen in the markets,...

Babbel CEO Arne Schepker on 'real' language learning, failing forward after a botched 2021 IPO, the AI hype cycle, and more

Providing one of the biggest language learning platforms on the planet, Berlin-based veteran tech scale-up Babbel has only raised a little over $30 million to date. An...

🎙️ The Drive at Five with Fiona Alston, Cate Lawrence, Dan Taylor and Robin Wauters - Episode 25

Post-SVB drama, this week might just go down as the week that the world woke up to AI, as GPT-4 dropped, Microsoft and Google unleashed the beast, and people both chee...

What's the deal with deal flow in European tech? A data-driven interview with Orrick experts

International law firm Orrick has analysed 500+ transactions it closed for European clients last year, with an aggregate value of more than $12 billion, and released a...

Zooming in on European tech VC and LP trends with Target Global's Pedro Barros

We caught up with Pedro Barros, Partner and Head of Fundraising & Investor Relations at Target Global, the pan-European technology investment firm with more than €3 bi...

🎙️ The Drive at Five with Dan Taylor and Robin Wauters - Episode 24

The overarching, and still developing story of what's going on at Silicon Valley Bank has overshadowed pretty much every piece of news that came out this week. And per...

🎙️ The Drive at Five with Dan Taylor and Robin Wauters - Episode 23

And that's a wrap on February this week folks! While it might be cold and grey out of doors, as expected, it's hunting season and the M&A activities have been off the ...

🎙️ The Drive at Five with Dan Taylor, Robin Wauters, and special guest Dima Shvets - Episode 22

On the one-year anniversary of the Russo-Ukrainian war Tech.eu has dedicated our coverage to the Ukrainian ecosystem. In addition to this week's news recap, we heard f...

A deeper look inside the Not Optional campaign with Dominic Jacquesson

Spearheaded by Index Ventures and supported by more than 700 CEOs, the Not Optional campaign is spurring policymakers across Europe to reform outdated rules and regula...

Going the distance with GetYourGuide with Johannes Reck

GetYourGuide, the Berlin scale-up that enables people to book excursions and tour guides worldwide through an online marketplace, has a few difficult years behind it, ...

Every end is a new beginning: Tech Nation CEO Gerard Grech

Tech Nation will reach the end of its journey on 31 March, and after that it will be up to Barclays Eagle Lab to provide similar, perhaps complementary services to the...

🎙️ The Drive at Five with Dan Taylor and Cate Lawrence - Episode 21

Industrial tech gets the spotlight at the Sixth Sense Summit, the future of tech visas in the UK is uncertain as Tech Nation winds down, AI is entering the legal syste...

A primer on sustainable venture capital investing with Elodie Broad (Balderton) and Kristine Nagle (Your Impact House)

We interviewed two experts to learn more about the evolving role of ESG in the European investment industry.

🎙️ The Drive at Five with Dan Taylor and Robin Wauters - Episode 20

And we're back in the saddle again! This week Robin and Dan are joined by Tech.eu Senior Writer Cate Lawrence and Journalist Callum Cyrus to recap the week that was.

Broadcast by