Dan Taylor
Managing Editor at Tech.eu | polymath | bass player | singletasker | whisky and whiskey drinker | dan@tech.eu
Appears in 48 Episodes
Big moves in AI, Getir exits Spain, how US companies fare in Europe, and Henry Philipson from ESG_VC
Up this week:The AI wars are heating up: During London Tech Week Prime Minister Rishi Sunak set the goal of establishing the UK as the global home of artificial intell...
Bolt π©·'s Starship, a Code Red, an iron fist at the EIB, AI a-plenty, Tech City, and it's Pollen season
Shhhh. Can you hear it? Listen in. Very carefully. Yes, yes, that's the unmistakable sound of an ecosystem that's staring down a summer full of iced tea and days by th...
ποΈ The global startup ecosystem report, fun times for fintech, one big seed round, the EU votes to regulate AI, a16z opens up shop in The Big Smoke
In case you weren't paying attention, a whole boatload of activity happened across the European tech scene this week. So much so that we had trouble whittling down wha...
ποΈMoving at angel speed without the traditional VC formality: Solo GP Sarah Drinkwater and her new Β£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,...
ποΈ 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 ...
ποΈ 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...
ποΈ 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....
ποΈ 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...
ποΈ 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?Β If the answer is no, well you've come to the right...
π French electric car maker Kate CEO Matthias Goldenberg reveals the company's secret sauce π
Itβs 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...
ποΈ 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 ...
ποΈ 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...
ποΈ 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...
ποΈ 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 RΓ€isΓ€nen
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,...
ποΈ 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...
ποΈ 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...
ποΈ 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 ...
ποΈ 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...
ποΈ 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...
ποΈ 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.
ποΈ The Drive at Five with Dan Taylor and Robin Wauters - Episode 18
As luck would have it, 3 minutes after we finished recording, the Getir/Gorillas deal was announced. However, this week, we're talking Atomico, Atomico, and Atomico as...
ποΈ The Drive at Five with Dan Taylor and Robin Wauters - Episode 17
Up this week: Ark Kapital's AIM platform, Carlyle Group plans an EU shopping spree, crypto market maker Keyrock seeks licenses, Dwarfs reveals a β¬120 million funding s...
ποΈ The Drive at Five with Dan Taylor and Robin Wauters - Episode 16
Aaaaand we're back! With only 30 days to go until Christmas, we're discussing Lilium, Wolt, Reviews.io, Pact VC, Zapp's SPAC, Bitpanda, Xceed, and one more thing The E...
ποΈ The Drive at Five with Dan Taylor and Robin Wauters - Episode 15
This week we're highlighting Cohabs, Evernote, Just Eat Takeaway.com + Getir, layoffs, layoffs, and layoffs, Index Ventures' new $300 million fund, and Balderton's dis...
ποΈ Inside Origin II with Index Ventures' Partner Hannah Seal
After raising $200 million for its first dedicated seed fund, Origin in 2021, Index Ventures now reloads the barrels with $300 million with Origin II
ποΈ The Drive at Five with Dan Taylor and Robin Wauters - Episode 14
What. A. Week. Crypto crashes, Mark lets one-third of Menlo Park go, Made.com goes for Β£3.4 million, EU regulators are putting Microsoft and Meta on the chopping block...
ποΈ Keeping a $200 million acquisition super simple with Paddle President and COO Jimmy Fitzgerald
We sat down with payments infrastructure provider for SaaS companies President and Chief Operating Officer Jimmy Fitzgerald to discuss the company's $200 million acqui...
ποΈ The Drive at Five with Dan Taylor and Robin Wauters - Episode 13
Up this week: German quantum computing gets a big boost, lots of cars and e-motorcycle news, Europe has its first ClimateTech EIR programme, we pour one (or two) out f...
ποΈ Big Deal: Barcelona's Seqera Labs CEO and co-founder Evan Floden
Weβre looking at Barcelona-based Seqera Labs, what part it played in the fight against Covid-19, and what an Addition led β¬22 million investment round means for the fu...
