Dan Taylor

Dan Taylor

Scribe at Tech.eu | Broadcaster | Player of Stringed Instruments | Polymath | dan@tech.eu

Appears in 36 Episodes

๐ŸŽ™๏ธ 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...

๐ŸŽ™๏ธ 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 Rรคisรคnen

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,...

๐ŸŽ™๏ธ 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...

๐ŸŽ™๏ธ 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...

๐ŸŽ™๏ธ 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 ...

๐ŸŽ™๏ธ 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...

๐ŸŽ™๏ธ 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...

๐ŸŽ™๏ธ 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.

๐ŸŽ™๏ธ 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...

๐ŸŽ™๏ธ 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 โ‚ฌ120 million funding s...

๐ŸŽ™๏ธ 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...

๐ŸŽ™๏ธ 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...

๐ŸŽ™๏ธ 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

๐ŸŽ™๏ธ 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 ยฃ3.4 million, EU regulators are putting Microsoft and Meta on the chopping block...

๐ŸŽ™๏ธ 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...

๐ŸŽ™๏ธ 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...

๐ŸŽ™๏ธ Big Deal: Barcelona's Seqera Labs CEO and co-founder Evan Floden

Weโ€™re looking at Barcelona-based Seqera Labs, what part it played in the fight against Covid-19, and what an Addition led โ‚ฌ22 million investment round means for the fu...

๐ŸŽ™๏ธ The Drive at Five with Dan Taylor and Robin Wauters with Fiona Alston - Episode 12

Tech.eu nomadic writer Fiona Alston joins the show this week as we discuss a new European cleantech scale-up coalition, a bioengineered houseplant called Neo P1, Bulls...

๐ŸŽ™๏ธ The Drive at Five with Dan Taylor and Robin Wauters with Molten Ventures' James Clark - Episode 11

Molten Ventures' Marketing Director James Clark joins the show this week and in a rare move offers his opinions (and a bit of sage wisdom) on Hoxton Farms' putting the...

๐ŸŽ™๏ธ The advantages of Vanta with Chief Revenue Officer Stevie Case

Today we're talking security and privacy frameworks with Vanta Chief Revenue Officer Stevie Case as she breaks down how and why the company automates compliance and si...

๐ŸŽ™๏ธ The Drive at Five with Dan Taylor and Robin Wauters - Episode 10

I just flew in from Istanbul and boy are my arms tired. In this ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ท Tรผrkiye ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ท special edition, we discuss the Getir/Gorillas "advanced talks" discussions, N26 and the ...

๐ŸŽ™๏ธ The Drive at Five with Robin Wauters and Dan Taylor - Episode 9

Tech.eu is expanding, Improbable did NOT close $100 million, May 24, 2023, Spotify and Reddit go shopping, Tines takes home $55 million, how Lee Fixel quit Tiger Globa...

On pivoting: becoming the painkiller and not a vitamin with Karoli Hindrix of Jobbatical

Serial entrepreneur, Estonia's youngest patent registrar, and Jobbatical founder Karoli Hindriks joins us today to discuss pivoting, how and why today's Jobbatical fun...

The Drive at Five with Robin and Dan with Nick Stevens- Episode 8

Bending Spoons' $340 million raise and what The Matrix has to do with things, Grover and $2.1 billion in debt funding (!?!?), Satispay, a lot of cash and Italy's secon...

The Drive at Five with Robin and Dan - Episode 7

Up this week: Dan's "tech-light, but a good read" look into the Portuguese legal system, Barkyn's quantum leap in innovation, Berlin's Gigs and who their customers are...

From zero to hero in record time with Zilch CEO and co-founder Philip Belamant

In a very special 300th episode, we sit down with Philip Belamant, CEO and co-founder of fintech startup Zilch, the fastest fintech company in Europe on record to reac...

Rockstartโ€™s Managing Partner Emerging Tech Fund Europe - Michael Bjรธrnlund

We sat down with Rockstart's Michael Bjรธrnlund to discuss the accelerator's newest fund that focuses on emerging technologies, what unique benefits Rockstart offers ab...

The Drive at Five with Robin and Dan - Episode 6 with Neil S W Murray

With Robin making his way back to Bruxelles from Kรธbenhavn, Nordic Web founder and Playmaker co-founder and CEO, Neil Murray joins the show to talk about the Rise of t...

The Drive at Five with Robin and Dan - Episode 5

Up this week: Northzone goes all in on sustainability, Tesseract racks up an impressive list of investors, Darktrace takes a dive, OneWeb loses its ride into space, In...

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