Dan Taylor
Managing Editor at Tech.eu | polymath | bass player | singletasker | whisky and whiskey drinker | dan@tech.eu
Appears in 48 Episodes
๐๏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.
๐๏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...
๐๏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 โฌ120 million funding s...
๐๏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...
๐๏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...
๐๏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
๐๏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...
๐๏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...
๐๏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...
๐๏ธ Big Deal: Barcelona's Seqera Labs CEO and co-founder Evan Floden
Weโre looking at Barcelona-based Seqera Labs, what part it played in the fight against Covid-19, and what an Addition led โฌ22 million investment round means for the fu...
๐๏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...
๐๏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...
๐๏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...
๐๏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 ๐น๐ท Tรผrkiye ๐น๐ท special edition, we discuss the Getir/Gorillas "advanced talks" discussions, N26 and the ...
๐๏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...
Rockstartโs 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...
