Fiona Alston
Journalist | News Reporter @tech_eu | fiona@tech.eu | contributor Connected @businessposthq | Opinions my own | Forward, always๐๐ป
Appears in 13 Episodes
Bolt ๐ฉท'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...
๐๏ธ 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...
๐๏ธMoving at angel speed without the traditional VC formality: Solo GP Sarah Drinkwater and her new ยฃ10 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,...
๐๏ธ 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 ...
๐๏ธ 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...
๐๏ธ 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....
๐๏ธ 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...
๐๏ธ 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?ย If the answer is no, well you've come to the right...
๐๏ธ 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 ...
๐๏ธ 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...
๐๏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...
๐๏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...
๐๏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...
