Mike Butcher
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The robot-recruiter is coming — VCV’s AI will read your face in a job interview –
With remote working becoming more of a norm than ever before, remote interviews have, in turn, become a necessity. But how can you truly assess someone from these? In addition, it’s easy to miss great candidates just because you don’t have time to interview all the candidates. A number of startups have appeared to try […] → Read More
Astroscreen raises $1M to detect social media manipulation with machine learning
In an era of social media manipulation and disinformation, we could sure use some help from innovative entrepreneurs. Social networks are now critical to how the public consumes and shares the news. → Read More
Marketing platform startup Adverity raises $12.4M in round led by Felix Capital
Marketers get a lot of incoming from the data they have to deal with, bound up in hundreds of spreadsheets and reports, making it time consuming and tricky to get value out of. Tech companies like Datorama and Funnel. → Read More
Wonderloop’s networking app lets you swipe left on video profiles instead of pictures
There isn’t much left to be done in online networking apps. We are all familiar with professional (LinkedIn), social (Facebook), realtime (Twitter), and dating (Tinder, Bummble etc). → Read More
NuvoAir raises $3M to help patients monitor respiratory diseases with AI
With air quality not improving any time soon (hello pollution!) respiratory conditions are on the rise. This has created an opportunity for startups to employ smartphones to monitor respiratory diseases with apps and smart devices. → Read More
Meet the first judges for The Europas Awards (27 June) and enter your startup now!
I’m excited to announce that The Europas Awards for European Tech Startups is really shaping up! The awards will be held on 27 June 2019, in London, UK on the front lawn of the Geffrye Museum in Hoxton, London — creating a fantastic and fun, garden party atmosphere in the heart of London’s te… → Read More
Just Eat acquires iPad POS system Practi in attempt to lock-in restaurants
Just Eat — the marketplace for online food delivery which IPO’d but which is now under increasing pressure from several avenues, not least Uber and Deliveroo — has decided to add to its ‘quiver of arrows’ by acquiring Practi, a software service that provides independent restaurants and … → Read More
Leapwork raises $10M for its easy process automation platform, plans US expansion
Most work involving computers is highly repetitive, which is why companies regularly have developers write code to automate repetitive tasks. But that process is not very scalable. → Read More
Consolidation in Africa as classifieds player Jiji acquires their main competitor OLX
As we saw from our recent TechCrunch Battlefield in Africa last year, the continent is producing bigger and bigger tech players, and one can see this in the consolidation in the market. → Read More
Wayve claims ‘world first’ in driving a car autonomously with only its AI and a SatNav
Projects like Google’s Waymo, Uber, Cruise and Aurora are developing autonomous vehicles by throwing engineers at the problem, basing most of their platforms on rule-based systems that try to pre-empt and deal with every edge case, whilst also peppering the cars with more sensors to capture more da… → Read More
OpenGamma raises $10M in a growth funding round led by Dawn Capital
Over ten years ago, OpenGamma emerged as one of London’s new breed of FinTech startups, launching an open source analytics and risk management platform for the financial services industry. → Read More
Focaldata thinks it has some answers for campaigners in the age of Trump and Brexit
Political parties, campaigns, and brands can’t get an accurate and cost-effective understanding of opinion in small geographic areas, like the constituencies of lawmakers. This is a big problem in political campaigning. → Read More
Brandwatch turns its war-chest on acquiring market research startup Qriously
In the past few years it’s become increasingly evident that while social media was a fantastic new way to get into the minds of people and understand what they thought in order to sell them things, you couldn’t just rely on the blathering of millions of people. You also had to literally ask them qu… → Read More
Meet the European startups that pitched at EF’s 11th Demo Day in London
Entrepreneur First (EF), the company builder and “talent first” investor, held its eleventh Demo Day in London this afternoon. → Read More
Europe’s high-growth ecosystem is strong, and weathering global storms
Around 10 years of ecosystem development has left European high-growth companies in a much stronger position counter their global rivals, according to new research from the FT and Statista dubbed the FT 1000. → Read More
Gjirafa raises a $6.7M Series B from Rockaway Capital to digitise the Balkans
There’s nothing like a niche language to create a sort of lock-in for a startup, and that’s exactly what’s happened with e case of Gjirafa. → Read More
The Plum Guide raises $18.5M to expand its ‘vacation homes for the elite’ service
Fancy knowing how ‘the other half’ lives? Well, part of it is down to tools which have been built specifically for them. Michelin Guide will tell you about the best restaurants on the planet. → Read More
Founders Fund investors in Tibber, a Norwegian AI to smartly manage energy
You probably have one electricity supplier for your house. But these days the average household could probably buy form several such companies, it just can’t easily access the market place of possible suppliers. → Read More
misterb&b hits the equity crowdfunding trail to expand into hotels
Homosexuality is illegal in a third of the planet, and in eight countries, it is punishable by death. In the febrile atmosphere of today’s politics, hate crime incidents in the US increased by 17% between 2016 to 2017, according to the FBI. → Read More
Big data AI startup Noble.AI raises a second seed round from a chemical giant
Noble.AI, an SF/French AI company that claims to accelerate decision making in R&D, has raised a new round of funding from Solvay Ventures, the VC arm of a large chemical company, Solvay SA. → Read More