Rome-based venture capital firm Scientifica has launched a 200mn fund to support startups in quantum computing, artificial intelligence, and other frontier technologies. The fund, set to launch early next year, will provide early-stage companies with both financial backing and access to advanced lab spaces. Scientificas fund isbased on a Zero CapEx model. Startups can use Scientificas 4,000 m of laboratories and a network of 70 certified labs in Italy without incurring upfront costs. The aim is

If you live in Europe and you use a neobank, youve likely been interacting with Upvests investment products without even knowing it. The Berlin-based startup runs a stock-trading API that integrates into some of the biggest fintechs in Europe Revolut, N26, Bunq, Plum, Raisin, Shares and Vivid. Through these banks, some 50 million users have access use the companys investment products, it said. Amid a broader neobank boom, Upvest today announced it has raised 100M in a Series C funding round led

On a warm day in October, three corporates and two startups gathered together in the TNW offices for the conclusion of the one-hundred-day Vodafone IoT Challenge. Innovation is something all businesses want, but few actually have time for. We read about the advanced new tools and technologies collecting richer insights and making things faster and easier than ever before. But, when it comes down to it, day-to-day tasks always end up taking precedence over the effort and progress we could make fo