A look at Paris-based incubator Station F, which includes Hugging Face as alumni and whose startups raised €1B+ for three straight years, up from €250M in 2017
Financial Times : LinkedIn: Cyril Véran LinkedIn: Cyril Véran : 🚀 Thrilled to see .omics featured in the Financial Times alongside amazing startups like Hugging Face and Entalpic! …
A look at UK-based startup accelerator Founders Factory, which has invested in 300+ startups; KPMG says UK VC funding fell from $20B in 2023 to $15B in 2024
The infrastructure to help young companies grow in the UK is varied and well established — If 2023 was the year of downturn … Bluesky: @theopriestley.com . LinkedIn: Richard Dana and Nick Huber Blue...
VC firm Plural's co-founder says Europe, which has yet to create a $1T company, must start supporting experienced founders and start giving “audacious capital”
Can Europe build its first trillion-dollar start-up? Mastodon: Chester Wisniewski / @chetwisniewski@securitycafe.ca : @Techmeme Or, I know this is me being a radical, perhaps we just don't need to eve...
How Saudi media group MBC's Shahid has become the biggest streaming service in MENA with a 22% market share, ahead of Starz Play Arabia's 18% and Netflix's 17%
I'm ecstatic that our impact has been covered by the Financial Times. …
A look at the UK's $5.5B gaming industry, as private equity firm EQT makes a £2.2B offer for Keyword Studios, and other developers shore up their balance sheets
Developers shore up their balance sheets after a difficult few years — Pass the controller. LinkedIn: Patrick O'Donnell LinkedIn: Patrick O'Donnell : Happy to share my thoughts on the Video Games In...
eMarketer: US consumers to spend $710B online in 2020, up 18% YoY, with ecommerce's share of the retail market growing to a record 14.5%
Dave Lee / Financial Times : Tweets: @jrichlive , @_mrherbert , @neilretail , and @sub8u Tweets: Jeff Richards / @jrichlive : US consumers will spend >$100B more on ecommerce this year than last year...