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While working in a busy open-plan office in London, Todor Madzharov and Thomas Anselmino, two former Job Today executives and current Meavo co-founders, were finding...

10 Startups That Are (Re)Connecting People With Local Enterprises

29 Jun 2020

From e-commerce to delivery and booking restaurants to managing customers, here’s how ten startups help Luxembourg’s local shops and service providers gain visibility during the...

The Boom In Medical Teleconsultation

26 Jun 2020

The Covid-19 crisis has truly accelerated remote medical appointments. In the span of three months, more than 20,000 virtual appointments were made via the mobile...

Three Luxembourgish Projects Selected As The Village Awards 2020 Finalists

16 applications have been selected to compete in the finals to be held on September 24th at the Village by CA, Paris. This year there...

Companies Are Not Authentic Enough In Their Job Posting

StepStone, the German online job recruitment platform that owns jobs.lu, is currently developing IT solutions based on artificial intelligence. The aim is to help companies...

Orange-Highfive Partnership: A Nimble Boost To Startups

Orange Luxembourg has made support for local startups one of its priorities in 2020. By partnering with Highfive’s video conferencing application, the operator is now...

Tomorrow Street & Digital Barriers: Agility In The Face Of Covid-19

Natalia Hurt

As of early 2020, few could have predicted what the year would bring: a global pandemic that completely overhauled daily life and placed unprecedented demands...

Eight Duos To Represent Luxembourg At The Village Awards 2020 Competition

18 Jun 2020

Here’s a short review of the Village Awards 2020 after six weeks of application. The organizers – Hub@Luxembourg and the Luxembourg Open Innovation Club (LOIC)...

JOB TODAY Awarded As Technology Pioneer By World Economic Forum

16 Jun 2020

The World Economic Forum announced its selection of 100 of the most promising Technology Pioneers of 2020, who are shaping industries from agriculture to healthcare...

AIVA Raises €1.5M From Chinese Internet Company NetEase

AIVA, the Artificial Intelligence composing emotional soundtracks music, announced receiving a strategic investment of €1.5m from NetEase, one of China’s biggest internet companies known for...

Skeeled Scales Up

The online recruitment specialist is developing its dedicated platform, increasing its results and staff, and plans to continue its growth in 2020. Founded in 2014,...

Learning And Moving Forward With GreenPlate Founder Conny Nasch

The #React program, run by the House of Entrepreneurship, is designed to help entrepreneurs adapt to the current environment and strengthen their businesses so they...

Technoport Collaborating For Digital Entertainment Industry Innovation With The #NextStageChallenge Program

Nicole Monti

In a period of change for the live entertainment ecosystem due to the Covid-19 global pandemic, Technoport technology business incubator decided to collaborate with relevant...

F4A Selected By The Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center

F4A announces that it features amongst 10 global finalists that will take part in Nasdaq’s Covid-19 Solution Summer Milestone Makers Program. by: Silicon Luxembourg photo:...

Solfeg.io, Super Hi-Fi, Audoo & Uptune Receive The 2020 Midemlab Award

The international music startup competition was held digitally this June. The prize rewards promising startups for new technologies aiming to reshape the music industry. by:...

Apply To Pitch At The PwC Cybersecurity Day 2020

12 Jun 2020

PwC Luxembourg is looking for five top innovative solutions addressing major cybersecurity challenges. Applications are opened until 30 June 2020. Hurry up! by: Silicon Luxembourg...

Koen Maris, Cybersecurity Director at PwC Luxembourg

Think Of Cybersecurity In COVID-19 times

12 Jun 2020

The current COVID-19 pandemic opens a new era for remote working and collaboration technology. Whichever our working preference—if some of us had to choose, we...

Bringing Neil Ward Onboard: Lessons Learned From EduGamiTec’s Successful Fundraising Round

The Luxembourg startup EduGamiTec reached a huge milestone last week by securing its first round of funding and bringing Neil Ward, former COO of Skype,...

iNUI Studio Wants To Replace Digital Screens With Its Contactless Technology

iNUI Studio adapts to the post-Covid era and redirects its contactless technology called AIRxTOUCH BAR 2 to autonomous order and purchase term. by: Aurélie Mohr-Boob...

Why Are Investors Obsessed With Churn?

Yannick Oswald

Every entrepreneur knows this feeling. You have launched a killer product and got some early traction. You are ready to put yourself out there and...

Participate In Techstars’ Virtual Startup Weekend Brought To You By The Sacred Heart University

You have now become accustomed to participating in virtual events over the past many weeks. The Startup Weekend franchise is no exception. by: Charles-Louis Machuron...

Satispay Launches Opération Cashback 20%

Satispay – the innovative bank-account enabled mobile payment solution, completely independent from credit/debit card networks – launches “Opération Cashback 20%” in Luxembourg. The campaign, which...

Luxembourg Tech School Launches Its 2020-2021 Future Digital Leaders Program

The Luxembourg Tech School (LTS) is entering its 5th year with the launch of its Level One Program focusing on Game Dev, Big Data and...

Industry 4.0 AI Startup Wizata Raises €2.7 Million

04 Jun 2020

Wizata, the Industry 4.0 Artificial Intelligence (AI) startup from Luxembourg, just raised €2.7 million from its original founders and longtime partner Expon Capital in a...

ANote Music To Publicly Launch Music Royalty Investment Platform

04 Jun 2020

Italian Label Irma Records becomes the first catalogue listed on the platform, with €200,000 in shares available during the pre-order period. by: Charles-Louis Machuron featured: Malte...

#BackOnTrack: New jobs.lu Campaign

04 Jun 2020

jobs.lu unveils its new #BackOnTrack campaign to invite companies to relaunch their recruitment campaigns. A way of saying that we are all back in business....

In the Winners Series: A Quick Tete-a-tete With Coco World and Shawbe

The Luxembourg-City Incubator can finally rejoice. Two of its startups are among the fifteen selected for the StartupsVsCovid19 hackathon. A great recognition for the work...

Silicon Capital: Connect Ideas With Capital

Are you tired of all the startup conferences and workshops where investors and entrepreneurs don’t really get a chance to talk? Does it feel like...

Join The Silicon Luxembourg Business Club

The Silicon Luxembourg Business Club continues to grow and sees new members joining. More than 100 startups, 25 corporates and 20 individuals are already members,...

WOKE NATION: The Non-Profit Clothing Brand

You probably remember Ivan Cardoso, the Startup Chauffeur and yoga practitioner who used to drive entrepreneurs around the city for offbeat interviews. He has just...

House of Auction: Support A Local Culture Club During A Digital Auction

26 May 2020

Times are hard for clubs and bars. Nevertheless, their creativity remains intact. This is the case of our friends from Club De Gudde Wëllen (i.e....

The Federation of Startups Sends Its Letter To The Minister Of The Economy

26 May 2020

We weren’t expecting it anymore! Discreet throughout the confinement, the Federation of Startups just publicly shared its demands and made them known to the Minister...

Helping Small Businesses Fast Track Their Shift To Digital With ‘Garde Ma Place’

25 May 2020

Many businesses have been forced to accelerate their shift to digital to survive Covid-19. And even though lockdown restrictions are gradually being lifted, social distancing...

Increasing The Presence Of Women In Cybersecurity

25 May 2020

Director-General of the Directorate General for Informatics at the European Commission, Gertrud Ingestad shares her vision on the importance of attracting women into the digital...

Encouraging Women To Enter Programming

25 May 2020

A coder and former computer science teacher, Sophie Viger took over the management of 42, a network of three schools for developers in France (Paris,...

Finologee And Harmoney Form Joint Venture To Redefine KYC Processes In Luxembourg

22 May 2020

The Luxembourg FinTech platform operator Finologee and the Belgian KYC specialist Harmoney launch KYC Manager, a strategic joint venture set to improve customers’ and back-office...

They Did It! A Quick Tête-à-tête With Grouplunch And Virtual Rangers

Freshly selected for the StartupsVsCovid19 hackathon launched by the Ministry of Economy and Luxinnovation, some of the fifteen selected entrepreneurs shared their reactions with me....

The 7 Benefits Of The #ReAct Program

You were affected by the Covid-19 health crisis? Discover the 7 advantages of the #ReAct program, created specifically for ‘you’ by the House of Entrepreneurship...

Registrations Open For Infrachain’s Blockchain-Focused Hackathon

Infrachain, the Luxembourg-based Blockchain association launched under the Digital Luxembourg initiative, is launching the first edition of the Infrachain Challenge. by: Silicon Luxembourg photo: Infrachain...

Luxfactory Raises 1 Million Euros

On the eve of its 25th Anniversary, the management consulting group plans to develop new activities and grow internationally. by: Marc Auxenfants photo: Luxfactory featured:...

NautaDutilh Offers Pro Bono Legal Support To SMEs And Independents

NautaDutilh Avocats Luxembourg offers accessible legal support, on a pro-bono basis to small businesses and independent contractors who have legal questions related to Covid-19. by:...

AXA Luxembourg Launches A Medical Teleconsultation Service

To support the efforts of Luxembourg’s Government and the use of teleconsultation, AXA Luxembourg is launching a medical teleconsultation service 7 days a week, from...

15 Startups Selected For StartupsVsCovid19’s Call For Projects

15 May 2020

Listen to article Well, the moment you’ve been waiting for has arrived. The list of startups selected for the StartupsVsCovid19 program is out ! Get...

Throwback To The 33 Projects Developed During Hack The Crisis Luxembourg

14 May 2020

Seeing more than 200 participants, 33 projects, 13 jury members and more than 60 mentors coming together for this online hackathon made Luxembourg’s innovation ecosystem...

Deconfinement. What’s Next For Entrepreneurs?

12 May 2020

Yannick Oswald

The key question entrepreneurs are asking themselves right now is ‘when to open up’. You have followed the advice of your fellow entrepreneurs and investors,...

Polaar Energy And Airboxlab Selected For The PropTech Startup & Scale-Up Europe Awards

The Luxembourg prop-tech scene is starting to make a name for itself at the European level. A few months after the launch of the LuxPropTech...

Shop Smarter, Eat Better, Get Healthier With Nutrida, Nium’s New App

The startup is one of those spin-offs that has the wind in its sails and seeks to improve, in concrete terms, our daily lives and...

Lessons Learned From The Co-Founder Of Kickstarter

Torge Schwandt

Yancey Strickler co-founded one of the world’s most popular crowdfunding platforms. Listen to his lessons learned along the way and how he reinvented himself after...

Arendt Launches Its New Insights App

Businesses and law firms, in particular, are adapting to this crisis. Arendt has just launched a brand new application to answer the most frequently asked...

Telindus Launches Its Webinar Series

Telindus brings technology to its customers wherever they are with a new event format: the Telindus webinars. by: Silicon Luxembourg photo: Miguelangel Miquelena on Unsplash...

Platform JobSwitch Ceased Its Activities

Launched on March 24, 2020, the JobSwitch platform, whose objective was to facilitate and accelerate the use of complementary and available labour during the health...

Foundry Europe: Building Bridges Between Innovation In Luxembourg And South Korea

08 May 2020

Foundry Europe has been given the opportunity to connect local innovations with global players in South Korea in two different occasions: Korea Fintech Week with some...

LUXHUB Raises €7.4M To Accelerate Its Ambitious Growth Plans

LUXHUB today announced that it has secured an additional €7.4 million in an internal funding round with its four founder banks, Banque Raiffeisen, BGL BNP...

Finscale, The New Podcast Series About Finance & Innovation

It is a project that she has been working on for several months and one in which she combines her passion for podcasts and experience...

In Need Of Holidays And Travel? Take A Break Using Virtual Reality

We probably can all agree it’s not the best time to travel but the Luxembourg-based expert for immersive technology ZENVIEW, has announced the use its...

Face To Face: Philippe Linster

Philippe Linster, 30 years, born and raised in Luxembourg, became the new CEO of the House of Startups on January 1, 2020. He also represents...

Optimizing Real Estate Assets With Co-Living Design

Lifestyle Coloc was born out of the desire to share architect designed interiors in unique places that respect the natural functioning of the brain: to...

Italian Digital Payment Leader Satispay Enters Luxembourg Market

Satispay’s CEO and co-founder Alberto Dalmasso explains why he chose Luxembourg to launch his e-money platform and how the Covid-19 crisis has been a business...

New Digital Fashion Mall Launched By Scroble

30 Apr 2020

Luxembourg-based RetailTech startup Scroble aims to help local fashion retailers in Luxembourg overcome the Covid-19 crisis and launched Scroble.lu initiative. The company is known for...

Helloboss, The New Referencing Platform For Webinars

28 Apr 2020

The Supermiro team is acting on all fronts, after experiencing the complete shutdown of all mainstream events. Many have now turned to the organizing webinars....

5 Projects Win Luxembourg’s Hack The Crisis Hackathon

200 participants competed in 33 projects, during the two-day hackaton that was held online this Friday and Saturday. EmailTree, PeerTutor, SuperHeld, Time2shop and S@feoffice have...

#ReAct: Mobilizing Partners To Reach Out To Entrepreneurs

Since the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis, the Chamber of Commerce’s House of Entrepreneurship has multiplied support measures for companies in difficulty. Last launched in...

Hub@Luxembourg Launches Its Village Awards

Organized by Crédit Agricole’s Business Accelerator, the European competition gives priority to unexpected, effective and responsible collaborative projects between startups and large groups. The best...

Satispay Partners With Auchan Luxembourg

Created in Milan in 2013, Satispay moved to Luxembourg at the end of 2018 with their e-money institution, Satispay Europe SA. The Italian innovative bank-account...

Job Today Is Preparing To Launch Its App In Luxembourg

As astonishing as it may seem, the Luxembourgish startup whose teams are based in the capital does not operate, or at least did not operate,...

Social Distancing Using A Necklace?

At least that’s the idea that sprang from the Linc Technology Partner’s team. Anticipating a gradual return to work which will be a headache for...

Tips For Cracking The Hack The Crisis Hackathon

22 Apr 2020

What could be better than advice from the winners of the Dutch edition of Hack The Crisis to prepare for the Luxembourgish edition, which will...

Smart Phil: The Free Web App For Intelligent Queues In Supermarkets

21 Apr 2020

During this period of global confinement, Smart Phil, a simple web for queue optimization, has just seen the light of day. This is a free...

#ReAct: Launch Of New Support Programme For Businesses

21 Apr 2020

After setting up numerous emergency measures to support businesses that have been fundamentally disrupted by the COVID-19 health crisis, the House of Entrepreneurship of the...

This Spring’s Webinar Boom And Bloom

Networking is a key element of Luxembourg’s economic activity, especially in its startup ecosystem. However, since mid-March, a whole calendar of conferences, professional evenings, workshops,...

Lëtz Hack The Virus

“Hack the Crisis“, the virtual hackathon to fight the virus, reaches Luxembourg this month. The event will be held online on 24 and 25 April....

Startups Need To Be Ready For The Recovery

At the beginning of the year, we exclusively shared news on the launch of this new application in the market. Kidola is one of the...

Goldbaum: The Fintech That Sells Time

Goldbaum, the financial information platform, which is celebrating its second anniversary, assists exchange traded fund players in their strategic decisions. The idea was born around...

A Take On Gaming And Diversity

Game designer, Morgane Lainard specializes in games. She knows how to transform a learning concept into real life and is a UX specialist as well....

Tackling Psycho-Social Risks In The Post-COVID Period

15 Apr 2020

The independent coach, Elodie Benni, offers free online support to employees during this period, in order to detect and reduce stress related to isolation. The...

EUvsVirus: Launch Of A Pan-European Hackathon

The European Commission and EU member states have today launched a call for participation in a pan-European Hackathon to connect innovators, partners and buyers across...

Bank Guarantee For Companies Facing Cash Flow Difficulties With The Mutualité de Cautionnement

It is in times of crisis that business support makes the most sense. This is precisely what prompted the Chamber of Commerce and its House...

StartupsVsCovid19: Further Details On This Hackathon

The Ministry of Economy, in collaboration with Luxinnovation and their partners [editor’s note: Technoport, House of Startups, LHOFT and Luxembourg City Incubator] have decided to...

Stampify To Launch Its Digital Board Meeting Platform For Free During COVID-19

Stampify has decided to go live with its platform amid the current crisis. The fintech and regtech startup is specialized in the digitalization of shareholder...

The Impact of COVID-19 on Mobile App Downloads in Luxembourg and Beyond

Vaishnavi Ramakrishnan

The COVID-19 outbreak has caused seismic shifts in the way consumers and businesses interact. Some digital businesses in particular have gained momentum. Daily time spent...

Modus3, From Setbacks To Rebound

For Modus3, which specializes in simplifying flows, not everything went as planned. Faced with issues that were hampering its own mechanics, the fintech had to...

Consider The Worst To Enjoy The Best: A Deep Dive Into Risk Management And Its Implications

The COVID-19 crisis has clearly highlighted the fragility of start-ups. Unfortunately, they generally neither have the financial nor human resources to devote to preventive risk...

The Discordant Voices In Luxembourg’s Startups Associations

10 Apr 2020

A new association of startups and independents affected by the Covid-19 crisis intends to make its voice heard by the government claiming the right to...

Startups Called Help With The COVID-19 Crisis In Luxembourg

09 Apr 2020

In collaboration with Luxinnovation, the Ministry of Economy is launching a call for projects for young innovative companies under the name ‘StartupsVsCovid19‘. Startups are invited...

Free Legal Help With “Viral Help”

09 Apr 2020

Zestylawyer founder Dr Alex Bogdanov aims to help people overcome their financial/legal issues with a free solution. The service generates a letter by using your...

WEO: Optimize Water Resource Management Information With Data

Working in the academic sector for the last five years specializing in water resource management, Charlotte Wirion et Imeshi Weerasinghe saw first-hand the gaps between...

JobSwitch: (Temporarily) Lend Me Your Job!

The Chamber of Commerce via the House of Entrepreneurship, in partnership with the Ministries of Labour and the Economy, ADEM and Luxembourg’s Confederation of Commerce...

Opinion: On The Idea Of A Supra-Incubator For Startups And Independents

We were all caught off guard when the crisis came. Since the government announced its first economic measures for businesses, there has been panic at...

Cybersecurity During A Global Crisis

The most vulnerable sector to cybersecurity attacks isn’t Wall Street, the military, or even Silicon Valley. It’s our healthcare system. by: Marc Castejon photo: Anna...

3 Million Euros For Startups To Fight Covid-19

04 Apr 2020

In order to support the Luxembourg’s startup ecosystem, the Ministry of Economy, in collaboration with Luxinnovation, is launching a call for projects for innovative solutions...

4,000 Video Consultations Conducted Via Doctena Already

03 Apr 2020

Only a few days after the launch of the teleconsulting platform, Doctena announces the integration of follow-up tools into its appointment scheduling platform. by: Silicon...

Opinion: Optimizing Your Work From Home Days One Shift At A Time

03 Apr 2020

The situation we are living in right now is profoundly changing our habits and routines. It is clearly taking us out of our comfort zones,...

NALA, The New Non-Profit Website For Small & Independent Businesses

02 Apr 2020

NALA is a new website for small and independent businesses in Luxembourg offering delivery and take away services during the Covid-19 lockdown. When the pandemic...

Technoport Offers One Month Of Free Incubation

02 Apr 2020

In addition to the co-working spaces, the players in the startup ecosystem that have been hit hard by this pandemic are the incubators, spaces where...

The Office Launches Its E-Coworking Platform

01 Apr 2020

Times are hard for coworking spaces that have made their spaces emblematic of teleworking and warmth between residents. Some can rely on real estate groups...

How To Keep Moving Your Business Forward During The Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused chaos and uncertainty for many business owners. But there are also some great examples of companies that have managed to...

Opinion: “I’ve been working from home for years — and here is what I’ve learnt”

Vaishnavi Ramakrishnan

COVID-19 has been a boon for the growing work-from-home trend, turning millions of people into remote workers overnight as companies transition to continue operations amid...

COVID-19: The Commercial Pandemic And Its Trademark Implications

Will we soon be seeing baseball caps, T-shirts, bags or glasses with “COVID” marks and logos on them? The first applications to register the name...

Crypto-ID: A Disrupting Approach To Identity Management